How far in advanced do you story board your comic?

[Aloredd]

oh! That's kind of what I thought, but wasn't sure. Thanks! (and now I know to do them small.... I'd have done them full sized and filled the boxed with text )

[AnnaLandin]

@Aloredd You can do them in any size you want! I used to do them in A5-format - that is, an A4-sheet folded in half - but I found I spent too much time noodling around with the storyboards and not enough time actually drawing the finished product, so I downsized.

Just remember that less is more when it comes to comics, and it IS a visual medium. Write as many notes as you want, but try to keep the amount of text on each finished page as low as possible.

[punkarsenic]

i like to script as far forward as i possibly can; it means you know where youre going, which is important, and gives you motivation, because even if youre bored with the bit youre drawing now, when its done youre closer to drawing a really awesome bit you have planned.
im currently scripted six weeks ahead of the present and have vague plans for up to 13 weeks away. i want to write out the entire arc, so if i get caught up in gcses or die suddenly, someone else can pick it up. which means scripting it first off like a story, and then doing heavily detailed panel scripts, and leaving sketches everywhere.

i dont do storyboards, however i used to. sometimes, if im stuck, i sketch out the panels to see how id fit it in, but i find that if i do storyboards i end up wanting to trace this bit and that bit because i like them so much, and it doesnt turn out as well. waste of time, personally.

[keii4ii]

As @AnnaLandin said, you can do them in any size you want. A lot of artists prefer to do them small, though, because when you can REALLY see the whole page at once (slightly harder to do with larger sizes, as parts of the page start falling into your peripheral vision), you can focus on the layout and the flow instead of the details.

[SethJH]

So far, I've just been sitting down for a day or two and drawing the rough draft boards for each episode. I gave myself a due date every Wednesday, so two days for roughs should give me enough time to do finished boards the rest of the week.

I start by figuring out what needs to happen by writing an outline and dialogue in a text file. I don't usually do thumbnail boards because I feel like it's extra work (I do know the value of using them though, and have had success before with them). Next I draw rough storyboard panels mainly for determining what I want to portray: Lighting, perspective/anatomy, camera/shot angles, panel layouts, dialogue, and pacing. As I work on the final panels, I often find myself making edits to the draft boards anyway, so I consider them more as suggestions.

[gateofselidor]

I generally work one chapter in advance. I sketch out the layouts when I finish one chapter, before I start work on the next. Any more than that, and I just change my mind by the time I get there.

[GlanceReviver]

I don't really do thumbnails, I just do rough sketches over the template with dialogue placement included and zoom out so I can look at them 6 at a time. I like to be at least 6 ahead, but stuff gets crazy sometimes.

If I have a project with a definitive page count, like one I'm doing now that is 20 pages, I will do this process of very rough sketching out the whole thing and look at it to make sure page flow looks nice and I'm not repeating the same pattern with the panels too many times.

Since I'm doing this digitally, it's easy to move/resize parts of the composition. If I was doing it on paper like I used to do, then I'd definitely work smaller and with less detail since its a pain to erase and redraw something just to move it over or flip the direction.

[yartzanaserenade]

This may sound weird but I don't have a storyboard cause my hand is the actual brain here.

I mean , I have general idea of the story and characters in my head but it's vague and at the same time too detailed for a story board , my thoughts fit pictures more than words.
So I make up story and chapters as I draw without driving me too crazy about it.
That's why I have an amazing writer that makes up the words of the story after seeing the first chapter drafts... he says it's impossible to work with me

This way I'm both my own author and reader.
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Or a shoot in the air.