ABSTRACT
The reporting and writing techniques utilized for telling the story, but artistic techniques bring emotion and meaning to the story, as well as shaping style and personality of the entire work. As students of art learn, certain formalistic practices seem to always work for creating visual composition. These formalistic practices are often referred to as the 'Principles of Design and Composition'. By following these principles, an artist is more likely to create comics work that viewers find to be aesthetically pleasing. These principles give the artist a set of tools that can be used to manipulate viewer's attention, draw eye to particular elements, and elicit emotion toward a given work and help to create comics or other visual art that can hold viewer's interest. People can see examples of the comics and film language analogy where composition is discussed in books such as Drawing Words and Writing Pictures and Making Comics by Jessica Abel and Matt Madden beyond Graphic Novels.
