10 years, 1028 pages inked (not including single illustrations like pic related).Those are my stats up until my first professional manga was published.To anons who want to become a pro author, keep this in mind. Maybe others could do it faster, but it's always going to takes hundreds and hundreds of pages, thousands of hours of work, to gain the skill to go pro, most of which will be uncompensated. I don't say this to discourage you — quite the opposite, I'm saying this because if you're seeing this it means you could probably be working harder. Please don't slack off, draw draw draw! It CAN be done, but you won't get there if you aren't willing to make sacrifices.
where were you published?
Congrats on your debut, Cowboy anon!
you're not japanese, just because your comic is black and white doesn't mean it is a manga
>>7129020God bless anon, glad you made it!
>>7129024The May issue of COMIC Mugen Tensei. It's out in print stores, digital comes in May.>>7129027I'm not japanese and I'm not interested in making anybody think I'm japanese, but I do make manga.
>>7129034>but I do make manga.no you don't, you make comics in black and white
>>7129020>12 ft. Corrugated Galvanized Steel 29-Gauge Roof Panel from Home Depot MAGICALLY produces light source of 2600 lumens capable of creating shadows AND ILLUMINATE the surrounding areasYou're going places, junior. Can't wait to run down to the local Beaner Depot to get me oneahhdeez!
And people need to keep in mind, this was coom.You think you're going to make it with some shounen story? Fuggetaboutit
>>7129020Not to mention the weeds I NEED, to grow on TOP my 12 ft. Corrugated Galvanized Steel 29-Gauge Roof Panel from Home Depot like I'm growing a garden like those retarded autonomous zone kids. Mmmm, fun times!
>>7129020I am an Italian artist, right now I’m beg but I’m progressing fast. I’m a future world famous artist and handsome playboy. I am glad that I was blessed with the kind of ability that one person every three hundred years is born with. Because of this I’m going to get published in only a couple of years or three at most.
>>7129020I also can't WAIT to go study those intricate, delicate pen lines at the Michael J. Fox Crosshatching Academy. Dems good bux well spend, let me TELL ya!
>>7129038Okay, I make comics in black and white, which are published in a manga magazine.>>7129046Are you not aware that many authors started out in eromanga just like this? Shit, to my knowledge the only non-japanese who has had a serial in Jump was Boichi, who made his pro-manga debut in eromanga.But you're assuming my goal is to make shounen manga, for some reason.>>7129045>>7129048There's a bus stop near me that looks just like this, it has a rusty corrugated iron roof with a fluoro light underneath, and the back of it is being encroached by bushes (or was years ago when I drew the image). The unrealistic part is that there's 3 dudes all at the same run-down stop at once, but realism was not the goal.>>7129051Best of luck, confidence will help. Just make sure it doesn't blind you.
>>7129051>i cooka da pizzayou’re going to make it, Mario
>>7129053>but realism was not the goalClearly.That's a 12 ft. Corrugated Galvanized Steel 29-Gauge Roof Panel with three chicken scratched things underneath. There's nothing impressive about what you've depicted, and whomever "hired" you to showcase your work in that COMIC Mugen Sensei publication will probably commit seppuku for hiring you.Hope you're happy about that.
>>7129038>I do make manga.>no you don't, you make comics in black and whiteSay that to Boichi and his Shonen Jump readers.
Don't let it get to you, Cowboy anon. Other threads you regularly post in, those anons have seen the general breadth of your work and see what you've been making. Congrats again on getting published.
>>7129073Don't sugarcoat his egregious lack of skill. Honest, constructive criticism will help elevate his work to works beyond the 12 ft. Corrugated Galvanized Steel 29-Gauge Roof Panel and perhaps, plywood sheets. Hell, he'll be able to afford an electrical contractor to bring his fantasy up to code.Ever thought of that, smarty pants?
>>7129020you dont even know how manga is made you retard. they dont ink anything. its all 3d models, 3d objects, photobashing, couple talking head bug eyed mutants. it takes a couple hours to bang out an entire page of this absolute dog shit medium you are trying to gatekeep for some reason. its literally not an art medium. its garbage. AI has more merit than manga.
