Something I feel should be the primary focus of a comic page, is how it reads, or how the composition can be used to guide the eye. You want the viewer to seamlessly flow from panel to panel, and hopefully not experience disruption in the process. Heres an example of one of my pages, and how I feel it compositionally pans out.
Now that I'm getting to the stage of stitching my work together, Im starting to see a major flaw in the way that I am working for this project. Im working on bits of the imagery, and not the work as a whole, meaning I cant appropriately critique the composition until the very end. I've been quite fortunate, in that composition was at the back of my mind whilst roughing, but still find a few of the pages lacking. This goes too for balance, some of the pages feature too much white, could use less information within the panels etc. Its a shame really.
Lessons learnt though, If its broke, fix it. I'm more than happy with the results Im getting, but they could be better. I've reached a point where I've decided that I will continue the project after cop, hopefully to completion. When working on it then, I'm going to have a more physical digital mix. The characters will remain pencil work, but the backgrounds will be digitally worked upon, on a page already laid out. This will in turn allow me to see the shape of the composition much earlier in the process.
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