How do I storyboard a vertical style graphic novel?

[Delphonse]

I have been looking around and for the last year and a half while creating my series I had the idea of creating it as a horizontal series. it was only recently that the pages were being made and I liked the way they turned out. They would work well for a physical book. but once I started uploading them and looking at them on my phone I realized that text is kind of small in some areas. as well as pictures are not as large so they are harder to enjoy.

I am thinking of completely changing the series and turning it into a Mobile friendly series. Doing that I want to re imagine the series in a Vertical sense. I have read a few series on Webtoons that I enjoyed. They are popular and very easy to read. I like the scroll down feature and there can even be some fun tricks art wise that pander to scroll down. My only real question is how do I storyboard a vertical series?

If anyone could help give me advice or point me towards some study material I would really appreciate it ^.^

[bakasama25]

storyboard? I thought that was called layouts in comic book industry jargon?

Anyway if you look at some of them, they are comic book pages with panels rearranged into a vertical format.

Some of them much larger panels than you find a comic book page. It might imagine as "a panel as a page" rather than "a page with panels".

[keii4ii]

I have a vertical scroll series myself. What I do is work with a very taaaaall blank image file to create my thumbnails (the non-animation equivalent of storyboards).

Compare this thumbnail:

...with the finished episode here.

You'll see some differences between the two versions. There is one panel in the thumbnail that's not in the finished version, for one thing. I do make some changes here and there as I go along.

The downside of this method is that formatting for print would be TEN THOUSAND NIGHTMARES.

Some creators try to get the best of both worlds by vertically stacking comic book pages. That way, the comic is vertical, but it can still be printed without extensive reformatting. You do need to be very careful with your page layouts though, so that it works in both formats. I tried to do this at first with my comic, but found that it was too much headache for me, trying to make the storytelling work in two formats simultaneously. So I kind of gave up on the double dipping, and have been focusing 100% on the storytelling for my primary medium: digital.

[joannekwan]

Don't sweat it too much, because if you really think about it, all pages (webtoons too) will still read left-to-right (or right to left) and up-down.
If you want it mobile friendly, have at most two panels side by side, then just let the rest of the panels come naturally.

[PotooGryphon]

One of my favorite threads on the forums does a good job explaining it a bit

Comic Composition, Layout, and Flow

and this episode of Tapastic's The Creator's Guide.

And @fanyart has a fantastic tutorial series that'll be helpful.