Thread 7720994

The general thread for Manga / manga-styled comic-making, manga-style illustration and related comic work. That said, everyone is welcome here.

Support each other and talk about your work or the work of others that excites you. Inking, character design, paneling / layout, writing, planning, and other discussions are all welcome.
Post resources, questions, in-progress pages, breakdowns of other works, etc. If a work is not yours, credit the maker (unless it's fucking obvious like a full page of One Piece or something).
Thanks to everyone for making /mmg/ a level-headed and helpful place. Remember, drawing and making comics and manga are difficult endeavors, and we're all in this struggle together.

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Some resources:
/asg/, our stylistic sister-thread series for those focused more on illustration >>>/ic/asg

Books:
Understanding Comics
https://e-hentai.org/g/2042453/83e7da6ed0/
Making Comics
https://annas-archive.org/md5/d55168f7579c1e23275d1fc9f0a2255d
Manga in Theory and Practice: The Craft of Creating Manga
https://annas-archive.org/md5/2877da11e2f852d220853e9944e6ea49
Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting
https://archive.org/details/RobertMcKeeStorypdf/
Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga
https://kupdf.net/download/even-a-monkey-can-draw-manga_58b9ca16e12e89233badd376_pdf
The Shonen Jump Guide to Making Manga
https://mega.nz/file/i81imLpI#GcheJ9Jjk3lw1RE9nQWgL4RG4wEBNOcRmgA-iaU6Wpg

Videos:
"Manga Senpai/Tokyo Name Tank", "SMAC! THE SILENT MANGA AUDITION COMMUNITY"
Habanero Scans: https://www.dailymotion.com/HabaneroScans/videos
Manben link can be found on archive.org on different pages separated by season: https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/1bu9f0y/found_all_of_naoki_urasawas_manben_and_manben_neo/
Urasawa Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkIFOAoFm47XOAlJwTa6Ieg/videos

OP image is from City Chapter 163

>>7720994 (OP)
Some western / indie publishers of Manga:

Saturday AM ( https://www.saturday-am.com/ )
> Digital indie magazine, seems to be on the up-and-up
> Open submissions for long-form series; also distributes series currently being published elsewhere.
> Regularly publishes one-shots, making it a good potential outlet for already-finished work.

Oni Press ( https://onipress.com/ )
> Technically indie, but at this point large enough by comic standards to be mentioned in the same breath as other publishers.

Antarctic Press ( https://antarctic-press.myshopify.com/ )
> Longtime large-indie publisher of OEL / manga-esque books.
> Seemingly taking submissions at present if http://www.antarctic-press.com/html/submissions.php is anything to go on.

Yen Press ( https://yenpress.com/ )
> Started out as a small indie publisher of original / Korean material, and has grown reasonably popular since.
> As of 2016, it is also one of the western arms of the Kadokawa Corporation, with Kadokawa owning a 51% stake.
> Editorial inquiries can apparently be sent to yenpress@yenpress.com, however, they apparently are not open to new submissions at this time.

Viz Media / Viz Originals ( https://www.viz.com/originals )
> *The* western manga publisher.
> Currently in the exploratory stages of setting up an English label.
> Submissions are open and several books have been announced. However, progress on the label seems to be moving very slowly.
> Still might be worth a shot anyway.

Shrine Comics ( https://shrinecomics.com/ )
> Small indie manga publisher
> Seemingly attempting to make the transition to physical volumes
> Allows crossposting to other sites

Iconic Comics (https://www.iconiccomics.com/))
>A bit like Oni Press and Antarctic Press
>A small publisher with a focus on indie works with manga inspiration

>>7720997
Other open comic publishers:

Dark Horse ( https://www.darkhorse.com )
>Dark Horse still welcomes your submissions, and all submissions will still be reviewed, just as they always have been.
>All unsolicited story/series proposals must have a full creative team on board. Writer-only proposals will not be reviewed.

Image comics ( https://imagecomics.com/ )
>Image Comics only publishes creator-owned material. They do not contract creators; they’re only interested in publishing original content for which you would retain all rights.
>Image Comics publishes creator-owned/creator-generated properties and THEY DON’T PAY PAGE RATES. Image takes a small flat fee off the books published, and it will be the responsibility of the creators to determine the division of the remaining pay between their creative team members.

Drawn and quarterly ( https://drawnandquarterly.com/ )
>Please email a low resolution PDF with at least 20 pages of comics and cover letter to submissions. Do not send dropbox links, scripts, or proposals. Please read our submissions FAQ.

Fantagraphics ( https://www.fantagraphics.com/ )
>submission page: https://www.fantagraphics.com/pages/faq

Top Shelf Productions ( https://www.topshelfcomix.com/ )
>Regarding submissions, we're easy. Just email us a download link of what you'd like us to review. NOTE: We cannot accept cover letters, plot synopses, or scripts unless they are accompanied by a minimum of 10-20 completed pages (i.e., fully inked and lettered comic book pages).

