Manga, Photoshop, Coloring Tutorial----:::{Mangaka}:::---

[Mangaka]

Hello everyone, I am new here and, finally the narutofan forum is up, anyway who am I ,, is not a big deal,, I kid that is in the age of 17 and loves to have the name as Mangaka in manga forums heheh ^_^ maybe my name says it all,, I am a mangaka on my spare time, I work for a magazine called kitsune,mangazine,, anyway, apart from the manga drawing, I am deeply intressted in coloring,, and trough the years that I have been drawing an coloring,, I haven't found one desent, tutorial that helped me a bit :eek: but thats life,,, everybody knows these easey ways ,, that can make a picture look all beautiful,, but ether nobody takes the time or the just don't want to share and show other how to color,,, I am a big fan of paintpixel, that colors some naruto chapters,, But my biggest hero is Huyng Tae Kim,, the creator of the game magana carta,, ,, anyway one day I decided that I wont be like everybody els I will show everyone my skills and if they like how I do it I will do everything to learn people that want to learn how to color my way,, and after some time, they can go on there onw way and make own coloring teachnics,, Soo I have done a tutorial, and I don't say that this,, will make you professionals, or anything , but it will give you a hint

before you start with the tutorial take a look at some pictures >I have colored in the past, and tell me what you think^_^

Naruto page (http://pictureposter.allbrand.nu/pictures/mangaka/cha+001.jpg)

Choji (http://pictureposter.allbrand.nu/pictures/mangaka/choji.jpg)

Naruto (http://pictureposter.allbrand.nu/pictures/mangaka/naruto+002.jpg)


Sasuke (http://pictureposter.allbrand.nu/pictures/mangaka/sasuke++002.jpg)


after the tutorial,, you will with some practise, be abble after a month or two , to color the same way ^_^

[demon-wind-ninja]

whaoH!!!!!! sadly i can't do these tutorials =( but man do you have skills!!

[Haroso24]

wow, that sasuke pic is amazing, just how I pictured it in my mind.

[Mangaka]

And here is the tutorial,, huray heheh ^^ :rolleyes:


Step One: Open the file in photoshop 7.0 and make sure that the Image is in RGB mode, IMAGE >MODE> RGB COLOR. Now, that we have made the Image in RGB color its, time to color the Image, but first lets make some layer,, When I first started with photoshop, I hardly ever used diffrent layer,, I didn’t know what good they were for. But now I know, and I think you guy’s will to ^^ anyway for this picture thar we have here (ginji) we only need 4 layers, 1 for the skin color 2 for the hair 3 for the eyes and 4 for the cloths, When we have done that I want you to create 4 sets, (what is sets?) I have marked on the Image the thing that create sets so don’t worry, when you have done that to, I want you to put one layer in each set,, by layer I mean the sink, hair, etc put them in each there set,, Why are we doing this,, well you will see why in the future, not so far away.


When your done it should look something like this (look at the picture)

001 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/Tut-001.jpg)



Step Two: Lets colour the skin.....Click on the colour pallet,, and chose a nice colour, I chose,
R:216 G:184 B:133 for the skin colour. You can try anything you like,, but I just gave you a tip witch one you should chose. After you have chosen the skin colour, the press on the skin layer and go to the ..Paint Bucket Tool.. Make shore its the skin layer you have selected.. Okay now spill the colour on the layer with the paint bucket. The Image will look like the colour pallet,, totally skin brown, but that okay,, that will be changed soon , Now go to the layer pallet,, the is a little window there,, It has the mode NORMAL,, what you will do is,, change that mode to MULTIPLY ,, when you have done that the Image should look something like this – look at the picture ---


002 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/Tut-002.jpg)


Step Three: now what I want you to do is , to erase all the arias that aren’t suppose to have the colour of the skin,, cloths hair ,background etc,, I usually use the magic want to do that I mark the place that aren’t skin and then press ctrl, alt and X,, when your done the Image should look like this ,,, Oh and remember make shore that it is the skin layer you have marked or otherwise you will erase the image...


003 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/Tut-003.jpg)

[mow]

dude!!! thats some terrific work !!MORE PLEASE!!

[Mangaka]

Step Four: I am a person that always does the skin first. What I want you to do now is to create a layer in the ‘’skin set’’ and name it **skin tone**. Now lets do the shading ^^
First go and pick a darker skin colour, for the tone, just something darker than the foreground skin colour,, but not to dark, Okay,, Now click on the ‘’brush tool’’ after that,, I want you to go to the top right corner of the screen and press on the thing where it stands !Brushes!
When you have done that a window will appear, look at the Image and select !shape dynamic! And !Wet Edges! When you are done with this I want you to make the skin tone layer from NORMAL mode to,, DARKER mode , and when that is done, start colouring the parts where you think the light doesn’t hit and it appears shadow, When I was done it looked something like this,,

nothing much but it is suppose to look like that in the beginning :P anyway when you have done the first shadow,, then its time for the next one,, make the same thing again,, and this pick a skin tone that is darker than the previous one ,, when you are done with this it will look something like this 004a (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/Tut-004a.jpg)

forgot to tell you,, change the DARKER mode into,, MULTIPLY .. Keep on doing this, I mean the skin toning , take a darker picture and colour the areas where the skin is darker,, I have 4 different types of skin tones,, I suggest you do the same,, when your done,, it will look something like this I made a little brightness and contrast too,, cause it was to dark,, if it becomes to dark I mean the skin tone, then I suggest you do the same,, go to Image adjustments and  brightness and contrast

004b (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/Tut-004b.jpg)



Step Five,, lets make the skin shine a bit,, But first merge the two skin layers, into one,, when the merge is done, the skin will look out of order, and all over the face,, but don’t worry just change the layers mode from normal into multiply again , and the problem should be fixed

this is my favourite technique, it give the Image a glow effect and makes it kind of cool,, and man it is so simple to do , pick the brush, and now go back to the foreground skin layer ps: shoes the same colour that you had on the forground skin layer cause its important that it is the exact same one to find that exact skin color is easy just press the ‘’’eyedropper tool’’’ ,, Read what I have written on the image 004 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/Tut-005.jpg)

,,, okay when you have I want you to take the brush and brush on the places where you think the light will hit the most and keep on brushing ,,on that spot,, until you find that the spot is starting to glow a bit.. when your done,, it can look like this 005 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/Tut-005-a.jpg) doesn’t have to but might as well be like this ^_^


EYES
Step Six: I think we are done with the skin,, the hard part is over ^_^ lets go to the eyes, Roll down the skin set and roll up the eyes set. The eyes can be really easy and really hard to do,, but this time I can say its quite easy, go to the eye layer and pick a colour,, when you have got the colour you want then start colouring the eyes, don’t change the brush ore the opacity, flow,, ore the linear dodge mode for that matter ether,, just brush until you can hardly see the eyes, when you are done,, change the layer mode, from NORMAL to COLOR ,,, the eyes should look something like this now,,006 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/Tut-006.jpg)

thanks to the artist we didn’t have to do any effects to make them look nicer,, the artist has made it easy for us,, hihihi





Step Seven: Lets do the hair now ^_^ Pick a colour,, and now change the brush flow and opacity to 100% again and the brush mode to Normal again,, make the layer to MULTIPLY and then start colouring, And in the same way we did with the skin,, make a new layer , and make it into MULTIPLY ,,and then chose a darker version of the ground colour,, after you have done that ,, merge the to layers,, and make the layer mode to multiply, again,,, after that,, we change the flow and opacity of the brush again to 23- 25 and make the mode into linear dodge, before we start brushing where the light part should be,, make shore that you have the same colour as the ground hair colour,, ^^ when you are done with the hair,, it can look something like this 007 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/Tut-008.jpg)




Step Eight: The final has come,, the cloths are the last part,,, I really cant say any more,, here cause I think you should fallow what I have said in the privies steps and use the same technique here,, make layer,, for different shadows and then use the linear dodge,, to make the parts more shine and give the Image some taste ^^,, I really hope I helped you guys, with my tutorial,, everything I know here took me some time to learn, I sat hour after hour, and tried all brushes,, and now I am here teaching you guy’s,, giving you a shortcut that wasn’t given to me but should have been ,, anyway I say thank you for me It was fun doing this I hope you liked it and that you will use this technique and evolve to something more powerful, ^_~



Here is how the finished work can turn out ^_^
http://pictureposter.allbrand.nu/pictures/mangaka/ginji+.jpg

[Mangaka]

You guy's liked them O_o,,, My friends don't even understand what I am doing,, they are no mangafans thats for shore,, but I am glad you guys liked them :o

I'll post some more,, if you guy's wanna see


here are some oldies

when I first started coloring

Naruto,, chapter 200 (http://pictureposter.allbrand.nu/pictures/mangaka/chapter+200.jpg)

Naruto's first kage bunshin (http://pictureposter.allbrand.nu/pictures/mangaka/naruto+001.jpg)

Naruto X Sasuke (http://pictureposter.allbrand.nu/pictures/mangaka/naruto+cha.jpg)

Sasuke (http://pictureposter.allbrand.nu/pictures/mangaka/sasuke+001.jpg)

Shikamaru (http://pictureposter.allbrand.nu/pictures/mangaka/shikamaru+cha.jpg)

This one is a fanart, I have drawn and colored this one

Sasuke , fanart (http://pictureposter.allbrand.nu/pictures/mangaka/sasuke+blue+.jpg)

[Haroso24]

Nice even I'm gonna try to do this and I've never attempted anything like it before.

[mow]

mangaka you rock man! why dont you post some of your mangas? id love to see some

[korican04]

My hiashi on my sig is going to look hot after this tutorial .....hopefully

[lilfreak11]

hmm thnx this will be helpful :)
a good tutorial for colorin in photoshop *goes off to use some of it* <33 :P

[JunHoJai]

u are a god in coloring maybe better than mirage =)

[Kaguya]

You definately are a god at this, awesome work!

[Mangaka]

Heroso24,,, really you have never,, !!! well then I am glad to be your first :D

Moe--- Well I would like to ,, but my manga is licensed, But I can show some pictures, for you guy's to give you hint what it looks like,, and if it really is worth licensing :p

korican04--- O_O yess do so color that picture it will look so cool,, but one tip clean is up first,, cause when you make the layer multiply then then background layer will always shine trough,, if know what I am mean !!

Deadmon--- I am glad you don,, hehe I love you avatar

lilfreak11--- I hope it does good luck

JunHoJai -- Thank you :) , who is Mirage

Kaguya--- I am glad you liked it and the rest of you guy's to, I hope it helps the tutorial and all,, oh yeah and one more thing,, the firts picture that you colored with this tutorial,, would you mind posting it here I would love to see it ,, please do so..

