Let's make a Hmanga!

in my opinion in making comic

-you need more in details in the draft. this is key mostly because you are working off of someone else's idea.

the writer needs to rewrite their story in enough detail to give a clear picture of what is happening. because their is already dialogue the writer only needs to explain key details of what should be happen around the dialogue. bullet noting works too

-the way i go about in the layout is pretty dumb and time consuming though.

1st) i figure out the over all story.

2nd) i go about reading story and marking where i believe the pages would be and have a nice flow and i intensely stare at a blank paper imagining the story progression

3rd) then i do a light draft drawing a bunch of rectangles halving them off and numbering them (to represent the pages) and writhing down what will happen on each page. this is to show how it would look if it was in it comic book form. and a limit of how much you should put on a page

4th) is to just to draw it how you imagined it and looking back to the light draft and adjust and readjusting for a more dynamic layout. keep in mind that the word bubble will effect the entire page layout too. also try to vary your panel layout

yeah, thats all i got

here this might help https://www.fakku.net/viewtopic.php?t=42564

Alright I'll definitely think on that. it's really late here and I just got off a shift at work so I'm going to pass out but in the morning I may attempt to work of some of your suggestions and get this flowing better.

Holy crap they are right...

The example SAM used about layouts are actually planned better...

It has numbered word bubbles and it gives hints describing in detail what is going on as not too lead too any confusion...

What am I doing here? If I cannot do any better than this I might just have too drop this project...

Freaky I will use the layouts they gave us as an example from now on!

Yeah! :3 That's totally fine! Don't feel so bad shogun we're obviously new!

i just remembered you also need the characters personality and design

the personality is to help in characterizing their body language and facial expression

the design, in it self might effect the personality but overall this is just to give an idea of how the story will playout

the obvious solution is catholic school lesbians. OBVIOUSLY!

xD Of course it is! I should have known lesbians are always the solution!

we never really talked about this that much. do you just want to do shorts or a series? (totally for a series)

Shorts! I prefer them over a series

Doing a series at this stage seems pretty big leap. Besides, I prefer one shots over series in most cases.

Freaky I tried out the new style with mixed results...

I will not put the background in unless you confirm too me that the concept is good enough.


P.S. We need SAM here also too critique the new concept page...

Yeah looks nice. Oh and, I should mention I think that the "Lucky Bastard" And "Maybe a little" Thought bubbles make the male lead sort of, like, an unsympathetic character. Maybe we should change those to something else?

thanks for considering my input note worthy for the story development :)

the layout is nice but it seems there is needless empty space but you didnt put background so i guess.

because it seems like its only you (Shogun) and Freaky are working on the layout without the original writer input. i think instead of going one page at a time you should just go and make a quick draft of the entire story of how you see it. then let Freaky see it judge it and make adjustments (in a different color over lapping yours) to how he sees it.


its a time consuming back and forth process but it rings out little detail for each artist views instead of just going with the first idea someone comes up with for the page :/


you guys still need a character draft too

Well Freaky I have edited the text that you wanted too get rid of. I also added a background to the pervious post.

This is page six if anything is wrong or hard too understand let me know...

Did more sketches on page 3 http://i596.photobucket.com/albums/tt45/Rizima/pagethree.jpg

Not bad at all.

Is their any parts of the panel so far you did not understand?

Give me your honest opinion I need feedback...

I don't get the first panel what is it supposed to be?

It is suppose to be a close up of the guys face.

Any more panels you have confusion with?

Nah i think i'm good! :D

Hi there guys, I can't help much but here's the font that you should use...

Anime Ace 2.0 <- This one is for main use in the manga
Blambot Custom <- Usually I use this for shouting bubbles
Mouth Breather <- Another one for shouting
Damn Noisy Kids <- Will be useful for those "I'M CUMMING!!" bubbles

You can download them all for free in the creator's site ( http://blambot.com/ )