Drawing Your First Comic Page: The “Rough In”

Creating a Comic Page

Drawing a Reduced Size Layout

Drawing Your First Comic Page: The “Rough In”

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Drawing Your First Comic Page: The “Rough In”

89K
Mark as Completed
David Finch
It's time to use the layouts you made from the last lesson and rough-in the essential elements of our panels!
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M L Kuhn
1yr
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?
Patrick Bosworth
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!
Jaden Tew
2yr
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.
@pablini
3yr
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