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7/10/2025, 7:00:39 PM
>>7639959
>>7640382
The gutters of panels should not be noticed. Because they are bold white lines crossing the page, it is very easy for them to be distracting.
Any time a panel perfectly lines up with another panel, it increases this effect.
The theoretical most distracting panelling is the 3x3 grid of 9, which looks like a window frame.
>1
2x3 grid of 6. This is what almost all manga pages originate from, give or take.
However this is a very uninteresting layout, and very distracting. The first thing you will notice before you even see the content is the panelling itself.
>2
the number of panels is the same but the center line has been moved to the left, this makes hte page more visually interesting, however since they are still all lined up, it is very distracting.
Notice the difference in spacing between the panels vertically vs horizontally, this helps guide the viewers eye in the right direction. You would never mistakenly read top to bottom on this, it is obvious you are supposed to read horizontally. Western comic makers have never figured out this trick
>3
Now only two rows of the panels are lined up, this is a perfectly adequate panel arrangement and is not really all that distracting, this should be the bare minimum you should strive for in panel design
>4
None of the panels line up in this, and as such they become completely invisible and you will be entirely focussed on what happens inside the panels and never distracted by the panels themselves.
>>7640382
The gutters of panels should not be noticed. Because they are bold white lines crossing the page, it is very easy for them to be distracting.
Any time a panel perfectly lines up with another panel, it increases this effect.
The theoretical most distracting panelling is the 3x3 grid of 9, which looks like a window frame.
>1
2x3 grid of 6. This is what almost all manga pages originate from, give or take.
However this is a very uninteresting layout, and very distracting. The first thing you will notice before you even see the content is the panelling itself.
>2
the number of panels is the same but the center line has been moved to the left, this makes hte page more visually interesting, however since they are still all lined up, it is very distracting.
Notice the difference in spacing between the panels vertically vs horizontally, this helps guide the viewers eye in the right direction. You would never mistakenly read top to bottom on this, it is obvious you are supposed to read horizontally. Western comic makers have never figured out this trick
>3
Now only two rows of the panels are lined up, this is a perfectly adequate panel arrangement and is not really all that distracting, this should be the bare minimum you should strive for in panel design
>4
None of the panels line up in this, and as such they become completely invisible and you will be entirely focussed on what happens inside the panels and never distracted by the panels themselves.
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