How to extend a comic panel without redrawing the art
Tell Vizard Agent to extend the existing artwork rather than regenerate the panel, and name what must survive untouched: the faces, the speech balloons, the line style. The hard part is not filling the space; it is that a body continued past a crop goes wrong at the shoulders first.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Say "using the existing image" and mean it. Otherwise the request reads as "draw me this panel", and what comes back is a new picture of two similar characters rather than your panel with more of it visible. Give Vizard Agent the image at full size, plus any character references the series has.
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What does Vizard Agent actually do?
It continues the art instead of inventing a new picture, so the faces and dialogue that readers actually look at stay as the original. Then it works on the anatomy, which is where these jobs go wrong. One pair of torsos took three passes, and the one that worked removed something. In the session behind this article it:
- Worked out where two overlapping panels divided and generated test crops to confirm the split before committing.
- Opened the character references supplied for the series, rebuilt each panel from the original art, and redid the larger one preserving the conversation at the top and extending only the background.
- Completed the two figures down to the bottom edge without enlarging the crop.
- Retried the torso extension more conservatively, leaving the upper part untouched, then scaled the torsos and shoulders up in proportion to the heads.
- Rebuilt from the base version showing torsos only, keeping the arms out of frame, because at that camera height they would not be visible.
- Reconstructed the left side as a continuation of the main panel, preserving the explosion behind it.
When does this not work well?
Some panels can't be extended convincingly. Heavy stylisation, hatching that runs in one direction, or a character cut off at an ambiguous angle all give an extension that reads as a different artist's work. Distinctive line weight shows at the join, very low-resolution scans leave nothing to continue from, and some crops are the composition.
Common questions
Can it keep my speech balloons? Yes. Name them and Vizard Agent reconstructs around them.
What if two panels overlap? Vizard Agent splits them with test crops first, then completes each separately.
How many passes does this usually take? Two or three with Vizard Agent. The anatomy note is almost always the second.