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I'd like some opinion on my comic layout style
mosfet:
I just did a major experiment in my comic layout style.
Previously I used Freehand to make "hand-drawn" looking borders.
This comes out to a 739 pixel wide (or smaller) image as my final product.
This weekend, I did the framing in Photoshop with hard straight edged borders, but ots done on a full size 8.5x11 Letter Size image. (Good for future printing?) Single frame comics might be done as 8.5x6 or about.
Which do you like better?
A. Freehand Multi-Frame and Freehand Single Frame?
B. Hard/Straight Style?
I'm not asking about the content, although constructive criticism is welcome. Mostly I want to know about the look of the bordering. Which do you enjoy looking at more? Which is easier to read? etc.
thehoopiestfrood:
A definitely.
Primate:
After decades of reading comics, I know that I tend to read ruler-straight panel frames as emotionally neutral, and the wavy hand-drawn frames as emotionally unstable or nervous. Which means I usually prefer the straight frames, since the emotional setting of the frames may undercut the emotions of the pictures and words. I can't tell you just how universal that reading would be though.
The robots are seriously odd. Fun though. And isn't phornicate usually spelled with a 'f'?
mosfet:
I've usually seen if "f" but the lyrics I found showed "ph"
I wonder if the "unstable" part is why I kind of like the wavy style. :) I don't think I'll personally have a good sense of which I like better until I do a straight edged single-frame version. then I can compare both multi-frame and single-frame versions.
Sideways:
A, but make it even more rough/jagged. The lines themselves can be of varying thickness, and I think that would look cool.
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