Or if you wanted to keep this vertical orientation, widening the page and having wider panels. It might be worth experimenting with a more horizontal page orientation to make it easier for audiences to read. They don't need to be crazy complicated shapes and angles, but just playing around with your panel composition can make your comic more eye-catching.Īnother thing to consider is that most audiences read left to right, whereas your pages are very vertical, going straight down. But, if you were feeling really ambitious, you could also play with the shapes and sizes of your panels, since the drawings are so clean and simple, to help them stand out. Another way to add a little interest with simple panels is like this calvin and hobbes comic They're all the same size, but the most important bit of dialogue, the one you want the audience to focus on, has not outline for it's panel, drawing the audience's eye and say "pay attention, this will be important later" to make the punchline stand out. If you want to make all your panels the same shape and size, (since I get a more slice of life than action-packed feel from this page) I would suggest widening your panels and leaving more space between them, like this There's more room for the images to breath within the panels, and having more negative space around the panels draws the eye to the artwork. Like picking out a frame for a beautiful picture you made. I understand this makes the panels really easy and fast to make, and while panels aren't the most interesting thing to work on, you can still make it fun and interesting if you try to think creatively about it. Having the panels in those short boxes with nothing but a black line to separate them makes the page feel a little claustrophobic. I get the feeling from this page that this isn't a super action packed comic, but I still think it would help making reading a little more interesting if the panels had a little more variation. It's something to think about for your backgrounds with a long-running comic.Īnother thing is the panel composition. When you zoom out the first half of the comic has a lot of good color contrast whereas the bottom half has a more homogenous color scheme. Or possible tweak the colors in this room so both of your central characters stand out. What I would do either keep her in the doorway or have something darker against her. That isn't to say you should change her color scheme, it's excellent and probably tells you she's the more subdued and serious of the two in this duo. But when you have her against that blue wall, aside from the pop of red and turquoise there's not much contrast between her and the background. When she's standing in the doorway with the darker grey, her light cool grey coat and turqoise glasses pop. The problem is that Dazzle doesn't quite stand out enough. Diamond, with her pastel but warm color scheme, stands out nicely against the cool pastel blue background and the richer purples. If it weren't for the speech bubbles and comic format I would think these were screenshots. The background is full of restful purples and blues, and everything shows that you've really studied MLP to achieve the style. I love that when Diamond is facing Dazzle, her tiara cutie mark gets foreshortened very convinceingly. The expressions are fun and cartoony without being too stiff, and I love how the eyes look. The lineart is thick, smooth, and colored beautifully. I'm commenting for the Everything Must Go Contest.
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