Building Characters
The character who opposes the Protagonist
Who is the Antagonist?
Larger and closer to the bottom of the page, highest detail, viewer sees first.
What is the foreground?
When conflict ends.
What is the Resolution?
Dialogue, or what the character is saying.
What is word balloon?
Most recognizable aspect of a character.
What is a silhouette?
Common character archetypes in a story
Who is the Hero, Mentor, and Villian?
Sets the scene, smaller, dull in color, and least amount of details, furthest away from viewer
What is the background?
Highest point of suspense or interest.
What is Climax in a story?
Single image within a comic.
What is a panel?
Items in a drawing show depth by crossing over each other.
What is overlapping?
Gain empathy and understanding, provide new perspectives, and make characters relatable.
Why have Diversity in Characters?
Interrupts the normal sequence of events to tell about something in the past.
What is a flashback?
Opening situation / Intro into conflict.
What is Introduction?
Sound words that are used to represent noises.
What is onomatopoeia?
Items in a drawing have a horizon line and vanishing point.
What is perspective?
Establish Motivation, Personality, and Behavior making them more relatable to readers.
What is a character backstory?
Leaves the story in suspense.
What is a cliffhanger?
Development of the conflict.
What is the Rising Action?
Lines that go around the panel, speech and thought bubbles, sound effects, and narration boxes.
What is a border?
Illusion of space that is
F / M / B.
What is placement?
The transformation of a character's Personality or Beliefs over the course of a story.
What is a Character Arc?
Outside force may be a person, group, animal, nature or nonhuman obstacle causing conflict.
What is external conflict?
Beginning of the Solution.
What is Falling Action?
Space between the panels.
1 / who's in it / description of action / dialogue or sound effects
What is a script?