How to Create Panels for Comic Strip

Video Transcript

"Next we're going to cover how to create panels for your comic strip. Most comic strips are presented in a series of panels. Imagine them as squares in space in which your comic strip will take place. Let's demonstrate how to make them. This is where some of our straight edges are going to come in handy, especially if you have one with a nice 90 degree angle. Basically take a black pen. Outline around the edges to get a nice square edge. Make sure and hold it very, very tightly against the paper so we get a nice corner affect here. Then we're going to bring it down. We're basically going to repeat here on the other side. This is a very, very meticulous process that I'm going over very quick for demonstration purposes. You can not spend too much time on this if you want to get a great perfect looking panel. Otherwise, if you hurry, things won't be at a 90 degree angle and things get all messy and crazy, and that's just not going to look really good for your panel. If you don’t want to spend tons of time with rulers, another option to creating the panels free hand is by using your handy dandy printer. What this basically does is you'll be able to get the exact same effect, except just simply creating a bunch of squares on any basic software program and then printing it out on a paper for your printer. It's going to be able to let you get to the same exact end result, and at the same time, also save yourself a lot of aggravation. Again, if you have a lot of patience for straight edges and 90 degree angles, a good ruler will definitely get you there too."