[Mangaka]

This is the request that Moe asked,, I was thinking of posting some of my own art,, give me hint what you think,, would this be a manga that you would like to read ?? and so on


My manga is called one shot, and this is a wallpaper of to of my characters,, its kind a dark picture but anyway,, the kanji in the mitle is my name in japanes :p
Wallpaper-One Shot (http://pictureposter.allbrand.nu/pictures/mangaka/wallpaper+one+shot.png)


a nother character,, that has the role as god of wind !!
Wind (http://pictureposter.allbrand.nu/pictures/mangaka/gegame+001.jpg)

Niw this picture is my main character,, but its so damn old,, the photoshop is crap and the hair is to big,, but I will show it anyway,, to prove that no mangaka is that good in the begining :PMain Character (http://pictureposter.allbrand.nu/pictures/mangaka/yume+nice+.jpg)

Thats it,, I have got some more but i will wait before I post them,, wanna see what your guy's reactions are, on these one's

[Sayo]

if i may ask could i use some of your art )maybe in the future 4 some sig,s or wallpapers....
if not, its fine

[Mangaka]

The pictures I post here, are allrigth to do , whatever you want with,, just don't claim they are your that you have drawn them ,, then its okay.,, I think it would be awsome,, if you ever do anything with them then please , show them to me ^_^

btw these are not my best,, I will post them in a sec,, my favorits ^_^

[mow]

dude you are THE MAN!!! those are some serious ass kicking works!
POST MORE!! I CANT GET ENOUGH!

[Mangaka]

heheh I am glad you like them that much,, alright I will now show my favorites and maybe my best ones so far

My main Character,, Yume
http://pictureposter.allbrand.nu/pictures/mangaka/intherain.jpg

King Omega
http://pictureposter.allbrand.nu/pictures/mangaka/o+me.jpg
God of Water

http://pictureposter.allbrand.nu/pictures/mangaka/god+of+water.jpg

God Of fire,
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/God-Of-Fire.jpg

[mow]

*drool* im in loss of words. where can I buy your manga from!

[Mangaka]

well the first issue isn't out yet,, but it will be, and it is in a mangazine ,, like shonen jump,, but my magazine is called , kitsune ,, there homepage is www.kitsune.ca ;) you like it huh

[mow]

hell yeah i like it!! i love it! I want to be a manga ka but my art isnt that great, im still going to practice everyday and in a couple of years Im sure with enough training ill be good. I have about 6 manga scripts and ideas that I want to work on. at the moment all im doing is working on the story

[Mangaka]

Well if you ask me,, thats a great start, the manga can look like shit and still be verry popular, the story is everything ;) I am very young to be a mangaka if you ask me,, but I have worked hard to get where I am,,, to be exackt 5 hours a day,, its my everything ^_^ Become good then I will look it up and if you are up for the jobb I just might ask My boss to give you a jobb ,,

[mow]

Well if you ask me,, thats a great start, the manga can look like shit and still be verry popular, the story is everything ;) I am very young to be a mangaka if you ask me,, but I have worked hard to get where I am,,, to be exackt 5 hours a day,, its my everything ^_^ Become good then I will look it up and if you are up for the jobb I just might ask My boss to give you a jobb ,,

very true, the story is what makes or breaks the manga. wow your only 17!! your really talented, wish you the best of success in all your work man :D
Making manag is the best damn job in the whole wide world, nothing can beat it :cool: . Thanks for the offer! i really appreciate it, in 3-4 years my work will probabily be at a decent level

[Noex]

dud this is amezing!!!!!!!!!! great work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mangaka]

Thanks! I am glad you liked my art ^_^

[Noex]

ohhh man if i could draw like that i had done my on manga ^^ oi why dont u try that dude, u got the skills ;)

[Mangaka]

I thought I already said that,, I am doing my own manga,, It is getting published, in a magazine called the kitsune magazine.

[Speedy_Shrimpo]

Damn you are great!! Are u in some kind of Comic school? I've heard that there exist some in sweden... I really wanna draw like that :D

[Dimezanime88]

son of a bitch copied my water character's tear drop tattoo!!!:@ i'll change it then since no one is gonna believe me. anyways, if ur a mangaka, then join http://s4.invisionfree.com/Rising_Talent_Manga/ and also, love the tutorial. i have been waiting for something like this. i am also interested in coloring my own characters. i want to color the ways of the naruto issues by inane, think u can help me on that?

[Mangaka]

Comic school,, In sweden O_O boow now you suprice me,, I feel sometime that I am the only one in sweden with a interest of manga,,

dimezanime16--- Man if you think like that ,, you will get nowere., Yeah I have the eyedrop,, but thats life,, it is nothing that is mine you can use it to,, you have a total other story, than me, If I start thinking, about all the things that might be used bye other mangakas then I will get nowere,, but I get your frustration,, anyway I registerd at that forum,, About what you asked I don't know,, how I should help you,,, you must give me some more info ,,,

[Dimezanime88]

glad u registered!:D:) btw, check out our mangaka named destiny, [his character sketches], trust me, u'll be impressd. anyways, what im asking of u is that i wanna know the steps u take in coloring NARUTO covers. i know all color jobs are the same and u did give us a tutorial, but i will understand so much better if the tutorial was on naruto. if u could do the latest on 234 or 235, now that will be nice.

[Noex]

ohh ur already making one, I MUST see that one ;)

[Mangaka]

Yeah well okay I will post the Image and then tell you step bye step how to make it,, but I won't do a tutorial,, just text,, But I don't really get it,, I will use the same technic as I have on this Ginji picture ,, ??

[Dimezanime88]

thanks, its just that i like to color naruto covers, and if i learned how u do it, i could be able to do it. and text format will be great:D

[Kakasuke]

Thanx for the tutorial Mangaka These are really good steps. Here my 1st try at this
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v116/Hejishu/Manga%20project/naruto-12-1-01Colorvrs.jpg

[Mangaka]

Nice Nice,,I am exited to se how it turns out ^^

[Speedy_Shrimpo]

Do you use screen tone?? I don't know where to get it here in sweden, so if you do use it plz tell me where I can find it :D

[Mangaka]

screen tone, are called skugraster in swedish so, ask for them,, I don't know where they can be found, and besides I live in Göteborg, I wouldn't know where they sell thoese in skåne... you should,, bye some online, at howtodrawmanga.com

[Mangaka]

I want to give you guy's a preview of whay Image I am going to use for the tutorial ..

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/01.jpg

[Mangaka]

The above Image doesn't look so tempting right hehehe well I will give you guy's that wanna join this tutorial,, a nice preview what happens in 6 more steps


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/06.jpg

[Jh1stgen]

All i got say is.. pure skills

[Stoic]

...anyway one day I decided that I wont be like everybody els I will show everyone my skills and if they like how I do it I will do everything to learn people that want to learn how to color my way...

That is a very noble thing to do. You have very interesting techniques too (although my style is a bit different from yours ;) ). Go you.

[Mangaka]

It looks really nice now,, and the name,, neox fits it very nice,, I am glad you didn't have a longer username hehehe ^_^

Neox aren't you going to try my, tutorial
?? Overall I am wondering how many are trying this tutorial ??

I have some steps left and I am done with the naruto coloring tutorial,,

[Noex]

hehehehe me 2, but i never said that u should put the name on it, just color it. but u did it on ur own and well its a nice bonus ;)



EDIT: have no skills and no programs and stuff sorry i cant :)

[Mangaka]

I have only 4 word, OM.F.G shiiiitt I began with my tutorial for you guy's and I shoes a picture that wasn't colored yet,, and just now I downloaded the Inane translated chapter,,, and gues what picture paintpixel did this time ,,, the picture I was supose to color for the tutorial,, and damn look at this,,

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/naruto_ch233_p01special.jpg


how the hell should I color anything better then that O_O I am allmost done with the tutorial bye the way,,,, damn :mad: ah fuck it I will do a even beter image then that :p ,, I don't give up so easelly

[Kakasuke]

That looks awsome Mangaka you are really good

[Mangaka]

The Image above,, isn't my doing,, if you ment that,,, the one I have colored is going to be posted in some more minuts ^_^ don't want to confuse anybody,, the Image above is colored by paintpixel,, her name is on the picture also

[Mangaka]

Muahahaha I am done ,,, It ain't no paintpixel creation,, but it is a good second place, :o

I hope you guy's like it and tomorrow I will do my best to,, post up the tutorial how I did this , extrem hard and time consuming picture @_@



Oh yeah if anybody is wondering what that kanji is,, then ,, Its my name ,, ^_^

[Mangaka]

wow , posted unfinished one :P give me a sec,,

[Mangaka]

well Its kind of late ,, and if you stay infront of the computer, 5 hours then you eventually will get dizzy :P well anyway here is the finished version,, not so much diffrent but I had to change it :P


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/-1.jpg

[Speedy_Shrimpo]

screen tone, are called skugraster in swedish so, ask for them,, I don't know where they can be found, and besides I live in Göteborg, I wouldn't know where they sell thoese in skåne... you should,, bye some online, at howtodrawmanga.com


Yeah I was thinking of bying from howtodrawmanga.com already but I was just looking to see if there were any cheaper alternatives first :D.

Skuggraster... strange name :rolleyes:

[Dimezanime88]

nice!:D:) but there is one thing, don't they look alittle bit unrealistic? like i know they are drawings, but soemthing about the way u colored [especially sasuke's face] looks wierd. and also, its very hard for me, but how did u color into the seperation lines?

[Stoic]

nice!:D:) but there is one thing, don't they look alittle bit unrealistic? like i know they are drawings, but soemthing about the way u colored [especially sasuke's face] looks wierd. and also, its very hard for me, but how did u color into the seperation lines?

Sorry but I disagree. I think the lighting and shading is Superb with a capital S.

[Mangaka]

Tataraaa here comes the tutorial,, allthough it isn't that good
01 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/01.jpg)
02 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/02.jpg)
03 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/03.jpg) 04 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/04.jpg)
05 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/05.jpg)
06 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/06.jpg)
07 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/07.jpg)
08 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/08.jpg)

Finished (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/Finished-Tutorial.jpg)

well I hope this tutorial helps, good luck, bye bye,, and when you have done something,, I mean colourd something please show me ^_~
May the fork be with u hehehe

[Dimezanime88]

i mean like, sasuke's face looks dead. not bright like paintpixel [not trying to say u should be like her], and im just thinking the blue u used is not giving him any life. thanks for the tutorial

Edit your posts. dont double posts. Any more of these wll be deleted

[Dimezanime88]

oh yea, the question i ment was, the lines that seperates sasuke and naruto, how did u color inbetween them?

[Mangaka]

I used a airbrush and made the colors go in one another,,

[Speedy_Shrimpo]

It's kinda hard to follow you're tutorial with photoshop 5.0 but I was able to make the skin and shades then I didn't have the patience to continue >_<

[LEGENDARY inactive]

Wow. I've never seen any tutorial like this one.. It's awesome!

[Noex]

kind of hard 2 PM and talking 2 u on the forums??? do u have MSN???

