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I’m a comic book artist for Image, Marvel, DC, and others.
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I always feel my lines have to be clean when I put them down. I think that holds me back from getting more exploration and testing in when I sketch, so seeing a professional being very loose with their drawings on the roughs is very comforting! I love this class so far! Thank you, @David Finch for all your commentary and showing your thoughts on paper; it's very useful and informational.
LESSON NOTES
David Finch gives an essential overview on how to sketch comic panels. His demo shows how he uses simple shapes and basic perspective on a small layout to plan a full comic page. At this stage of the process, the focus is on mapping out the broad story visually without getting stuck in the details. By starting with a “rough in” an artist can easily adjust any layout issues, making sure the characters and setting are proportionate and unified before moving forward with the page.
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It's time to use the layouts you made from the last lesson and rough-in the essential elements of our panels!
Watching David problem solve the last panel was helpful. Good to know that sometimes your first idea isnt the best solution, and you can just keep reworking and reworking it until it works. I think his knowledge of perspective is helpful here too....I think one of the issues I have is I think about perspective and backgrounds last instead of first.
Hi David, what are the dimensions of the "rough in" page? Is it like half the size of the larger page size? 6.5 X 8.5?
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He draws the rough in pages at approximately 1/3 of the size, or roughly around 4" x 6". He sets up the reduced size layout in the episode "Composing the Page: Panel Layouts". Also feel free to experiment with different size compositions that work best for you!
I always feel my lines have to be clean when I put them down. I think that holds me back from getting more exploration and testing in when I sketch, so seeing a professional being very loose with their drawings on the roughs is very comforting! I love this class so far! Thank you, @David Finch for all your commentary and showing your thoughts on paper; it's very useful and informational.
