Instead of doing doodles, to get ready for actual work, I realized it is much better and more fun doing one of two frames of an ongoing story. There is no planning - I sort of make the story as I go, so feel free to offer any suggestion s to how it should continue Oh and please don't mind my poor spelling skills.
Her head in the final panel is way small. A little digital scaling will fix that though.
Are you particularly concerned with flow of action? Because panels 2 and 3 aren't well-linked. Interestingly, the page layout would still work if you flipped the entire page along the horizontal... p2 becomes p1, and you're given a pause between the cartwheel and the kick that fills in the time between the two where she would have compressed and changed direction. In addition, you'd change the direction of the reader's eyes flowing from left to right, so that they're following in the direction of the action which helps give it a sense of full-page flow.
Unless you're laying out the pages to read right-left? Since you're using English in the text I presumed you're panel-to-panel flow is left-right, same as the language, but I could be mistaken.
Hey thanks for the input. You are right. I would love to say that since this is just a prep sketch I didn't pay that much attention, but such mistakes appear in my regular work, so no excuse there.
It's all easily fixed stuff, I think... I doubt anyone else will hassle you about it, but sequential composition is one of my new obsessions over the past couple years and it really pops on me now. Which is hilarious, 'cause I'm just as likely to make the same mistakes when I actually produce content... or err on the side of caution, which really slows down the pace of storytelling.
It's pretty sweet work just the same. You're throwing everything fun into the stewpot, huh? Space pirates, mecha, fighting, cheesecake... how many pages are you going for?
Yeah I find that doing comics is like that: you need to think about a million things and at the same time be careful not to overthink and keep things fresh. I don't have a page count, nor a story for that matter. I just make it up as I go.
Are you particularly concerned with flow of action? Because panels 2 and 3 aren't well-linked. Interestingly, the page layout would still work if you flipped the entire page along the horizontal... p2 becomes p1, and you're given a pause between the cartwheel and the kick that fills in the time between the two where she would have compressed and changed direction. In addition, you'd change the direction of the reader's eyes flowing from left to right, so that they're following in the direction of the action which helps give it a sense of full-page flow.
Unless you're laying out the pages to read right-left? Since you're using English in the text I presumed you're panel-to-panel flow is left-right, same as the language, but I could be mistaken.
It's pretty sweet work just the same. You're throwing everything fun into the stewpot, huh? Space pirates, mecha, fighting, cheesecake... how many pages are you going for?
I don't have a page count, nor a story for that matter. I just make it up as I go.