Additional publisher lists:
> https://jasonthibault.com/definitive-list-comic-publisher-submission-guidelines/
> https://writingtipsoasis.com/best-independent-comic-book-publishers/

>>7721000
/mmg/'s very own anon-led anthology: /ic/onography
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https://forms.gle/d3a2Cwwd44sJYyqv9
(Anthology project is defunct but the discord is alive)

Additional community added Resources:
Mangafonts: https://mangafonts.carrd.co/
Hiro Mashima YT: https://www.youtube.com/@mashimaCh/videos
Ganmo, a job listing board for manga assistant work: https://ganmo.j-comi.co.jp/posts

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Today I have decided that there will be sexo in my manga. Why restrain yourself? It's only one life...

>>7721025
What makes you think it's a matter of restraining yourself, and not just a matter of what's appropriate for the work itself?

>>7721025
If you post furry porn I will kill you.

>>7721028
Well because I *was* restraining myself about it. I wanted the story to be SFWA, hoping it could go appeal to a broader public without being problematic. But I guess I'd rather go wild with it.

>>7721030
Lol. Don't worry. You'll only see it years from now.

>>7721032
Oh okay.

>>7721032
SFW*

>>7721025
based
you can always make an SFW version for the website(s) you upload too if it has issues with the stuff depicted in your work and then have a page where you mentioned to the reader that he can read the uncensored version in your social media or something like that
that's what I plan on doing
I think pic related, which is just a pair of breasts, not even sexual, should be fine but maybe i'll have to draw a different version where there's cloth over it since we live in the age of bending over to please the advertiser where bug people youtubers have replaced words like "rape" with grape or "porn" with corn to appease their gods and they do it with a straight face, trying to not think about how ridiculous, sad and humiliating it is

>>7721054
>your middle panel
Reminds me of SHODAN.
>maybe i'll have to draw a different version where there's cloth over it
As somebody who already had to go through the censorship olympics, this is the result you will get:
Webtoons: Censored and it has to look super natural like it was always meant to look that way. No fast censors allowed. Don't even think of trying to compromise or even slightly bending the rules or else they will consider taking you off the entire site altogether regardless of how you are viewing. All of the above rules are immediately thrown out the window if you are popular enough to sign up your work as a Webtoon Original (but then its also no longer your own work in terms of ownership).
Tapas: Simple black boxes allowed if you don't want to draw cloth on top.
MPC: Same as Tapas.
INKR: You can do whatever but your comic will not appear on the mobile app.
Namicomi: Same as INKR.
GlobalComix: Doesn't care no matter what you do, will show up on mobile app.
Mangadraft: Same as GlobalComix except they don't have a mobile app.

>fighting game in development
>Webtoon partnership
>Animation in the works
Holy shit.. living the dream while we struggle in the mud...

/mmg/ I need help coping with something.
I feel like I shoudn't write manga, I'm a selfish person who can only write selfish and uninteresting characters. I feel like I'm not creating stories I should be proud of, I'm just connecting dots randomly.
I don't know if this is a question or just a vent post. can I kill myself and upload the webm here?

>>7721233
Yeah, but would I trade that for being black?
That's an easy, No.

>>7721252
You can write selfish characters. On of my favorite shows was Always Sunny. It's about terrible people.
You are a terrible person. You can write terrible people. Just make them suffer a little

>>7721252
>I feel like I'm not creating stories I should be proud of, I'm just connecting dots randomly.
Study writing, read more stories, and try to understand the structure behind them. What makes them interesting? Write it down and do something similar. Reading writing tutorials also helps to get a gras of this.

mangaplus sent me an email saying they privated a bunch of my chapters for breaking TOS, even though some of them have been there for years.

The rule they supposedly broke was "hate speech" so I'm a complete loss at wtf they mean. This is the worst page I can think of. I don't really care anyways, I wouldn't change anything even if I knew what the issue was.

>>7721265
>Always Sunny
It's a funny show, but I don't want to make something like that. I don't I have the self-awareness to make comedy out of my shortcomings either, I don't write terrible characters on purpose, it's only when I'm rereading my work that I realize my characters are assholes.

>>7721278
They probably saw you posting here.

>>7721278
That's odd. I just got a message on Pixiv saying my account was suspended for unusual activity, but that was clearly a phishing message. Did your stuff actually get privated?
>>7721315
He hasn't posted here in forever, I thought he was dead.

>>7721278
i would say mangaplus are notoriously pozzed but all of these websites are. its the risk you take for publishing on some dump hosting site. id rather host on my own website and advertise

>>7721278
It always amazes me that websites have the capacity to police every page, panel and word of anyones comic, but somehow can never specifically explain what the issue is
Kind of like how games are pulled from storefronts for vague reasons and the publishers are never given a straight answer as to which content was objectionable

>>7721233
>avg 7k views per video consistently
That's also pretty impressive itself. Dude really is making moves while crabs here seethe.

