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Mangaka's Tools
What is drawing manga without the tools?The following shows a list of items for drawing manga/comic:(along with some explanation, just in case you didn't even know what a pencil is ^^)1. Pencil and...
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Here we discuss about the process involved in drawing manga, from the planning stage all the way to the finishing touch.There are FIVE main stages involved in manga drawing:FIRST STAGE - DraftSECOND...
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Manga Drawing Process: Draft
This is the very first step of creating a manga or comic, the very first element that determine the direction of your work. A draft serves as a guideline or outline for the manga artist in the manga...
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Manga Drawing Process: Sketching
Now that you're done planning out your story and the panels, time to put the plan into work, yes, it's time to draw manga.First up, we'll start with sketch. I'd suggest new artists to put in effort and...
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Manga Drawing Process: Inking - Part 1
This is an important and (if not handed properly) the most nasty procedure in your manga drawing process. Why? Because there's no turning back in this process, one stroke is one stroke, and if you...
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Manga Drawing Process: Screentone & Touch Up - Part 1
Let's look at the image above, the finalized inking of a manga. Yeah, I can stop right there and start selling my work but I'm not too happy with it. I think that Little Red Riding Hood's dress is red...
View ArticleManga Drawing Process: Inserting Text
You have two ways of doing this - using computer with software tool or you can just ask your publisher to do this for you.In Malaysia (don't know about other countries), the text inserting procedure is...
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Basic Drawing In Manga Style
You may be asking now, how to draw a face? How to draw a dog? How to draw a car? How to draw a building? And the list could go on forever.Well, it's not that hard y'know, all these can be done with a...
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Manga Drawing Process: Inking - Part 2
How to Ink?There are many ways to ink your manga, take Inoue Takehiko sensei for example, he uses ONLY Chinese brush for his inking in Vagabond, but of course, this is what I call - the expert level,...
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Welcome to Mangaka's Journal, a place where becoming a mangaka is no longer a dream but a reality...Just kidding! ^^Actually, I'd just like to share with you some experience of drawing manga, how you...
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Manga Drawing Process: Inking - Part 3
How to Hatch?Hatching is used to form tones for your manga utilizing ONLY pen techniques. Mangaka who uses this technique minimizes the usage of screentones and thus being a little more...
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Manga Drawing Process: Inking - Part 4
Here I'll show you a sample of manga inking in progress.Using the sketch from previous chapter, I continued by inking the borders and conversation bubbles of my manga first. It doesn't matter which...
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Manga Drawing Process: Screentone & Touch Up - Part 2
Alright, since I'm using software tools for my screentone so I'll skip the real-life screentone procedure. Anyway you still can look them up by refering to How to Draw Manga series.As mentioned before...
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Welcome!Mangaka's ToolsManga Drawing Process~ Draft~ Sketching~ Inking- Part 1- Part 2- Part 3- Part 4~ Screentoning & Touch Up- Part 1- Part 2~ Inserting TextBasic Drawing In Manga Style
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Drawing Human Figure
It is unless you don't ever want to draw human or anything that takes on human's form in your manga, then ignore this, but since this is rarely gonna happen let's take a look at how to draw human...
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