Let’s make a manga—part 4

Have you ever wanted to create your own beautiful manga full of rich story line, interesting characters, and outstanding art that everyone will love? In the new “Let’s Make a Manga” series, find out how to make eye-catching covers, story plots that will make your readers beg for more, panel your manga, and create characters with personality.

Hello everyone! For part four in this series, I thought I would go over paneling your manga. You will learn how many panels to put, what shapes or styles to make it, and how to make a story with good transitions and tips to fit the mood of what is happening in the story.

Paneling Manga

When deciding exactly how many panels you want in a page, that can sometimes depend on the feel of what’s going on in the story.

With pages where there’s a lot of action, you should add 6-8 panels, with a few exceptions. For comical scenes, 2-3 panels can be good. When there’s no action going on at all, 3-5 panels always works out, though!

Here’s a tip for better results in your art: draw your scenes seperately and then add them into your panels. This helps because if there’s a small panel, but a very detailed scene in the panel, you can focus on the picture and add as many details as possible!

Speech Bubbles

I try to put any number of speech bubbles from 1-3, so as not to make the panel so cluttered. Another tip to speech bubbles is to figure out where you’re going to place them even before you draw the art in the panel. This is because sometimes the bubbles can be covering large parts of the art and will make things hard to see.

Panel shapes really depend on the space you have left. But still, it’s always a good idea to place a few different-shaped panels in there instead of just rectangle-shaped ones.

Chong

20 Jan, 2022