>>7721446
>crabs
>plural
It's one guy.

>>7721315
I thought 4chan didnt sell your data...
>>7721321
>>7721445
yeah, they took down 5 chapters for seemingly 5 different reasons. I think they use AI to scan the text bubbles for bad words, thats the only explanation I got

>tfw struggling to come up with a story for hentai
>>7721473
AI confused hatchmarks for zillions of swastikas and banned you for being giga Hitler

>>7721478
artists used to be able to do shit like and slip penises in past the editors, but of course AI ruins another good thing

>>7721473
>think they use AI to scan the text bubbles for bad words
If thats the case, then my comic should have long been taken down already for having a single exclamation of "bitch" in there.

you've really gotta throw away friendships dont you to make it? I spend all my night drawing after work, but my friends and family often pull me out saying "you've gotta socialise, your dedicated enough its fine to have fun", but I feel like shit now, instead of getting any work done i just did meaningless stuff with my friends, and wasted the little time ive got

>>7721116
interesting
thanks for the write up, I'm sure ill have to go through the same hurdles
>>7721278
hmmmm I wonder how they go about detecting such things
is there no way to submit those chapters for a manual review?

>>7721523
Yeah, pretty much. This is the kind of work that demands some pretty major sacrifices to get anywhere in. A social life is among those sacrifices, and probably a few bridges along with it. You should strongly consider what you want more.

>>7721531
yeah i gotta listen to people who actually made it too, friends and family are like, yeah your doing enough itll be fine, but none of them have made it where i wanna be, theyve all got cushy jobs, and watch tv all night

>>7721534
I think I've made it further than most. I'd say I've only managed to get published because I didn't try to keep a social life. But again, it's a pretty serious thing to lack any sort of social life as an adult. You really really should consider whether comics (doing them as your profession anyway) are more important to you than having anybody around you, because there's a good chance that if you pursue one you won't manage to keep the other.

Are you guys with drawing good interiors? I'm starting to think that the trick is to just add as much stuff in it as you can.

What’s stopping some of you anons from banding together to form a CLAMP-style manga group?

>>7721572
Cause as much as I love you guys I prefer to work alone

>>7721025
It's a gift and a curse. If I had refrained from sex, drugs, cults and other NSFW topics when making Oi, and made it an all ages story instead. It would probably have a bigger audience and sell more. It now basically exists as a commercial to sell porn commissions of the waifus. It's not the worst thing in the world but if you want people to focus on your story instead, don't make the fanservice and sex scenes too prominent like I did.

>>7721572
Wildly different skill levels and tastes

>>7721572
Anons can only come together to create amazing things once every 5+ planet syzygy. Its exceedingly rare, because most anons live in different time zones, have different tastes, and wildly different work ethics. Which is also why its usually a 1 and done thing, and never multiple projects.

>>7721525
From what I read online, people dont get responses when they ask for more details. But I'm seeing people getting flagged for hatespeech in their comic summary which makes even less sense.

>>7721578
Link to your manga?

>>7721630
Maybe it's like copyright strikes in that literally anyone can submit a complaint/report with no proof or credentials and the host just automatically takes it down at the slightest push, and someone is out there trolling

>>7721561
I like how those two few black shapes on the character draw the viewer's eye, while the rest of the panel's detail is kept in check by the fact that it's mostly in fine outline.

>>7721633
then that would mean someone read it and was driven to troll me.... which I'll consider a win

>>7721561
>Abril

>>7721572
>difference in skill levels
>difference in where they want the story to go or how a panel should be shown or what is said
>trying to get artists to work together is already like herding cats, let alone them also being anons
>no guarantee somebody doesn't just go 100% radio silent and now you're down a member and do you keep going? what if said gone member returns and doesn't like what's done and throws a fit?
>insanely different time zones, everyone here is scattered throughout virtually every single continent barring Africa
Could it happen? Sure. Is it likely to happen? No, you have a better chance of winning the jackpot at a casino.

That said, assuming somehow things would work (emphasis on somehow), who would I want to work with in a team? For me I'd pick Altarusia and Scandinavian-anon, I like their ideas and I think I could gel with them.

>>7721278
Btw a lot of those manga sites are very clique based. So either you are in, or you will get bullied out.
Honestly, all it takes is triggering some turbo autist and they will harass you until the end of time.

>>7721572
CLAMP worked because they all met in person and worked in person.
Remote teamwork is a near impossible task

>>7721639
>or you will get bullied out.
Lmao how does that even happen, how do you get bullied out of a comic posting site

>>7721647
see
>>7721633

>>7721650
is this real or just a schizo theory? Why wouldn't the whole comic be taken down?

>>7721671
Why is everything "schizo" to you?

>>7721675
what do you mean by everything? Are you following my posts? STOP TRACKING ME

>>7721561
I used to really hate drawing interiors but now it's super calming to me. Just add little details here and there, think about what would make the scene look lived in, etc.

