DEADLINE: 12/02/2023 - PLEASE SUBMIT WORK BY 12/02/2023 IF YOU WANT A CHANCE TO BE FEATURED IN THE CRITIQUE VIDEO
It’s time for your assignment!
Your first step to making your own comic page is to piece together your layout with thumbnails. You’ll be making a lot of decisions here so keep your sketches simple and focus on how you can enhance the storytelling visually.
Use the scripts we provided and try out several different layouts for each, piecing together your thumbnails like a puzzle. Even without any drawings in them, the panels should flow from one to the next, and read in the correct order that you intended. Working at a small size will help you see larger storytelling problems before moving on, so If anything is feeling ambiguous, try another layout.
Once you’ve chosen your favorite layouts, it's time to draw a reduced-size layout for those pages! For the reduced-size-layout, draw it at about one-third the size of a page, or about four inches by six inches. Draw in your panels first with a ruler, and don’t forget to account for the trim and panel border safe zone at the edges. Then go over your scripts again to make sure the important details are included in your page. Start with a rough-in that lets you place all the elements in each panel, and then clean it up. Don’t go overboard with the details at this stage, just make it as clear and readable as possible so we don’t cause any problems for ourselves when we move to the full-sized page.
If you’re working on a page from a different script, be sure to include that script in your submissions so we can see what you’re working with. Good luck!
Hey Shaun,
I like your pages and the fact that you did a few thumbnails to figure out your layout.
The one thing I would say is to make sure you figure out your perspective early in your process so that you can build convincing backgrounds. Even in the layout stage it's important because you will need to use that perspective to place your characters too.
I tried to draw the second script before seeing the lessons about that script. I thought in this way I forced myself not to Copy the panel structure and layout used in the lessons
Hey allosaurus,
Nice job, I like that you didn't copy the layout in the lesson. I'm using a completely different script for the same reason.
The one thing I think will help your first panel is working a little on the perspective. By having the vanishing point so close to the top of the building, it creates too much distortion, and then your figures don't look like they match the scene. I did a quick sketch to show you what I mean.
Also, that final open panel is hard to read and see what's going on.
Keep at it :)
I'll make an effort to squeeze this in, I've got a big assignment for the Kubert School I'm working on as well. I'd still appreciate a response even if I don't make it to the critique. Thanks David this course has really helped
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DEADLINE: 12/02/2023 - PLEASE SUBMIT WORK BY 12/02/2023 IF YOU WANT A CHANCE TO BE FEATURED IN THE CRITIQUE VIDEO
It’s time for your assignment!
Your first step to making your own comic page is to piece together your layout with thumbnails. You’ll be making a lot of decisions here so keep your sketches simple and focus on how you can enhance the storytelling visually.
Use the scripts we provided and try out several different layouts for each, piecing together your thumbnails like a puzzle. Even without any drawings in them, the panels should flow from one to the next, and read in the correct order that you intended. Working at a small size will help you see larger storytelling problems before moving on, so If anything is feeling ambiguous, try another layout.
Once you’ve chosen your favorite layouts, it's time to draw a reduced-size layout for those pages! For the reduced-size-layout, draw it at about one-third the size of a page, or about four inches by six inches. Draw in your panels first with a ruler, and don’t forget to account for the trim and panel border safe zone at the edges. Then go over your scripts again to make sure the important details are included in your page. Start with a rough-in that lets you place all the elements in each panel, and then clean it up. Don’t go overboard with the details at this stage, just make it as clear and readable as possible so we don’t cause any problems for ourselves when we move to the full-sized page.
If you’re working on a page from a different script, be sure to include that script in your submissions so we can see what you’re working with. Good luck!