>>7129061Manga authors are freelancers, I wasn't hired by anybody. The response to my debut work seems good to me, but I guess we'll have a better idea when the work is on sale on its own.If editors killed themselves for scouting talent that failed there'd be no editors at all.>>7129073You have to admit it's kind of funny though. Seems like he's stuck on the gauge of the roof panel of this drawing, for some reason. Like he's a glitched NPC or something.>>7129079PYGSRP (Post Your Galvanized Steel Roof Panels)>>7129081Lol
>>7129020congrats on the publication, glad to hear you've made itwill you be a regular for them from this point onward? always good to hear big news coming from your end, cheers
>>7129089Yep, I'm on contract for a tankoubon, so ~190 pages worth of chapters.Apparently it's normal to not have a contract at all until it's time to put the works together into a tankoubon, but it was more convenient to write one up early for tax reasons.
>>7129020prod of you anon, good job!
>>7129091I call bullshit.No one's going to pretend to give you a job on their word alone purely for tax reasons. I honestly feel, you're larping.But if you'd be so inclined to post some of your unpublished work, I'm sure you'd get a comprehensive, no frills constructive critique based on your work alone. Unless you're afraid of being completely broken by a few anonymous critics when you finally show that your work is either traced, stolen or just downright bad. You're not scared of critiques, are you? Nah, you're a published professional. You can handle it.
>>7129091You even ousted yourself in this reply alone, you put your cart before the horse.<Yup, I'm on contract for a tankobon...>Apparently it's normal to not have a a contract...So which one is it—are you, or are you not under contract? Because that seems, odd.
>>7129106Are you this disgruntled a gaijin got published and contracted? Christ get a life. Working for a Japanese company isn't anything special anymore
>>7129111Gotta check these trips...self check.
>>7129113So what are you getting all worked up about. I'm just asking a question, and asking for critique material.Go hug your emotional support spirit animal, weirdo.
>>7129106https://web.mujin-ti.net/magazines/56/325My work is the last one.>「満足」するまでカノジョ!【MUJINチャレジカップ佳作】>ディングルI'm posting this more to encourage others rather than seeking critique, though of course this is /ic/ so I'm going to get critique whether I ask for it or not.>traced, stolen or just downright badIt's not traced or stolen but I know it's bad by /ic/'s standards. There's lots of panels with mistakes and flawed drawings. It just goes to show that you do not need perfect art to go pro. I'm not trying to brag or flex, again, I'm posting this to encourage others.
>>7129119I'm not the OP but what does he need critique from jealous crabs anons for? That's what his editor is for lol. Honestly it's people like you that drive away any artist that ends up being successful then people wonder why there aren't any decent artists on /ic/
>>7129079This manner of writing, I know exactly who you are.
>>7129123>points to the sign on the door>Artwork/CritiqueStop crying, OP doesn't care about you, either.>>7129125Be careful, vendetta posting is strictly against the rules here and is punishable by a three day ban. Don't say I didn't warn you.
>>7129123>That's what his editor is for lol.Well, to be clear, the editor doesn't redline my artwork or anything. He's not an artist himself to my knowledge, and his goal is to think of how we can make it something that readers can enjoy overall rather than making every page artistic perfection. He tells me if there's things I can add, and he points out if there's a major mistake in the artwork that he can see, but it's not like he's an art teacher critiquing his student's work. The artwork is really my domain, between the two of us.And to be clear, I don't mind getting critiques.
>>7129133New to the thread, does your editor give you advice on lewd stuff to add to your manga?>Add a cumshot here, yeah also make him choke her and roll her eyes upJust wondering. Congrats on the milestone.
