What do you need to draw manga?

Answer 1

No one wants to read some long list on How To Draw Manga!

Main features:

1) Pointy Chins

2) Pointy Hair (sharp)

3) Wide Eyes

4) - Looks Exactly like A Human In More 'Cartoon' Form!

You can find many images on the internet of Manga, Or try searching up Anime.

Anime and Manga are both similar, but Anime tends to be more the series you'd see on the television, and Manga tends to be just drawings. Try looking up on the internet how to draw Manga! There are also books you can buy telling you how to draw Manga too. Books are better than the internet, showing you how to draw eyes, hair, bodies, clothes, accessories, Etc.. I am only 13, And I can draw Manga easily! (Freehand!) With the help of books for guidance.

Answer 2

To draw manga, you will need good quality drawing materials such as pens, pencils, markers, and paper. You may also need access to drawing software if you prefer digital art. Additionally, it is helpful to study the fundamentals of anatomy, perspective, and storytelling to improve your skills.

Answer 3

Usually mangaka just build their own manga drawing room. Mangaka usually have people who help them draw extra stuff in their manga. Sometimes it's harder to do manga by yourself, but that's still exceptable. I don't know how much their pay is, but it must be very great, because most mangaka(like Masashi Kishimoto) are incredibly famous.

Gintama's creator Sorachi Hideaki sensei's typical schedule goes like this:

Daily schedule on working days:

• 13:00 - wake up
• 14:00 - meals
• Followed by work until
• 20:00 - meals
• Followed by work

Daily schedule on rest-days:

• Rest

Weekly Schedule:

• Thursday - get in touch with editor, thereafter sleep

• Friday - buy work related stuff, colouring work, setting out plots

• Saturday - general plots completed, rough sketching in of characters/settings/storyline/dialogue within frames commences

• Sunday - rough sketching in of characters/settings/storyline/dialogue within frames continues

• Monday - gathering of assistants, backgrounds laid on except where sketching in not completed

• Tuesday - finishing up background where sketching is completed, typically today all staff do not sleep

• Wednesday - 6am sketching in completed, thereafter drawing in and pen inking starts, manuscript is finished at about 3am

source: rough translation from Sorachi Hideaki, Gintama Official Character Book 2 - Gintama 5th Grader, Jump Comics, Shueisha Inc. page 193

Answer 4

This question is a bit unclear so my answer may not be exactly what you're looking for. But I'll do my best nonetheless.

I'd suggest taking tutorials. Find drawing instruction books. Start with the basics and then take on new topics.

And most important of all, practice. Draw, draw, and draw some more.

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I agree. I'm a talented artist and all that i ever did was draw. When I was little i would to a lot of crafts and draw and my mom would hang up so many pictures on the fridge! I am also into anime. I suggest watching mark crilley on YouTube and read his books. about an hour long read. they are a manga series called Miki Falls. I went on Google and went step by step. first i got a note bok and took notes as i went. like i did "how to draw body bases, eyes, facial stuctures, clothes... Also look and put things on hold at the library.

Answer 5

This is not going to be a simple or quick answer, but I will try to condense it. I'm also assuming basic understanding of Adobe Photoshop, resolution/DPI and wacoms.

There are two main ways of starting off. By hand first, or by PC purely.

By hand first:

Draft the page on paper, making sure to follow bleeding requirements (or buy deleter paper and pay attention to the print size label to see if it's suitable).

It is best to ink by hand as well if you're intending to print, this solves some grayscale issues on the PC later, and gives better line weights (thicker for closer objects, thinner for smaller things and hair). If it is meant to be digital only, you might ink on the PC (or skip this stage altogether and read the PC only portion, but manga produced exclusively for web-viewing is generally not compatible for printing and must be redrawn, where as printable resolution can be reduced. So bear that in mind.

Scan the image at 600-1200 DPI B/W (the lines look jagged at 100%, they won't at print size or reduced web resolution).

Make sure to make the image Grayscale instead of bitmap, then change the layer properties of the Lineart you just scanned to Multiply. Now make new layers and tone underneath it.

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PC only:

You can skip the drafting process, but you must now measure out your own bleeds for your page. Make sure you draw to the very edge of each page regardless of the bleed. The bleed is there to make it safe in case of bad cropping, but it will show a white edge unless you cover it.

Nothing important should be in the bleed area (speechbubbles, eyes). These notes are important for hand drafting, but the Deleter paper comes with these instructions so they are less easy to overlook.

Start with two layers over your background, one with your margins, the other your drafting layer. This can be very rough. Once done, I usually turn the opacity down then make a new layer and trace over it with final lines. I like black 3px brush set at 92% opacity and 100% flow.

The entire process is done with a tablet. You could do it with a mouse, but it is much more difficult and not many people still give kudos for mouse-drawn lineart for it to be worth it. Wacom Intuos 4 does the job well, but I also had enough luck with an older Sapphire.

Once you have your lineart, again turn the Layer Properties to Multiply, make the draft layer invisible, then make new layers under the Lineart layer in which to insert tones.

There are a few ways to tone your art. The fastest way (not really suitable for print), is using grayscale tones on Adobe, then converting them to dots by making the tone layer a bitmap in another file, or by using the Pixelate > Gradient halftone option (Your image needs to be grayscale, or it will come out multicolored).

Manga studio is a professional manga creating software that cuts a lot of the work in tones, it also has a large database of ready to use digital tones suitable for print. If you have Adobe or Paintshop already and only want to create web-manga, then you probably won't need the Studio software.

There are many more aspects to making a good manga, and these are some basics. A search for specific tutorials on Paneling, Storyboarding and Action Line use will help with the aesthetic and storytelling side.

Answer 6

U need a mechanical pen to do undersketches this may seem boring but iris crucial and it shapes your drawing next is the most commonly use tool the gpen when starting you may want to use a kabura

Answer 7

You can look to the related link below which has a wide variety of free tutorials on how to draw anime/manga characters . YouTube has many video tutorials as well . "Practice makes perfect" - good luck .

Answer 8

You can publish a manga like how you publish a book (a picture book more of).

Answer 9

I don't know how to draw manga all that well but this website should help you out: Dragoarts.com

Answer 10

Usually colour pencils or markers.