Manga Manga help

[Guest Shadow_Angel]

Ok, im kinda new to making manga. I'm a pretty good artist so drawing isn't the problem, but how do the profecianals get it shaded, what paper do they use to draw the original, and also how do they get it completely black in some spots, what do they use to do that...draw with? thanks in advance.

[Kei]

[color=darkblue]It all really depends on whether you want to be a traditional artist or move to totally digital design like some are doing.

In traditional media, manga is typically drawn on A-4 paper (most amateur artists use computer paper, to my knowledge). A-4 manga paper can be bought from specialty art stores or online art stores (you'll have to search around though, as the one I was looking at previously has discontinued selling art supplies).

As for inking and colouring, there are a variety of pens one can use. Some of the top brands include Tachikawa pens and Copic markers (which the group CLAMP, as well as others, often use for cover and special artwork). Completely black shading is usually done with inking pens.

Screentones are what are used to shade manga. They come in a wide variety of designs and can also be bought in some art stores.

As for digital media, one can more often than not do all their work in Photoshop or PSP, whichever program they're running. Inking can be done with the pen tool and there are places online that offer free screentone downloads. You can find many tutorials for this sort of thing at deviantART.com, so I would suggest heading there for some further reading/studying of techniques.

Hope this helps you.[/color]

[Guest Sorairo Yugure]

[QUOTE=Lady Katana][color=darkblue]It all really depends on whether you want to be a traditional artist or move to totally digital design like some are doing.

In traditional media, manga is typically drawn on A-4 paper (most amateur artists use computer paper, to my knowledge). A-4 manga paper can be bought from specialty art stores or online art stores (you'll have to search around though, as the one I was looking at previously has discontinued selling art supplies).

As for inking and colouring, there are a variety of pens one can use. Some of the top brands include Tachikawa pens and Copic markers (which the group CLAMP, as well as others, often use for cover and special artwork). Completely black shading is usually done with inking pens.

Screentones are what are used to shade manga. They come in a wide variety of designs and can also be bought in some art stores.

As for digital media, one can more often than not do all their work in Photoshop or PSP, whichever program they're running. Inking can be done with the pen tool and there are places online that offer free screentone downloads. You can find many tutorials for this sort of thing at deviantART.com, so I would suggest heading there for some further reading/studying of techniques.

Hope this helps you.[/color][/QUOTE]
Im having the same problem, accept I can't shop online and ther are no specialtty art shops around to my knwledge. I'm traditional and don't use digital artwork, any advice on how to get screentones without an arstore nearby and without going online, probably not but o well. How exactly to screentones work?

[Kei]

[color=darkblue]From my knowledge of them, you apply the screentone to the image you want and cut out the parts that you want to stay on the image with a cutting tool for the screentones.

As far as purchasing them goes, I know that some comic stores are now selling them in their manga and How-To-Draw Manga sections. I don't know how widespread the practice is, however.[/color]