Storyboardist (Effects Layouts) has a set of correctly-sized components you can download for DIYLC. Makes it easier to figure out whether something is actually going to fit in the real world...
As Vigilante398 said, laying out "vero is a different way of thinking". I haven't practiced it much, because I find it quite frustrating. My brain just doesn't jive with vero very well, and my layouts are either larger than they need to be or long and skinny.
Creating a layout that allows the circuit to work well (no hums/pops/whistles etc), is compact, minimises cuts & jumpers, flows and makes sense... well, that takes some skills indeed.
I mostly use DIYLC for quick-sketching perf and schematic ideas, case in point — as discussed earlier in the thread, the ol' sawasherooniki — there's a vero for it, but no schematic. I've been meaning to do this for some time, but right now is not the time to do it as I'm extremely busy though I squeezed in a few minutes here and there over the last couple/few days, after my previous post whenever that was... it's a very rough first draught, it needs renumbering and spacing and tidying, but I'll throw it out there regardless:
Twelve pots and six switches that often interconnect with one another, and late-in-the-game labelling means it's a mess. Feel free to draw your own cleaner version, and let me know what mistakes I've made in my haste.
. This is a LPB-1. I think the more I play with it the better I'll get in terms of density. Just like breadboarding and guitar!
