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enchantma — Manga-Making Tutorial
Published: 2005-07-19 23:52:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 190611; Favourites: 1781; Downloads: 17604
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Wha-? enchan made a tutorial?You better believe it! I spent all day on it
See what I do when my webcomic is on hiatus? 
For those of you who have asked me how it's done, I present to you the step-by-step manga tutorial~~~!
It's very unprofessional...T___T I'm sorry...I do hope it helps though.
And that tachikiri guide I tell you I'll provide here is here-> [link]
Full view to see the tutorial....It's huuuuge O_O Gomenne~~T^T
The mini comic features my characters from the webcomic MAJESTY -> [link]
I know it doesn't make sense...but I had to come up with something fast enough for the tutorial. (It might make sense if you know the characters
;;;; *loser* )Good Luck~! And enjoy!
Required Tools: The media shown in the first step of the tutorial, Photoshop 5 or higher and ComicWorks.
EDIT: Thanks everyone for all the favs! I'm happy you found this helpful in some sorta way XD;; I edited my site address in the description...and maybe one day I'll fix the address on the tutorial---but it is wrong XD....Remember~~~>enchantma.com!
ANOTHER EDIT: Okay, so the Tachikiri guide isn't working...Nevermind that. Every publishing company has it's own guides anyway but the standard is that the page dimensions should follow a 2:3 ratio.
MORE EDIT: Thank you, for bringing this to my attention but you can find the Tokyopop template if you Google "mechspec5"...She says, "The second link, a pdf file, has the template at the bottom of it"
Now please stop asking me where it is XD;;
FINAL EDIT (I hope): I HAVE A NEW TUTORIAL THAT SHOULD ANSWER WHAT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. Please check it out BEFORE asking questions. Thanks!
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Comments: 631
Oooo, I like this tutorial... I wouldn't be colouring the manga in photoshop though, but the drawing bit that you included was very helpful
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At last! a guide!!!
I've been wanting to make a manga since last moth, I think....
Thanks for the guide, anyway.^__^
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no prob! thank you for checking it out
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is that thing called model? Do you know where i could buy one.... because i really need it
nice tut
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um...i know ikea sold them a few years ago...that's where i got mine. i got a second one at an art store.
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An art store! Of course
how did i not think of that...
thanks
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this is a really good tutorial, but how do you make the lineart so cleanwhat kind of ink pen did you use?
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i use sakura micron pens...size 0.05
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Thank you for the great tutorial! It was really helpful 
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lol! thank you! i try very hard to keep them nice XD;
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o my gawsh
thankyu!!! XD
i've been trying to do this for..!!.. thankyu!!! XD
now i know how to do this TT__TT *tears of joy*
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haha, i'm glad it can help! <3
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yess thankyu!!!
i am now making my own manga!! X3
have u seen it in m gallery??
it's just one page out of 78 tho
very skillful ^^
this is really helpful thanx
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HURRAY! A Manga tutorial! Concidering the fact I pretty much have no clue how to make comics and design them, I am sure you can imagine my elation at seeing a tutorial for it.
It's also very good and indepth, and really is of great help! I'm glad you posted this and took the time to make it for us Deviants.
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haha!
yay!
i'm glad you find it helpful
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Indeed! Now maybe I can get some sense of order to the choas that is my comic pages... XD
*Gets paper and pencil*
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I agree with Emo-Zexion, it is very nice.
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Micron pens?
are they useful?
hi btw
Sam
year 11 at school, good grades at art and can draw pretty well, but manga faces still elude me. i'll add u and if u can ever offer constructive critism to any manga (if ever get round to it) that'd help
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And oh yea, that link for tachikiri guide doesn't work anymore for some reason. Can you give another one?
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I love this tutorial. I shall save it and then use the photoshop part once I get photoshop.
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I have a problem, where exactly can you get a tachikiri guide, or if there's any specific measurements I could use to make my own?
So far I've seen 2 Mangas ever, the DN one I bought and one I found in Tesco (Yu-Gi-Oh!), they're both small like a novel.
It's just resized right? I was hoping to get one of them big comicz because of these tutorials I keep seeing but now I'm more confuzzled and tempted to make small comic size O.o
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Excellent lol.
I've gotten my first ever Manga, Death Note Vol 1 which arrived today, but everything looks so detailed and complicated o.o Originally bought it to help me out :] and well I wanted to own it atleast XD
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size really depends on what you're comfortable with and what works. the best thing to do is work at a large dpi so you can still double the size of your printed pages if you work small. I draw my first draft at 7"x10" and shrink it down for the toning process working at about 5"x7" at 600dpi. I've enlarged pages taking up the whole 8.5"x11" piece of paper and it still looks nice with no quality lost. The regular graphic novel size is about 5"x7.4375" and then there are bleed areas to worry about. If you're not having a comic published then the bleed area and page size really shouldn't concern you, but you should keep the page sizes and dpi consistent each time. My final versions are always 5"x7.4375" (with bleed area included) for works I plan on publishing.
It's a little confusing, but if you start measuring stuff and mimicking you'll figure it out just fine. I hope this helps
best of luck!
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Thanks so much
I found this site a while ago, called Lulu a self publishing site apparently, and well...yeah I have no idea o.o;;
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Hmm, I was wondering if the tachikiri-thing is "important" when you're making a manga without computer? I've never heard about it befor and I don't understand what it's used for... 
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The tachikiri guide is only important if you plan on printing a comic book. It helps you determine where the bleed area is so you know what will get cut off in the printing process. If you're creating a webcomic, it doesn't apply. Publishing companies today now each have their own printing sizes (at one point they were all pretty much the same, so this tutorial is a little outdated) so if you do plan on publishing your comic, be sure to check out the guides of that company.
Hope that clarified things a bit
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It does, thanks
But still, I'm not 100 percent sure what a "bleed area" is, but it's okay since I don't need to know
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Hey, this is great and really helpful! But the link to your tachikiri guide doesn't work!
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i'm trying to create my first manga, and this is helping alot! thank you ^^
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thank you~I'm glad you find it helpful
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Splendid guide, although your tachikiri link doesn't seem to be working. I'm definitely faving this.
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Great tutorial, real helpful.
Though, the link to the guidline is dead... for me anyway...
Do you have another link? or the measurements?
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Wow this is very helpful! *FAVS*
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Its pretty kewl! =3 *starts making my own series right away* I shall call it... One Of a Kind!
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I'll hold on to this later... Just in case I'm actually able to get all of this stuff, and get really pumped about drawing...
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O-M-G! Great! ^^ This helps so much ^^ And I'm not being sarcastic either!! ^^ lol I didnt know I could use the computer to help make a manga and it still be a manga....o_O Thanks ^^ You saved me alot of trouble.
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yay~i'm so glad it helped
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I never thought to use one of those wood people for poses. xD thanks.
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haha they gotta come in handy for somethin'!
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this helps alopt thankyu!!!!!!!
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Heeeeey interesting ^^ I work in a doujin circle and do it more sloppy than you XD:
- think out the story, write it down in a very sloppy way
- start sketching the pages very very roughly, not even using a ruler for my boxes
- make my friend use a ruler to do the boxes neatly XD
- draw the second sketch after erasing the first one a bit
- ink the second sketch and erase it
- scan and apply tones to the pages in manga studio.
:3 I hate making the neat straight panels XD and they usually don't end up straight when I do them,...so I don't do them
/blah
very nice tutorial~
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hey thanks this really helped me out with some stuff, i need to hunt done comic works now ^__^
_Llyrik
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This is a real good tutorial the best I ever seen nice job! ^ ^
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