[mow]

wow another amazing tutorial! you never cease to amaze Mangaka, I was wondring if you could make a how to draw hair and hands tutorial, if you have the time that is. It would be greatly apprciated :D

[Mangaka]

Bye the way ,, I have an how to draw son goku tutorial, that I made once laying around I can post it,,, but now I don't have any time left,, My Japanese teacher will kill me if I miss one more lesson @_@

[aaron9]

thanx alot mangaka :)
just got potoshop 7
had no idea where to start :confused:
now just need a scanner :mad:

i hope i can get as good as you.
those pics are awesome

[Thursday]

i must say im very impressed. this tut is as good as flugigo's coloring tutorial. very well done man.

[Dimezanime88]

but for a 17 year old, he got lazy towards the end of the tutorial and there was alot of spelling mistakes. so some parts were hard for me to understand. btw, ur lucky for having a japanese tutor!:@

[Mangaka]

but for a 17 year old, he got lazy towards the end of the tutorial and there was alot of spelling mistakes. so some parts were hard for me to understand. btw, ur lucky for having a japanese tutor!:@


Hehe what to do,, I hade very litle time and ,, I sat there for like 6 hours trying to make the tutorial,,, it was 3 in the morning when I was done, and i got 2 and a haf hour sleep ,, sooo :P Hell yeah I am lucky,, Okay I wont overdo it,, I have a hard time understanding my sensei some time,,, okay most of the time :P but it is still fun ^_^

[Sarquiss]

Wow, you're really good at coloring Mangaka!

Unfortunately, my attempts haven't been so good, I suck at shading...

[Mangaka]

Thanks http://www.zmanga.se/forum/images/smiles/chirol_bey2.gif I was wondering has anybody tryied this tutorial?? If yes I would Like to see,, I saw one guy in the urlear thread ,, that did a neji picture,, but he didn't post the finished Image http://www.zmanga.se/forum/images/smiles/chirol_gusun.gif

[Speedy_Shrimpo]

It's really helpfull and I will start coloring more seriuosly when I draw something I want do color... Right now im all out of inspiration :(

[Mangaka]

It's really helpfull and I will start coloring more seriuosly when I draw something I want do color... Right now im all out of inspiration :(


Why ?,, is drawing no fun,,, I allways,, take a challenge when I am down, and have nothing to do,, I can give you something,, I mean a challange,, that is if you want me to ??? I tell you something that you should draw and when your done post it here,, and I will give crticiques on it , give tips and so on,,, soon I will do a drawing tutorial, too ,, Maybe make a drawing team,,?? I wonder who would join

[SoulFire]

Heh, nice coloring there my friend. I'll wont be using the tutorials or anything though :)

[NeoHaku]

I'm currently working on coloring one of my fanart. So far I've got the skin tone, but I must admit, it's a little hard. But I like taking a challenge, especially if it's something I've wanted to try doing. :D

[Noex]

yeah u do that man!! i wanna see!! ^^

[SuttiZ]

Awsome tutorial :D

I've been wanting to color mangapics for some time, but i never really tried to, since i didnt know anything about how photoshop worked. That changed with this tutorial though, so thanks.

You said you wanted to see what people made using this tutorial, so i guess the least i can do in thanks is show you my two finished images:

Here's the first image. This is the first thing I've ever made using photoshop.
Image 1 (http://img40.exs.cx/img40/3045/Bleach1.jpg)

Here's my second image, which was the third time coloring something in photoshop.
Image 2 (http://img45.exs.cx/img45/5664/Kenshin5.jpg)

BTW, shading is really hard :(

[NeoHaku]

Alrighty...here's my finished piece! :D Take a look and comment. :: drun roll ::

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v362/neo_chan/hakuart-color01.jpg

[Freelancer_]

Yeah it is very good just keep playing around with it and it just comes natural but I think this isnt your first time.

[NeoHaku]

Yeah it is very good just keep playing around with it and it just comes natural but I think this isnt your first time.

Thank you again. And just so you know...that was my VERY FIRST time coloring with photoshop. It took me at least three days to finish it, but I really love the results! :D

[Mangaka]

Awsome tutorial :D

I've been wanting to color mangapics for some time, but i never really tried to, since i didnt know anything about how photoshop worked. That changed with this tutorial though, so thanks.

You said you wanted to see what people made using this tutorial, so i guess the least i can do in thanks is show you my two finished images:

Here's the first image. This is the first thing I've ever made using photoshop.
Image 1 (http://img40.exs.cx/img40/3045/Bleach1.jpg)

Here's my second image, which was the third time coloring something in photoshop.
Image 2 (http://img45.exs.cx/img45/5664/Kenshin5.jpg)

BTW, shading is really hard :(

Picture number one,, was really good colored, you should have tried linear dodge technique though, but still very nice, and maybe some more shades,, but if you keep on doing this I know it will come ,you will improve, and if you are having trubble holding the hand stil when you make shades the use the lasso tool,, you make the place where you want to color, http://www.zmanga.se/forum/images/smiles/chirol_banzai.gif

Picture 2,, the same thing here,,make more shades and,, don't leave the cloths black,, but that my fault,, in non of the two tutorial that I have made, have I shown how to do with cloths that are black,, Gomenehttp://www.zmanga.se/forum/images/smiles/chirol_gurug.gif

keep on drawing an keep on posting,,^_^

[Mangaka]

Alrighty...here's my finished piece! :D Take a look and comment. :: drun roll ::
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v362/neo_chan/hakuart-color01.jpg

well what can I say,, I love the pose and I love the color,, but , its the same for you make some more shades and use , the linear dodge, Now I know that for you it was hared to color,, cause you made this picture with an normal school pen, right,,, well that the problem,, when coloring it is much better to use ink pens,, or to make really dark, lines with the school pen,,, cause everytime, I make the mistake and forget to ink the image and start working,, it becomes like 3 times harder,,, cause there is more cleaning up to do,,, and the bluer tool that you used , before you use that you should check the blueres flow,,, if it is at 100 the it only takes one strok and , the hole things looks like it is under water, ^_^ but hey for a first try ,, both of you made really welll ,, I am soo proud http://www.zmanga.se/forum/images/smiles/chirol_gusun.gif ----http://www.zmanga.se/forum/images/smiles/chirol_hello.gif

good luck both of you and pleas post some more when you have done somthing ^__^

[Dimezanime88]

i keep getting stuck at the third step. the one where u color the whole thing in skin color, how do u erase? i try to erase but i find it hard to erase everything and to leave the face colored. plus, i changed the color to white so that i can erase, but even so, the color becomes just light skin color. and what if there is two characters in one pic with different skin colors, what do u do then?

[Mangaka]

dimezanime16,, I don't know if I am right but, I don't think you use layer,,, You know what that is, right,,, Cause that is what I do,, I creat a layer for each part of the picture,, Hair,eyes,cloths>pants,shirt,, headband,,,and so on... so if you want to make lets say sasuke green.. then you make a layer, name it sasuke skin green ,, or whatever, and make the layers mode into multiply, and then start coloring ,,, Give me a sec I will make a screenshot and explain all the thing, what they are called and so on,, and what you might have done wrong ,, but never,, I mean never color on the same layer that the black and white Image is one,, cause then,,it will get fucked up when you try to ereas

[Dimezanime88]

i did make layers, and i did put them in sets. the part when u told us to erase is where i got confused. u said to erase all the parts that shouldn't have skin color. well these where what i did.1. i couldn't seem to use the magic wand since if i did, the whole image gets selected. 2. i pick the eraser tool and what happened was that when i erased, it wasn't clear white but instead there was a light version of the skin color i used. to let u know, i used four layers [eyes, clothes, hair, and skin] like u did in your tutorial. im using my images instead of naruto. and the other question i had, was that suppose u had two different people in the same pic, black and white, do u color the whole picture the color of the 1st person u wanna color? and if so, after i get done, how do i color that of the other character? and also, i did pick the skin layer to color everything in.

[NeoHaku]

i did make layers, and i did put them in sets. the part when u told us to erase is where i got confused. u said to erase all the parts that shouldn't have skin color. well these where what i did.1. i couldn't seem to use the magic wand since if i did, the whole image gets selected. 2. i pick the eraser tool and what happened was that when i erased, it wasn't clear white but instead there was a light version of the skin color i used. to let u know, i used four layers [eyes, clothes, hair, and skin] like u did in your tutorial. im using my images instead of naruto. and the other question i had, was that suppose u had two different people in the same pic, black and white, do u color the whole picture the color of the 1st person u wanna color? and if so, after i get done, how do i color that of the other character? and also, i did pick the skin layer to color everything in.

I would suggest you don't use the magic wand. And enlarge the size of your eraser...and what Mangaka meant by "erase all the parts that shouldn't have skin color" is erasing the color off the clothing, the hair...anything that doesn't show skin. If let's say you have the face, parts of the neck, arms, legs and feet...erase the color around those areas...including the body parts that have clothing on it. As for your second question, first you color the first person. After that, make a new layer for the second person and choose the color of your second person. It'll be much easier if all the sets belong to a specific person if you have two people on one image. I hope that helped. :D

[Dimezanime88]

the first part i already know that. i don't think im making this any clearer. ...lets see...i know what he meant by erase. thats what i said i was doing. the prob i have is that i can't seem to erase the skin colors on the clothes, hair, and etc. when i try to, instead of white, it turns out to be light pink [or a lighter version of the skin color i chose]. the second part was helpful, thanks!:D btw, how do u erase around the edges of a face with out erasing the skin color? if i can't use magic wand, won't that be a prob?

[Mangaka]

something is weird with your photoshop,, and I don't know what it is,, if you can use the wand the use the normal ereaser,, !! anyway I will try to help you,, but right now I am working on a big projeckt,, the cover for the manga magazine that I work for,,, look a peak heheheh------http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/fear.jpg

[Kinumi]

Hey Mangaka, nice colouring you've done. However, I did look through your tutorial and while the results were good, I'd strongly recommend against the approach you took, at least for those new to colouring. First off, setting coloured layers to multiply shouldn't be done in these circumstances in my opinion as it merely begs for trouble; simply setting the layer containing the lineart to multiply should be all you need for a simple coloured picture except when you're going for special effects for instance. For people new to photoshop and colouring though, the use of multiply on coloured layers can often yield confusing results which may discourage people as they will have little to no idea why colours aren't appearing how they think they should be.

Secondly, merging all the skin layers to do things like the highlights is really not a good idea at all. The entire purpose of layers is to allow ease of editing between layers, so that particular aspects of an image can be changed easily without affecting other parts of the image, by merging the layers you are taking away one of the most powerful features in photoshop away from yourself and making it infintely harder to change something at a later time if you wish to. Simply put, you should be able to create highlights just as easily on a seperate layer without merging layers via simple colour selecting with an airbrush, thereby making it even easier to work with since individual layers can be edited.

Regardless, this is just one persons view, and admittedly I'm not all that good at colouring. I'm not disputing your talent, just your methedology.

[X2thaU]

Hey Mangaka, nice colouring you've done. However, I did look through your tutorial and while the results were good, I'd strongly recommend against the approach you took, at least for those new to colouring. First off, setting coloured layers to multiply shouldn't be done in these circumstances in my opinion as it merely begs for trouble; simply setting the layer containing the lineart to multiply should be all you need for a simple coloured picture except when you're going for special effects for instance. For people new to photoshop and colouring though, the use of multiply on coloured layers can often yield confusing results which may discourage people as they will have little to no idea why colours aren't appearing how they think they should be.

