You guys can probably spot layers of layers of the rule of thirds in there somewhere too or something like that…. My apologies as I have literally no good way of explaining it 🙈
I think I did it to the majority if not all of the panels so I was also hoping that people would notice small fun details related to the story that way as well 🧐
I wanted to do storyboards for animation before and the lecture kept saying going from one side to the other and tbh looking back at this I should have had Alea stick to the left side of the rule of thirds before moving to the right side as she leaves on the last panel 😵💫
yeah!! i never thought to stack the effect of rules of thirds ontop of itself, so this is really eye opening!!! thank you!! (i look forward to more comics from you too!!!)
OO I SEE I’m glad you like it !! 🥹🥹 I applied the rule of thirds as I used it to study for animation ! So I tried to use it for every panel due to it hahaha
It’s also nice to just draw whatever you feel like on the first draft then make it more dynamic with the rule of thirds on the second draft
istg i've never seen your approach except for when David Aja shined some light on his Hawkeye pages...but ofc when i go looking for my scrnshots, i can't find em anywhere lmaocry
Aja's Hawkeye approach was so similar and total to yours that he had Rule of Thirds rulers, Eyeline rulers, and then additional Eyeline rulers that istg were for debris and bg detail that he wanted to keep on-composition
y'all the only two in comics i've seen use that every panel Ro3rd approach
Good composition makes a world of difference. I’ve met so many people who I’ve tried to explain this to and their responses always amounted to “huh, well anyways I’m not doing that”
That’s understandable to be honest ! A lot of people do it from intuition as they have read a lot of comics and manage to unconsciously apply the composition onto their work just like that. Trying to explain it through words is a different way to express things that some may not be too used to.
I have been testing this guy on my comics- and like your’s… i get these nice sort of… ‘arts and crafts movement’ designs in my panels that makes my brain go ‘brrrrr’.
OO SO INTERESTING !! I did actually study a lot of compositions in classical art / theatre for the comic so that’s a very interesting insight to dynamic compositions thank you for that !!
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no wonder these comps [and particularly the use of wht/blk/tone] was so ludicrously stellar in TFTAMW !! thnx for the insight to the process !!
It’s also nice to just draw whatever you feel like on the first draft then make it more dynamic with the rule of thirds on the second draft
istg i've never seen your approach except for when David Aja shined some light on his Hawkeye pages...but ofc when i go looking for my scrnshots, i can't find em anywhere lmaocry
y'all the only two in comics i've seen use that every panel Ro3rd approach
3rds is broken into even thirds… & came around with the square televisions.
But like *your* comps (& movies) it was this guy, constructed on the golden ratio of a theatre screen/classical art etc.
‘The dynamic composition’
https://youtu.be/nyASCIxH4-c?feature=shared
It is a neglected composition style and is appealing for being far more rare than the widely used (and perfect 3rd’ed) rule of 3rds, these days. ;3