>>7721631
https://namicomi.com/en/title/ufQC7cAD/oi-tales-of-bardic-fury

>>7721578
If I really include sex scenes it would just be a sporadic thing the characters do sometimes. So I guess it's fine.

>>7721698
The issue I have with interiors is that my mind just goes completely blank when coming up with things to add in the scenery. I just can't do it from imagination and have to look up real life references.

>>7721887
I don't know how interiors look in BR, but round here molding is a thing.

>>7721888
Pic related is inside a spaceship. I had no clue what to do with the walls and I didn't want to just add generic wall panels and sockets, though it would have been better if I had just done that instead. One day I'm going to set aside some time to work on that kitchen and all the other rooms of the spaceship. Concept arts and etc. I know I' still far from it, but I want to get on the same level as picrel.

>>7721887
>y. I just can't do it from imagination and have to look up real life references.
using reference is good, either way if you really dont want to you should think about "function"
basically, if your scene depicts a kitchen, what would people need in a kitchen for it to be usable? you've got a fridge, a sink, a work surface and a trash can, but where's the oven? stovetop? how about a microwave or a toaster or general cooking appliances? i think the place would very much also benefit from storage space, unless the 3 people exclusively eat stuff that can be had straight off the fridge you also wanna add cabinets and baskets for stuff like rice, bread, pasta, dried beans etc
and its not just purely usable stuff, wouldnt there be a window to let in some natural light? maybe some paintings in the walls or some sorta decorative pattern, some hooks or ledges for ppl to hang hand towels n oven mitts and other stuff like that too, you gotta populate spaces thinking about how ppl will be in there

>>7721887
Also
>1.25mb
That's way too big for what you have pictured

>>7721901
The window is where the "camera" is. As for the rest, it really didn't even cross my mind and I only thought of it after the page was done. That's what I'm talking about. I just suck at this stuff.

>>7721903
I know. I gotta learn how to compress my drawings. They're all like that.

>>7721887
>can't do it from imagination and have to look up real life references
Vilppu fucking forbid that an artist look up reference material when making a comic so that it is presented in a believable manner to the reader.

My neet days may end soon so I will have to pause Altarusia for indeterminate time; tomorrow I will know. The odds are really favorable but I got so many "no" that I totally lost my faith and expectations. Well, lets see what will happen.

>>7721957
As an adult, I kinda expected myself to be able to come up with a believable environment without having to look it up. But I guess I was wrong. Seems like that even this is something that requires practice.

>>7721962
>ut I got so many "no"
You mean from publishers? Same, I'm a dumb reject it seems

>>7721970
>You mean from publishers?
Job applications kek. Comic is a hobby I started when I was uneployed after covid pandemy

>>7721976
*during pandemy

>>7721898
Doesnt NASA have like a shit ton of vids of their astronauts goofing around in their satellites and ships and such? Just try to incorporate elements of that into your drawings, not necessarily copy 1 to 1 but think of what you can use to add flourishes

>>7721898
Who cares about being original? You need to set a baseline, if it's basic metal panel walls then start there. If you're going to use a reference, don't just leave out aspects because you think they're boring, as it stands the setting says nothing. If your goal is to make it look like a spaceship then prioritize that. Also, doodle.

>>7721967
I know that feel, but you need to use reference. Drawing is unnatural and nobody can draw without reference. The people who can draw without reference, mastered using references.

You should be making models of the common rooms in your comic so you can keep track of the layout.

>>7721887
main things: corners make it look like a normal room in a normal house. There is ZERO wasted space on a spaceship because that shit is gonna be expensive as fuck. That's also why you can have the walls be kinda weird and shaped 'randomly' because we can assume there's machinery on the other side of the wall that's more important than aesthetically pleasing interior space. Now, think removable panels in order to access said machinery easily. And for those, written markings on the wall. Look at airplanes for inspiration for that. Don't forget vents, you have to pump air and heat into every room in the ship because that stuff isn't there for free like on earth.
It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to look like it makes enough sense. At least that's my thoughts, but I've never drawn a spaceship interior before.

>>7721910
For one thing, a for a monochrome image like that export as a png is a lot more efficient.

>>7721962
Would you possibly be able to work on the weekends (assuming you wanted to)?

>>7721976
That's good news tho, means you can work on your comics some more.

>>7721993
>Who cares about being original?
I do. It would be nice if I could come up with my own design. Something fresh. But the sci-fi genre has been going on for ages, and the generic spaceship design survived for a reason. It's instantly recognizable and it works. I should have stuck with it. But I am stubborn, and I will still try doing something different when I revisit those rooms.

>>7722041
By the time I finished that page I was already tired of it, and just wanted to call it done. I knew the kitchen looked too empty, and nothing about it resembled a spaceship, but I just told myself "I can redraw it some other time" and left it as it was.

