Scrumbling Her

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Good afternoon Wakfu fandom

I was asked by a friend yesterday if I could offer basic tips about comic paneling. As it turns out, I have a lot to say on the matter! I tried breaking down the art of paneling using the principles of art and design, and I hope it helps you out!

EDIT: uh uh there are a lot of people reblogging this, so i figure i may as well append this now while i can lol

This whole thing was very much cranked out in a few hours so I had a visual to talk about with a friend! If this gives you a base understanding of paneling, that's awesome! Continue to pull in studies from the comics you see and what other artists do well and don't do well! You can tell paneling is doing well when the action is flowing around in its intended reading format.

Here's the link to the globalcomix article from which I pulled the images about panel staggering! Someone sent in a reblog that it wasn't totally clear that the 7th slide mostly covers what NOT to do in regards to staggering, and that is my mistake!

I saw in a tag that someone was surprised I used MamaYuyu too, and I don't blame them lol. If I had given myself more than a couple hours maybe I would have added something else on, I just really admire MamaYuyu's paneling personally.

uh uh, final append: I am by no means a renowned master of paneling, so if you find anything off base here, by all means, counter it with your own knowledge and ways you can build upon from here! Art is always a sum knowledge of everything we find. 💪

You tripped and fell into a horse nest.

Mona Lisa, wearing high heels: Okay, my love. I'm ready. Raph: Babe, you're wearing heels?! Mona Lisa: Yeah, we're going on a date. Raph: We've talked about this! It looks like you're taking me out on a date now! I look like your son! Mona Lisa: Just wear what you wore last time. Raph: Fine... [A few minutes later] Raph, wearing high heels: Alright, I'm ready. Let's go.

Ive had my own iteration for roughly a year or two.

Ive never really posted much about it but I've decided to start, just for fun. So I'll start ranting about it more. I've been re doing these designs ever since I got the idea to make my own version of the tmnt.

The main problem I keep facing in their designs is if I should make them all the same turtle or different ones. I didn't want to make them different at first because it felt like I was copying rise, but I really like being able to give them vastly different and unique designs. But I like the nostalgia of having them all the same cartoon-y unrealistic turtles we know and love.

I decided on different species because well... there's too many gags I've made up in my head to scrap that part of them. Plus it gives me more room to play with the looks of them. I've always wanted them to be based off real turtles. I like bringing in silly little facts about the real species into the design and characters.

I wanted this new iteration to be my own, but I also still want to call back to the past series. I've been low key studying the characters in each of the versions of tmnt that I love.

Nothing is rock solid Canon yet, but I've got some ideas. And I mean a 6 page Google doc.

But I'll rant about the story and the turtles more on a later date.