Do you draw storyboards for your comic? How do they look?

[Soturisi]

Woa, this is funny! xD Thank you very much for sharing your storyboard with me (with us hehehe)

I'm seeing that an "important" point in the storyboards pages is an illegible handwritting XDDD
I write the dialogues in Spanish but them sometimes I dn't undersatand what I've written and I have to read the script again, it's funny xDDD

[sarahrebecca58]

Believe it or not, I actually skip story boards. Mostly because I have a set of at least 40 poems or so before I start drawing the comic. I usually draw so rough anyway, that doing a rough pre layout would be redundant. I considering it stream lining the process by skipping it.

[carloswebcomic]

Usually I already have the layout of the page in my head and do a quick sketch to see if it works and if the timing feels right. I generally end up adding/removing panels in the finished page.

[allenthomas]

I wouldn't say I have storyboards per se, maybe more like thumbnails. However, I make sure I can have the important details mapped out so that I can have a little more freedom when I actually create the pages. (Also note these are earlier thumbnails of mine with horrendous speech bubble placement LOL)

[AnnaLandin]

Yeah, I do. I storyboard and script at the same time - I find it really hard to write a comic-script in words only. I need to see what the page will look like to know how much dialogue will fit and so on.

I do all of my storyboards in thumbnail-size, as panel layouts are something I struggle with, and it's much easier for me to get through it if I draw in a small size - that way, erasing and changing my mind about panel-order and stuff is much faster and easier. And when I say thumbnail-sized, I mean it - none of these are larger than the length of my thumb:

As you can see, I write notes to myself in the margins, as well as summaries of the dialogue below each page so that I can remember what everything is and what everyone says. These are storyboards for a Christmas-calendar comic I made last year, and the first page (second one from the left in the top row) turned out looking like this in the end:

[Kittyfries]

I usually do mine digitally to save paper! My recent update to Arcana Tales was storyboarded on paper since I was bored and decided that I should work on my comic. Down below are the first 3 pages in digital

[Soturisi]

Wow! They are soper small!! Hahaha mine are bigger (i think I should do it smaller) xD and the final result of that page is simply amazing v your coloring is so lovely

[AnnaLandin]

@Soturisi They are tiny! The next step after that is to do full-size rough sketches digitally, with the dialogye/speech bubbles laid out where they should be, followed by clean sketches, followed by ink, followed by colour - and tinkering with the dialogue the whole time. XD

Also, thank you! I'm happy you like the colours.

[Josekopero]

My storyboards are like this.
It's from my webcomic Sek, Hands up

[Soturisi]

Hahaha aaall digital xD I only do digital the colors and bubble speech/text, drawing and ink is traditional (:

[AnnaLandin]

@Soturisi I work traditionally sometimes - one of my first big comic-projects was all traditional, except for the speech-bubbles and dialogue - but these days, it's just faster to work 100% digitally. My webcomic keeps a twice-a-week updating schedule, and I just could not keep up if I inked traditionally.

I kinda wanna do a watercolour-comic at some point, though. That'd be neat.

[gurukittystudio]

I have a little sketchbook where I've done my layouts on post it notes or scraps of Vellum. I stick them in the sketchbook and write around them. Normally I use real layout paper and do it proper but for this comic the pages were a square format so the post it notes worked better. because I'm basing Hello, Albertosaurus off of real life, my journal of our trip is asking as the script. Usually I have some type of script from someone else to work from. at the very least a story arc to follow. When I do the layouts I'll hash out the other details I missed in a script.

[LTyler]

(Can't really take a picture of mine, due to my not being able to afford a camera. LOL ). But I usually just draw some very rough 2" x 3" drawings with whatever pens are available, and some cheap paper - fitting 4 thumbnails on every page.
I have a stack of 100-150 thumbnails in my drawer, lol. I like to keep them just for giggles... I'd do it digitally, but I know I would be tempted to put too much detail into them if I did it digitally, and I'd end up not getting anywhere with it.

[Soturisi]

@lifemachine Omg!! This is so beautiful!! Your pencils are amazin :DDD <3

[natahanstudios]

I use Clip Studio Paint for my comic creation, and my workflow consists of a four step process. First, I begin with the panel layout -- usually, I don't came back to the layouts and tweak them. I just try to envision the flow of the scene and lay down the panels accordingly. Then, I begin the rough sketch.

Then I line the artwork.

Lastly, the shading and dialogue.

Then the page is set to go. I guess my method can't be classified as "storyboarding", but either way, I thought I'd share.

[UltHamBro]

I tend to make the storyboards in Sai, just before I actually start drawing the page. I had done storyboards of the first 20 pages of my comic before actually starting it, but I haven't done it for the new pages. However, I have the general layouts in my head just by looking at the dialogue.

[MylCreates]

I usually draw mini mini thumbnails for my pages, sometimes they're as tiny as a quarter. Then I draw the real thing from there. So I'm usually able to pack about 40 pages into 1 side of computer paper, and that's my plan for the next few months.

[SpavVy]

I start off with writing the script then I do the storyboards twice sometimes three. I do the tiny storyboard boxes to start off and then I do the thumbnail storyboards to figure out how I'm going to layout the panels. After I draw on the manuscript paper and scan it in I do some major edits in Manga Studio. Sadly I don't have the first storyboard drafts with me because I'm visiting my father for the holiday.

My crappy Final storyboards >_>

Work in progress pages. Sometimes I just draw the people in Manga studio and put them on the page. I'm not used to drawing in panels for certain poses yet.

[sarahrebecca58]

I'll note I actually get more out of drawing larger thumbnails, because I have to draw big anyway for the kind of detail that I want. (I have trouble with minimalist realistic from a distance.)

I'll modify the post the upload my thumbnail after I trim the scanner portions.

[alcruid]

I first make a script for Thaeria and I do that when I'm going to school while sitting in the train in a special notebook (one is already full) and i type and fic it in Gdoc. when at work I sometimes snatch some paper and start doodling. If I like it, I'll use it!

I always draw in pen... cause I just do it at random places and with random paper lol

then I lineart and colour... or I just colour
this is the fun part cause i can try out a lot of things and experiment

after that I try to position and do the text. I still have to learn that a bit more, cause sometimes it just doesn't feel right. In this particular case ps didn't work so I used frigiin MS Paint for the typesetting :/