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Dec
Dec
Third comic strip
by Jayme Gutierrez Posted in blogging | 1 Comment »Yey! Another comic! And it only took me absolutely-ages-because-I-keep-forgetting-to-draw-them. Hurrah!
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Oct
Oct
New comic!
by Jayme Gutierrez Posted in blogging | 2 Comments »Yey! I´ve finally done another comic! Go me! A little sample of what a day in Joe!s life around Jayme is like.
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Aug
Aug
Drawing your own comic – Tips 2
by the Really Short One Posted in blogging | No Comments »Okay, I´m back for the second post. I´m going to talk about layout
Keep in mind how many pages you have to fill and try to separate these pages in to scenes. An example; your characters meet, find a stray dog and take it home with them. Assign pages to the plot points. Say you have 5 pages; break up your story. The two first two could introduce the characters and show what they´re doing, one page to find the dog and the two last for them to make a decision and show them taking the dog home.
Once you have that, you need to decide what you want each page to look like. Wide margins, thin ones, none? Do you want big drawings to cover the page or lots of small panels? The more modern comics or graphic novels go for the bigger panels often filling the whole page, the advange is that it gives you a lot of space to do your drawing, you can be more artistic with it, rather than representing exactly what´s happening. Use the layout and contents of the panels to your advantage, you can transmit a lot of emotion though perspective, angles and even the spacing between panels. Do quick scketches of your page with what drawings you want to appear on it, write out the text for that page nearby so you can work out what needs to be seen in that panel.
You may decide to change the drawing inside the panels themselves when you come to draw the actual comic, but it just the basic idea and look that you´re going for, a little like a storyboard for a film.
Carry on sketching until you´re happy with you layout and it isn´t confusing, from there you can start drawing the final pages.
It´s best to use 2h or 4h pencils when doing the final pages and don´t press hard, the pencil is just a guideline for the pen and it you make it to hard it will show even after rubbing out and will cause the penlines to smear and blotch. Underneath the text is an example of page layout and final product. As you will be able to see, there are quite a few changes but the basic idea is there. Okay, that´s all for now!