>>7129122>it's bad by /ic/'s standardsIt's a little funny when you think about it. /ic/ does push hard for having good fundamentals, and that's honestly something that needs to be pushed hard more than ever don't get me wrong. The problem is when some anons act like it's what's needed in order to "make it" in the industry, when that's clearly not the case. There are many mangas out there where the art is pretty bad in some panels, and yet they're out there enjoying having a published commercialized work while the rest of us are here on a Brazilian carpentry forum wondering for the fourth time that day if our fundies are good enough.
>>7129106>newfag doesn't know who OP is
>>7129133So, you're not going to post any unpublished work for critique. Gotcha. It was a nice larp, though. I give it a D- for effort. Oh, and how can I tell it's a LARP? The image you keep pretending is yours and OP are completely different in style.If you wanted to make your larp more believable, you should have used screen halftones on OP pic rather than just chicken scratch pen lines. At least make your larps consistent next time.
>>7129144Kind of, yeah. In the work that's out now I was originally had a different plan for what happens in the climax, but he suggested something better so I went with that. There are also smaller things, like for example pic related is a suggestion he's made on the current thing I'm working on. I'm not going as far as he suggested, but he's right in that the mouths could use more detail, so that's what I'm doing now. He also asked that I add an extra couple of pages to a later sequence.I bring him the work, he makes suggestions that he thinks will make it more appealing or might be a better direction to take it, and it's up to me to decide how to implement that feedback.>>7129146Yeah definitely. >>7129154Believe it or not I'm not going to break contract just to get feedback on it, no. >The image you keep pretending is yours and OP are completely different in styleWell yeah, the two drawings have a completely different intent. Not to mention that there's years between them.
>>7129157Nice damage control.
>>7129020I hope this isn't you. Because GOD DAMN, I just caught you in a LARP...
>>7129159Is it really so hard to believe that things made years apart can look different?It's not a problem to share small snippets of the work, but distributing a significant chunk of it is the one thing that the contract explicitly forbids. So if you're not convinced by what I've posted then I guess you never will be. I've already shown you a screenshot of the project file for an image that is demonstrably on display as a preview for the work on the publisher's website, so I don't really see what could be more clear proof than that.
>>7129164I also found this gem here, too. Yikes.
>>7129164Why are you still trying to crab instead of seeing it as more of an inspiration for how much one can improve if they stick to it? Which is what this thread is about. Honestly just seems like you're vendetta posting at this point
>>7129164>>7129169Yes, that's my work. What about it?
>>7129172there's a level of finesse in >>7129034 that your work lacksnot a convincing larp, sorry
>>7129174Yes, that's what practicing results in. Improvement. I know this is /ic/ but come on.
>>7129172I know this isn't you. >>7129034Better luck next time.
>>7129172damn, i remember when you had just finished these panels back then. that long already, huh...i don't think anon intends to interact with you in good faith, might as well just not bother tryingon another note, how does communication go down with the editor? i'm assuming there are timezone conflicts, do you use email?
>>7129175no one's buying your bridgejust delete this retarded thread
>>7129184>i don't think anon intends to interact with you in good faith, might as well just not bother tryingLol yeah I've run out of patience for him.>on another note, how does communication go down with the editor? i'm assuming there are timezone conflicts, do you use email?I'm in australia so there's only a 1hr difference in timezones.We started out just communicating through twitter DMs (which I only saw weeks after they first contacted me, because I barely use the site) but we switched to discord. Lucky we did cos their twitter account got banned not long after, lol.I don't speak japanese and he doesn't speak english, so he types in japanese and I type in english. We just translate each other's messages on each our own ends.
>>7129192>We just translate each other's messages on each our own ends.Man, I'd be so nervous dealing with anything contractual under those circumstances lol.
>>7129195I was nervous about it too, so I scrutinized it pretty heavily.
>>7129020So how often do you steal composition from other manga?
The amount of steamed crab ITT is absolutely delectable. Should've been like OP and made 1000 comic pages instead of 1000 nodraw post on /ic/. heartfelt keks.
