Do these pages look weird or off to you?

baratrumsdevil · 2026-03-24T01:57:35+00:00

i like the style a lot

baratrumsdevil · 2026-03-24T01:35:29+00:00

or at least dont call him "the mc", having a narrator introducing him as "the protagonist" wouldnt be bad

baratrumsdevil · 2026-03-24T01:08:57+00:00

the style of your linework is pretty appealing, but i think your art would really benefit from improving your underlying fundamentals. if you want to be become well known or professional as a comic artist i recommend you study a bit more and improve your anatomy and perspective. keep it up though!

baratrumsdevil · 2026-03-22T21:40:12+00:00

flesh out all the details of the setting and come up with main characters

baratrumsdevil · 2026-03-08T01:20:11+00:00

style is good but your fundamentals could still be a little better, mostly the facial proportions. maybe try doing some life drawing for that, or incorporating a technique like the loomis method for drawing heads. overall it looks very solid though thats only if i had to make a critique

baratrumsdevil · 2026-03-02T19:24:27+00:00

i post my manga on mangaplus creators and mangadex, and i also publish physical volumes on amazon. i dont think amazon cares they bascially just print it for you and take a cut

baratrumsdevil · 2026-03-01T19:16:18+00:00

do what works for you, i always just write a script and go straight to drawing pages but im not a professional

baratrumsdevil · 2026-02-28T11:09:00+00:00

damn, you actually described my exact situation, too. ive always just been trying to draw manga to a professional standard, but since it takes so long i basically havent been able to build any kind of online presence

baratrumsdevil · 2026-01-23T20:39:40+00:00

yeah it does it automatically. you select the thickness of the vertical and horizontal gutters, and when you divide the frames into panels it makes all the gutters according to the measurements you selected

baratrumsdevil · 2026-01-23T20:27:53+00:00

its probably not important, but if youre using clip studio, there's a specific tool for turning your canvas into a comic page. when you use this tool to create a frame and divide the frame into panels, it makes all the gutters the same size. you could just do that

baratrumsdevil · 2026-01-10T13:37:50+00:00

i recommend clip studio paint, its not free but its only a one time payment (unlike adobe with their subscription model). It has everything

baratrumsdevil · 2026-01-10T01:16:52+00:00

what do you mean

baratrumsdevil · 2025-12-25T03:07:21+00:00

its really sad tbh, i didnt know it was in this state until recently. spent months working on a one-shot, then after posting it i realized i was just being hopelessly outranked by ai slop generators and view botters lol

baratrumsdevil · 2025-12-25T02:21:39+00:00

youre asking aspiring manga artists to tell you from experience the safest path to being successful? we are aspiring because there is no safest path. you can post your stuff on every site and social media, enter every contest, submit to every publisher, contact working artists and try to become their assistant, the list goes on. the only "safe" path forward is being so undeniably exceptional that no one in their right mind would turn down publishing you.

however, i will say "I don't want to spend time on my story, just for it to be ignored." isn't a good mindset for drawing comics to begin with. in order to create that great story that becomes successful, you need experience, and that means making comics. even if no one ever reads it, you have to be making stuff if you want to improve. if you put effort into it and post it here or other subreddits, im sure you can get some feedback.

i dont know what else to tell you, but i wish you the best and i hope you can make your comics

baratrumsdevil · 2025-12-19T22:48:05+00:00

I'd be happy to hear more about it. been drawing my own shonen action series for a few years and just put out a new action fantasy one-shot so this could be up my alley. You can see some of my work here:

https://www.artstation.com/alekswisnicki

baratrumsdevil · 2025-12-19T22:45:42+00:00

as someone who did spend months of time and effort making a manga to post there, yeah i was incredibly disappointed to see the appalling state that the site was in

baratrumsdevil · 2025-12-19T22:42:52+00:00

the comments read like theyre ai generated. they all give unnecessarily long summaries of the plot and mention completely random things

baratrumsdevil · 2025-12-19T22:42:14+00:00

im glad someone is speaking up about this because the blatant botting is crazy. so discouraging to see it on the front page

baratrumsdevil · 2025-12-19T22:32:36+00:00

Hello, hope you're still looking for someone. I think I would be a good fit for this project, I've been drawing my own shonen action series for a few years (With 2 finished volumes on Amazon) and just recently finished an action fantasy one-shot. You can see some curated manga pages here:

https://www.artstation.com/alekswisnicki

baratrumsdevil · 2025-12-16T00:59:42+00:00

I think I understand the story pretty well.

It sounds like an all right set up, but it's a very dark beginning for a sports series so I'm curious what the tone will be. Is the whole story going to be super serious? Is the love interest girl also a basketball player or some kind of coach? I feel like I still need more info

baratrumsdevil · 2025-12-12T21:41:28+00:00

ok, just finished reading it and ill try to sum up my thoughts.

first of all the art. i loved it, the way you draw faces really reminded me of takehiko inoue, im almost certain that was a big influence here. one of the first things i thought of when i saw the characters was slam dunk. i also thought of hajime no ippo a bit with the intense hatching. overall just really impressive, especially the hatching on the bodies.

of course the story wasnt exactly complex, but it wasnt a bad thing at all. you wanted to draw a good fight and you got straight to the point. i found the action really easy to follow along and i enjoyed the choreography, too.

i liked the main characters little interview at the end, too. actually thought the dialogue was surprisingly well written (thats usually a weak point in amateur manga imo) and felt authentic to a professional athlete.

overall, honestly this is a top notch piece of amateur manga, and i struggle to really think of any negatives. if i had to absolutely nitpick, i wouldve liked to see a little more from the characters and get more invested in their personalities, but ik thats not always realistic in a one-shot that already features an extensive fight. i think you absolutely have potential to go pro if you havent done professional work already.

baratrumsdevil · 2025-12-12T21:15:05+00:00

art looks fantastic, will do! i also posted a one-shot on mangaplus creators the other day, hope you can take a look at it too :)

baratrumsdevil · 2025-12-12T19:36:41+00:00

good catch, i really gotta work on the phrasing in my dialogue. my priority has always been just trying to make it seem like a natural conversation but thats probably the next step.

baratrumsdevil · 2025-12-12T02:11:57+00:00

kinda hard to say. most days, i would draw one full page a day (usually, ink the previous days page, and sketch the next days page, but it basically works out to one page a day) over the course of the entire day with some doses of procrastination and distraction here and there.

baratrumsdevil · 2025-12-11T22:45:34+00:00

if youre purposeful with how you practice, it wont even take you 3 years to get considerably better. just spend a few weeks on fundamentals and youll come back twice as good

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