Iconography Part 9 - Visual Vocabulary of Graphic Novels, Comic Books and Comic Strips
Art Tricks
Whiteope - open space left between lines to separate foreground elements from the background.
Boozex - Three Xs marked on a bottle to suggest booze. No need for brand names!
Digitrons - The dotted lines that show which way a comic strip character is pointing or eye direction (looking)
Lapsebeams - show time has passed
Dotted line - Indicate trail to follow or path taken.
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