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.Previous thread:>>7805079Some resources:/asg/, our stylistic sister-thread series for those focused more on illustration >>>/ic/asgBooks:Understanding Comicshttps://e-hentai.org/g/2042453/83e7da6ed0/Making ComicsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>7816195>>7816688For more realistic stuff like the drawing on the left: a Hunt Speedball 512 bowl nib for outlines and thick lines, 102 crowquill nib for details and everything else. Stylized drawings like the right are usually all brush (size 2, designer round watercolor brush). I usually prefer ink and brush just cause a brush is less finicky about surfaces and you can use illustration paper, watercolor paper, bristol, whatever.Eventually I'll get around to ordering some maru nibs, think those are most similar to the speedball 100/102 since the smaller speedball nibs are real hit-or-miss quality nowadays.
>>7813621Very cool
>>7820500dumbass nerd
>>7820500Its an ESL my dude.
>>7813486I started reading Bone in color some months back, then I read up on how the artist was a master at black and white so I switched over and read the entire thing in black and white for some pointers, I think just trying to absorb what he was able to pull off might help you some. It's not manga but he's also great at conveying movement without speed lines, plus it's a fun enough story so it's worth a read. I was put off by the protag's design at first but it's sort of three cartoon brothers accidentally step into a trimmed down LotR world, to put it very simply.
Honestly, how many /ic/ bros could pass a Chinese art school test?
>>7818683it's over, i can't win against billions of new talents and rapidly developing AI...
>>7818690this.
these are timed tests so it is insanely difficult to nail likeness perfectly whilst also worrying everything else as well, but the first one is especially close. I have gone down the rabbit hole of exploring Chinese art education and honestly Chinese atelier students are leagues ahead of Western ones when it comes to pure skill and technique. From what I can tell, pursuing art there seems much more cutthroat since work is judged much more harshly and people are blunt about something that is not good. They spend years drilling fundamentals and technique than on self expression, which is why some people think their work looks soulless even if it is technically very skilled. But students end up creating expressive art on their own time anyway if you look at what they produce outside of school.
>>7821333>>7819007meant to reply
>>7818690isn't instagram blocked in china?imagine if all BRICS countries implemented something like the Great Firewall. people of the west would celebrate it lol
how are we even supposed to improve if a high iq person couldn't
>>7820159>1 year You need 9 more years of grinding, little beg
>>7820159>1 yearyou need that just to learn how do draw boxes and bones, retard
>he did a portrait a little better than average in a whole yearmeh.
>>7820262You need to study the stoic greats if you're GMI.
Has he posted anything newer since that video? Doesn't seem like he's on that art grind anymore
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>>7819459try date naoto's book
>>7817155https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2639407/>TALES FROM EARTHSEA No, I know exactly who he is because i've been following him and using his insruction for quite some time,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8mXq1pj9VUYou see, this is the part where you hang yourself out of embarrasment
>>7820643Holy shit, it’s the fucking anime school books again. I should have known why it looks so shit. You must be the guy who kept spamming these threads for these garbage books. Good luck, anon. And my condolences for you having such a shit taste.
>>7820744>gets corrected>doubles downnta but you're pathetic and ngmi
Looking for this.goodslog.info/42474/
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Man these threads are bizarre, feels more like some schizo /g/ shit than an art thing. I've been using the Wacom Intuos Small for years now and it feels fine (the white and black one from circa 2018, I don't even know the official name). I'm sure there's better stuff but I don't get all the venom here. You can make nice art with a shitty kiddie crayon. I'm sure just about any tablet is sufficient and you should focus on other problems.
>>7821044>CHINGCHONGCHANGBINGBONGBANGshut the fuck up you chinese shill, no one is going to read that
>>7821161This is too specific, he's trying to get people to hate Wacom specifically. My guess is that he's a Samsung gook.
>>7821057Just about all of this thread is 1 paid bad actor and everyone pointing and laughing at him.
Anyone know of a similar design to this for a macropad? to get the official csp one, its like 140 usd to send here. was thinking of using a cheap vr remote but idk if that'd work
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>>7816148looking forward to it >>7816405>>7817484>>7817496hot>>7816717i started off copying anime illustrations into my school notebook>>7819662cute
Never animated before so tried to experiment.
>>7819739Thanks dude! Man i had to do a crazy perspective run on a treadmill shot like yours on a show i was on... it made me wanna blow my brains out. And you've got it working super well with like 6 frames it hurts my brain lol. My CharliexVaggie anim is done!As for now! next WIP
>>7816717Straight at it, I suck at both and don't give a shit
thinking about switching to linux so mostly just messing around in krita to get a feel for things.
Previously on /trad/: >>7781453
>>7820951worst thread in the board
>>7821244Are you retarded?
>>7821254stfu gooner
>>7821254bruh your mad af
Is it true that furry art is where the money is? Not even with porn exclusively, these people seem to love paying for commissions, especially the ones with fursonas
reading this thread, all i got was there's no more "easy" money from making furry art, but there is. i like those odds
furry used to be a niche porn thing. doesnt seem that way anymore so maybe not
>>7816239>Is it true that furry art is where the money is? Hard no, it's a meme.>these people seem to love paying for commissions, especially the ones with fursonasHovever, it's true that furries value art with more regard. They are indeed much more negative about AI.
