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Tomecko

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My Bio
Current Residence: Oregon, USA
Favourite genre of music: Everything but rap and country
Favourite style of art: Anime, cel-style
Operating System: Windows XP
MP3 player of choice: iTunes
Favourite cartoon character: Garfield. We share the sarcasm.
Personal Quote: "...Meh."

Favourite Movies
Matrix series, LOTR
Favourite TV Shows
Doctor Who, Buffy, Criminal Minds
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Changes too often.
Favourite Writers
Dan Brown, Michael Crichton
Favourite Games
Creatures, Final Fantasy series, DDR, Kingdom Hearts
Favourite Gaming Platform
Playstation 2
Tools of the Trade
pencil, micron pen, Copic markers, graphic tablet, OpenCanvas 4.0, Photoshop 7.0
Other Interests
Cosplay, comics, biking, fashion design, reading, and many others
Hello, art friends! I've finally jumped on the ol' bandwagon and created a Facebook cosplay page for myself, where I'll be sharing photos, WIPs, designs, and other cosplay-related things. If you're interested in following my cosplay journey on Facebook, you can find me here: https://www.facebook.com/tomeckocosplays Thank you!
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I reached 25,000 pageviews today! I feel like this is a landmark worthy of a journal entry.
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Went through all my 336 deviations (and journals) and fixed up the tags, although I still don't really understand how the tags are different from the search keywords.
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nice art! It’s so cool!

Can I ask you something?

Do you have any advice on drawing a manga?

Hmmm, my recent Rosegarden comic was the first 'manga' of any sort that I drew, so I certainly wouldn't call myself an expert. But here's a few tips:


- Find a good screentone pack. Deviantart is a great resource for that. It can also provide some nice 'effect' brushes, like sparkles, bubbles, speedlines, and the like.


- Use your favorite manga as inspiration for panel layouts.


- If you're not familiar already, learn how to use layer masks for applying screentone. It makes it much easier to go back and adjust things, add in gradient fades, etc.


- Proper 'flow' between panels/speech bubbles is one of the most crucial things. A comic where you can't tell what panel to look at/which speech bubble comes next is practically unreadable. Write your script first, and plan your panels to fit the speech bubbles. Then fit the art in around it.


- Try to vary the 'camera angles.' If the last few panels had someone facing straight-on to the camera, switch it up with a three-quarters view. 'Tilt' the camera for visual interest on dramatic panels, rather than have characters perfectly perpendicular all the time.


Hope this helps!

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