Making comic panels

It’s always faster to use already prepared templates for manga panels, but if you need to create your own, there is a variety of tools and options for frame border layers. These frame borders make comic panels – the individual boxes that each piece of sequential art in a story is drawn inside of.

These frame border layers can be created easily, edited in just a few clicks, and even set to mask out any content outside of the panel – which makes for a much easier drawing experience. If you want to know more about layers, check out Chapter 3, Penciling: Layer and Layer Property Palettes.

For now, let’s start making some comic panels!

What are frame border layers?

First of all, frame border layers are what Clip Studio Paint calls the specific type of layers that it makes comic panels from. Panels in comics are like shots in a movie or TV show. They contain the action and can also give a sense of the amount of time that&...