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The Comic Layout Generator by How to Draw Comics Academy is a tool built for comic artists who want to spend less time carefully ruling out panels, meticulously measuring gutters and setting up perspective grids - and more time drawing the fun stuff.

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By Clayton Barton

Members only · Sep 30, 2025 · 1 min read

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There's nothing worse than when you're reading a comic, and there's action and explosions erupting all over the place - buildings are crashing down, the sky is falling…

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The Rayman Method

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By Clayton Barton · Aug 19, 2025

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Throughout the demonstration, I'll show you the differences between regular poses, and poses that are pushed to the absolute limit. Then we'll look at broken poses, how…

By Clayton Barton · Aug 15, 2025

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