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Manga on a Budget: Manga Tones Part 2

turtledance24Posted for Everyone to comment on, 5 years ago4 min read

OMG... This post I made last year is terrible!

You see, I don't write articles like this before I came into Steemit and for the most of us all who are in Whaleshares.io, we came to write in Steemit our first blogs before any other sites. I used to hate social media sites like Facebook, twitter and tumblr(I still do hate tumblr) but it all changed when I got into Steemit. Well, what can I do about it, I think those sites are a waste of time because you will monetarily gain nothing out of it and yow will just end up being sucked into all those toxicity. I didn't really get the point of those sites until Steem.

For this post, I wouldn't be changing as much because I just want to show and see for myself how much improvement I had since last year. The manga tone post yesterday and today are the first few posts that I wrote for a blog last year. I had been typing and reading a lot since then(not to mention, I've been drawing too) and as I read my older post I always get surprised on how terrible I was back then.

I think writing, drawing or playing a game is something that you will learn the same way as a language, the more that you do it or get involved into it the better you become. You know, this introduction is already getting long. I better go on the real shit now!

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Now I'll be showing you guys other ways to apply manga tones.

I'll show how it is by using this picture I've draw.
First you need to do is make a new layer by pressing Shift+Ctrl+N.Then press G to select gradient.

Click the gradient options to show the different gradients.Click the rectangle next to the drop box option.
A window like this should show up. There are options below the gradient choices, those options differ depending on the gradient you choose.

You can choose any of those gradients. For this post I will pick the basic black and white gradient. Click any of the nodes in the end of the bar. Those nodes can be used to manipulate the gradient that will come out once you clicked okay and applied the actual gradient(actually setting this gradients takes some experimentation to know for what will work for the page, same as drawing, it requires practice to get better at using tones).Just remember that the the nodes can be clicked to change the direction and source of black.

Oh yeah, like what I showed the last post, gradient's opacity can be controlled.

Now here comes the cool part, find the color halftone option(don't remove the selection yet).

There will be a window that will pop up like this. Well if you set in some radius, you will get some dots or circles and the other options? I don't really know much about them(i'll just leave this details up to you to discover,I don't really do that much toning).

Then this should happen. By doing those steps, you get some kind of texture that can make you're comics better if used properly. At this case, I just want to put some tones on the shorts of this character(cause i suck at tones, and this is basically what I can do).

Then click eraser tool to erase excess.And that's it!

With this method you can do lot of variations like:

This page from Bleach has two tone variation. One was used to cover almost half the page(the background), and the other is for another area, which is also a background(can you see how lazy this author is?).

This one is good at using tones. Kawashita Mizuki's work is really much more targeted to boys, yet it has a little shoujo feel in it.This one is called harem(a genre consisting of a male main character and a lot of girls)
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Another thing that can help and some tips.



Like the colors and the gradients, the eraser tool's opacity can be controlled. By doing so, you can make a gradient with just a plain color and the eraser tool.

There are more ways of applying manga tones out there. Some people even download different gradient, some download the tones itself. Well, I can't really show them all to you cause, even I want to, I can't--because I suck at tones.
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Most of the photos here are mine except for the Bleach and Anedoki cropped page

Bleach is owned by Tite Kubo and Shueisha

Anedoki is owned by Kawashita Mizuka and Shueisha

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