>>7129197any plans to pick up the language even further, now that you've got your foot in the door?n3 proficiency is enough to make things easier for both parties involved if you have the time for it
>>7129204If everything goes well -- that is to say, the tankoubon sells enough -- I plan to move to japan so I can get speaking practice with the language (and for the cheaper rent, lmao). Lots of things could get in the way of that, but I don't really want to take time out of drawing the works to practice japanese when it's clearly not required. More skill with the language can only help me, but taking time out of making the work to work on my japanese would be putting the cart before the horse, so I want a situation where I don't have to go out of my way to practice the language in my day-to-day. Well, practice it more, I'm already writing the comic in the language and seeing the corrected dialogue from the editor, so it's not like I'm not improving as I go already.
>>7129020Just a PSA, please mind the kids running around without their helmets on in this thread, thanks.
>>7129210It would probably help to have an online ero-artist presence to advertise and help shill your eromanga
>>7129225I do. There's no reason not to.https://twitter.com/dinglewizardBut I mostly find social media distracting and tiresome, so I mostly just stick to posting my work and checking notifications. I'd rather take the time and energy that actually using social media to be social takes and put it into my work instead.I went to a publisher so that I wouldn't have to worry about getting numbers on twitter or any other social media, so it doesn't bother me if using the website selfishly limits my internet popularity or whatever. But there's no excuse not to have something for interested readers to check up on now and again.
I don’t want to make manga though
>>7129020>>7129034Quickdraw anon??? I'll be honest, I didn't even recognize the coom art as being yours at all. That kind of stylistic range is mad impressive. I don't like porn but still, you've got something to be proud of.
>>7129164>>7129169>>7129172I'd say that these pages still hold up. The guns are pretty badly drawn and there's but I like the stylization of the characters and the inkwork especially is great. Even more impressive considering how quickly they were drawn.
>>7129020Congratulations! I've seen you from mmg. I have similar aspirations but with a different beast entirely, webtoons. I hope to see success like yours in the future but in order to have a shot at it I will work my ass off.
>>7129020KINOThanks OP, I'll keep drawing no matter what!
>>7129307>>7129315Thanks. Glad somebody noticed that the point of the comic was that it was drawn very quickly. Naturally, something made for a completely different purpose and with a lot more polish is going to look dramatically different.>>7129322To be honest, I'm skeptical about webtoons. I don't think a whole medium can be carried by a single publisher, and we're seeing the results of their effective monopoly in the contracts they offer growing more and more predatory. I personally think that unless you really like the medium, you should seriously consider aiming higher than webtoons.
>/ic/ - Demoralization/Envy
>>7129345Funny how a few clicks can lead you to the right places, sometimes.That still doesn't look like your artwork. >>7129034
>>7129415
>>7129415>That still doesn't look like your artwork.They both look like my artwork. Because they are both my artwork. This is also my artwork.
>>7129548Ignore the crabs anon just keep moving forward
>>7129122any tips how make page details i know mine lack some but I don't know where and how to train for that
>>7129051>typa shit i been on. wagmi
>>7129245Did you know beforehand that they accepted stuff from foreigners? I’ve looked at some magazines and they say stuff like mail them a physical copy from an address they’d be able to send things to but that wouldn’t work from overseas.
>>7129051you sound swag, i'm an italian artist too drop me your discord if you want someone to bounce ideas with i'm trying to build more local communities outside of the internet hellscape
>>7129034fuck yea man congratz. I wonder how possible it is to make pro manga outside of japan though. Like you live there and speak/read the language right? I feel like outside of Viz Originals, there really is no way to "make it" with manga in the states. Which is incredibly disheartening. It won't stop me, but man once I finish this damn one-shot I have no idea what to do with it besides share it online for free on my Shitter
>>7129020Amazing work anon, thanks for the inspiration and good luck on your journey. Don't mind the crablets, these guys ain't shit. I know they're circlejerking in our discord right now, they seethe a lot you see, incompetent bunch.
>>7129020>implying I want to be publishedI'm gonna create a webcomic independently and get an animated adaption, just you watch lil bro. Just give me 10 years. Congrats on your achievement though. I am sure a lot of blood and sweat went into getting where you are right now.
