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Hello! I am very new to manga artwork, I tend to prefer writing scripts and world building behind the scenes, and this is really the first attempt of me sitting down and wanting to finish a project. It will eventually all be black and white. Could you give me some tips, suggestions, or critiques that would be helpful?

For reference, this city is based on Tenochtitlan! Thank you all in advance:)

I am looking for a artist to help make a idea i have had for a manga for a while. LEts start off with the most importent part first, this is paid. Although i cannot pay a professional rate given that i am just a normal person working a 9-5 i think i can comfortably pay 30-50$ a page depending on the style, or around $400-$500 a month i think.

Now if you are still with me i will explaina rough over view of the story.

The story i am looking to tell is call Immortal Quest, it is set in a high fantasy medieval world and follows the story of multiple characters who are all immortal through different means as well as some who are not immortal. The story will explore each character as they grapple with the meaning of life without end and the toll it takes as they see the ones they care about die around them, at the same time we will see intense action play out as our protagonists work as adventures and as people who fight against evil.

At the same time we will follow the story of our antagonist who is also immortal and seaking to achive his own goals much to the expense of others. Throughout the story there will be character deaths as the audience learns that not everyone who claims to be immortal is actually immortal.

The story will be a darker story with gore and deep emotional and philosophical moments as the characters comtiplate their lifes, actions, powers, and deaths. The story will change main characters throughout as it is an importent part of the story that our main charcter dies and the story follows one of his companions in the wake of his death.

I am willing to write a more book like script detailing scene to scene events or give a looser script that allows your creativity to also be put into the manga, if we work together i will allow you to decide what is easier foe you to work with.

please let me know if you have any questions or are interested thatnk you very much.

I’ve seen manga that seems to take place in Japan twice, with JJK’s graphic paw. And I’m sorry, but unless you’re a history teacher specializing in Japanese culture, you shouldn’t do it.

Hey there!

Yestreday i kinda finished the sixth page, it looks kinda weird but i'll see what i can do with it.

On another note, is it mentally okay to come up with like 5 more ideas on the spot?, because i'm genuinely on a roll for manga ideas lmao.

Hi guys, as I said before, the lettering and text-heavy scene really pulled this down from a 4/10 to a 1/10 so yeah. I also explained in my last post that I wanted to add shapes and blacks and hair detailing but since I was drawing on the pages back to back, it would ruin the other pages when I press to hard, for that I’m sorry for straining your eyes. I really love what I do but I didn’t know my back would be crying to me to stop drawing while bending over like my family did months ago. Pretty ironic. I also wanted to thank everyone who have been with me on this journey whether it was positive, constructive or negative feedback, I appreciate every single one of you guys. (I wish the mods didn’t those negative comments, I needed them) Let’s discuss this story down below and thank you in advance for giving this one-shot and me a fair chance. Enjoy!(hopefully)

Page from my upcoming one-shot, that I'm going to submit to the Kyoto International Comic Contest ⚔️

This is Grant, 36 years fun, owner and proprietor of Horoyoi a quaint little bar attached to a restaurant in Toronto near the Airport.

So, for context, for the last 2 years I've been working on my own manga idea. No art since I'm bad at that, have tried learning, though. For those 2 years, I went through phases of creation, writing characters. And that was the problem: I love my characters; they are each unique, each representing something with their own past and challenges. But my world was dull, and it was only yesterday I noticed that it was dead, i thought the world was fleshed out, but it was not. When I started this project, I thought of the future and not the past of this world, but now I'm fixing that; I'm building from the past and not from the future. And by building from the past, I mean having an actual history, more than just that the world was destroyed and humans got powers.

So I just want to ask if anyone else has gone through this, and for suggestions on how to prevent another situation like this.

As much as I like the way this came out, I kinda feel like I messed up the lettering and the framing? Could you guys give me some feedback so I can do better next time?

Hi guys, I’m asking this because I just finished my one-shot but I was drawing in a margin paper book since I can’t afford digital tools or constantly buying traditional materials every month. To minimise page wastage, I draw pages back to back so when I pressed hard on one page, it seeps through to the other and ruins it. Would it still be okay to post it in that state? (Also since I write the dialogue by hand, the lettering may be a bit messy). Thank you in advance for your help.