Secondly, merging all the skin layers to do things like the highlights is really not a good idea at all. The entire purpose of layers is to allow ease of editing between layers, so that particular aspects of an image can be changed easily without affecting other parts of the image, by merging the layers you are taking away one of the most powerful features in photoshop away from yourself and making it infintely harder to change something at a later time if you wish to. Simply put, you should be able to create highlights just as easily on a seperate layer without merging layers via simple colour selecting with an airbrush, thereby making it even easier to work with since individual layers can be edited.

Regardless, this is just one persons view, and admittedly I'm not all that good at colouring. I'm not disputing your talent, just your methedology.


listen to what she says, kinumi knows her stuff :)

[Mangaka]

I like your post,, But all the things you said in your post,,, That was the way I colourd when I started using, photoshop,, and it didn' work for me,,, I make the first layer in ,, after the first I only make the layer mode into darker,, and the shade color wont change a bit,,, but some might think your way is easy, and some mine,,, I think your way is good but it didn't work for me,,, But hey people that use this tutorial,, if my way doesn't work then try here's,, Thank you for bringing you way of coloring up ^_^ X2thaU,,, I would like it very much to see you make a tutorial,, Why don't you ,, you would be a hell of a lot beter teacher than me ^__~ I mean the way you explain thing ,,

anyway,, thanks for bringing it up,, see you around

[dbsjkc]

first of all, thanks for the tutorial, mangaka :p
and secondly, i have done a piece of work yesterday and i am now posting here for comment and improvement (feel free to comment) although it doesn't use much coloring techniques, but this is my first coloring work(not counting those small ones...), by the way, i draw this pic by myself as well, but don't have scanner... so photo-ed, and trace by mouse... (pretty stupid...)anyway, here it is...
http://www.geocities.com/dbsjkc/ninetails.JPG

[Freelancer_]

Let me see the pictures, and see how simple they are:P If I have the Time I will do it ;)

Here they are they are two pics from Bleach one for my sigg thats being made the other is for my avatar I dont want anything to fancy just need some color in them so it can blend easy.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v380/bhlbhl/Bleach-02-09-22.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v380/bhlbhl/Bleach-02-04-00.png

[Akata-Shinigami]

I tried your tutorial...it took me forever to color this manga page from Bleach (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v206/Full_Metal_Alchemist/Bleachmangacoloring.jpg)
I kinda messed up on the lighting, I couldn't get it right :confused:

[Freelancer_]

Akata thats really good you got some of the colors wrong but besides that its great.

[Mangaka]

I love both of the colorings ,, are really nice I love them ,, for a fist try ,, I give them a 5 out of 5 ,, wonderful ^_^


Oh about the bleach picture,, Man I have to say something,,, you couldn't pick any harder pictures to color @_@ thoes are sketches, and there is nothing harder than to color sketchs ... anyway , I will do it but not today I have an exam comin tomorrow so I have to study,, but on thursday , is the day I'll color them ,^_^

[Geki]

Just saw it, really cool Tutorial Mangaka. ;)
I think it is really useful. (for me too...^^)

Thank you for that. :)
I'm going to make a new Picture with that knowledge.

[Speedy_Shrimpo]

Wohoo I got Manga pens from Hotodrawmanga.com for my birtday and I was supposed to get screentone too but my parents ordered wrong :rolleyes:

[Mangaka]

Wohoo I got Manga pens from Hotodrawmanga.com for my birtday and I was supposed to get screentone too but my parents ordered wrong :rolleyes:


someone is lucky ^*^


Geki, I am glad you liked it,, please post your art here when you are done I want to see ^__^

[Geki]

I think Adobe Premiere is able to do something like that, but I'm not sure.

Mangaka, here's a Picture I made before I knew your Tutorial, I'm sure the next one will be a lot better. :)
At this Picture there are also a lot of Mistakes, because I made everything out of my Mind. ^^

http://www.abi00.de/seto/TenTenOld.jpg

[Mangaka]

I don't see ,, Anything wrong with the picture, I like it a lot,,, but you should have done some more shades and , darker parts , and use the linear dodge,, that I am so found of hehehe ^_^ .. I cant wait to see how you will improve :)

[Geki]

Yo, there are merely a few Shadows in my Picture.
And yes, I'll use the Linear Dodge method. ;)

[Akata-Shinigami]

Akata thats really good you got some of the colors wrong but besides that its great.

Thanks. Yeah, I wasn't sure what to color some parts ^ ^"

Oh about the bleach picture,, Man I have to say something,,, you couldn't pick any harder pictures to color @_@ thoes are sketches, and there is nothing harder than to color sketchs ... anyway , I will do it but not today I have an exam comin tomorrow so I have to study,, but on thursday , is the day I'll color them ,^_^

>.< When I was reading the manga, the first thing I thought when I saw it was "I'm definately going to use that in a sig or something!" then I found your coloring tutorial and quickly got the pic to color lol

[Final-Kakashi]

Step Three: now what I want you to do is , to erase all the arias that aren’t suppose to have the colour of the skin,, cloths hair ,background etc,, I usually use the magic want to do that I mark the place that aren’t skin and then press ctrl, alt and X,, when your done the Image should look like this ,,, Oh and remember make shore that it is the skin layer you have marked or otherwise you will erase the image...
[/URL]

Yeah....sorry I'm a little late but I just now noticed this thread. Sorry, but I'm kind of stuck on this step. When I try to use the magic wand, it has a circle on the picture with a slash going through it, and it says something like "cannot select fill layer" or something like that. But before this happened, I guess my wand worked, but when I clicked on the image it selected everything. and when I presses "ctrl, alt, x" I didn't know what the heck to do after that. NOTE: I just got photoshop and I'm, as some would say, a total n00b. xD
*Your images totally rock! =P
Thanks in advance...

[Mangaka]

will you give me a sec,, I will make a screenshot to explain

I am so bad with words that is why i started drawing :P

[Final-Kakashi]

Dudee thanks, this helped it. You're the best! ^^ Can't wait to read your manga, it looks cool. That King Omega guy looks real cool too, jugding from how he looks and his name, I guess he's a major villian, villian, or one of those "rebel" heroes like Sasuke.

[ninja_sakura19]

Um.. I can't really got a image host or w/e but here'z a wallpaper i made. it's kinda halloween themed :D

http://www.roempire.com/forums/showthread.php?t=560&page=9 (just go all the way to the bottom at post titled "ano sa ano sa!!" w/ the s/n : SakuraTange19 um... yah.. anyways.. enjoy lol! o_o

[_ramenbowl_]

WOW!! :eek:
ur a pro, im gonna start using ur tutorials and good luck wid ur manga :D :D :D

[Mangaka]

Here they are they are two pics from Bleach one for my sigg thats being made the other is for my avatar I dont want anything to fancy just need some color in them so it can blend easy.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v380/bhlbhl/Bleach-02-09-22.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/Big-guy.jpg


I just want to say dam it was hard and, that I changed his shirt :P Hope you like it,, if not,, I did my best ^__^ bye bye

[Poojipoo]

You've got some nice work, Mangaka. :) Your tutorial is a nice how-to on Photoshop, but I think the next step is to teach some basic art skills and build from that. There's alot that people don't learn from their gradeschool art teachers, and even the most talented people can improve dramatically simply by learning to utilize a few key concepts.

Of course... these kinds of things are more for those truly interested in art/illustration/etc., and not just coloring black and white manga images... but nevertheless, it's something to think about. :)

[SoulFire]

Hey Mangaka, nice colouring you've done. However, I did look through your tutorial and while the results were good, I'd strongly recommend against the approach you took, at least for those new to colouring. First off, setting coloured layers to multiply shouldn't be done in these circumstances in my opinion as it merely begs for trouble; simply setting the layer containing the lineart to multiply should be all you need for a simple coloured picture except when you're going for special effects for instance. For people new to photoshop and colouring though, the use of multiply on coloured layers can often yield confusing results which may discourage people as they will have little to no idea why colours aren't appearing how they think they should be.

Secondly, merging all the skin layers to do things like the highlights is really not a good idea at all. The entire purpose of layers is to allow ease of editing between layers, so that particular aspects of an image can be changed easily without affecting other parts of the image, by merging the layers you are taking away one of the most powerful features in photoshop away from yourself and making it infintely harder to change something at a later time if you wish to. Simply put, you should be able to create highlights just as easily on a seperate layer without merging layers via simple colour selecting with an airbrush, thereby making it even easier to work with since individual layers can be edited.

Regardless, this is just one persons view, and admittedly I'm not all that good at colouring. I'm not disputing your talent, just your methedology.


*Applauds*

Thats the best damn thing i've seen all day!

Mangaka; Your good colorist, but your methods are good only for those that want to learn that specific style of coloring. I myself feel people are better off learning only the basics and some tricks for as far as it goes, and then experiment from there. Your colors are good, but what makes colors good, is originality, if everyone is going to learn how to color your way, your stuff will become "outdated" as well, which is a shame because it really is good.

people need to learn only the basics and some tips when it comes to PS, the rest is up to the imagination and expirementing.

[Poojipoo]

Secondly, merging all the skin layers to do things like the highlights is really not a good idea at all. The entire purpose of layers is to allow ease of editing between layers, so that particular aspects of an image can be changed easily without affecting other parts of the image, by merging the layers you are taking away one of the most powerful features in photoshop away from yourself and making it infintely harder to change something at a later time if you wish to. Simply put, you should be able to create highlights just as easily on a seperate layer without merging layers via simple colour selecting with an airbrush, thereby making it even easier to work with since individual layers can be edited.

I dunno, sometimes I find myself doing an entire character on a single layer! And other times on 5-6 or more. It's all a matter of methodology, and how the character is set up of course. Layers are a very useful tool, but overusing them doesn't necessarily help. :) I find that having too many layers can make it difficult to create multiple flowing colors for the image. By creating a different layer for each individual tone, a person is less likely to use more than a three color scheme for things such as the skin. Photoshop can't really do much to help in that area anyways, that's really up to the artist's eye.

That's how I feel anyways. :)

[Mangaka]

=/ cant take a lil heat? im not saying ur tutorial sukz, much to tha contrary i think it rocks....i color manga too, i no how annoying it can be at parts(i colored tha stock in my sig).....im just agreeing with what she said, why u gotta mock me for? O.o?


Wow !Hey hey ,, I didn't mean you ,,, sorry about that ,, my message was Kinumi.. and the message had nothing to do with mocking,, I was really sensear,, She is knows whats she is talking about,,So I said,, it would be nice if she did a tutorial,, since she seems to know, ,a bit better than me,, I wouldn't definently look at here tutorial,,, That is what I meant I didn't mean , in a stupid way,,, when I do ^__^ a smile then I mean in a good way if I do this =____= Then Its in a bad way.,, heheh sorry about that misunderstanding, I will try to be more clear and not write wrong names,,

[Mangaka]

*Applauds*

Thats the best damn thing i've seen all day!

