Clip/Manga Studio word bubbles and Word Bubble techniqueHey guys, hate reading tutorials? Heres a video version instead: https://youtu.be/JSCo0xstDfwI'm
so proud of all the legit comics we had in the first round of this year's speed resurrection tourney. But I'm
not proud of how bad all these text bubbles look! So lets talk a little bit about speech bubbles and how
important they are to a comic.Here let me give you an example.
The version on the right is NOT FAR from what I'm seeing in some of these battles, look at how unprofessional that looks? Which one looks better? See how much bad speech bubbles can detract from a comic?
Let's start with some Do's and Don'ts of bubbles.It takes a little bit of practice, but you always want your text to fit the shape of the bubble it's in.
Ideally you want narrow top, fat middle, narrow bottom!So lets start with a fresh panel in manga studio.
You should be planning your text right along your sketch! This stops you from covering up hard work later and lets you plan for how much space those bubbles are going to take!
Your next step should be adding the text as soon as sketches are finished.
If you draw on paper you should still be planning your speech bubbles as you sketch and leaving space for them while you ink. Hand lettering is complicated and I might do a post on it later, but for now I'm assuming you'll be using magical technology to do your text.Sketch
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Add Text
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Add Bubbles
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Do your other shit.
So lets do that, I'mma add my text and make sure it's centered and molded in a bubble shape.
There!
Now from here there are
three ways to make bubbles in manga studio, you can use these techniques in
photoshop as well but I'll go over that in another post in this thread later.Here's what they look like:
Now look, sit down with me here for a minute. I need to tell you something.
I know you want to use the ellipse tool, its so easy. BAM DONE! But I'm here to tell you that you can't. No. Unless its ellipse or no text at all then MAYBE. If your comic can stand without text then I'd rather no text than ellipse style bubbles.
The best style of bubble is the curve style, its similar to drawing with the pen in photoshop and takes practice, but the pay off is much more professional bubbles, trust me. So we've covered the basic rules of bubbles in this post.
Plan your bubbles in your sketch.
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mold your text to fit your bubble.
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Avoid ellipse style bubbles
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always center your text!
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Whamo-Blamo insta-semi-professionalismSee look? Even with my speed inking and shitty gradients the
page looks a lot more professional because the text looks professional!Next time we'll cover
photoshop techniques as well as
speech tails.
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