>>7722055
In terms of what looks like a spaceship, you can bend the rules a bit depending on the setting. Lets look at some existing IP for spaceships that look a bit unique:
>40k
Everything there is crazy. The Imperiums ships look like giant flying cathedrals and also look like that on the inside. You have sleek Eldar ships, and weird bug-like organic ships of the Tyrannids.
>Alien
Anything from HR Giger works here. Really cool take on organic ships. Look up the Space Jockey.
>Warframe
The Grineer have advanced tech but everything is weirdly lumpy and bulbousy but it works.

>>7722055
You have too high expectations for your own art. Practice more fundies and study more of your favorite comic authors' styles, it'll help you draw what you want faster and easier. For now just draw everything "good enough" while you study.

>>7722055
When you start to live in reality you realize there's no "original" just people building off of ideas done in the past... and people do not mind it. If you ever have to elevator pitch something chances are you're going to have to name a popular franchise but with your twist that makes it different.

>>7722087
>You have too high expectations for your own art.
Of course I do. The art is meant to be an important part of this story. It won't have the same impact if it looks like shit... I have to get better. Anyways, thanks everyone. It's always nice talking to you guys. All lf this makes me want to try harder.

>>7722095
>When you start to live in reality you realize there's no "original" just people building off of ideas done in the past
That's not really true. Sure, everyone steals but some people are really good at stealing and mixing it with their own ideas. There are many pioneers who may get inspired by old stuff but bring it into a new context. Star Wars for example may have been heavily inspired by Kurosawa, but it still turned it into something totally different.

>>7722378
Star Wars draws a lot more from old space/Sci-Fi serials, and it is basically identical to those, though.

That being said, people really do get hung up on trying to reinvent the wheel when it comes to story creation. Chances are, if you are making something, you were heavily inspired by something else to begin with. Its weird that people act shameful about doing something similar to what other people have done.

>>7722384
>Star Wars draws a lot more from old space/Sci-Fi serials, and it is basically identical to those, though.
one path to success is to blatantly copy something people don't watch anymore.

Haven't had much motivation to draw since I can't market at all and have been stuck for over a year now. I'm thinking just revisiting my old material and redrawing it is probably a simple way for me to get back into practice.

>>7722447
Repackaging old things to a new audience, yeah.

got some new stuff

>>7722928
Your comic was absolutely made to be recreated as a point and click adventure game like Sam and Max or Grim Fandango.

>>7722937
Thanks! yeah that's why I called the puppet character Grim, he's based on Manny Calavera.
Lots of video games was my inspiration, like Oddworld or Full pipe

13 chapters in to my manga and finally the end is in sight. Trying to finish it by the end of the year. feelsgood

>>7722937
thats what I've been saying, this art is timeless

>>7722928
SOVL.

I don't want to let go of the chapter where a pathetic minor villain goes on his own little adventure after he got defeated by the heroes. But it will kill the pacing.

>>7723175
Do it at an aside like an omake.

>>7722937
>Pornanon: Erotic visual novel (duh)
>Altarusia: Dark souls, Darkest Dungeon
>Jack Money or that Witch sisters comic: Point and click
>Scandinavian anon: jrpg or crpg
>Oswald: Platformer or something crazy like Fall Guys
>Aecast: ifbits the girls then crpg or something like darkest dungeon, otherwise hexen/heretic
>Galknights: classic bioware, anywhere from nevereinter nights 1 to mass effect 1
>Mondays forecast: visual novel I think or first person horror game like those chillas art horror games
>spaceship anon with the furry girl: something like quasimorph or ftl but more emphasis on roleplaying

I wanna make a hentai manga about a guy with a vagina and a girl with a penis (and a knot), omegaverse style shit... But I don't think the fujo/yume crowd would like it, neither the male coomer side. It's joever. I should stick to yaoi comic doujins.

>>7723198
Maybe you should rethink your life

>>7723198
Maybe just make futa porn instead. Guy with vagina appeals to basically nobody.
>>7723195
I'd play these.

>>7723195
I actually worked on a point and click game. Am I that predictable?

>>7723240
I actually didn't know that - I didn't think you were predictable, its just that its hard to showcase your stories some other way in my mind. Wasn't trying to pigeon-hole you, lol.

>>7722928
How many pages do you draw per week? Impressive

>>7722931
Your manga looks so comfy to read. Where are you posting your pages?

>>7720994 (OP)
Why does op pic looks like zach hadel persona.

My D drive died and with it all my stuff, gonna try and scrounge and recover what i can but eh, clean slate;

>>7723353
>doesnt have backups
Bro.

>>7723353
Stay strong bro. While trying to backup my files, I overrode the new files with the old files instead. I lost all the work I had spent the entire day doing. So fucking stupid.

>>7723365
No problem Erin from the hit webcomic Critical Miss

>>7723369
I thought her name was White Korra lol.

