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Manga DIY

Bubble Placement: Reading Order

If you have to wonder “hm, is that clear enough?” it probably isn’t. Because if you need a moment to think about it, your reader will need a moment to think about it, too, and you want your reader to spend absolutely no time whatsoever thinking! At least, you don’t want them thinking about where to go next. You want them thinking about your story and characters, so make the technical stuff really easy on them. It will help them enjoy your story.

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5 rules for Ninja Lettering

Nobody cares about your awesome fonts. They’re trying to read the story. Leave them alone.

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What's your DPI

This is a post about DPI, what it is, why you should care, and what DPI is right in what situation. It’s pretty basic stuff, so go read a different post if this will just bore you. However, if you don’t know, that doesn’t mean you’re an idiot, and it doesn’t mean you’re alone. Guess [...]

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How to Break Into the Manga Industry

Yes, this is the post where I tell you the long kept secret to breaking into the industry. All you have to do is read this post and then you’ll know how. You don’t believe me, do you? Good. There is no Crowbar So, people have started to ask me how to break into the [...]

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5 Ways to Make your Manga Shorter

Writing short comics or manga is hard. Manga needs space to breathe in order to be itself, but a lot of competitions ask for 5 or 8 page stories. It’s all well and good to save you time drawing, but what can you do in 8 pages? Let’s say you have an idea for a [...]

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Join The Daily Draw for Ninja art skills

Do you want to DRAW EVERY DAY? Do you want to develop ninja drawing skills? Do you like drawing games, challenges and friendly competition? Maybe you should join The Daily Draw. I’m looking for people to join my little productivity experiment, which revolves around drawing every day and using public pressure to make it a [...]

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