Pacing! Crescendo and Decrescendo!

In music, a crescendo is a symbol that tells the musician to transition smoothly from quiet to loud over a certain amount of time. A decrescendo tells the musician to do the opposite. When these two are right next to each other it’s sometimes called a “swell.” We already know your comics are swell… 

Now can you make your art swell over the course of some panels?

Start “quiet” and “small” and build up your comic’s intensity over the course of one to three pages. Reach a big crescendo and then restore the quiet with the decrescendo. Try to incorporate the crescendo into as many elements of your comic as possible - the characters, their actions, the environments they occupy, and ultimately, the pacing. Do the sizes or shapes of your panels also change to reflect the swell? It’s up to you!

Pacing Comic is due 9/15 to be critiqued on 9/17.