Mangaka; Your good colorist, but your methods are good only for those that want to learn that specific style of coloring. I myself feel people are better off learning only the basics and some tricks for as far as it goes, and then experiment from there. Your colors are good, but what makes colors good, is originality, if everyone is going to learn how to color your way, your stuff will become "outdated" as well, which is a shame because it really is good.

people need to learn only the basics and some tips when it comes to PS, the rest is up to the imagination and expirementing.

I feel the same,, but I think its up to them.. I give them my style , eventually people want to create something on their own,, but now that they know some stuff it will be much easier. How many time have you not created something and then looked around , and seen an professional artist do the same, and you get bummed, Or for example you do , a picture,, and you think this picture is the best you ever done,, and then you show it, and people say,, hey its nice but it looks a lot like, This and That series,,, You know what I mean, and when it comes to colouring,, nobody has the same style,, I can teach how much I want, in the end , the one who is learning will chose there own way,, BUT! with the knowledge ,that they have from before, and becomes something unique,, That is not what I am , I am not the way to what they want to become ,,I am the guy that holds the key to the first floor,, nothing ells,, its their job to find the other 9 remaining keys ;) Besides ,, I wont live forever, and when I am dead nothing will be left, nothing will bother me ,, so why should it bother me now, the only thing I know will live on,, is this style ^___~

[Mangaka]

You've got some nice work, Mangaka. :) Your tutorial is a nice how-to on Photoshop, but I think the next step is to teach some basic art skills and build from that. There's alot that people don't learn from their gradeschool art teachers, and even the most talented people can improve dramatically simply by learning to utilize a few key concepts.

Of course... these kinds of things are more for those truly interested in art/illustration/etc., and not just coloring black and white manga images... but nevertheless, it's something to think about. :)



I love black and white,, cause black and white has more to it than just thoes to colors ,, diffrent types of gray,, that contrast to black, (tone)

But I do love to color to cause there is some things you just cant do with black and white, that is possible with color ^_~

Well on frieday I will start with a How To Draw Manga, tutorial,, I will specialysize the tutorials with , the makeing of hands,,, I don't know anything els that might come to your interest ,, If you want anything spesific then pleas do tell,, but I won't do more than 2 maximum 3 tutorials ... cause this week is my free week and I want to rest ,, even from drawing,, but a little drawing wouldn't hurt , so I will do this tutorial, for you guy's that want them.

[_ramenbowl_]

hey your tutorial really helped alot. the skin was very hard to colour since there's 4 different tones. :o And i only have 1 question, have you tried using the smudge tool for the skin tones? bcause the first time i tried using 4 different tones the colours were all separated and messed up, and after using smudge all the colours blended for me and it looked much betta. :D but thats only bcause i couldn't really colour properly. :( but apart from that your tutorial was a big help to me. :D Thanks for posting it up

[Mangaka]

I am glad it worked for you ^_^

[Sakashi]

thx for the nice tutorial man, without ur tutorial i would never have thought about coloring in pics.

[_ramenbowl_]

w00t!! just finished wid ur tutorials!!
http://thumbs.deviantart.com/300W/fs5.deviantart.com/i/2004/302/7/4/my_older_naruto_by_ramenbowl.jpg
thats the pic i coloured (i didnt draw) its the 1 i used the tutorials wid. :D
http://thumbs.deviantart.com/300W/fs5.deviantart.com/i/2004/300/c/2/oldernaruto_by_ramenbowl.jpg
and thats the pic i drew b4 using the tutorials.
i think theres a big difference between them and once again, thanks! :D

[Mangaka]

Sakashi Shinobi: I am happy to hear that,,, this is wonderful , thing like this makes me so damn happy ^_^

_ramenbowl_: the pictures both are very nice, I really hope that you continue, coloring and drawing,, ^__^

[Speedy_Shrimpo]

Shouldn't this thread be sticky anyways??

[Poojipoo]

Well on frieday I will start with a How To Draw Manga, tutorial,, I will specialysize the tutorials with , the makeing of hands,,, I don't know anything els that might come to your interest ,, If you want anything spesific then pleas do tell,, but I won't do more than 2 maximum 3 tutorials ... cause this week is my free week and I want to rest ,, even from drawing,, but a little drawing wouldn't hurt , so I will do this tutorial, for you guy's that want them.

Well, I personally don't need any sort of tutorial for drawing, I was just giving a suggestion as to what you could be doing next, so I don't really have a preference of any kind. :) I'm not really a big fan of the whole "How To Draw Manga" thing, though... People tend to specialize in the style too much and not enough on their general drawing capabilities, then get the misconception that they can't draw any other way. Once you break out of that barrier, everything opens up to you much more easily. :)

[Mangaka]

Well, I personally don't need any sort of tutorial for drawing, I was just giving a suggestion as to what you could be doing next, so I don't really have a preference of any kind. :) I'm not really a big fan of the whole "How To Draw Manga" thing, though... People tend to specialize in the style too much and not enough on their general drawing capabilities, then get the misconception that they can't draw any other way. Once you break out of that barrier, everything opens up to you much more easily. :)



Don't worry, I wont be doing that ;) The only thing I am going to give tutorials on is things like hand, and maybe anatomy,,, body struckture and so one,, very simple stuff ,,I have never heard somebody say,,, you draw hands like Kishimoto ,, heheh people don't notice the style of the hand,, maybe cause there are no styles for hands, I don't know,,

I have done two pages though and I will make some more,, you should take a look anyway, when I post them here, you don't have to use them ;) Give me some critique or whatever ,, I would like it ,,, by the way do you draw,, if yes,, make a thread and show your stuff,, you seem to be a deep artist !!

[Mangaka]

Shouldn't this thread be sticky anyways??


My thread should be sticky :S whats sticky ???heheheh sticky sound like something bad :eek:

[Poojipoo]

Cool, cool, those are some good things to do tutorials on. :D I just find it silly when I run in to tutorials on things like "how to draw an anime eye" and whatnot. :p

Uhmmmm, well I'm in the process of working on something, I'll post it up once it's finished. :) Kind of hard to tell how long it'll take though... Depends on if I start to become happy with it. :D

[Geki]

Lol, I got bored and played a little. :D
Next Time I'm going to make a Pic seriously and I'll take my Time, not just playing around. ^^
But nevertheless, I'm curious what you think about the Pic.
Looks funny, eh? ^^

http://www.abi00.de/seto/Fresse3.jpg

[shin getter]

great works i am impressed i hope i can do like you am just a bigginer
please express you opinion with me at my gallary

http://forums.narutofan.com/showthread.php?p=127761&posted=1#post127761

[Mangaka]

Geki: that is a wonderful picture, I like it,, it was a smart idea to invert the Image the Inverted version looks so damn cool, I just simply love it,, I am looking forward on seening the Image that you will take your time with,, ;)

Shin getter : Well the guy Dan says pretty much what I would say,, I just want to add something,, Start drawing your own pictures,, Like create your own charcters,, now this is if you want to become a manga artist your self in the future,, I allso see potensial,, you are only 14 ,, and if you start now, and try to make your own stuff and so , by the age of 18 ,, I think you will become a great artist ,, don't get mad, or angre when pictures turn out bad, I had 5 friends that hade the same interest as me,, and gues how many of them are still drawing,, Non exept me,, and why ? because the wanted to become pro's over night,, work hard and draw much,, after some time you will see that ,, drawing gets easier.

I will soon post an anatomy and hands tutorial,, so if you want to learn some net tricks then stay tuned ;)

[Mangaka]

Let The Tutorial Begin

Okay Guys I have Change my text colour into orange,, this colour symbolises the drawing tutorial,, I hope you guy's will like it , and I hope it will be to some use, and make the thing that might seam hard , maybe easy ^__~

Anyway Lets start,, I will today Post Page one of my tutorial , and it will be about how to draw hands,, we will start with something simple,, check out the picture and you will see what I mean,,


Fallow the Image,, and if you don't understand something, then post your question, I will do my best to explain,,

Rules for this first step,, I want those that attend this tutorial,, to make 4 hands every day,, It will be like a dally practice, this isn't a must,, I say it for your sake, for you guys that have problems,, with hands,,

right now we will train on hands but later on in this tutorial , we will try to put the hands on arms ,that are attached to body’s , and so on

well well enough talk lets begin ^___^


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/Tutorial/HTDM-Hands-001.jpg

[Gouki]

Mangaka, what do you use to do your actual line art, Illustrator?

[Geki]

Geki: that is a wonderful picture, I like it,, it was a smart idea to invert the Image the Inverted version looks so damn cool, I just simply love it,, I am looking forward on seening the Image that you will take your time with,, ;)

I will soon post an anatomy and hands tutorial,, so if you want to learn some net tricks then stay tuned ;)

Thank you very much. :)
I hope my next Picture will be good. ^^
But it'll take some Time to produce it.

And I'm also looking forward to seeing something new from you. ;)

[Mangaka]

Mangaka, what do you use to do your actual line art, Illustrator?

well I didn't understand your question , but here is the answer to what I think you mean

you mean pens and stuff ??,, well I don't have any special material,, I use a schoolpen and a eraser , and a ruler thats it,, oh yeah and i have these color pens that I got from my baby sister ^_^ when I do my manga, I use ink, and I make the tone's with photoshop ,,

I hope I answerd your question,, btw welcome to narutofan forum ^_^


Geki: ho ho It will take some time, before I can do something in photoshop again,. I have like 1000 projeckts that I am doing right now,, :P

[Geki]

Hehe, almost the same with me. ^^
But Gouki ment Adobe Illustrator, that's a pretty good Program for Paths. ;)
With Illustrator you can make really clean and good Linearts.
Not Pencils or sth. like that. :D

[Mangaka]

Really !! O_O I should get that program then,, The only thing I have is,, adobe photoshop 7.0

thanks for clearing that out for me Geki ^__~

[Geki]

No Problem. ;)
I wish I had Illustrator, but I don't have enough Money atm. :(

[Gouki]

Thats the beauty of file sharing programs.

[Mangaka]

Really,, heheh, anyway I just want to make a qvick update ::

Tutorial Pages 001-002

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/Tutorial/HTDM-Hands-001.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/Tutorial/HTDM-Hands-002.jpg

hope you guy's like them ^__^ and of course that they are helpfull..

[mow]

Manag-ka, you kick ass so much I cant find the word to put it!

[Poojipoo]

Pretty nice tutorial. ^^ I, too, divide the fingers up in to sections similar to how you did there during the initial sketch. I dunno 'bout that whole orange shape thing, though.... o.O

[Speedy_Shrimpo]

My thread should be sticky :S whats sticky ???heheheh sticky sound like something bad :eek:


It's when your thread always is at the top of the first page (in this case Art classes) and can't be moved or something like that :rolleyes:

By the way I like the hands :D

[Mangaka]

Moe,, heheh thanks man ;)

Poojipoo: the orange thing is quite useful,,

Speedy_Shrimpo: that would be nice,, ^__^

[Mangaka]

New update ::...::

Tutorial Pages 001-002-003

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/Tutorial/HTDM-Hands-001.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/Tutorial/HTDM-Hands-002.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/Tutorial/HTDM-Hands-003.jpg

Is anyone trying this out by the way ??