>>7129737I'm not sure what you mean. Can you post a page?I didn't "train" for detail at all. I just kept making stuff and gradually improving my detailing over time. I still am.>>7129761I did not know, no. Yeah, I saw the same publishers, and didn't apply because as you say, it probably would be too difficult to send things back and forth overseas. Fortunately this publisher knows what the internet is so it's not a problem.
>>7129933>I wonder how possible it is to make pro manga outside of japan though.So far so good. The only hurdle left is whether or not the work sells.>Like you live there and speak/read the language right?No to both. I can read japanese thanks to OCR + MTL + patiently checking for errors (which I can sometimes find because I know a liiiiittle bit of japanese, not much though) but I can't speak it for shit and I don't live in japan.> I feel like outside of Viz Originals, there really is no way to "make it" with manga in the states. Which is incredibly disheartening. It won't stop me, but man once I finish this damn one-shot I have no idea what to do with it besides share it online for free on my ShitterYeah, that's exactly why I got fed up with waiting for a good english solution and started looking into japanese publishers instead. I honestly didn't expect it to work out, but things have been going surprisingly well. But it only worked out like this because of the many years working on my own for free without any good option to go pro, where the only paying gigs were stuff like this >>7129415, being paid to draw somebody else's comic.
>>7129020You mentioned in some thread that you want to release an all ages manga. So this eromanga isn't your passion project? Also, where will you release your passion manga? You also mentioned that you don't wanna publish that manga through official publishers because of editor meddling. But editors generally improve your story quality, what about that?
>>7130514Eromanga specifically is not my passion, comics in general are -- and eromanga are still comics. The reason I make eromanga specifically right now is because it's just what I can currently get paid to make, but there are other comics I would rather make if I could. Though even if I got offered a deal to draw an all-ages manga tomorrow I think it would be unwise to take it, I think it would be best to make a stable living out of eromanga for the time being and once I have that as a solid foundation for my career I can then take risks on a serial.>You also mentioned that you don't wanna publish that manga through official publishers because of editor meddling. But editors generally improve your story quality, what about that?I'm not sure how long ago I said that, but my mind has changed at this point. I think I want to mostly work with editors from now on, it's just so much nicer than worrying about every detail alone. There are ideas for the stories I am passionate about that I'm not sure would survive editor review, but maybe that just means the ideas sucked anyway.The copy of the magazine my editor sent me arrived just now, so I'm finally seeing my work in print for the first time in 10 years.
>>7130522So you're doing the ol' eromanga to actual manga thing...Congrats man. Hope you keep us posted with your career :)
>>7130533Pretty much, but whatever I do I'll be trying to do the best I can at it. My life goal is to make a great work, something people can read in 50 or 100 years and still enjoy. Whether that's a 50 volume epic fantasy adventure or just one really great porno book, I'd be happy with it all the same.
>>7129020Boring and soulless work
>>7130557pyw
>>7129020>10 years, 1028 pages inked (not including single illustrations like pic related).admirable. congrats.
>>7130543What has been your schedule all these years? Did you studymaxx for a few years then draw things like OP pic or did you jump in at the deep end and start drawing comics from day 1. I'm stuck in a situation where studying and endless courses are boring for me, but I'm not too confident about making comics either. I did about 10 pages or so last year but they were doo doo dogshit.
>>7130626I didn't study. I didn't read books. I didn't do courses.I tried when I was first starting out in 2014. but I quickly found I had no interest whatsoever in drawing outside of comics. So yes, I proceeded to jump right in.Of course they're going to be dogshit. Even if you can draw well that won't change a thing, if you want to be good at comics you have to actually make comics.
>>7129020Can you pleas criticize my work (it's my second work and I still an amateur) I participate in online comic contest like SMAC >>7101058Thank you
>>7130636I feel like I'm having a "Nukemarine come to Jesus" moment for learning to draw, instead of Japanese. It's like I've been an ankidrone all these years instead of just diving right into manga and vns and learning directly from immersion.Time to drop my Loomis books and actually draw manga, I think
>>7131178Mosey on down to /mmg/ if you have questions.
