Phantom Eagle
08-06-2010, 11:12 PM
Hey. I want to do a project using comic strip art board, or something similarly-sized, and preferably cheap, because I will be doing layouts, not finished work, and I will be using them for a school project, to accompany a script. I would also like them to be "half-wide" so that they can be used in a variety of formats in the final work (coffee-table strip book, comic book with a daily-and-a-half per page, Spirit-style three-row Sunday section, etc.). It will be more about process, and less about producing finished art.
Here's my question. Has anyone here done any layout on postcards? At 4" X 6", it seems like I can get slightly reduced art (3-3/8" X 5-3/8") on there pretty reasonably, and it still leaves room for a nice margin all the way around and one internal panel gutter. Again, this art will not be shot for a book, it will be shown in a binder, so my teacher knows that I know what I mean, and my artist friend can look at some different layouts, without messing around too much. Two cards per day for dailies (which would be approx. 4" X 13" at when done later at full size) and six for Sundays (yay!).
The project is daily four-panel (with possible Sundays), with varying panel width and fixed height, done with a fixed split at half-width (6-1/2" inches at full-size, for the page-wrap). A newspaper-style strip, that could be collected in a comic book, coffee table book, horizontal strip-format book, digest, or webcomic. Hopefully, a good friend may do finished art on art board or some digital format later. When he gets the time and I get the money. It sure seems fun to write this way. (Not that I don't love typing, it's just that every artist I've ever talked to told me to learn to at least draw a little bit.)
Anybody got any favorite paper for laying out strip comics?
Here's my question. Has anyone here done any layout on postcards? At 4" X 6", it seems like I can get slightly reduced art (3-3/8" X 5-3/8") on there pretty reasonably, and it still leaves room for a nice margin all the way around and one internal panel gutter. Again, this art will not be shot for a book, it will be shown in a binder, so my teacher knows that I know what I mean, and my artist friend can look at some different layouts, without messing around too much. Two cards per day for dailies (which would be approx. 4" X 13" at when done later at full size) and six for Sundays (yay!).
The project is daily four-panel (with possible Sundays), with varying panel width and fixed height, done with a fixed split at half-width (6-1/2" inches at full-size, for the page-wrap). A newspaper-style strip, that could be collected in a comic book, coffee table book, horizontal strip-format book, digest, or webcomic. Hopefully, a good friend may do finished art on art board or some digital format later. When he gets the time and I get the money. It sure seems fun to write this way. (Not that I don't love typing, it's just that every artist I've ever talked to told me to learn to at least draw a little bit.)
Anybody got any favorite paper for laying out strip comics?