Tips for slowing the story pace

[Rin_sugarawa]

Can anyone have a tip for slowing down the pace of comic? Please help cuz I dont know how to avoid hastening the story detail and a lot of readers complain about this. I feel really bad. I dunno how some artists could really control the flow of the story, especially one in romantic genre, the atmosphere created is really relaxing and peaceful due to the slow pace of story. So I really wonder whether it has a key or tips to do that or not. How do you control and make buffer in your own comic? Please share, and it is great if you have some examples. Thanks a lot, luv ya

[33rdCenturyCaveman]

So if story is long adventure, fill it up with lots of little adventures or parallel stories. Give your characters more to do. This am something that comes with more experience.

[magnavarra]

Add some air - like literally more space between panels and some panels with abstarct background - clouds , flowers, city streets or whatever background is in your story - soujo manga do it a lot if you are up to romance. Add some characters' thoughts there or some narration.
flashbacks may be nice sometimes if they help to understand story as well and you can use it ti remind readers what hapent 10 episodes earlier .
Ask yourself about each detail you've put into story - have you explained it yet to readers or does it only live in your head/script. If not -well start explaining

also I thinink that fast pace is not bad - I mean do you plan to draw your comic for 5 years?.. some stories are ment t be fast. If you watch movies there are shorts, full length films as well as..

[skicoak]

Focus on the in-between moments more.

You can luxuriate in the emotions of something when you give it more page space/panels. And those panels don't have to have a ton of forward momentum. A scene where a girl brings a cupcake to her friend at school becomes something richer if you've got 40 panels of her carefully, and lovingly, making a batch cupcakes and selecting the very best to give her friend BEFORE that scene.

[Kiweevil]

Your focus on paneling can help on a page-by-page basis. Not every panel has to be an actions, some can be time-appropriate between-the-action panels. Like an establishing shot of the sky to tell you what time it is, or a close up with the shift in expression in a character's face before saying something. (Just don't go overboard, it's a webcomic not a crime solving show lol!) Because in real like we have in-between content, especially in social exchanges. The only time you'd usually jump quickly from panel to panel is for scenes that're meant to be read as fast-paced.

If you do things like that, it'll help with your pacing without the need to add in godawful amounts of filler.