Author notes

Issue 13-08

fukujinzuke

on March 4, 2010

Next tip for illustrations in general:

Like DAJB was saying on yesterday's page, varying your camera angles can make for great results when used properly. Most artists struggle with perspective at some point or another. Might as well just get started and get used to it sooner.

Here's the difference:


The first shot is pretty flat and boring.
The second angle on the same pose gives a different mood. Having the camera up high makes this particular event seem like a very small part of a much bigger world, though it feels significant!
The third angle with the low camera makes the subject seem like he's stumbled across something that pits him on top of the world!
On the fourth, I just changed the pose of the 2nd pic to more clearly demonstrate the feeling of this event being a small scale event relative to the rest of the world though it's clearly significant.

I'm not saying you have to use extreme perspective shots every time, but if your comic is not a 3-panel strip, it'd help convey more climatic moments for your pages if you slip some in now and then.

In fact, this is a strange thing for me to put on this page… given that I only used a single variation of an angle for the sequence here on this page of the issue.