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ohhh...thanks for the help :D Is Prisma a trustable brand? I mean...I have their pastels, color pencils, water colors....I plan to get their markers eventually too...

*Sorry I put thi sin the wrong category or whatnot, it's been awhile since I've been here, and I forgot* And I've heard of all those brands except Derwent...I'm most familiar with the Prisma brand, so I guess I'll use that...regular printer paper can't handle watercolor pencils, right?

I'm currently in Exploration Mode :D That's what i call my search for different coloring tools for my art, like colored pencils, markers, etc. Right now, it's watercolor pencils! :D Okay my question now is...what's the best brand, and will it mess with my inking? 'Cause it's water, and I'm worried. And if it does affect the ink, what can I do to prevent that?

Eww....fluffy...-__-;;; But what's new in PSP 8? I went to Jasc's official site (which was bought by Corel) and I only so PSP X...but PSP X seems to be more for photos.

I have Paintshop Pro 7 and I'm aware that there are more advanced versions of PSP. Does anyone know the differences from PSP 7 to 8, 9, and X?

Yeah, I understand, I'm screentoning digitally too, I just want to make it seem like I screentoned traditionally, I like it better that way, but I don't want to waste so much money on my comic :animeswea

Yes, GTK, I understand ^.^ Thanks for the help, but I also have another question 'bout screentoning. Okay, I think (I'm about 99.9% sure) that artists screentoning the traditional way scratch off some of the screentone so that it has the fading off look. Does anyone have a brush or know of one for Paint Shop Pro that makes a similar effect? If it's a Photoshop brush, I think I can still work with that, since I also work with PS. Reason I'm asking is because I want that traditional manga feel when it comes to my screentoning. American screentoning is so...I can't even come up with a word for it! Hahaha

I'm screentoning a page of my comic, and I'm using this one tone, but I want it darker, so do I make the same exact layer set at multiply (for Paint Shop Pro), or do I jsut get a darker tone?

OoOoOOh....intresting, I never thought of it THAT way, *laughs* I alwats focus on the plot first, but it really is intresting...^^

I already tried the local Michael's Art Supply store, they only have black and colored ink, no white -_-;;;;; I'll try the other art stores but I bet I'd eventually have to go buy it online anyways. No to white gel pens because they pissme off cause of their bad ink flow -_-;;; And I use online screentones, so I guess I can look around for some white ones, thank you by the way ^^

I need helllppp...>< I have horrible inking, and I heard some manga-ka's use white ink to erase some of their inking. One question is, is white ink better than plain white out? And which whiteout is best if you can't get any white ink?

Yeah, Dark Horse is on the top of my list right now. There's no age restriction, I already checked, they have ways around the child labor laws, it's somewhere on the forum. Guess I'm still goin' for Dark Horse then....well thanks for trying to help anyways :)

Hahaha, okay, I've only done one days though, so you can at least see what Kyoko, the main character looks like. Quick question though, if I have a story idea that's not original, is it good to add original characters and events and make it seem original? So it doesn't seem like every other manga.

A member of this forum, I forgot who, mentioned TokyoPop is a bad publisher since they steal your rights, etc. (which I actually didn't notice until I looked closer at their terms of agreement and all that legal stuff :animesigh ) Right now, the top of my list for publishers to submit to is Dark Horse, but is there a better alternative just in case it doesn't work out with Dark Horse? I know there's gomanga.com, but like...I'm not 18 -_-;;;

The main character (Kyoko) is a tomboy with a short temper, so she always ends up whacking the king for being an idiot. None of my friends cared that the king was unrealistic, so thanks, I'll work on that. The storyline's...eggghhh, I can't explain it very much, it's just pretty much Kyoko trying survive the king's crazy kingdom. And like the king's country gets into wars with like 3 other countries, and gets involved with heaven, etc. So there's Kyoko's crazy over-protective brother that comes in, trying to drag Kyoko back home, there's the angel, Cremia, who's like Flonne from the game Disgaea (flaky and pure and happy-go-lucky), Kyoko's mother who's flaky too and kind and kinda...ehh....crazy, but just a tad. There's also Kyoko's dad who gets in a war against the king's country and wants to rule the entire Netherworld, so he first sends out his kids to pull that off. Who else is there....? Oh yeah, there's the savage monster-king who is only intrested in inflicting plain. Sorry if it's kinda funky, I can't explain very well, plus the storyline's not really clear...If I finish some pages, I'll post up some of my pages later.