As stated in the introduction to this chapter, frame border layers are what Clip Studio Paint calls the specific type of layers that it makes comic panels from. Panels in comics are like shots in a movie or TV show. They contain the action and can also give a sense of the amount of time that's passed or how much weight the action contains. Panels can also bring lots of drama and excitement to a page, and can lead the reader's eye around the composition, telling them what is important and what they should be looking at.

Panel layouts can be straightforward or much more exciting. Let's take a look at a few comic panel examples, along with the way that their frame border layers are laid out in the Layer palette. All of the examples are taken from Chapter 18 of my comic, Adrastus.

Here is the first example:

In the preceding example,...