>>7817499Stop talking like a retard
>>7816239>>7817740furry does seem to be the end all joker card for a lot of criticism niche fetish art gets. Furries can get away with a lot more because there are no humans involved. Those moral rules about if the character is of age, or consenting or whatever parallels to society seem to all fall apart when you apply it to an obviously fictional dog woman taking dick, and the person saying it ends up looking like a bigger weirdo than the one drawing it.
Ixy's whole course is basically just tracing and use reference. Really that's all you need to make it?
>>7821168>>78211711/10
>>7815299>orange skinnedholy shit, KJG and Trump are of same reptalian race
>>7820247>>7821266it's literally true though? He's not even hating on 3d model, just use it well is what they mean
>>7821279You would have a point if you could actualy articulate whats wrong with it, but all he did was just say "bad anatomy" saying it looks like shit, etc so naturally you're promptly ignored. Dont really care if you think its bad regardless, its helping me set up the scene I would have struggled with otherwise
>>7811536they'd probably say some giberish in old italian and crucify the demons who trap souls inside electric boxes.
Post your first few drawings from this year and the last few ones.What did you learn this year? What do you want to get better at next year?Did your style and taste change?
>>7813494man a year is so much time and so little at the same. sometimes it feels forever ago making a drawing but it was jsut a few weeks. it's almost magical. good progress over the course of the year, senpai. its weird how being persistent for a while will move mountains so to speak. keep it up!
>>7815789shouldnt it be the other way? wagmi, anon. wagmi.
>>7820892Thanks, and yeah, consistency really is such a powerful ally. Just showing up (almost) every day, and not letting yourself get caught up in doubt does wonders. Honestly has helped me in other areas of life as well>keep it up!You too. Wagmi!
>>7812551Realism is boring. But i guess man were all fated to follow their creator
>>7821116asian women arent real thoughbeit. i refuse to believe they are
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Cat shenanigans in the works
>>7820507>Think about what the purpose of the illustration is, what do you want to sayWell, it was just a quick pose study that I played around with for a bit over an hour, so I didn't really wanna say anything with it lol.Thanks for the critique though, good points about the composition especially. It's good to be reminded cause I didn't think about it at all for this one, but I probably should, even when it's just a doodle.
>>7812224Working on this
>>7820723Fucking hell those are some clean ass lines. Blog?
>>7820723Hot
Can someone make a step by step map to get from /beg/ to League of Legends splash artist? No trolling!!!!
why is it always league of legends
>>7812623ask AiChatgpt or Grok can answer this question
>>7812623https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLssS0d0XkroTx1BlIwu-h_bdlgbjDms1I&si=XBZfotkTIbPCk0WQ
>>7818365Because they have godly skill level on their modern splasharts.
>>7812623Where's her chin?
He really says something about society.
>>7821110These jpegs look VERY expensive
>>7821131I think Beeple said he went with NFTs to prove that you are allowed to own and buy digital art, because he thinks digital art is as valid as "traditional art" in physical painting and drawing.
>>7821138That whole thing was a scam and everyone knows it, that excuse is just a false flag. Digital art will never be as valuable as traditional art and I say this as someone that likes digital art
>>7821222that's not what "false flag" means, retard
that was such a strange time. I had friends and family telling me to make nfts.
The thread for soft core pornography hoarding.Old thread:>>7767293
>>7820914do you think there are cute fat western girls? I think this only works for asian girls really, it's the small face/head.
>>7819982Uliya Morozova, aka Julia Morozzi, juliatimoro, sunnybunny_girl https://www.pornpics.com/fr/pornstars/julia-morozzi/https://www.metart.com/model/julia-morozzi
>>7820982Okay it is not harassment for nudity, if she is modeling for metart.
ugly whore
>>7820982she looks younger in the pose studio then MetArt lol. Does MetArt go out of their way to make them girls look older?
Are the people running art conventions completely morons unable to tell AI from non AI?
>>7815485Simply ask the "artist" to recreate the piece, make them walk through the whole process.
>>7815650Are you too small brained to understand that you're not entitled to an employers money thus if they want to use AI art over over hiring a costly artfag than that's their choice to make and they don't need your fucking consent to do so?
>wah wah people won't pay me>heh we're replacing you, chud
>>7820845>"Customers have a right to making informed purchases that's in-line with their morals">"Heh, Employees have to do what their Boss asks of them. Did you think of that?"Are you retarded? What's your argument got to do with what that anon was discussing?To be this stupid, and to act so smug while being so...>"N-no, what I meant was..."And? You didn't give a shit what the other person meant, now did you?
>>7815620I think it's reasonable to sell ai art provided you also include the model version and the full page of prompts so the buyer could recreate 80% of it on their own. You're essentially selling pure Idea and offload the technicalities to ai.But we all know these scummy, smelly, brown Jeets won't do this, they'll lie and scam instead. And run the whole industry into the ground like they did with crypto and NFT. The frog and the scorpion, etc.
