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A reader in a Facebook group told me my page layouts were confusing and they were right
I had a guy named Derek comment on one of my posts last Tuesday saying he had to read my comic pages three times to figure out the order of the panels. At first I was mad because I thought my flow was obvious. But then I looked at the page again and realized I had a character who jumps from the left side of a panel to the right side in the next one with no visual cue. I changed my approach and started putting arrow cues or matching background colors to guide the eye. Now I even test my rough layouts on my wife before I ink anything. Has anyone else had a reader point out something that made you totally rethink your process?
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spencer_johnson222mo ago
My dad actually told me the same thing about a newsletter layout I was doing for his small business group. I used three columns of information and he said people were reading left to right then dropping down instead of scanning the whole page. I told him the same thing about how the flow was obvious but then I watched three other people try to read it and they all did the same thing he did. Now I keep my layouts simple and just do one column of information at a time. It might not look as fancy but people actually read what I put there now.
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lewis.diana2mo ago
Read an article the other day about how people's brains are wired to look for patterns in the simplest way possible. Makes sense when you watch someone try to figure out a multi column layout... they just follow the lines down instead of across.
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