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What are interesting/clever art techniques used by manga/comic artists?

>> No.7078140
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I will post some examples of what I mean

>making the background black to indicate thinking.

>> No.7078141
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By drawing motion lines around a shocked face, you can communicate shock
and you can vary the intensity of the shock by drawing more or less motion lines
It's more effective than simply drawing a shocked face on a plain background

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This next one is an interesting one.. and I'm not sure how best to describe it
But by drawing a "distorted" background.. it communicates a unique feel to the action
I'm not sure how to put it in words but you can probably tell by looking at the panels yourself

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And a plain white background with lots of open space, and sometimes a delicate sound effect like a little tap or swoosh... this communicates a sort of
I suppose I could word it as a comic panel "sigh"
the intensity of the action drops, and the atmosphere becomes lighter

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Contrast with it's opposite, a very heavy atmosphere, which can be communicated with a darker tone, a higher contrast, not as much open space, and very intense sound effects of heavy noise.

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Things moving very fast can be communicated with excessive speed lines, sometimes breaking into the drawing of the character itself... this one is well known

>> No.7078146
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And finally, here is a showcase of impact panels... not sure how best to describe the key elements of this.. but here are some impact panels I collaged together

>> No.7078148
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I also collaged together a series of noses because I feel the common preconception is that manga artist don't know how to draw noses.

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Here is a collage of various anime faces to show the various ways the proportions and shapes of the face can be altered

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This is as far as I've got.
I would like to look into the various uses of the kinds of common panel structures such as pic related, to see what kind of effect they have on a panel.

If anyone has anything interesting to contribute please share it.

>> No.7078285

Those techniques all have names (効果線, カケアミ, 効果背景 etc..)

Learn japanese, westoid.
https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/効果線

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>>7078139
Framed Ink is all about this topic.

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Also Scott McCloud's Making Comics, and Understanding Comics

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>> No.7078830

Does anyone have a base grid skeleton to start drawing manga?

>> No.7080771

>>7078148
>common preconception
common postconception as well

>> No.7081405

interesting thread OP, it's always useful to learn to observe what other artists are doing for yourself, rather than relying on teaching resources that break things down for you.