[shin getter]

mangaka i have my bro drowing and i want you to tell me what to do to make my drowing like his or yours here it is
http://tinypic.com/f3z2f

[Mangaka]

Well the reasone I told you before not to do fanart, was because I want you to think and work up your own style,, Like I did I don't have a style that looks like someone elses , I hope at least,and so does your brother he has his own style,,I mean you have a great artist right at home,, if you want to draw like your bro,, then why don't you sit next to him and make some notes when he is sitting there and drawing ?? that is what I would do ,, if I for example went to kishimotos house,,^__~ I don't have much to say,, just keep drawing and if you are going to continue with fanart then , make fanart from varius mangas /animes

[Mangaka]

Hands Tutotorial End

I am Finally finished ,, I just want to post the entire list here ^_~

001 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/Tutorial/HTDM-Hands-001.jpg)
002 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/Tutorial/HTDM-Hands-002.jpg)
003 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/Tutorial/HTDM-Hands-003.jpg)
004 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/Tutorial/HTDM-Hands-004.jpg)
005 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/Tutorial/HTDM-Hands-005.jpg)

[Noex]

thx man i think i can draw hands now ;) well just the rest of the body left :D hahaha

[N4rut0]

SAAAAAAAAFEEEEEEEEEEEE now i can improve on my worst skill!!!!...drawing hands..! thank you

[Mangaka]

Your welcome,, both of you ^__^

[Mangaka]

You know there is a slight irony , in this,, I mean me doing hands tutorials,,, though all my years that I have been drawing I have allways had problems doing hands,, and now when you guy's asked me to do a hand tutorial, I got some presure to improve, anyway,, I was sitting there ,, shiting my pants ** damn why did I say that I am going to do a hands tutorial when, I don't know how to do hands my self,** I sat there and drew hands,, and after 6 hours,, BANG!!!! I came up with the best thing how to make hands, and I was both happy and relifed,, so I am just as happy as you guy's hehehe now lets see when I try my luck with the body ?? :cool:

[SoulFire]

Nice move on the boxes there mate :) Really the only way to learn it imo.
But its kinda blotchy, old school if you will >_>

[poann]

managaka, what kinds of pen u used in drawing manga?

[Mangaka]

I think I have posted it somewere before,, but I have so many pages, so it would be cruel to let you look for that post,,

I use a school pen, ink and thats it

[Mangaka]

NarutoFan Forum Manga

Is anybody trying out my hands tutorial,, :confused: I woke up this morning and , a great Idea struck me,, I was wondering if we could do a manga page togther,, Like! I will make a manga page,, with 7 emty panels and then draw something in the the first panel,, then someone els will do the second panel, and so on,,, when the Page is done lets put som speach bubels,, and try to make a story out of it hehe,, I think it would be really fun,, and if some more want to join then we could do some more pages,, and maybe it could become our litle narutofan forum manga heheheh ?? what do you guy's think???

[SoulFire]

NarutoFan Forum Manga

Is anybody trying out my hands tutorial,, :confused: I woke up this morning and , a great Idea struck me,, I was wondering if we could do a manga page togther,, Like! I will make a manga page,, with 7 emty panels and then draw something in the the first panel,, then someone els will do the second panel, and so on,,, when the Page is done lets put som speach bubels,, and try to make a story out of it hehe,, I think it would be really fun,, and if some more want to join then we could do some more pages,, and maybe it could become our litle narutofan forum manga heheheh ?? what do you guy's think???


Im in! Sounds like a lot of fun man :)

[Poojipoo]

Dunno if I'd join in, probably depends on what ya'll start puttin' together, but it sounds like a good idea to me. :)

Oh, I put up a picture like yah asked, I threw something different together after getting frustrated with a couple other pictures. :P It links to my deviantart site too if you wanna take a look around. :)

[UD)Trunks]

Very nice tut, i have some of my own art work that i want to color like the manga, i was looking for a tutorial, thanks for the effort to make one.

[Speedy_Shrimpo]

NarutoFan Forum Manga

Is anybody trying out my hands tutorial,, :confused: I woke up this morning and , a great Idea struck me,, I was wondering if we could do a manga page togther,, Like! I will make a manga page,, with 7 emty panels and then draw something in the the first panel,, then someone els will do the second panel, and so on,,, when the Page is done lets put som speach bubels,, and try to make a story out of it hehe,, I think it would be really fun,, and if some more want to join then we could do some more pages,, and maybe it could become our litle narutofan forum manga heheheh ?? what do you guy's think???


Sound Fun!! I think im in :D

[Mangaka]

Well finally @_@ I finished the first panel,, I really hope that ppl will join this manga thing,, cause I really took my time to make the pannel look good, Hope I didn't do it for nothing @_@ I have a story in min for this hole thing ,,, but I wont tell it,, I want to say how this thing goes,, thats more fun ^_^ wel anyway here is the page,, I hope you guy's like it and join :)'




http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/Forum-Manga.jpg

[Speedy_Shrimpo]

Humm are we supposed to send in the pics to you??

[Mangaka]

well I was thinking,,, you save this picture above, and then,, when you have done the picture that should go in the second pannel,, just cut and past,,, Upload the new version ,, and then show the rest of us,,, Ohh and the person that,, says,,, I want the second panel first ,, get to do it,, and so on,,

[Noex]

well i even cant draw soooooooo i will not join, but hey it was an good idea´man keep it u ;)

[Mangaka]

Don't get me wrong, guy's , this has nothing to do with beauty,, I want to make this forum manga a fun thing,, if you can draw,, find a picture that suits the second panel, maybe a land scape,,, I am more interested in what you write in the speachbubles,, cause I hope this becomes a funny manga,, and funny mangas, aren't supose to be nicelooking,, So everyone that want to take a part in this should,, Maybe sombody want to do the sound effeckts,,

you can do anything,, that is why I call it a forum manga,, so that anyone can join ,, so please do join =_~

[SoulFire]

Hrmmm, i guess i'll take panel 2/3 then =]

[Mangaka]

woohoo,, I am happy,, 2/3 are yours,, since nobody els, is even trying ,, I am exited to how it turns out ;)

[toastbruder]

hey mangaka,
first THX a lot for ur tutorial
i dont know if this was asked before cuz this thread is a pretty long one : / , but if it comes to erasing the layer color in small areas i cant use magic want to well, so is there some other way? : /
thx a lot

[Zmozie]

Thx Mangaka for the tutorial.
I made this picture...can you give me any tip how i can make it better??
http://www.narutofan.com/_upload/fanart/0_4efc99b8-_-Zmozie-_-1099676448-_-Naruto|Colored.jpg
Your tutorial is great!

[dimezanime88 (dupe)]

u need to fix the size of that sig.

[dimsum86]

http://members.optusnet.com.au/tjajadi/artystuff/erica.jpg

Thankz for ur tute. this is the outcome....

[dimezanime88 (dupe)]

this is unbelievable!! how come everybody is understanding his tutorial and im not?!!! yo mangaka, do u have time to gimme step by step on coloring in a pm?

[Mangaka]

how is the panels going ponem ??

Lets see,, Zmozie that picture is just very well colored the only thing is that you havent changed the flow and the opacity of the brushes when you paint,that is a good Idea when you color,, I can have a pm , I am going to do a sceen movie,, I will screen cap a total tutorial, when I color and then put that movie up in bittorent,,so stay tuned,,

dimsum86 that is really nice,, I would like to see some more shadows but other than htat is is very nice, and the Image is your own right ^_^ sexy grr ^_^

[SoulFire]

They are going alright, i'll have them for you later today =]

[Mangaka]

Thats great ^_^

[SuttiZ]

hi Mangaka^^
dont know if you remember me, since its been sometime since i posted. (i was one of the first who posted what i'd manage with your tutorial :) )

Anyways i was wondering if you could tell me how i should color peoples dark/black clothes. i ask, becuase i hav no idea how to do it :confused: and if i knew i hav some picturs that i want to color, but i cant do a good job before i know how.

i can see that you hav alot to do so theres no hurry, im sure i can find some other pictures to color.

[IDentity]

This is real good!

[Mangaka]

hi Mangaka^^
dont know if you remember me, since its been sometime since i posted. (i was one of the first who posted what i'd manage with your tutorial :) )

Anyways i was wondering if you could tell me how i should color peoples dark/black clothes. i ask, becuase i hav no idea how to do it :confused: and if i knew i hav some picturs that i want to color, but i cant do a good job before i know how.

i can see that you hav alot to do so theres no hurry, im sure i can find some other pictures to color.


Well you see,, when you want to color something black, lets in blue,, and the layer is at multiply,, the reasone why that doesn't work is because multiply makes only things darker,, and what is darker then Black :P anyway,,, what you want to do is pick the color,, doesn't matter what color and change the brush mode,,, Do you know what I mean, when I say brush mode,,, just like you made the layer in multiply , the brush has also a thing you can change modes and it is somewhere at the top,, beside flow and opacity,, you will see,, well change that mode from normal ,, from normal to linear Dodge ,, and of course you don't want the thing to be colored in total blue, so change the flow and opacity,, make them both somewere between 20 -30 ,, I think this should work if not give me a message and I will find out what to do ,, okay

Yane

Ponem , I can gues without asking that you gave up on the manga thing right,, anyway thanks for trying

oh and IDentity : glad you liked it ^_^

[Deizen]

Hey Mangaka, I just slipped by and saw your work and the Coloring Tutorial... one word for you... AWSOME!! anyway, I havn't had the time to make something creative, but I gues I'll do that in a coulpe of days... well, I saw your request for a Program that could Record what was happening on screen if I'm right... I once had a program called Camtasia Studio, It's pretty reliable and easy to use if I remember correctly.. so I gues you could use that... It's a little expensive, but I think there's a Trial version out there somewere...

[banhbao]

wowow same thing here !! happened to read your wonderful tuto and it has given me the urge to try !!
just need a bit help about background coloring as you can see; i created a new blue gradient layer and removed the areas with drawing but it doesn't seem to give a good result.. same thing with the letters, i tried to color the NARUTO tag or the letters but it's so damn hard and i can't have something nice !!.. is there some way or technics to to do these (back or letters) ?
anyway thanks a lot for your work and here is my first try at coloring (took a jiraiya pic that seemed easy to color :))

http://wakaru.chez.tiscali.fr//naruto_c237p01_color.jpg

[Mangaka]

Hey Mangaka, I just slipped by and saw your work and the Coloring Tutorial... one word for you... AWSOME!! anyway, I havn't had the time to make something creative, but I gues I'll do that in a coulpe of days... well, I saw your request for a Program that could Record what was happening on screen if I'm right... I once had a program called Camtasia Studio, It's pretty reliable and easy to use if I remember correctly.. so I gues you could use that... It's a little expensive, but I think there's a Trial version out there somewere...


