How to Panel Manga

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Think of what kind of actions your characters will be doing

   In the first stage, plot out four to six boxes on a piece of paper and write your first actions in each box, with the caption under them.
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   Step 2: step by step.

   Close-up or background-shot? Horizontal or vertical, maybe slanted? How does this effect the scene? , If you are leaning towards traditional format, right-to-left panels are a nice idea.
   
   Decide in this part of the process what frames bleed out from the edges, but be careful to keep the important captions and drawings inside a "safe-zone".
   
   Now, there doesn't have to be a gap between boxes like in American Marvel Comics.
   
   Usually, the borders separating each panel are just thin yet bold black lines.
   
   In some cases, the borders of a given panel will be left out entirely.
   
   This technique is called 'bleeding out' frames. , After you've made the perfect page, ink it with inking multi-liner pens .
   
   Copic and Pigma are recommended highly.
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   Step 3: Decide on the angle for each frame.

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   Step 4: Rewrite the panels on a different sheet of paper and fit them together .

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   Step 5: This process can be done several times until the manga-ka sees the page as fit.

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