Manga Comics for Beginners: From Concept to Creation

Learn how to write and create a manga comic from scratch using professional techniques used by Japanese artists for storytelling and character design

• Introduction
• Creating a Manga Story
• Drawing Your Manga
• Inking Your Manga
• Digitizing Your Manga
• Final project

The increasing popularity of manga means that anyone can enjoy, produce, and add their own culture to the art form, meeting amazing characters and visiting magical places along the way. Manga artist Natalia Batista has published comics across Europe and the US, and she owns her own publishing company that has received international recognition.

In this course, she teaches you the whole manga writing process, from the initial concept to the finished comic. Create your own manga page from scratch, discovering the tools and techniques used by Japanese manga artists to make your work look professional.

Interested in developing your manga character design skills? In her first course, The Art of Manga: Drawing Unique Characters, Natalia takes you through the process of drawing fictional manga characters from start to finish.

• About Me
• Influences
• An Introduction to Manga
• Tools and Materials
• Creating Your Concept and Characters
• Writing Your Script 1
• Writing Your Script 2
• Basic Visual Narration
• Storyboarding Your Story
• Sketching a Page or Spread 1
• Sketching a Page or Spread 2
• Drawing Backgrounds 1
• Drawing Backgrounds 2
• Steel Nib Inking, Speed Lines, and Sound Effects
• Inking Your Page 1
• Inking Your Page 2
• Inking Your Page 3
• Digitizing and Lettering
• Using Screentones 1
• Using Screentones 2
• Sharing Your Manga with the World
• Manga Comics for Beginners: From Concept to Creation