Here comes another fresh month,
and what fresh do I have for all of you friends? Umm.. let’s see…
Well, we can make some serious
stuff this time. I will try my best to be as descriptive as possible. Learning
has always been a two way process. I myself have learned many things while
trying to share my technique and method
of making comics with all you friends and I believe that the same is with you
all too. That’s enough chit chat for this time let’s get started on our work…
This time we are not going to do an entire page but a single
or a few frame of any random story. So, that we can focus on, and study the
topics that comes up to us while making it. The total drill is the same like
making any complete comics strip(like we did in previous issue) except, we have
a pre-built story this time.
The layout plan – Placing the character and staging them
according to the scene needs some camera sense. By saying camera sense I mean
to say that having knowledge or ideal about placing camera (From where we are
looking at the scene). Both character and camera runs in collaboration.
Sometime due to the camera the prop (objects in the background) and even the
character itself has to be re- place in order to, make the scene look more
comfortable and easy on eyes or vice versa.
To go into more theoretical
details about staging a scene and placing a camera, let’s mark and discuss the
three frames in above strip plan that we have made
What we are seeing is division of a scene or a frame into
unequal halves (Theory of “Golden Ratio”). If you are interested in the theory,
one must look and study it well at “Wikipedia”. Here, as basic learners, we
will just keep in mind that each and every scene or frame has to be divided
unequally. It gives a flow to the scene or frame and makes it easy on eyes. Now
let us correct each frame on the basis of unequal division.
The yellow lines are just for indication purpose, you don’t
need to literally draw such thing when working. Now let’s find out our
mistakes,
Frame 1-
We can slide the thief girl to a little bit right, she has
occupied a lot space in the center. So as per the rule of dividing unequally,
we will move her a bit.
Frame 2-
Here we don’t have any character. So how do we stage it? In
such situations we take point of action, as our focus and arrange it
accordingly. Which, here is the unlocking of the door with the “CLICK” sound.
Frame 3-
Preety much same as frame one. We can slide the character to
the left this time but to use the space properly we will move the gun to the
extreme right.
Same Theory is applied by dividing a frame horizontally too.
Here is the thing what we see after changes.
Compare yourself the difference
and if you agree that the second one looks better, then try to find and
understand why? By just placing things, here and there, how can one make a
frame look more interesting?
So,
next comes making the final penciling / sketch as we did in last issue.
Then inking
it.
Finally, placing in dialogs with
appropriate bubbles/balloons.
Hope, this was helpful to all. If
you are very new to all this and find it a bit complex, then please look for
the older parats of “Comics Strips -
Anyone can make it”. Always do a lot
of research and try to follow others work to learn more. So, let’s pack up for
this time, we will learn more things in later issues. Keep trying and making
comic strips.
by Simmi Singh simmi@fagangstuffs.com
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