We've already discussed the various software you can use in creating your comics-prose pages. This post will detail how I draw my pages, and while I draw by hand, this works perfectly fine for people who draw by computer as well.
STEP 1: Setup each of your pages
I use Adobe InDesign to set up my panels an my paragraphs. Usually this involves shifting things around, shrinking or enlarging panels, and re-writing paragraphs and sentences so they fit the amount of space provided. The size of the page I use is 6"x9".
Additional help: Here is a tutorial by Jessica Abel about Visual Scripting: How to use Adobe InDesign to script a comic book page
Breaking It Up into Point Form by Comics-Prose, journal
Breaking It Up into Point Form
This post will explain how I break my Setup/Resolution into CHAPTERS, then break the CHAPTERS into EVENTS, which are then broken into PAGES. This uses the Matryoshka Approach, so I will start off with a CHAPTER summary.
Let's take a look at the CHAPTER Summary for Chapter 6 of "Fabled Kindgom". This assumes you've read all Chapters 1-5 of "Fabled Kingdom".
CHAPTER 6 Summary
A CHAPTER summary should only be a few sentences, because it makes it easier to change. I can add to or shorten this summary whenever I want, according to how much I want to put into this CHAPTER. You will also find that when you actually draw/write/execute your story,
Whittling your story down will tell you what the setup is, and what the resolution is. This is the "elevator pitch" version, and is NOT the same thing as a beginning-middle-end, which is the "execution".
For example:
The SETUP for "Fabled Kingdom" is a girl called Celsia who goes on a quest to find her two trueborn grandmothers, both of whom are powerful queens of magical kingdoms.
Conversely, the BEGINNING of "Fabled Kingdom" starts in Celsia's village, where she lives a very mundane life and is training to become a healer. When she visits her grandmother's hut in the wood, she encounters a giant wolf, which she finds strange but thinks n
The Basics of COMICS-PROSE - Part 2 by Comics-Prose, journal
The Basics of COMICS-PROSE - Part 2
This is part 2. This follows on directly from Part 1.
But wait! What about these side panels, the ones next to the prose paragraphs? The ones that you just labelled "prose" even though they're pictures?
Answer: It's "prose" because they're not comic panels. They're merely ILLUSTRATIONS. I call them "side-panels" for ease of reference, though they don't have a formal name.
You may have noticed that these "side-panels":
Have no dialogue in them.
Cover only half of the page.
Most importantly, don't give any new information. They exist to illustrate things that are already described in the paragraphs they're next to.
Because they don't give
5 Golden Rules of COMICS-PROSE by Comics-Prose, journal
5 Golden Rules of COMICS-PROSE
Here are 5 Golden rules that you will do well to remember. It's not a definitive list, but if you refer to these 5 rules if you get stuck, it will help you get back on track.
Rule #1: Plan your story before you start, preferably in point form
You should plan out at least a portion of your story before you start.
This is because when you tell a story in comics-prose, you need to JUDGE each part of the story, to decide whether you're going to tell that part in comics or in prose.
If you have no clue what your story is about or where it's going, how do you even START to make those decisions?
Rule #2: All comics can be turned into prose. Not a
GMI: New Manga Network Launching!! by Petenks, journal
GMI: New Manga Network Launching!!
The Global Manga Initiative is here!!
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We are proud to announce the opening of this new network dedicated to providing a 100% free home for independent manga-creators across the web! A place where anyone and everyone interested in making-manga can upload and share their works with the world, and find a community of supportive creators.
Every year, we award the top-ranking works on our site with over $5000 in production-donations, so we invite both manga-makers and manga fans alike to help us determine which independent web-manga deserves to stand on top of the globe!
You can check out these great artists and manga-work
Second Chance: Screentones by AnimeEssentials, journal
Second Chance: Screentones
Hellooo :la:
Welcome back to our weekly feature. The theme this week is "screentones", as in those used in most manga instead of colours. Traditionally they were used to add some texture easily and it's cheap to print, but you have to admit that when done properly it's not just putting a random tone to make shadows, it's an art in itself and they make a page stand out. Lets see some of your suggestions to see what I mean:
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Hello, it's Jeshi from IB I've seen your original IE project, you improved so much since that time! I mean it was still good, but restarted version is so much better! Amazing!
Jeshi! Good to see you here And thank you, I am glad you prefer the newer version ^^ - there is a big time gap between the two. I am really excited to get back to this world though!