I am glad you liked my to so much ^_^ I allso welcome you to the forumm you are new rigth,,, You have only 1 post so I gues you are, anyway thanks for the info about that camtasia studio thing,,, I looke around for it,

banhbao: I am done with your tut,, heheh I made a litle tut about tha text thing you are talking bout,, hope you will like it,, and hey,, I have one word for you to about your picture,, WOWAWESOME heheh ^_^ very very nice,, you naild my tutorial,, rigth on ,, well done ,, keep it up,,, anyway here is the tut,

Text 001 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/naruto_ch238_p01.jpg)
Text 002 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/text-tut-002.jpg)

Examples
EX 001 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/Text-tut--ex-001.jpg) EX 002 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/Text-tut--ex-002.jpg) EX 004 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/Text-tut--ex-004.jpg)
EX 003 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/Text-tut--ex-003.jpg)

[SoulFire]

Ponem , I can gues without asking that you gave up on the manga thing right,, anyway thanks for trying




NEVER will i give up! I've just been swamped recently
I suppose i owe ya an explanation. I've just been very, very busy with my daughter who is taking her first steps and requires 24/7 supervision. On top of that i still have my job to worry about and all sort of other old people things that i wont bother ya with.

I'll have them for you sooner or later, in any case they will come =]

[SuttiZ]

Well you see,, when you want to color something black, lets in blue,, and the layer is at multiply,, the reasone why that doesn't work is because multiply makes only things darker,, and what is darker then Black :P anyway,,, what you want to do is pick the color,, doesn't matter what color and change the brush mode,,, Do you know what I mean, when I say brush mode,,, just like you made the layer in multiply , the brush has also a thing you can change modes and it is somewhere at the top,, beside flow and opacity,, you will see,, well change that mode from normal ,, from normal to linear Dodge ,, and of course you don't want the thing to be colored in total blue, so change the flow and opacity,, make them both somewere between 20 -30 ,, I think this should work if not give me a message and I will find out what to do ,, okay

Thx :D im gonna go pratice that now^^

[¤Naruto-Kun¤]

HOLY SHIT man thats too hard...
I dont have the paitience

[banhbao]

banhbao: I am done with your tut,, heheh I made a litle tut about tha text thing you are talking bout,, hope you will like it,, and hey,, I have one word for you to about your picture,, WOWAWESOME heheh ^_^ very very nice,, you naild my tutorial,, rigth on ,, well done ,, keep it up,,, anyway here is the tut,

Text 001 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/naruto_ch238_p01.jpg)
Text 002 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/text-tut-002.jpg)

Examples
EX 001 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/Text-tut--ex-001.jpg) EX 002 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/Text-tut--ex-002.jpg) EX 004 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/Text-tut--ex-004.jpg)
EX 003 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/Text-tut--ex-003.jpg)

ohhhhhhhh so that's how you do it !! I don't think I would have manage to think of it this way :) Thanks a lot for your special add-tut !! (the hue adjust is very handy to change colors of the different colored parts !) one little question : on your image (sasuke vs/naruto) of your precedent tut you got a colored NARUTO tag/sign, did you made it with the same method (or did you add colors with a brush in it) ?
well thanks again and keep up the good work; I will try to apply your advices and I will show you if I came out with something more finalised :)

[Capt. Rosuko]

here is a drawing i did for someone on the forum. i didn't go by your tutuorial since i just read through it. but i'll post anyway.
http://img110.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img110&image=hyoshiandyuki.jpg

[Mangaka]

Ponem,, don't worry about it,, Take care of your kid ^_^ when you have the time ;)

banhbao: I made that one with the same tut yes,,


Capt. Rosuko: that is a wonderful Image I like it a lot,, you just need to mix some more colors,, don't be afraid to try new color or tools,,, ;) good luck

[Deizen]

Hey Mangaka (again)

I've just finished my 1st try with your tutorial, and if I'm to say it my self it's pretty good... though I think somethings missing, perhaps because I'm using a Danish edition og Photoshop because I only had time to make it at school... anyway this is what I made:

http://www.leedness.net/dnd/myart.jpg

What you think?

[Mangaka]

You know I like it,, its simple, and all,, but still very nice in some way,, I would want you to do some more diffrent shading if you know what I mean,,, not the syle,, I just want you do put some ore,skin color on here,,

anyway for a first try, it is beautifull keep it up ^_^

[Deizen]

You know I like it,, its simple, and all,, but still very nice in some way,, I would want you to do some more diffrent shading if you know what I mean,,, not the syle,, I just want you do put some ore,skin color on here,,

anyway for a first try, it is beautifull keep it up ^_^
I know I missed the Bright spotes, but that´s because I was working in a silly Danish edition and simply couldn´t find the brush effect... but still thanks for the good advice... I gues I´ll begin on the next one tomorrow... hehe

[banhbao]

ok final piece of work for this one :)
(took a lot of time to really figure out your background coloring method :D))
http://wakaru.chez.tiscali.fr//naruto_c237p01_cs.jpg

[Mangaka]

well as long as there are people willing to learn,, I will continue ^_^

banhbao : the Image looks great ,, keep it up

[ninja_sakura19]

hey Mimiru! that's a cool sig u got there :D

[Deizen]

I've made Another one:
http://www.leedness.net/dnd/chouji.jpg
Naruto Volume 21 - Chapter 188 - Page 15

[Mangaka]

Thats nice,,, I see you are improving and trying out new stuff,, keep it up ,, its looking good

[Deizen]

Thanks.. I think it's easier to give the Pages from the Manga colour, then the Chapter fronts :) heehe, but thankss

[Speedy_Shrimpo]

How's it going with the forum manga?

[Mangaka]

well speedy , are you interested in joining,, ? I am still waiting for ponem,, but he has his kid to think about,, so that is understandeble,,, but if you want to then why don't you make pannel 2??

[Speedy_Shrimpo]

I'll have to see. I don't have so much free time either. :rolleyes:

[Mangaka]

well thats okay,, I don't allways have time,, pretty oqupied right now ;)

I wish that many more will join,,

[LOLZILLA]

im working on my first one ^_^

[julio]

Hey mangaka! I used your tut to color this picture i did . GO check it out please!
:D
http://forums.narutofan.com/showthread.php?t=8412

[Shutame]

i didn't know that there are guys/girls here those above the age of 16 lol
i tocht that all guys/girls here wer under the age of 16 ore are 16 lollollollol :P

[Mangaka]

Uchiha_Avenger: Oh I can wait, ^_^

julio: I posted a comment in your topic

Shutame: Lol man some people are around 25 heheh and i think its damn cool,, cause In the future I want to be like them,, in thats age and still loving anime/manga ^_^ wonderful world we live in nee

[Feathers!]

Got some skill kid. what other media can you use. programs, pens, pencil, charcoal... ? My personal favorite has to be pastels although i havent used them in a while. ive seen a tutorial like this before, a while ago but this is more complete. solid.

[Mangaka]

Well I am not just into computer coloring,, I love coloring with acryll and ojl ^_^ and when I do B/W pictures I love using diffrent HB and make diffrent shadows,,, other don't have any other program than photoshop,, can afford them @_@

thanks for your post,,

[Hitman89]

Hi Mangaka I used your Coloring Tutorial and How you think it turn out?http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/f28a7f0b/4138/__sr_/c18d.jpg?phb5_oBB1GudNxcl

[oniijin]

NarutoFan Forum Manga

Is anybody trying out my hands tutorial,, :confused: I woke up this morning and , a great Idea struck me,, I was wondering if we could do a manga page togther,, Like! I will make a manga page,, with 7 emty panels and then draw something in the the first panel,, then someone els will do the second panel, and so on,,, when the Page is done lets put som speach bubels,, and try to make a story out of it hehe,, I think it would be really fun,, and if some more want to join then we could do some more pages,, and maybe it could become our litle narutofan forum manga heheheh ?? what do you guy's think???

Is this still happenin? Would be interested in somethin like that

o, yeah, this is my first post. 4649

i'll try to find some stuff i drew...it's been awhile.

http://jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu/~mcy1/snowbunnycolor.jpg
i did that almost 2 years ago..never got around to finishing it..

[Mangaka]

NarU-FreaK: Yeah I know,,for some people the luangage isn't the easyest,, and I have a hard time writing to,, but I will son make a tutorial that people can download, and watch instead of reading. It is going to be cool,, but I must find such a program first,@_@ but chair up,, If you give up one the things you love, then you have lost my respect. No matter how bad you are at coloring or drawing,, if you give up then ,its worthless to even start doing something,,, cause If you give up one some thing, it wont take long before you give up on some thing els ;) nothing comes over a night , don't forget that


Hitman89: I am sorry but your link doesn't work man :(

oniijin: what do we have here,, some one that stopped drawing and want to come back,!!! heheh you most welcome back, I am glad you posted in my thread , hope I gave you some inspiration,, yeah that forum manga thing is still on going, so if you ant to then you can draw a panel ^_^ If nobody ells doesn?t want to then, you can draw a panel and I can draw a panel and we can flip like that all the time,, cause I know people will join if they see someone else join


dimezanime16: hehe thanks , ;) I am the master of threadmaking hehe :P

and spamming

[oniijin]

yo mangaka, hit me up on aim, msn , or icq. do you have the first panel drawn? like to find out a bit more.

[Mangaka]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/Forum-Manga.jpg

here it is

[oniijin]

uh...do u have character newtypes or stuff? or am i supposed to make up character..

[Mangaka]

uh...do u have character newtypes or stuff? or am i supposed to make up character..

Well the characters that allready exist, like Master D and Mimik,, them to your not suppose to change,, but people like,, lets say the postman,,he or she can look just like you want, but make it realistik, the point with this thing is to adjust to one another, if you get what I mean,, this is some sort of training for me,, this will be great ,, so far people start joining,,, if you have friend that draw then, tell them to join to ^__^

[GeKaiZeR]

Hey Mangaka! thanks for the tutorial you put up. It took me a few hours to colour this in :p mind me im a no0b at this hehe. Thanks again!


http://img47.exs.cx/img47/1401/HakuAvatar.jpg

edit: this is withought the fancy dandy stuff. http://img85.exs.cx/img85/6896/ColouredHaku.jpg

http://img47.exs.cx/img47/1401/HakuAvatar.jpg

[oniijin]

mangaka, msg me so i can get more info

aim: oniijin
msn: oniijin@hotmail.com

[NeoEnigma]

Holy crap this thread as old. I went through... deleted half of the posts I read. Most of this stuff is smap. honestly.

First of all, I understand you want to praise Mangaka, but you are all saying the same thing over and over again. Please, if you want to congratulate him anymore, pm him.

Furthermore... why did this turn into a request thread? Those should be pms too. If you want him to do some work for you, ask him personally or go to the request forum.

