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Digital Manga Tutorial
Published: 2009-08-23 14:37:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 160161; Favourites: 5539; Downloads: 4130
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Basic Photoshop skills required (e.g Layers, able to install downloaded tones/ effects)Due to a high demand, I decided to finally bring out a tutorial on how I draw my manga 'Shadow Sprinters'
It tells almost everything I know and learnt off my own self taught experiences with manga drawing.
I'm not a professional, I merely started drawing manga pages only this year, though people still wanna know how I did it ;;;;
All I have to say is....
KEEP PRACTISING~!
I only learnt through lots of practise and analysing existing manga for inspirations XD
Useful links
Screentone downloads
Anime Ace font
Read Shadow Sprinters here
Read AEVUM (Prequel to Shadow Sprinters)
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Comments: 377
Congrats on the DD!
Not bad! Very usefull all around.
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Wow! This is very informative. 
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The last tip about making it look more traditional is brilliant. I've always been put off by the harshness of the black areas, but that's an ace tip. Awesome tutorial!
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WOOT, congratulation on the DD Min-chan, awesome tutorial
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This is EXACTLY what I've been looking for.
Thanks a ton for this great tutorial!
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This is great tutorial! Thanks!!!
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omg... THIS IS SO HEART-TOUCHING IT NEARLY MAKES ME CRY.
you shared so much information and knowlegde on basically..EVERYTHING on how to start a manga, for normal un-informed people like me... TuT THANK YOU SO MUCH
im so happy i stumbled on this, this is amazing, thank you so much, i can't stress it enough how much you've motivated me, and your manga looks fabulous, exactly like a real japanese one, if better!
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you are a god >_< i've been looking for something like this for a while.. then dropped the idea but now i took it back again.. ignore me.. FREE HUUG! *glomps* thanks for makin' this :3
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lots of stuff I didn't know... actually, that seems quite tricky and scary for a person who is planning to start making manga for the first time XD but this tutorial is more than helpful!
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awesome thanks so much for making this!
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Well, this is brilliant.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR DOING THIS!!!
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Very very very helpful.
I'm starting manga for the first time and this explained a lot of what I was looking for.
Thanks!
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Ah! I find this incredibly helpful! Thank you very much for making this! It's very enlightening
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Awesome tutorial! i really like your drawing! >.<
anyway...i got some question to ask......well....do you sketch on a paper before you edit it in photoshop?? or if you sketch it directly in photoshop, how do you do the lining of every box in the manga??
your drawing is really really great and i hope you will success in future!
thanks for the nice tutorials once again!
^_^
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I sketch on photoshop.
The lines are done by holding shift key
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oh really!? you are awesome! please be my sensei! >.< haha
oh im going to try it!~~~ thanks sensei!!
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it's too much for me to handle! 
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Perfect tutorial, I seriously needed something like this. o.o
Thanks so much! ^_^ <3
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Thank you so much for these tips~~! I have had such a hard time with deciding how many panels to put in a page (I tend to use too few), so using the max 8-9 panels rule will help me a lot, and I'll use 3-panel or full-page only for important scenes.
And I never knew about the shift-trick in Photoshop! Making panels will be so much easier and better looking now. ;w;
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Amazing tutorial. I'll be sure to put these tips into use!
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one quick question, u draw these all an paper first right? and do u add the writing in through photo shop of by hand? i allways wonderd about that
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Definitely fav'ing this for future reference! Great tutorial!!
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This. Is the best tutorial I have ever seen.
Bravo.
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THANK U SO MUCH!!! i needed screentones that work with photoshop 5!!!!!
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I'm looking at this manual i have here... do you do everything digital? Or do you sketch on paper then scan it? I could do it entirely manually on paper and then scan but anything that can be done digitally would be a real help since making a mistake on a manuscript or inking would kill everything and i'd have to start over from scratch. Thanks in advance.
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I do it 100% digital XD and just keep saving
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Cool! Thanks! i just thought up a workflow. <3
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thanks a lot foir this tutorial i will try to use it the sooner i can
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