Feedback on character art layout ?

[dragoner]

Looks good! The font and spacing look ok if that is what you want, I ran a bit tighter with bigger font, except it all depends on preference.

 

[cavetroll]

Looks good! The font and spacing look ok if that is what you want, I ran a bit tighter with bigger font, except it all depends on preference.

As in closer to the margins or a slimmer font? This is minion pro, maybe I need to buy a professional font to make it look nicer.

 

[Fenris-77]

No, but I do think you have too much line spacing, which may be contributing to the feel of too much white. I'd probably embiggen the font on 'Warrior' and play around with the table part as well to fill space if necessary. You could trim the margins a little bit, but it's not a huge issue IMO.

I'd also recommend aiming for vulnerable areas of their opponents armor...

 

[Fenris-77]

Not that I'm a professional graphic designer of course. Here's an example of some simple draft layout for something I wrote, mostly to emphasize the line spacing thing....

 

[Fenris-77]

That's the righthand two columns of a three column landscape layout btw, just to contextualize the font size.

 

[kenada]

I use Butterick’s Practical Typography to help me for figure out things like fonts and spacing.

 

[Fenris-77]

I use Butterick’s Practical Typography to help me for figure out things like fonts and spacing.

I've spent about 5 minutes reading it and I'm already a huge fan.

His bit about line spacing is good.

 

[dragoner]

As in closer to the margins or a slimmer font? This is minion pro, maybe I need to buy a professional font to make it look nicer.

The space between the lines, it looks like it is double space. I usually go with 1.15, which is me, you can go double space, or 1.5 if that is the feel you want, it's really a question of aesthetics.

Professional fonts work better for a variety of reasons, no need to be embeded or turned into curves for them to show properly.

 

[cavetroll]

Line height is so weird in Affinity Publisher, I change it a little and the whole thing explodes, fun stuff.

 

[dragoner]

it is weird, I just change it here