"However, it was kind of bothering me just how off my bubble sizes were. Like, sometimes I had difficulty fitting five mono-syllable words in a bubble while other times, there were several long sentences with too much whitespace! I just was very bad at predicting how lines of dialogue translated into bubble size."
I feel your pain. Bubbles never are the size you want. You can use a photoshop brush to create bubbles and they're wrong. You can draw the bubbles in by hand and they're wrong. No matter how much planning goes into them, they always find a way to be wrong!
Also congratulations on being a big enough masochist to attempt more than 8 panels on a single page. Usually any more than 5-6 panels results in some unfortunate derp faces or QUALITY on my end. And you had the nerve to try not going entirely for close ups. Kudos on the challenge, it is not easy.
"I don't know if it's super obvious but... I hate drawing backgrounds, and basically avoided drawing any kind of background wherever possible. The only times I drew a background was when (1) a location change had happened and it was important to convey where the scene was set, or (2) it was important to convey where characters were located in a space (e.g. Bashir and Garak's table in the replimat separate from Dax and Odo's; Dax noticing Odo sitting at the bar in the background, etc.)"
Backgrounds can be useful in the storytelling process but it is possible to successfully avoid them almost entirely in a comic. If you're a gag artist then backgrounds provide opportunities for all sorts of silliness but if you're being serious or focusing on the foreground then often they're detrimental rather than beneficial. I used to think that I needed every panel to be a work of art, then I remembered how much I'd skim through a manga. Action, action, action, be economical with words. Comics is a heartbreaking medium XD
Congratulations again, it's no small feat to make a comic, especially that many pages.
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I feel your pain. Bubbles never are the size you want. You can use a photoshop brush to create bubbles and they're wrong. You can draw the bubbles in by hand and they're wrong. No matter how much planning goes into them, they always find a way to be wrong!
Also congratulations on being a big enough masochist to attempt more than 8 panels on a single page. Usually any more than 5-6 panels results in some unfortunate derp faces or QUALITY on my end. And you had the nerve to try not going entirely for close ups. Kudos on the challenge, it is not easy.
"I don't know if it's super obvious but... I hate drawing backgrounds, and basically avoided drawing any kind of background wherever possible. The only times I drew a background was when (1) a location change had happened and it was important to convey where the scene was set, or (2) it was important to convey where characters were located in a space (e.g. Bashir and Garak's table in the replimat separate from Dax and Odo's; Dax noticing Odo sitting at the bar in the background, etc.)"
Backgrounds can be useful in the storytelling process but it is possible to successfully avoid them almost entirely in a comic. If you're a gag artist then backgrounds provide opportunities for all sorts of silliness but if you're being serious or focusing on the foreground then often they're detrimental rather than beneficial. I used to think that I needed every panel to be a work of art, then I remembered how much I'd skim through a manga. Action, action, action, be economical with words. Comics is a heartbreaking medium XD
Congratulations again, it's no small feat to make a comic, especially that many pages.