>>7129157This Japanese doesn't make sense. Why would your editor be using kudasaimase?https://teamjapanese.com/please-in-japanese/>Kudasaimase is the polite, imperative form of kudasai used by staff in customer-service settings to make respectful requests to customers in a shop.
>>7131101https://warosu.org/ic/thread/7102833#p7104941This was me, but I'll reiterate: I think it's a good first attempt, but you need practice. Especially early on I think volume is really important, maybe even more than feedback.Early on, from 2015-2016, I drew a little under 400 pages of the comic that at the time I thought I'd be drawing for decades. I think that was the best thing I could have done, because instead of making something->stopping for feedback->worrying about how to implement all of that I was able to focus on just making the thing as well as I could. The work was bad and I was constantly worrying about that, but I wasn't posting it anywhere super visible (just a tumblr blog, and I didn't link it around) I didn't have to feel embarrassed by it.As a result of all of this, I can see a stark difference in drawing quality between the beginning and end pages. It never got "good", but I think up until the past few months it was my biggest period of growth.>>7131178Yeah to be honest I definitely think it's way more important to be able to make a good manga than to speak japanese well for the time being. When it comes to going pro there are alternative solutions to the language question, but there's no substitute for skill in actually making things.>>7131229Why wouldn't it make sense to use くださいませ when making a respectful request is exactly what he's doing? I'm not his customer, but he's representing his company while speaking to a freelancer, so I don't see why you'd be confused by that.
>>7129020draw chads i kneel
I'd be your assistant for free
>>7131254Thank you Any other advice how to make it into published work Is there's other online contests to enter or online magazines
>>7131569>Any other advice how to make it into published workThe only other australian breaking into pro manga I know of did it by winning contests and hooking up with an editor as a result.I've considered going this route too, but hoping to place in contests is too much of a gamble for my taste. Good practice though. I'd rather just directly contact a publisher, which is what I did.>Is there's other online contests to enter or online magazinesPlenty. You'll have to do your own research, as it depends on what kind of publication you want to be trying for.
>>7129210Wait if you dont know japanese how the oneshot dialog and stuff works, does the editor translates it themselves?
>>7129020Congratulations. I thought it was supposed to be the march issue? I read it all looking for which entry was yours...The crab in this thread is pretty funny, it sounds just like that guy who was going off in /dad/ about how OP wasn't a manga author but a doujin author and being very wrong about the definitions
>>7131642I write it in japanese myself, but he fixes it to make it read well. I don't know japanese very well at all, but I do know a little bit, and I use MTL + that little bit of knowledge to communicate the idea of what I want to the editor.>>7131644>Congratulations. I thought it was supposed to be the march issue?That was my initial guess based on how far in I was at that point in time, sorry for that. It's the May issue.
>>7131646Yeah, I saw your posts in dad and figured out I had the wrong date, but I'm looking forward to reading it. Do you have a strong inspiration from Zonda, by any chance?
>>7131648>Do you have a strong inspiration from Zonda, by any chance?Lol yes. I think I've done 3 real studies total and 2 of them were Zonda, to figure out his tones and line work. I've since realized that it's not his drawings themselves that I find exceptional, it's the compositions & his style of scene development.
>>7131646What do you use for mtl? Deepl?
>>7131657I check both google translate and deepL. DeepL loves to just skip entire phrases if it can't make sense of it, not good to rely on it alone. I generally use the MTL to figure out the structure of the sentence then tweak the phrasing myself. Though with character dialogue often the MTL is unnecessary. For example, I know that if I want a character to be remarking on another character's o-face or whatever, I can have them remark いい表情. Simple phrases are easy, it's more complicated expressions or words I don't know that I double check. And even then, there's ways of phrasing things that I just had no way of knowing or discovering before my editor fixed it up, like the specific case of a woman evaluating a man as no good as a partner with the phrase "ナシ寄りのナシ".
