if you haven’t already i’d check out “understanding comics” by scott mccloud! it’s one of THE texts used for comic theory, it lays out how and why comics work in a really straightforward manner (:
heya, question is as the title suggests. I've always been rlly interested in drawing little oc comics (nothing super long form or anything, just bits and pages for lore and story beats!) but find things like scripting and composition and details/backgrounds etc to be pretty tricky
I don't suppose anyone has some advice or references they use that help them out with em? Anything's good honestly, thanks so much :'D
Can second scott mccloud! Dude obviously loves and understands comics, reading his books or listening to him talk about comics is always very nice and fascinating :)
Besides that im gonna drop a bunch of links talking about panelling and speech bubbles (excuse the messiness im on mobile and too lazy to embed them in text)
https://twitter.com/h0lysarthole/status/1117464886123089921?s=20 overall comic page composition tips
https://twitter.com/evegwood/status/1231975507773837319?s=20 speech bubbles and creative lettering
https://twitter.com/insertdisc5/status/1174092202684964864?s=20 time=space and impact of speech bubblesÂ
https://drawingden.tumblr.com/post/624984553604497408/heres-the-first-half-of-slides-from-my-comic even more bubble tips mostly for getting tone across
https://at.tumblr.com/unregisteredcat/616273523369967616/zkbpcsz69tpo and finally more cool composition and panel layout tips
The more comics you draw the better you get at figuring these things out yourself too, so just go wild!