Yes hi hello I am here to talk about comics.

Quote Originally Posted by Suicune's Fire View Post
I am wondering about actual comic page sizes... I've seen many different dimensions for a comic page, but I'm wondering about actual panels, and how people decide to place them. Is it just random, or do you do a sketch and then make the panels fit around that? :] I'm not sure, haha. I suppose everyone does it differently!
This is a very wide subject honestly. I planned, when I was writing my comic, for dimensions something like 8.5"x11" (making things really large and high resolution just in case). While I was thumbnailing (which is basically making a smaller version of the layout for planning purposes to those who don't know), I had a 3x3 grid on each page, and then I edited the panels based on said grid, using no more than 9 panels per page. I don't really recommend that though - most comics use less panels than that; I only have three characters with not much detail to show, so I feel like I can afford a little bit of crowding. Successful comics never randomize their layout; no matter how many panels an artist uses, they have to have rules and structure and proper flow or else the whole thing falls apart.

As for ideas, I've got several swirling around in my head for a whole plethora of projects, most notable being one that I'm planning on launching pretty soon - Spark. The long and the short of it is that it's a 26-or-so-page graphic short story about kids who shoot lightning and fight a giant wolf monster. The whole thing is somewhat metaphorical for certain personal struggles I've gone through in the past, mostly for anxiety disorder. I have the cover and designs already, and I'm in the earliest stages of page production now, hoping to start actually posting content - probably concept art moving into actual pages - in January. I'm also in the late planning stages for an Emerald Nuzlocke, which I hope to get on its feet sometime around March - a year after the thing's completion would be very suiting.

I also have some other, freeform ideas for a larger undertaking whenever Spark's run its course. I want to do some sort of fantasy thingy with lots of flying characters fighting/being hunted by monsters because those are my weakness. But most of what I've got right now is pretty amorphous. XD