>>7131576Thank you again I hope we can keep contact (any account so I can follow you and you can keep with my work too if you want) Also I'm from Tunisia but I want to make something new in my country (since the comic industry here is almost dead)
>>7129210You could try watching japanese tv. Not as in anime, but a mix of news, drama and variety tv
>>7131576>I'd rather just directly contact a publisher, which is what I did.Did you send them an already finished manga you had been working on privately?
I have thought about it and it is Bryon d my abilities. I am a terrible draftsman
>>7129157Either you're trolling or you are the fastest newfag to schizoid conversion to ever take place on this platfrom
>>7132033 Oops, meant to treply to >>7129154
>>7131834Not a bad idea. I'll try and do that that more.>>7131864Yes, pic related. I actually haven't posted this anywhere, but that's because I foolishly thought *that* work would be published. Turns out that's not how it works, and I just haven't gotten around to uploading it anywhere.They do want to see finished work, but even if you send them a storyboard they'll get in contact if they like it. It'll just be to ask if you can show them finished work, but all the same.>>7131761I'm dinglewizard everywhere.>Also I'm from Tunisia but I want to make something new in my country (since the comic industry here is almost dead)Australia's the same story my dude, that's why I looked overseas. Instead of trying to pull eyeballs away from where everybody's looking, I'm trying to get there instead.
>>7132155This is a cry for help. Pretending like this isn't healthy anymore and you're not convincing anyone. Only you and a handful of other weebs/trolls are feeding into this fantasy now, OP.You're DANGEROUSLY close to being suicidal and I really hope you get help you need. This isn't real. Get help.
>>7132155>Yes, pic related. I see. Thanks for the info and congratz.
>>7132265how new are you? he was posting wips of >>7132155 on /dad/ over a few months in 2023
>>7132155>Australia's the same story my dude, that's why I looked overseas.Gotta disagree on this one. Australia is the greatest country on earth and I'm gonna prove it when I overtake Bluey as the main cultural export.
>>7132333Then where's all the comics?
>>7130301here some + https://exhentai.org/tag/artist:ichi-gsmi can see some anatomical issue with your pic but it look way more pro than what I ever I did since years
>>7132352I'm pretty sure I've given you feedback before, but I can't find it anywhere so I'll reiterate.Find an eromanga artist you like and pay close attention to their composition -- the environments, who the shots of the characters are framed, placement of sfx etc and particularly what effects they use and how.That's how I figured (or rather, am still figuring) it out myself. You're on the right track, you just need to make a lot of stuff and gradually improve at applying the things you observed, as well as figuring out your own little ways of doing things. Just the same way as you'd improve the drawings themselves, little by little. Remember it took me over a thousand pages to get here, so just making a lot of stuff is a key part of improving.Apart from that, I don't really know how to help.
>>7132338They're out there, they're just really bad. Come back in a few years, things are going to get crazy.
>>7132357oh yeah i remember now sorry barely drew pages since last time hahayeah i'll try to ''copy'' a artist I like I agree with you practice makes perfect
>>7129020All I have to do to learn how to draw manga is just draw manga. That can't be right there has to be a secret shortcut to success.
>>7132155Read through the whole king's harem, I can now see the Zonda influences. I like the stuff you're doing, keep it up.
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>spending 10 years to make coomslop garbageholy kek imagine wanting to be pro fucking lmao what a pitiful life the artist leads
Congratulations, dear anon. From what i read here, you putted a lot of effort on your journey, and now you have an achievement that materialize all of it. I hope to see more from you in the future. Congrats for making it!
>>7135219A lot of artists that go pro in that industry in Japan start off with porn and then use that as a leapfrog into actual work. It's not like how it is here in Western countries.
