Drawing Comics: Today's Topic - Thumbnail Layouts

If you want to get a good sense of how your narrative is going to pace before you draw the finished or penciled art, layouts are important.

And no I don't mean a full comic book pre-sketch page of comics are. I mean draw a page full of tiny inch-and-a-half tall vertical rectangle boxes. And then sketch in a whole thumbnail pages worth of miniature panels in each of those boxes. There is no need for polish or tight penciling at this stage. 

This way, instead of only drafting up one layout per page (full scale and rough), you can get your ideas down on paper for 8-15 comic book pages or more. It saves you the time of being lost in terms of how to pace panels and lay panels out on pages.