Let's Make a Manga

Let’s Make a Manga

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Glossary
Inking
Although it is often mistaken as mere tracing, to ink an image is not simply tracing the pencil drawings with a
pen or brush. Rather, inking is done to strengthen lines, and to separate and define shapes in order to make the
image better as well as making it easier to reproduce.
Frames/Panels
The frame/panel are the boxes into which a page is divided.
Speech Balloons
Speech balloons are used to show the words that a character is speaking, shouting, whispering or thinking.
Speaking
Shouting
Whispering
Thinking
Speed Lines
Speed lines are lines used to show quick and or powerful movement in a particular direction.
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Glossary (continued)
Toning
Most manga are black and white, so tones and patterns are used to add texture, imply colours, and add shadows.
Here are some ways to tone your artwork:
1) Painting your art with ink diluted in water.
2) Using screen tones. Screen tones are stickers with printed patterns that you can cut out and stick on to
your art, or sheets with patterns that you can rub directly on to your art.
*Screen tones can be difficult to find in Canada.
3) Using a photo-manipulation or painting program such as Adobe Photoshop or Corel Painter.
4) Software created specifically for manga creation such as Comicworks by Deleter, or Manga Studio by
E-Frontier have many fancy tones to add to your art.
Materials Needed:
1. Paper (8 ½ x 11) – As many sheets as needed.
2. Pencils and Erasers.
3. For inking, a Black Pen that is not a ballpoint pen.
4. A Ruler for drawing the frames, and other straight lines.
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Before We Begin:
1. Make sure your group creates a cover page for your manga. Manga is usually in black and white but
covers can be in black and white, or colour.
2. When drawing your manga…
a. Don’t draw right up to the edge of the paper. Always leave a margin so that your art will not be
cut off or lost when your manga is put in a binder or folder.
b. Don’t forget to leave space for the dialogue when you begin drawing. You don’t want to be stuck
with a lots of pretty pictures but no space for your speech ballons.
3. Remember that manga is a medium, and not a style of drawing. There is no right or wrong style of
drawing manga. As you can see below, manga characters can be drawn in very different styles; from
very simple on the left, to quite realistic on the right, and everything in between.
4. If you’re stuck, and can’t think of what to do, read some manga, and get inspired!
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Drawing a Head
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Draw a sphere. Draw a centre line
Add a jaw.
Mark where you want to put the
for the nose and a horizontal line
eyes, ears, nose, mouth and neck.
for the eyes and ears.
Step 4
Step 5
Step 6: Inking
Draw in the eyes, eye brows, ears,
Add details to the hair and the eyes.
With a pen or brush, ink the head
nose, mouth, neck, and hair.
and erase the pencil lines.
Step 7: Toning
Add tones.
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Drawing the Full Figure
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Start with a gesture drawing of Add shapes to the drawing
Draw in the details of the
the pose. A gesture drawing is such as cylinders, and spheres
person
like a scribble that captures the to construct the body.
movement.
Step 4a
Step 4b
Step 5
You can choose to erase Steps ...you can choose to ink the
Add tones.
1 & 2, or...
drawing with a pen or brush,
then erase Steps 1 & 2
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Example Page #1
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Example Page #2
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