Comic Page in Progress - Looking for Gesture and Composition Feedback
4yr
Jared DiPietro
Here's a one off comic page I'm working on. I got some loose figures in and I am interested in your thoughts on the gesture and composition. In case it's not apparent, she's bouncing off of clotheslines while falling into the alley below (There will be more clothes bouncing on the lines/flying through the air). If there are any additional things that standout to you, or you have something cool to suggest, feel free to share those as well. Note: The initial preview is pretty hard to look at, but if you click "open original" it should be pretty sharp.
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TLDR: Looking for feedback, any glaring mistakes, suggestions for background, additional clotheslines and/or falling clothes - yes/no? Update: Almost there! Normally I do my roughs digitally and then print them out to finish with traditional pencils, but I decided to challenge myself and get the whole thing done digitally (Even after a few years of having a surface, I still find that I draw many things more quickly on paper). At this point I'm mostly cleaning up, finishing up a few details (Like putting in her web for the first panel) and trying to figure out what to do with the background. Originally I was just going to put another building, but I'm not a huge fan of how that's looking. I also worry that a whole cityscape background will have too many elements that cut into the action in the foreground. Right now I'm tempted to leave it blank, but that's probably just me wanting to be finished. Any suggestions on this front would be appreciated. I'm also considering adding some more clotheslines, either into the foreground or further back, but I wonder if this would be too distracting/too busy. Similarly, I was thinking about having some clothes falling through the air but the same concerns pop up. Also, if anything stands out to you I'm open to any critiques as well. Not sure how much more I'm going to go back into this, but I always want to learn more for future projects (Who am I kidding, if you point something out there's a good chance I won't be able to resist fixing it). Thanks everyone!
Serena Marenco
Hi Jared, nice page! I would turn Miles about thirty degrees clockwise, as the last panel is a little too static.
Yiming Wu
4yr
This is looking interesting:D If I must say anything to improve, I guess it would be to tilt the centre panel (background?) a bit, with the character falling kinda in an angle against the background still, and move your viewpoint slight off-centre in the street? that way it will look more dynamic because the shot isn't quite long-focal length so there can be some more this kind of stretching going on there. Your character's already got great poses imo, if the architecture follows up with some dynamics, that would be awesome!
Jared DiPietro
Thank you. That's a fun idea. Are you saying something sort of like this?
Gannon Beck
Cool Layout, Jared! This might be a preference thing, so feel free to ignore, but It might be helpful to take the top panel and make sure it doesn't overlap the buildings on the side. Maybe have it floating between the buildings. That way the buildings can lead off the page unobstructed and will enhance the effect of the fall that you've got going. Nice work!
Jared DiPietro
Thanks, Gannon! That's a cool idea, I'll definitely give it a shot!! I've got everything nicely sorted into layers so it will be no problem to play around with.
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