>>7135267not him, and yes, but they don't spend 10 years doing italso, the trend is dying out fast, same as pink eiga to film
>>7135219>>7135276I think only something like 30% of the work I've made is porn though. It's not like I worked from year 1 through 10 just to become a porno artist. I had and still have other goals. Going pro in eromanga was just a short term goal I didn't even have until around 2022 (when I realized it might be a real possibility). Until then I didn't even intend to ever try to work in manga, I was just going to try and get something going self-publishing, but I realized I don't have the stomach for the "publishing" part of that.>also, the trend is dying out fast, same as pink eiga to filmThere's no reason at all this route to serialization would die out, and it was never a "trend" to begin with. It's a completely natural consequence of the surrounding industry. Lots of amateurs want to make drawing their living -> they make works for comiket -> eventually get good enough making doujin works that they can get picked up by an eromanga publisher -> eventually get good enough producing manga as a pro that they can try for a serialization. It's been like this for many decades and no part of this has changed in recent years, so I highly doubt that it'll stop being a viable path in the foreseeable future.
>>7129020I've been writing a story for the past 3 years about occult concepts and real world ties, illuminati bloodlines, black sun, etc I know I'm not skilled enough to write a novel that people would ever bother reading and there are just so many genius authors that it would never be worth the time, but with a comic at least I can educate the youth about the reality of the world and redpill them about the grand deception of modern day Babylon through easier visualization methods.It's kind of a seinen/shonen without all the highschool fagshitI'll create a base layer of my characters with AI and specific themes and elementsIn a few years when I have hopefully enough expendable capital I plan to hire a mangaka for the first volume. Any insights on how I would find solid artists, and what a decent rate is per page ? Do they tolerate criticism and if I'm not satisfied with certain things ? Do I need to speak Japanese ? Do I need to meet them in person and go to Japan or the US or wherever ?
>>7129020That's amazing, it's good to see to see anons actually make it.
>>7129164>>7129169>>7130557>>7135219Keep seething you fucking NIGGER crabs, you will never make it and should just kill yourselves>>7129199This, crabs are so fucking pathetic, holy shit>>7129020Good for you, OP. I've only been drawing for a couple of years but I'm playing with the thought of making my own manga. Any tips for a new manga artist? I have no idea how mangakas decide their paneling. Right now I'm just doing quick copies of manga panels that I like, just to get a feel for it
>>7138472>Any tips for a new manga artist?Bring your questions over to /mmg/. Several anons there are friendly and happy to help anons new to manga/comic making.
I want to draw my manga, do I have enough level or should I improve?
>>7129172The guns. Did you go for that "bulpup revolver "(it actually exists snd is weird af) look intentionally or accidentally.Depending on the timeperiod/ context. You could try and go for a s&w model 10 look for a cop like feel, mateba for a sci fi/ bladerunner vibesor an opentop revolver like colt navy for a more cowboy feel.
>>7138736Do 1 full inked page first and post that instead of an unfinished sketch.
>>7138736Yes, you can become the next junji Ito. Without problem.That drawing scared me to death
>>7138472>Any tips for a new manga artist? I have no idea how mangakas decide their paneling. Right now I'm just doing quick copies of manga panels that I like, just to get a feel for itMake. Stuff.I don't think there's any clever trick to paneling. It's just something you have to agonize over again and again and again. The right choice is highly context based so general advice is of limited use. You just have to do it, and yes it is this hard for everybody.>>7138736Are you asking for permission? Drawing manga IS improving.>>7138796I don't remember exactly what I was going for, it was years ago. But I do remember struggling with the guns. Not an ideal subject for something drawn quickly, especially since people are quick to point out mistakes when drawing them, lol.
>>7138951What had helped me with drawing (some) guns is learning the basic operating principle (oh this part is shaped like that because it needs room for this mechanism). The 3d" world of guns " xray videos might help.(youtube). as far as proportions go, only gunsmiths and megaautismos will spot some proportional shittuppery.Easyer guns for me to draw are: glock (it is a brick with a grip), usp/mk23, 1911, s&w model 10, akm/ak47/ak74ecc.Some guns have kinda hard curves like the original m16A1(vietnam m16), and some are megadifficult for me like the steyer Aug.
