Dave Gibbons

Dave Gibbons is a comic book artist and best known for his work in the graphic novel Watchmen. I have been looking into comics and manga as they ground action poses by using dark, hard lines.

Comic books and storyboards are similar as they both feature a sequence of images that tell a story. Unlike comics, Storyboards are unfinished, they give a general idea of how a sequence plays out. They are usually drawn loose and sketchy rather than using the dark, hard lines that define comic book art.

Instead of portraying movement by blurring the image, movement is based on key action poses and the number of panels on each page. By keeping the number of panels low, fast movement is produced. A high number of panels usually indicates slow movement, such as something fading out.