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Random Manga made while in Australia

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Just as the title says. Download for full size.

I knew I would have plenty of free time during evenings and I had prepared myself with reasonable set of drawing utensils. So I thought, hey, let's draw a manga, a random one. And I did. The story has nothing to do with the actual trip though. I went with something rather basic so that I could do it quite quickly. It's about two girls having verbal fight while two other girls are spectating the debate.

I drew everyday and finished one page per two days, 8 pages in total. I kept the schedule like that even though I had chances to draw even more per day, because I didn't want to break my wrist. It was a wise choice. I usually draw my practice mangas with technical pen only, but since I had so much time and I wanted to have some variety, I decided to ink the pages too.

Edit: I drew this on A5 notebook, and due to my demanding nature of work space etc, all the pages are "odd" pages (it was easier to draw that way). I just arranged the pages here in a way I imagined they would look as full spreads.

For inking I used Staedler pigment liner 0.1 and Sakura Pigma Micron 0.05. I also tried using Sakura Pigma Brush for big black areas, but I didn't like solid black. So majority of the black areas are made with Staedler 0.1 pen. I would have preferred using 0.05 for that (like I actually did on page 5), but I noticed it took considerably more time, and not worth the effort for this kind of comic project. In architectural drawing, using the finest liner is necessary for lively black color.

For extra challenge and practice I tried drawing some perspectives there and there too. There weren't many of those in the end. Regardless, I can say I learned a bit more of drawing them.

I didn't plan the characters before starting the manga. After drawing the first panel, I just decided to include the two girls next to the main characters for some variety. I think it worked rather well. The character personalities fleshed out during the drawing process. I thought introducing each character, but then I decided to make it look like "they've already been introduced", kind of. So although the characters don't have names (with one exclusion), here are short description of each:

The main character (Touka): Only character who got a name. She is the one who makes the unexpected moves.
The challenger (Queen): she apparently has tendency to oppress others. Not so strong in willpower though.
Bystander 1 (white hair): she is the most normal and realistic of the four. She has hard time to comprehend all the weird things happening in the manga.
Bystander 2 (black hair): a little timid, but highly adaptable. She is pretty normal, but has tendency to do weird side comments.

Lastly, should you leave a comment, I would like to ask, if you find the manga:
a)Fine as is
b)Fine, but too lewd for general view
c)Just lewd and not suitable for general view
d)Other

Thanks for taking your time reading this long description, and reading the manga! :D

EDIT: Feel free to point out things that you find problematic or wrong. I'm fairly aware of the many errors, but I may not know how to do them better. For example, the dialogue is rather annoying thing for me to do, as I'm not native English speaker.
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Hntpo's avatar
That was awesome :D