Knight's sketchbook

[dimensional-knight]

I really appreciate the guide about framing characters in comics. I used to have a pretty intuitive knack for compositions in a horizontal format, but the vertical format that's popular these days has been hard to adjust to. (I'm sure there are video guides, but my attention span is short and brief visual guides are my favorite).

I have zero intuition for sequential art. Setting out to consciously categorizing everything in my favorite works seems the most effective way to start going about it. I'm happy you found this helpful!

To add a couple of info I didn't include there: When it comes to head shots it's common to slice the top of the head off since we don't need this information to understand the perspective (nor there's much going there at all in first place) and it makes for a pleasant composition.

I'm also seeing a lot of panels with cuts on clavicles and slightly above, making use of the collars and clothing articles to establish it's not a floating head, with close ups like this being really common in small talking and reaction panels. As long the chin tip doesn't touch the panel edge in a weird way it looks fine. Speaking of clothing people tend to avoid cutting where their natural "modular" boundaries are, like belts and segmented edges. It keeps the character from looking like one of these dolls you can take apart, I guess.

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A few more gestures, looking for ways to incorporate abstract checks (thanks Joseph!). I don't know what I'm doing but it's pretty interesting, hah! I'd have never thought of trying to draw the negative space around figures if not for this thread. I'm glad to see it shaking me from tired line angles and thought patterns I tend to fall into. 



It might not look neat but any person that doesn't look like if made out of tubes is an accomplishment for me. :D