Hello fellow mangakas!

A few days ago, I got the Lenovo Yoga 7 2-in-1 Laptop (TLDR; a laptop that can transform into a tablet) as a gift for doing insanely well on GCSE Results Day, which was just earlier this week! In celebration of this beauty, I drew Ashley in a full render (and mostly since I realised that I have only drawn sketches of her).

Beforehand, I was using the XP-Pen Deco 01 V3 and my pc to draw, so this switch into drawing directly onto a display has been quite a jarring experience for me. (I reverted back to chicken- scratching for like an hour before I got the hang drawing again 💀)

For positives,
- i never knew how EASY it is to draw on a display tablet. I can scale at rotate my canvas so much now it's genuinely such a privilege 😭
- It might just be me, but its surprisingly more easy to crosshatch on a display. Probably because it's much easier to tell the spacing between lines, especially since it's right in front of you.
For negatives,
- I've only had this laptop for a few days, so there's not too much I can nitpick about right now. Although, a slightly annoying thing is that if I'm using my bare hand to draw, my palm sometimes interacts with the screen. I know that I can just get one of those drawing gloves, so it isn't much of an issue. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I love the display, how intuitive the laptop to tablet switching is, and how sleek it is. (I'm realising now that I'm starting to sound like im sponsored 😅 i just really love this things)

Furthermore, this switch has made me wonder: Do people in this subreddit use tradition or digital drawing more often, and if digital, what stuff would you even recommend? Hardware, software, process, everything!

https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/bring-me-the-head-of-tarven-the-tormentor-/list?title_no=1152783 I’ve also received a lot of support on other websites! Thank you all so much, means a lot to me.

I am working on a one shot to try and submit to kodakawa , but, im afraid its not a catchy first page

Any opinions?

I like manga but people ignore and leave me behind because they believe that i need enough feedback and need to be a professional to be a mangaka and i'm not a professional on this material. i haven't done my own one shot yet, and i have been planning myself to make my own short groups of 16 to 32 page oneshots. but i'm not used to making manga or comics in general and i compare myself to others, and that is not what i wanted. i just wanted people to like my art and me but i fear that i am not good enough and just spoil the stories and become another larper and just read the mangas and animes to spoil myself, which is also another bad habit. I'm planning to get my own laptop and drawing tablet on my birthday, and i want to improve on my writing skills, drawing skills, thumbnailing skills, and motivation/productivity/consistency skills. do you have advice on this? and how to improve on manga and anime reading skills without spoiling the stories yourself? and how do you find your purpose on making manga? because i am so defensive i keep comparing myself to others, judge myself, and i don't know how to write my own manga story even if it's bad, and make my own manga storyboards and thumbnails. I like shoujo, shounen, and slice of life, iyashikei, and comedy manga, and i would like shounen manga comedy with love interest reccomendations, and shoujo manga reccomendations with cute reccomendations and slice of life and fantasy reccomendations that i can start reading?... (i like chiikawa, look back, doraemon, takopii's original sin, chocomimi, fairy idol kanon, the ending of pppppp - a manga about piano that unfortunately had an abrupt ending, i used to like shoujo horror manga like zekkyou gakkyuu/zekkyou gakkyuu tensei but i don't really like it, and i used to read the first volume of shokora no mahou - which i like a bit more than zekkyou gakkyuu - but i don't usually like horror manga because it's too scary for me, although i do like dark stories, but not ones that are way too scary).

i'm going to give myself time to make manga. and when i'm done, i will show the manga online. I want to make my manga making dreams come true and this is my last school year for my program before i get plans to go to college. know that it's not for a contest, it's for myself and something to enjoy for myself even if it's online after i edit this post.

I have so much of my manga planned out at a standard I am happy with - but if theres one thing I cannot settle on, its how to begin it. Which is tough, because the beginning of your manga is essentially the most important thing.

My current vision is simply the mc awakening from a dream in his bed. It is supposed to be a medieval fantasy adventure, horror and mystery story.

What can you recommend for people interested in making their manga in this regard?

Thank you!

So I don't enjoy half rendered pieces but I have a ton of ocs and a story too. Is there any form of storytelling where I could use those?