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7/14/2025, 2:07:42 AM
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>>7645137
Gesture is the most important thing for drawing fight scenes IMO. It's what sells the blows and throws and impacts. Well, most important after clarity anyway.
Pic is a random example I remembered, and it reminded me: all the same fundamentals of storytelling apply to fight scenes. Set things up, pay them off, surprise your readers. You still ought to remember to keep things interesting in the fight scene itself. You shouldn't just assume that the character hitting each other instead of talking to heads is automatically more compelling to read. Not because it isn't, but because you can make a fight scene way better that way.
Other than that... the only helpful advice I can think of is to read manga so you can see how other authors do it. And if you do, you might notice that straight up fist fights are often avoided. Even in fucking boxing manga. Why? Because it's super hard to portray on a page. They'll usually be heavily broken up between pages, rather than having a whole sequence on one page.
>>7645137
Gesture is the most important thing for drawing fight scenes IMO. It's what sells the blows and throws and impacts. Well, most important after clarity anyway.
Pic is a random example I remembered, and it reminded me: all the same fundamentals of storytelling apply to fight scenes. Set things up, pay them off, surprise your readers. You still ought to remember to keep things interesting in the fight scene itself. You shouldn't just assume that the character hitting each other instead of talking to heads is automatically more compelling to read. Not because it isn't, but because you can make a fight scene way better that way.
Other than that... the only helpful advice I can think of is to read manga so you can see how other authors do it. And if you do, you might notice that straight up fist fights are often avoided. Even in fucking boxing manga. Why? Because it's super hard to portray on a page. They'll usually be heavily broken up between pages, rather than having a whole sequence on one page.
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