Also the side conversations are rediculous. Especially the ones in Sweedish. I mean comon. Get some kind of messenger... AIM or MSN or something.. talk in sweedish about where you're from on there. This was a tutorial thread. Turned into a chat room.

Mangaka... I know you appreciate the gratitude people give you, but I swear 30 of your posts were "thanks" or something of the sort.

I havent gone through this entire thread yet, but I will. Because it's as old as it is, Im tempted to close it. Actually, unless Mangaka is going to give more tutorialsin this thread, I will close it. If you all have questions, PM him.

[Mangaka]

sou desuka :( I liked my thread,, but if you feel that way! close it or what ever I'll make a new thread for the forum manga,, but that sound kind of fishy I mean, there are like 1000 or something , members and everytime I have made a post, I have seen new members that make there first post here, and all the time people try out my tutorial, old or new and want to show it of,,, but I don't know is that spam ,, I said in my first post that if people try out my tutorial then I its a must to show me there work :P naah but you know what I mean,, but what ever ,, what can I do close it

[NeoEnigma]

I wont close it as long as it stays on topic. But... too many times it went off topic. Thats why its 175 posts longer than what it has to be.

I respect you more than anyone else on here mangaka, and by no means do I wanna take your thread away.

Just keep it on topic. If people want to post their work and have Mangaka comment on it, thats fine. But please keep your request and side conversations elsewhere.

PM me if you have any questions.

[~-NarutoFan-~]

Um..can someone please help me out with Adobe PhotoShop?
I made Naruto Sketches the problem is I have no idea how to color them on Photoshop please someone..:(
My E-mail is ChungRyongAtraka@Hotmail.co :sad: m

[Mangaka]

another newguy.. making his first post in here,, wow I am honored ^_^ itsn't this a newguy grupp meating or what n_n hehe

anyway,,, well man if you need help with photoshop and want to color ,, ether you go to http://forums.narutofan.com/showthread.php?t=700 or you take a look into my topic,,, I know its a bit long :blink but I think page 1-3 should have the tutorial you search for,, or help that you need,, go and check it out ;)


btw ,welcome to the forum man happy to see some fresh blood,around here

don't be sceared ,, I am no vampire,, well not to newcomers that is hehehe Just Kiding,, :laugh

[Feathers!]

Mangaka, do you story first or charcters and then so on and so forth?

[Axell]

Oh my god!!
When I look at all the art you guys create, I'm just amazed :blink
Do you have any tips for a begginer how to make such pieces of art??? :huh

[Dimezanime88]

wow mangaka, it seems ur thread has become wonders for some of the members here.:D don't forget to come over once in awhile to my forum mangaka. and u guys to!:D:) [read my sig!!!]

[Mangaka]

Mangaka, do you story first or charcters and then so on and so forth?


I story then I creat characters that fit to the story ?? is that what you was asking,,, and before you draw make shore you have a powerful story cause even the worst drawers can become really big just for having a good story,,^_^

[Axell]

does anybody have time to make a cool sig for me?

[kaitenjyuuken]

does anyone here knows how to make a custom brush with PS ? :huh

[kaitenjyuuken]

I story then I creat characters that fit to the story ?? is that what you was asking,,, and before you draw make shore you have a powerful story cause even the worst drawers can become really big just for having a good story,,^_^

dear mangaka,
well uh, i did try to draw mangas before but i had problems drawing the environment like buildings, trees, parks, etc.. that cause me to not continue my drawings... any tips? do you edit your manga with PS later?

[Geki]

Buy a Book and study Environment. ;)
There's nothing better than that.

I'll buy 2 Books soon, one with the Anatomy of Humans etc. and another for Environment.

[Aleana]

hell yeah i like it!! i love it! I want to be a manga ka but my art isnt that great, im still going to practice everyday and in a couple of years Im sure with enough training ill be good. I have about 6 manga scripts and ideas that I want to work on. at the moment all im doing is working on the story

MOE! WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO SHOW US SOME OF YOURE WORK! *cries* I want to see *innocent pleading face* pleeeeeeaaaasseeeee?^^

[Hitman89]

Ok here's the colored pic I did using your Tutorial Mangaka.How did I do?http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v605/Hitman89/ES21-30-01-02Colored.jpg

[Mangaka]

That is really nice,,, its cool to see that ppl still use the tutorial I made,, really nice indead,,


the only thing I would have asked you to work on more,, is the blue sky and the text,, the rest is good I like it ,

[Hitman89]

it took me three hours to make it and the sky was the last part I colored so I did that part fast thats why it kina of crapy.But how do you do skys?

[Mangaka]

I usually,,make a layer and the part I have as the sky , I mark it with the laso tool and then I go to the paint bucket,,** dont pick the paint bucket choes the other thing,,, what is it called now again?? grain tool I think choes a blue color and a Ligther blue,, then just make a strok with that tool and there you have a ,sky ,,, but to make it more skyish,,, I make another layer ontop of that layer,, and then brush very evry ligth with a whit color on the sky layer,, and then I go to filter- blure- Motion blure,, I don't know I am no good ad explaining without , pictures, and right now , I have no time to make a small tutorial,,, if you don't still don't understand, I can make a tutorial tomorrow,, today I have a report that I have to write ^_~ gomenasai

[Mangaka]

I think after the tutorial that I am working on now ,, all the questions are going to be answeared , heheh Ifound a recording program that lets me film while I am coloring,, so now I think it will be easeyer than ever to understand what I am doing and to learn how to color like I do ,

[Geki]

Woo, cool. ;)
I'm excited.

[Feathers!]

Axell- my advice to a beginner is dont copy any work or draw from other comics and stuff. Study drawing. Everything like form, shading, shadow/light, texture, perspective, still lifes, landscapes, portraits, and so on. Then move on to painting. Try all media & play with photoshop regularly.

"If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a dodgeball."- Patches O.
Similarly if you can draw a realism you can draw most anything else.

And when and if you take a drawing class dont show off if you have talent.
more specifically listen closely to the instructors and do things their way. alot of talented people are stuck because they dont grasp the basics.
and theres time cause your only 14, even if you started at 19 i think you could still be potentially awesome at this manga thing. peeses

[Arky]

Meh I thank your tutorial alot, I strayed off in some parts but oh well :)

Well anyway's heres the result I got...

666 Satan (http://www.tcoa.co.uk/~josh/images/satan1.jpg)

[Mangaka]

this is what I am taliking about,,, nobody understands, my tutorial completly , and that isn't the point,, I try of caurse to make people understand, but ,the important thing is to just give a kick in the ass to everyone so that they get on the right road,, cause with the basics,, after a month or two,, you will understand the second part, and maybe improvise with something you have learned and walla there you have your own style,

Oh and about the screenshoted movie tutorial I was talking about, that isn't possible,, when I turn on the screen record thing, then it makes everything so damn slow that you cant belive,, so when I find a better one,, I might do it @_@

But what I was thinking was,, one day ,, maybe next week,, I will have a online live coloring ,, witch mean that , I will choes a picture,, that everybody must color,, and we all will do it step by step,, I will make updates,, for example I will do the skin color and at the same time write on this forum , how the rest of you should do,, and then When I say,, that I am done ,, I am going to post the skinfinished picture and then people can compare or whatever .. I Hope you get what I mean ,,anyway,,, and the 666satan colouring is nice by the way

[julio]

maybe u should try to use Open Canvas a bit. I dont know if its really that different from photoshop but u can create events file that allow you to show your work step by step.

[Chiyo_chan]

waaiii Mangaka your pics are all soo cool and wonderful *love them* really ^^ I saw them and I am a fan now :D ^^ and I wanted you to ask, if you maybe could draw a character for me I made (I could send you the describtion) I would be soo happy...^-^

[Mangaka]

Thanks for the info julio,, I will try that,, and
Chiyo_chan send me it ,, I'll do something n___n anything for a fan :P

[Chiyo_chan]

waaiiii thank you ^^ :glomp ^^ already send it ^^

[Bauw]

Hello i am new to this forum and i did se this thread so i wanted to post one of my drawings i did do....

i like it cuse it is one of my first naruto drawings......
and i like to know how some of you sude color it cuse i am like realy shiti when it comes to coloring....can just color in Open Canvas 1.1....

so what do you thing and what can you do of it ???
http://www.deviantart.com/view/13013797/

and here is my coloring work on it....not to nice but i can live whit it...
http://www.deviantart.com/view/13015172/

yeah one more thing ... can some one help me on what i sude do better or so??? wood be realy great full...... thnx for everything....
(( ANd i know that the neck of the sweter is to biig and long... sorry ))

[mrTero]

Awsome!!!! Grate job Mangaka.. your name wil be rememberd for your greate Tutorial ;) hehe have a noce day

[asakura_yap]

need help here...!! where do i have to sent my coloring result till it publish in the naruto manga scan..(inane) :confused ?

[Geki]

I'm searching the same thing. :laugh
But it's not sure, if they publish it. :wink

[asakura_yap]

at least we send it..! I can't put it in Deviantart..!! heehe

[Geki]

Have you found something?

[Dimezanime88]

yo mangaka, this page doesn't work. i need it to get the eye part of the tutorial done:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Mangaka666/Tut-006.jpg

[Hitman89]

Yo Mangaka am coloring the last page of ch 243 and am wondeing how u do Kakashi scar and tear?

[Nishino]

Thanks for the awesome tut ^.^ . I managed to color this on my first ever attempt.
http://img83.exs.cx/img83/5021/done1bo.gif
:laugh

[Hitman89]

Good Job it look nice.

[Dimezanime88]

nishino, you did a good job, but you're gonna have to erase the color marks that are made out of the line. you shouldn't rush. but hey, you did much better than my attempt a coloring for the first time using manga-ka's and that soul guy's tut together. [look at my pic sig].

[Mangaka]

Sorry Guy's for not replying,, I am right in egypt,, drawing , teaching and stuff, I did bring my comp but I don't have time to use it a lot,,


about the scar, thin you was asking for, Hitman,,, what I would do is to make the skincolor first and everything, after that I would make a new layer,, , paintbrush and chose a very light, red color, then change the mode of the layer,, try every mode and check witch one makes the more realistique color for a scare,, when you have don that,,, look for where the light is coming from and then make a darker spots in the scar,,


dimezanime16: I looked up the thing you vere asking for and I couldn't find the damn thing,, since I have reinstaled my comp I lost all trak of the file,,, but I hope you can survive still ^_^ any problems just ask ...


Oh and my o my ,, anotherone trying my tut,, I am happy,, I thought everyone got tired of my old crap, but loki loki another koki in my boki,,

anyway about the Image ,, its wonderful for a first try, but I wish you and the others would have more paciance and color more,,, coloring isn't supose to be fast and,to get the jobb done,, you should have fun wile doing it,,, I think you shoudl for your next try have at least 3 diffrent,, typs if brightness in everything,,, one darker than the other ^_^ belive me it will look so much better, ,, but still that is such a nice coloring ,, for a first try that is a 10/10 ^_^

[nightangel]

Can anybody tell me how to make a sig plz!?