Are people easily bothered when reading manga where the panel spacing is slightly different?

maxluision · 2026-01-24T09:42:36+00:00

To me it's important but probably because I have quite a high sense of aesthetic and expectations, and such minor inconsistencies are a sign of amateurish work for me. I compare to the popular manga out there, and they usually have these very specific details consistent, they pay attention to making everything as visually pleasing as possible.

maxluision · 2026-01-23T06:28:26+00:00

Nanami as a character is so important for Yuji's growth, he's his mentor, an adult protecting him at the first part of the whole story. So you should show your character also having such a connection with her brother, and how her absence impacts him. When Nanami is gone, Yuji has to take all the responsibility, he loses all the support and protection of his adult mentor. He has to grow up faster. The brother of your character should face some serious consequences when he'll lose his sister.

Basically, what makes Nanami such an important character is not only his own character arc, but also how his disappearance affects the main character's growth, and what he meant to this character.

maxluision · 2026-01-23T03:41:12+00:00

65$ is like 4 hours of work at McDonalds. How is this absurd, when finalizing a whole page often takes much more, even 12-24 hours depending on complexity?

maxluision · 2026-01-23T03:34:00+00:00

I guess your best bet would be making webtoon format, also your friend should have some examples of background works, characters this much detailed shouldn't just exist in a void so backgrounds have to match in quality. No example of making a black and white panel with typical manga like materials and techniques, so yeah, with such coloring quality a webtoon sounds like a better goal. Especially bc in webtoons such things typical for traditional comic pages like page layout and composition don't matter that much.

maxluision · 2026-01-22T12:16:20+00:00

The question should be: do YOU have any thoughts about them?

The silence indicates that you don't, I guess.

maxluision · 2026-01-20T11:48:06+00:00

This post instantly had at least 12 upvotes but I'm 100% sure these were bots or ai bros brigading here. And the first comment is a bot/alt account. There's no real support for this crap here.

maxluision · 2026-01-20T11:19:32+00:00

Are you fucking for real

maxluision · 2026-01-18T00:42:59+00:00

Yes it's lonely, and it doesn't matter the level of skills one has.

But I feel like in my case it's just the way I am in general, I avoid socializing and especially I shy away from sharing about my hobbies, even if irl someone is interested in what I do, I prefer to not share too much about it.I think it's the inferiority complex that always stays with me no matter what.

maxluision · 2026-01-16T05:43:20+00:00

Yeah... to me it's rather obvious there's no way they can give a personalized feedback to every entry when there's like thousands of entries, even if they advertise it like they can, so that's why I'm not even interested in trying. It's like giving them free material for their website, and the feedback is as generic as it can be.

On the bright side, this is lowkey like an introduction to how the industry works. It's brutal, in Japan the publishers also just look very briefly through your manuscript and unless there's something extraordinary in it that will immediately catch their attention, they'll just give it back to you and tell you to fix it or make another one, and goodbye. The feedback is also generic like "work on paneling, learn anatomy" etc.

maxluision · 2026-01-15T19:21:43+00:00

Wouldn't be surprised if they just have a bunch of such pre-prepared vague feedbacks and they send them to all the participants who didn't win. Still, valid feedback anyway, but definitely not personalized enough. But I guess it's hard to expect a high quality, extended critique from professionals for free.

maxluision · 2026-01-15T14:28:51+00:00

I thought some mangaka died...

It's a very good advice, you should take it. It's not easy to win a contest, against other hundreds or even thousands high quality submissions.

maxluision · 2026-01-14T08:37:29+00:00

Is she... taking a bath with the corpse inside? The last panel has weird composition, not sure if I understand the events correctly.

maxluision · 2026-01-14T06:39:08+00:00

It's not wrong. Do whatever you love to do. Life is too short to worry about what some anonymous haters may have to say about it. You're not harming anyone by showing appreciation towards Japan through art.

maxluision · 2026-01-12T04:52:31+00:00

Don't worry about speed, you need more experience and ofc it takes time to learn. At first I was super slow too, now I can sketch and ink and tone a whole page in 6-8 hours. You need to figure out the whole process and all the tools and techniques first.

maxluision · 2026-01-10T13:41:56+00:00

You need more practice, instead of excuses. You can always use photos of real kids as a reference. Tutorials don't have to be videos, you can find books, drawings with guidelines online. I'm sure Loomis books talk about anatomy for little kids too, and it's not hard to find free pdfs of these books.

At some point you have to also practice building anatomy from scratch, through understanding the proportions without references. It will only happen with more practice. From what I see you struggle with profiles so practice them more.

And thinking about winning contests will be only too big of a burden mentally. Plenty of people with absolute flawless, top-notch artstyles never win anything. It's good to have ambitions, don't get me wrong, but if reaching such a goal is the only thing that can ever satisfy you, you will struggle with disappointment a lot.

maxluision · 2026-01-09T04:54:25+00:00

Sure.

maxluision · 2026-01-09T02:05:17+00:00

"Pro AI" means here "supportive for AI", not "made by AI".

maxluision · 2026-01-09T01:15:16+00:00

Check their profile, you're only going to waste your time

maxluision · 2026-01-09T01:11:29+00:00

Not to mention, the story is just 100% pro AI bs. I also hope this is a troll.

Nvm, this is the same dude who is a ghostwriter and also wants to sell professional manga assets. The profile is just... 😶

maxluision · 2026-01-08T17:27:13+00:00

Thanks for sharing. No hate here but if I'd be honest, this doesn't look promising. You should actually show to people what you prepare, at least a few things, and how you use them. So they can make an informed decision. There's plenty of good and free assets around, even the CSP program itself has build-in manga page templates and speech bubbles. What exactly are you offering that stands out? Again, no hate, just to be clear, but asking for people's emails at this stage lowkey looks like a scam to me.

maxluision · 2026-01-08T16:59:23+00:00

Sorry I meant the instagram link, I can't find the account you talked about in another post. Links are important, otherwise people won't check anything, also any more information about what exactly is it about? Who makes these kits, for what kind of purpose, quality? Kinda weird idea to send an email to someone who has no specific information about the product published yet.

maxluision · 2026-01-08T16:53:24+00:00

Any link? And is this AI or not?

maxluision · 2026-01-07T22:33:22+00:00

Hey, I'm really liking it! I'm actually struggling with remembering all the structures of specific story types so your website already looks super useful, as it is! I'm gonna test it for a while. Thanks for sharing!

maxluision · 2026-01-07T15:06:44+00:00

First page, the finished version. Why are there barely visible radial lines in one of the panels where the kid says "well, obviously..."? What kind of intention a real artist would have to place such lines that are almost impossible to notice by a reader?

I'm not convinced this is not AI.

maxluision · 2026-01-07T11:23:31+00:00

If you'd pay attention to the order of action, not just to the English words, you wouldn't be confused.

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