There's a lot of action in this next chapter, but yet again I underestimate how many pages it will take.

>>7723519
Same. I'm a slacker and procrastinator so my stupid brain always tries to tell me "it's not that much work, you can put it off later. you've done enough today"

FUCK this lazy ass brain

>>7721278
Blog update: After looking online it seems people had this happen to them randomly too and its probably just troll bots flagging everythings. So I just "edited" the flagged chapters by changing nothing and they went back to normal after a day.

So it was a big nothing and MPC is still a shit site with no security whatsoever.

>>7723353
>not backing up your files on a dozen flash drives

ngmi

>>7723272
it's very inconsistent, but 3 pages on a good week.
it's funny, I both study and work half time currently, but I make the most out of the little time I have for my comic. But when I had lots of spare time I was slacking hard, thinking I'd get around to drawing eventually, suddenly an entire month could go by with nothing done.
>>7723277
https://moonliver.cfw.me/

>>7723569
Anon I am begging you, please upload to more sites than just Webtoons and Comicfury lol.

>>7723640
I showcase my stuff on reddit, instagram and X.
I might also upload to Globalcomix if it's simple enough

>character A and B are fighting in a plane and their fight causes the plane to crash. There's a huge explosion, during which character B appears in a single panel to say something important. They both survive and continue fighting after getting up.
or
>character B grabs the fuck out of character A, jumps out of the plane and character A gets a moment to use her superpowers in a creative way to avoid being slammed headfirst into the ground. Then they continue fighting. The explosion of the crashed plane happens in the background. The important dialog will have to be saved for later.

Which is cooler? I can't decide.

>>7723740
Both sound like a family guy chicken fight skit

>>7723641
>Globalcomix
It's very easy to use, yes.

>>7721578
>>7721631

>>7723879
the most obnoxious thing about this is the unnecessary arrows
it's not like anyone was gonna read it bottom to top, anon

whatever you do, don't feed your manga synopsis into an ai just to experience someone talking about your manga. This shit is like 1000 times stronger than crack.

>>7724022
Ask it to hate on it.

>>7723879
Wtf

>>7724022
I don't think it would work for me. Everyone except people suffering from chatgpt syndrome knows its just a perpetual hugbox of toxic positivity and that getting it to be critical or mean is like trying to pull teeth. Besides, I've read a lot of fellow anons comics here and there's almost always something thats neat about them that I like.
>>7724076
If memory serves that is not Oi's own work, but another anon's. I remember that thread.

>>7724022
Lol. Anon I already SHOWED ChatGPT my pages, and I also showed him the script to another story I have in mind. I did it so much I grew bored of it. Don't worry, you'll be fine.

>>7723569
I've been reading through it man. I like it. It's very well done. One of the few anons who could make it.

>>7723195
I'd actually like Oswald to be a tactical RPG like makai kingdom or phantom brave. Alternatively, an isometric puzzle platfromer like solstice would be rad.

>>7723569
Good job bro, keep it up.

>>7723879
thanks for reminding me why I dont post my work here

>>7724095
>One of the few anons who could make it.
W-w-w-who else..... D:
>>7724113
>isometric puzzle platfromer like solstice
Ok that I can definitely see.

>>7724145
Well, you don't have any work to post anyway so we'll call it a wash.

>>7724390
run along back to /b/ faggot the adults are working on actual art. tell the blacked general i said hi

>>7724392
funny as fuck yea get his ass

What do you guys make of sex appeal / sexual fanservice in manga?

>>7724433
Don't particularly like mean-spirited stuff like this (ryona) but I like cute/fun/playful ecchi/fanservice. My manga has plenty of it anyway.

>>7724433
whats the source

I had a really fucking good idea for my plot to progress but then I went to sleep and forgot it completely the next morning and only now remember that I had it like 3 days later.

>>7724433
Shit authors default to because their already uninteresting stories would be even more uninteresting

>>7724456
It's in the image. Read nigga.

>>7724433
I'd rather draw my characters getting married and having children.

>>7724528
no it fucking isnt

>>7724433
I love fanservice but stuff like this is firmly in "holy shit just make it an ugly bastard hentai already, stop beating around the bush" territory for me.

>>7724433
I hate how hard it is to find drawn ryona references

>>7724685
>drawn ryona references
>drawn
NGMI.

>>7724433
I like fan service when it's more sparse.
A nice panty shot or changing scene is much sexier to me than straight up nudity or hentai.

The only thing I don't really like is implied sex.

>>7724433
i don't care in general, when it's the main appeal it's a positive, when it's an addition to what's supposed to be a real story it's. overdone scenes like the pervert bringing up peeping on the women's bath or the MC walking in as a girl is changing are firmly in obnoxious territory though.

>>7724433
If it fits the tone and is integrated into the setting / characters it's great.
If it's a random "beach / onsen episode" in an otherwise serious story, it's stupid.

tried something different with the paneling, what do you guys think?
does it work?

