I was wondering how many of you use thumbnails for your comics? For me, they are invaluable. Because I work with line art, I cannot scale my renders up or down more than just a few percent. If I dramatically change the size of the renders, the lines will get much bigger or smaller (I hope that makes sense). Although varied line thicknesses from panel-to-panel isn't a big problem, it does look weird if a panel suddenly uses a HUGE brush (say a 20-pixel brush, which can happen if I scale up too much) when every single panel around it is using a 10px line. If there's no story reason to make that one panel more dramatic then it's a distraction. My thumbnails are created on a blank sheet of paper and, after I'm satisfied that it's close to what I want, I scan it and then place the panels and lettering in CSP. From the full page scan, I cut out each panel's thumbnail and paste it into its frame. Anyway, laying out the panels and word balloons/text before I start creating the renders works well for me, as that lets me know how much space I actually have for the artwork. If you note the blue-line panels, you can see the panel measurements written in each one. Here's a spread from the story I'm working on right now: GRAVEYARD SHIFT. These pages are filled with a LOT of dialogue, so I'm doing a lot of odd angles and lighting to try making it look more interesting. ALSO, I'm aware that, in the middle panel of the finished page, her left arm looks wonky. Her arm is really in a decent pose when viewed from a different angle: with her elbow away from her body and forearm bending down. This looked okay in the original camera angle I chose, but I changed it at the last minute and that's how the weird arm pose got through. If I have time I will go back and fix it, but I have a strict deadline at the end of September, so I'm going to plow ahead and try to get everything done before going back to fix problems. I'll post the complete page spread when it's done. #comics, #b&w, #black & white, #Poser, #illustration, #Poser13