Creating consistency
This is one of the most difficult but vital parts of creating sequential art including picture books, graphic novels, comics, and manga. A character needs to be recognized as the same character on every appearance in any panel, no matter what angle, what expression, and what posing the character has in a panel. This is because the art needs to be able to read through as a story, not a collage of random drawings.
In this section, we are going to learn how to keep consistency in our manga. We will find various ways to help us go through the process of creating a whole manga with the visuals intact.
The best way is to create a character guide. This will work as a manual that we can always have a look at for reference. I recommend creating two different visual guides.
One is a reference image with one character in a standing pose, some facial expressions, and particular items or aspects that need attention to draw, if any. You can see the following figure...
