Messages posted by: boyohboy

thanks a lot! is it like smackjevees (all free in general) or like mangamagazine(with opportunity to be featured/premium aka paid for the comic)?

hello, i know about few nice sites similar to mm and, for example, smackjeeves.

NAVER and DAUM sites for korean webcomics(webtoons), you can read about it here:
http://mangabookshelf.com/blog/2010/07/26/an-introduction-to-korean-webcomics/

and pixiv.net has section that is as i understood like mm- for uploading manga series. japanese

my point is, as a creator, i want my stories to be known all over the world. as a great dreamer i also hope one day to get movie/tv series/dorama/anime/whatthehellever out of my story. i know i am not the only one

so, do you guys know these sites? can you tell more of how they work(i have strong language barrier)?
do you think it is in general good idea to promote work in different languages using such sites?
i myself love mm, but i know people always prefer sites with language they know, and in asia i heard english is not as popular learning choice as in europe. so i myself believe with good enough languages knowledge it is worth the try...

offtopic(not entirely, ok) - japanese vs korean: your learning language experience? which is easier in written form? which in general easier to learn?

thanks a lot everyone.

p.s.: i do not want to find better than mm place or something, cose it already feels like home

Takeru Makoto wrote:

BrBwithagun wrote:What do you think about mangakas and comic makers who jump from drama to comedy(with DIFFERENT stories)? for example Takeshi Obata and Tsugumi Ōba with psyhological drama Death note(where humor is incredibly limited and no funny faces etc... i can't remember Light being NOT serious.ever.) and slice of life comedy Bakuman.
Both works are good though.

From a fan side, would you read a work of your favorite drama story' artist if the new work is pure comedy\shojo\etc(or opposite way)?
would you like that artist to go back to previous genre, the genre you more likely to read? or you would welcome any of his\her works?
would you be disappointed\annoyed\etc in artist ans his choice to jump from one genre to another(and possibly back)?

any other thoughts please....

(i am curious because i think we all felt a bit betrayed when a comedy came after death note xD but i do love bakuman a lot).
also i myself more into drama-psychology-supernatural-adventure writing but i am also interested in writing quite opposite - slice of life comedy. (and would like to use different styles - one in color, one black and white).

two(and more) completely different by genre works from one team\creator? any opinions on that?

Oh please.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8XmQ0KrjOk
Sure he was serious, but that was very humorous.

i'm not sure what intentions the authors had when creating that scene, but yeah it was a good laugh

still, light is really serious. misa and ryuk were probably playing roles of "cute mascots"(good explanation for this way in bakuman).

yup, pages are fine, just edit screentones. i myself use manga stdio so i do not know about downloadable ones, but if you put in deviantart search screentones or manga brushes, you will get tons of free stuff ^^

yes, too much tones. maybe in stead of such tones you better try doing everything in dots-tones, just different level of darkness(hope you undersrood my weird english lol).
also i try to shade my art before using tones, just to see where exactly tones fit and where they shouldn't be to not hide the drawing. also there are a lot of manga where screentones arent used(or at minimum) - for example XXXholic. in stead of screentones you can just do grayscale coloring.
i myself have troubles with screentones, so do not force yourself in using them just because "manga should have screentones", as long as you can make pages that you are 100% satisfied with before showing to anyone - anuthing goes.who knows, mayb3 you should try colors even?
hope i helped a little bit

that's nice ^^ glad i could help.

thanks, it's edited, you can see full pic in my gallery

so were you able to move it or not?

go to text menue on right column(when you switch from draft, to lineart, screentones etc), now the page numbering is in blue square, like any text you'd type. move this square with page number away from page, to not working area. i do it every time because i didnt find any other way to make page numbers unseen. i hope you understood what i meant by this blurry explanation..

how about discussing least sympathetic characters you ever stumbled upon or thought about?

what makes protagonist\hero extremely annoying or a great turn off?
what makes a villain someone you truly cannot stand and see as a "good type"of a villain?

what kind of characters is a FAIL? not in terms of being not really well portrayed or having no much details and reasons for their actions, but rather having a personality trait that makes you hate them.

hey, Kura

nice, rarely people start their art journey your way ^^

it is hard to avoid reading manga and anime(though if i do not avoid unintentionally imitate current style of what i jsut saw). because we need these for inspiration on sometimes learning drawing comics(from technical point of view, how panels better look etc).

but so far it is probably the only option i know... to not see DRAWN things while you work on your comics.

quite interesting, about "drawing again"..

but sometimes own style looks boring and i try to "devour"more other styles for making my own better... because i want to draw more different faces etc.
i cannot lately get feeling, when i try to design characters, that this one looks good\fits. lately almost every style i see in famous art or good DA galleries looks alike to each other and i feel upset that i keep copying something that is already copied and have a bad unsatisfied feeling, the better i become in anatomy, the less i am satisfied with what i draw, but more in faces(i draw them correctly but they feel boring to me).

i guess it is called art block?

most of us start serious drawing probably imitating anime. but sooner or later we begin learn proper anatomy and that's where half of us get problems(as i see it at least)-our art with each new hour spent on learning basics turns to american-like comics in stead of manga. after spending time on learning about different cool works we devour like sponges the art styles and mix them inventing our own.

any tips and tricks developing your art style?
what can be called as personal art style?
how to stick with one style when drawing long series(on professional level, when serious change in art is not really welcomed, i think)?
how to prevent yourself from copying art styles?(for example now when i try to draw anime everything looks like Black butler, A LOT LIKE, i mean faces, and i do not like that i lose my own style).

any other thoughts on personal art style (and problems with it) are welcomed. hope this topic to be active a lot