6:31pm
One of the most important aspects of a webcomic site would be how to represent a comic to the reader, sight unseen.
Inspired by this post, I developed a simple “Preview Grid” that took a few pages from the comic, cropped and reduced them and displayed them on the front page. That didn’t seem very clear, the large comics image was reduced too much to give an idea of what the comic looks like.
Now I’m considering a grid or a row of sample images, cropped but not reduced—which would be more abstract but give a better example of the drawing style in the comic.
Another option is to have the creator upload a sample image, but one thing I find frustrating in webcomics is to click on a beautifully-drawn, carefully-rendered, colored and airbrushed logo image or ad button, to find a crudely drawn B&W comic. I’d like to represent the actual pages of the comic to the reader.
Inspired by this post, I developed a simple “Preview Grid” that took a few pages from the comic, cropped and reduced them and displayed them on the front page. That didn’t seem very clear, the large comics image was reduced too much to give an idea of what the comic looks like.
Now I’m considering a grid or a row of sample images, cropped but not reduced—which would be more abstract but give a better example of the drawing style in the comic.
Another option is to have the creator upload a sample image, but one thing I find frustrating in webcomics is to click on a beautifully-drawn, carefully-rendered, colored and airbrushed logo image or ad button, to find a crudely drawn B&W comic. I’d like to represent the actual pages of the comic to the reader.
Labels: art, comics, design, programming, web
2 Comments:
Hey! There's nothing wrong with a crudely drawn black and white comic...
As the creator of many crudely-drawn black and white comics, I didn't say there was! :)
I just like to have a clearer idea of what I'm getting when I click a link or a button.
Jeff
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