>>7724433
I will use the original Ranma 1/2 as an example
>nabiki tendo wearing a nice swimsuit
>ranma in girl form getting out of a bath
Very good, come on in.
>it's a happosai episode where the entire point of the episode is how many sex crimes he can magically get away with in one episode while the entire rest of Japan suddenly comes down with "guess we can't do anything oh well" syndrome for the next 24 minutes
Absolutely not. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200.
Absolutely not.

>>7725037
Top left looks good because it molds to the architecture in your large panel, like you intended.
Im not so sure about the 2nd panel though.

>>7724145
You never post drawings here, you always come and show random images of that character called Dana that you probably stole from the real author.

>>7724433
Objectifying women is good, they are animals
Making fun of women is also good

most of my inspiration is unrealistic stuff for the time being. what one-shots do you anons like?

>>7725112
based

Honestly other writers I consider them just charlatans. Specially people who work for western comics. This people really get paid for their awful writing ?

>>7725112
t. incel

>>7725207
???

>>7724433
>tfw you take a break from your comic to do some pointless fanservice

>>7725107
good to see the /ic/ terminal online eceleb hallucinations still going strong

Hows my first chapter read?

https://imgur.com/a/wealth-toil-work-progress-first-chapter-9ucpQ1J#

Love any critiques and thoughts on it. I'm gonna go back over and redo some of the art (especially some of the stuff in the middle), but thats once Ive finished this arc

I started doing alot more practise and study towards the last 15 pages as I didnt like how my art was going, and I think theres improvement in the last bit of pages, so I'm probably just gonna practise for a few weeks, and do some short stories, to try and improve my art before doing the second chapter, and try to mix in more studies cause I was getting a page done a day towards the middle (I work fulltime too), but I think the art doesnt look the best there

>>7725207
most "writers" are the stereotypical redditor who writes like shadiversity. Artists that also write will mog them every time, because artists make the prose fit the art and actually use color and composition in their words.

>>7724022
I send it a few chapters of something I wrote a year ago, it gives interesting feedback to chew on but it's not really useful because it has no feel for pacing/how good something is at hooking you, which IMO is what's more important than anything else.

>>7725433
I think the setup for the story is pretty interesting, I felt invested and wanted to see what happens next, you did a good job with the dialogue for the main characters as well, i thought i would hate them at first but you managed to show their good sides as well.
The art is quite messy but I thought the panels were still readable 90% if the time, there was a few shots I had to take a second look at to understand, if you slow down and try to clean up your artwork I bit I think it would improve.
The crosshatching on the characters faces are hastily done, try making shorter strokes and follow the shape of the character.

Just keep at it, make more pages and alternate with a few studies when you can, and look at other comic artists you like and try to understand their process, look at how they make environments and what they highlight vs shade in the panel.

>>7725433
well you got me to read to the end of it so pretty good i'd say. that douchey face at the end of page 12 is great lol
agree with the other anon about the hatching feeling very rushed in places tho

Is doing one coloured page a day with art as complicated as average manga a bad pace to be at?

>>7726049
extremely good at least compared to most artists. Alot of western artists do 20 a month, and they're only doing penciling, inking or coloring. mangakas got alot of assistances to help them out

>>7726049
one page a day is insane pace, colored or uncolored.

The thing that mostly motivates me to make a manga is the idea of using it as a form of catharsis. Passing down my problems to my characters. If I stopped being unhappy, I'm not sure I'd keep doing this

>>7726139
weekly manga artists do like 3.5 per day. granted that's with assistants and an insane schedule. one a day by yourself is pretty good, i think that's what most mangaka would be at if they worked solo. of course it also depends on the art quality.

its not really about how many pages, but how many hours you work. An amateur drawing ten hours a day is still working as hard as a pro working ten hours a day, they're both really good pace even if the pro can maybe get 1 and a half or 2 pages out.

>>7726484
Man, an artist with more than 1 assistant might as well just be the author. If there are 2, i doubt they do much other than drawing characters and the lineart.

>>7726543
It makes me appreciate the anons here in /mmg/ all the more. Everybody is doing every single role by themselves. Even the 2-3 anons who have editors doesnt change the fact that those anons still had to make something to edit in the first place.

>>7724433
Is this hentai or just ecchi? The art is great

I did it traditionally, then scanned it and added textures in Clip Studio. It's probably twice as much work as just doing it full digitally, but at least it's a fun experiment
It still doesn't look very presentable, but it's a start

>>7726968
Very cute artwork, is it posted anywhere?

>>7726543
but that's exactly what they do. at least that's what I remember from murata's streams specifically.

