3) On your blog, visually analyze a page of a book that you like. Look at type choice and size, use of white space, relation of pictures to images and the like. If you're doing a comic, note the lettering and gutter choices, panel breakdown, etc. Approach this not as a critic, but on a functional "how does this tick?" level.
This is a page from the online comic, Directions of Destiny. I'm not particularly interested in the lettering (it's a simple computer font, no handwriting) but in the page design shown here. The artist is very careful to keep the page balanced. Note the larger character drawing counteracted by the speach bubbles, leaving not one side too heavy or bare. The bubbles also provide a smooth flow for the reader's eyes to follow. Here there are no blank gutters but a continuous background filling in all parts of the page- visually there are no empty, boring spaces. I admire this artists concepts of harmony within his drawings.
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