>>7726543
Here's the thing: even just inking the characters and lineart is most of the work.
Consider an author who hires 3 assistants to help with the grunt work:
One assistant is given most of the background work. They can't draw fast enough to draw every background though.
One assistant is given all the effects to draw, things like speed lines and focus lines.
One assistant is the tone guy and applies all the tones.
The author still has to write the thing, do all the designs and storyboards and sketches, ink all the non-background element characters, speech bubbles and some of the backgrounds. They still need to make sure the sketches are clear enough that another person can understand what they're supposed to be inking rather than just sketching for themselves to ink, along with providing instructions for the screentoning. All of this is still the majority of the work and the author's visual style is generally left intact, especially so if the background artist is capable of matching the author's style to some degree. All it is is taking some of the parts that require next to no creative input and paying somebody else to do them. What you're left with is still a fucktonne of work. It's still nowhere near a position where "you might as well just be the author". Assistants really aren't a silver bullet, and they actually end up creating some work when inevitably an instruction was misunderstood or left partially unfinished and you have to go in and correct it.

>>7727084
sounds like you're underestimating assistants, thinking they're just robots that doesn't do more than one thing. three assistants would cost more and probably wouldn't be worth, not that i have data how many they hire these days. Honestly bakuman is probably outdated now in digital era. Plenty just add csp assets as background. I don't know where you got the bullshit info up your ass.

>>7727089
>I don't know where you got the bullshit info up your ass.
By having assistants. Where did you get your info? Your imagination?

>>7727129
that's even worse if it's true

>>7726975
thanks!! I'm not very active, but you can find me as LynYellow anywhere

>>7727162
Very cute art, why don't you draw more comics of your goat character?

>>7727201
I-It's a sheep.
Well, I don't have many ideas yet, and I'm still new to comics. I'll try to make short comics with my characters and then move on to something more complex, like oneshots, to get into a rhythm I think I've managed to do something I like the look of, so I'll try to be more consistent

>>7727248
Sorry, it def looks like a sheep, it just didn't register in my brain. Simple comics like slice of life would be great to start with. It's a very cute art style and that alone can carry a lot.

hi mmg, question, is changing layer property to Tone in CSP the standard practice? what are other ways i can do tones? i thought i would have to download assets for that at first. and what is this weird effect when zooming

The next issue of anon jump is coming soon.
If you have something that wasn't posted in this thread or the last, do so.

>>7727371
It's how I do all my tones.
You could add each individual tone material in manually.
That effect is called Moire (mwah-ray). It's just a rendering issue with patterns of small dots. Happens in real life too, if you see, say, a mesh door from a certain distance it has a similar weirdness. Anyway it doesn't matter on the project file, but you should check to make sure the moire isn't too bad with your export settings, and if it is you might want to tweak stuff until it isn't.

>>7727396
kino incoming

the masculine urge to add "if you're inspired by fujimoto don't read any of my works"

>>7727462
thinking of this, can you have success being a contrarian, hating on other artist or it's a fast way to fall to irrelevancy and never climb back again.

>>7727462
>>7727463
its a fast track to having your own work excessively scrutinized and compared to whoever you hate on and more, and anything meaningful you try to create will be overshadowed by your reputation of being a dramawhore asshole; that being said, what is it with normie artists and sucking off fujimoto? every second newgen basedslinger and slopsketcher you see nowadays has some derivative poorly cloned csm art and writing style, plus that one magazine competition that got posted awhile back where the one of the judges complained about too many fujimoto clones. Do people flock to his works because it appeals to the pretentious concept of 'meaningful' shonen? or is it just retards being retarded?

>>7727462
Its tempting but theres no use antagonizing retards on the internet. You're just painting a target on your back. Let bygones be bygones.

>>7727494
I have a feeling it exploded in popularity in certain countries that make up the majority of the internet. It was a lot of peoples first actual manga and the cool action and relateable MC just hit the right spots. The art being shit isn't really an issue, in fact that makes it more inspiring for young artists because it makes fujimoto look more human and reachable.

>>7727494
His art is easily to emulate, honestly hoping a youtuber with balls cover how tiring his "style" actually is. Boring same panels with no variety in gestures, easy tone/shadings, bad writing, if you can't write just make it random!!!! and deconstruction!!!!
Let's see the slop inspired by it:
MAD, Hamita, Menkui, i see also other inspired by it in other amateur collabs like us.
>>7727503
yeah i see all his works on comic shop everytime.

>>7727508
firepunch and csm part 1 was okay. I don't know why people emulate his bad aspects instead, stupidity.

>>7727494
It's because his work is good and inspires people. You might not like it but it's the truth.

what do you guys think of Beastars art? I really like the simplicity

Outside of manga, anyone who draws comics/semi realistic or w/e. How do you decide on a characters face/head/physical appearance? I for the life of me can not come up with different character looks/not sure how I should go about it.

Should I just take people I know/famous people and slightly alter them up a bit?

>>7727462
you have beef with someone that doesn't even know you

I don't remember where I read this but is it true that chapter covers and one-shot covers count as part of the page count?
In general I can find lots of advice about tankoubon covers but not much for chapter/one-shot covers and it's kind of irking me.
Pls help