Learn how to draw anime and manga style! We have over 80 manga drawing instructions from basics to publishing - and we're constantly growing. Best of all, instructions are free, non-membership exclusive, and covers a wide range of topics. We also have a forum and oekaki for those looking for a place to hang out, share your drawings, and of course - get critiques. All ages and skill-levels are welcome! http://www.mangatutorials.com/ Our CG tutorial starts you off with learning how to clean you your image. Next month I'll cover how to color your work cel-style. Also, check out this month's Your Art submissions and enjoy the return of the Book Reviews! Get reviews of books you're unsure of getting. Still not sure? Hit the forum for more answers from your peers. Anyways, have a fun summer! n_n http://www.mangatutorials.com Check out the last Manga Studio tutorial for awhile: Word Balloons Using EX. Later this month, I will begin CG and anatomy tutorials. If you have any particular tutorial you want to see, drop by the forum and make your suggestion. And be sure to check out our resource page which has tons of new links for you to check out. http://www.mangatutorials.com Tomorrow, I will be once again try to convert the forum to phpBB3. I do not know how long it will take but keep your eyes peeled for an announcement in the forum when it will close and re-open.

This week's Your Art submissions are up and remember, you can send some of your art in too! Last but not least, the Advanced Paneling tutorial is now up. Next week, I will round it all off with a tutorial on how to create Word Balloons using Manga Studio EX. See you then! http://www.mangatutorials.com This week, I'm covering how to make word balloons in Manga Studio. Next week, I'll be covering various tips and how to letter your manga and end my tutorials on Manga Studio with Advanced Paneling Techniques on April 28th. Next month, I'll start new tutorials so stay tuned for more info on that next time.

Awhile back, I received an email from an AOL user regarding drawing materials - those are listed on the left-hand-side. Click on the links on the left and it'll take you to new categories. If you send me an email and expect a reply, please don't block me (i.e. put my email on your "Friends" list). Anyways, we have new Your Art submissions for you to check out and be sure to send some of your art in too! http://www.mangatutorials.com This month, we continue our Manga Studio tutorials with learning how to make motion lines with action and focus lines. We also have new Your Art submissions for you to check out.

Our Groupboard can now be viewed even though you don't have the password so have a looksie if you're curious what the Groupboard is all about. The GB also now have admins so if you have any problems there, tell one of the admins; Celes, Dokken, and henry; and we'll help you out. See you next week! http://www.mangatutorials.com We round off this month with learning how to set tones in Manga Studio. For April, we will be finishing off the last of the Manga Studio tutorials with lettering, word balloons, advanced paneling techniques and various tips after you're all done.

I'd also like to remind people that I'm always accepting artwork for our Your Art Gallery. Submit your art today and it'll be posted up asap! http://www.mangatutorials.com We continue our Manga Studio tutorials this week by finally learning how to draw in the program. Aside from drawing, this tutorial also touches upon importing your drawings from your scanner and other digital files. All in all, it's a very long tutorial and I've split it into two! Start reading up on drawing and importing with Part I.

This week, we have also a bunch of color artwork for you to see. Be sure to check them out in the Your Art Gallery and see you next time! http://www.mangatutorials.com This week, we continue the Manga Studio tutorials with how to make panels quickly and easily. Don't forget to check out the new Your Art submissions! http://www.mangatutorials.com I've completed the conversion of the site to an all-out php site. The site mostly looks the same but there has been some changes including a new, easy-to-access link to our Groupboard. The Drawing Books page has undergone some changes into what I hope to be an easier way to view all the books.

Further good news, you guys can start checking out the new tutorial series that'll walk you through on how to use Manga Studio! This week, we'll start with the basics with more advanced topics each week. Enjoy and see you next week! http://www.mangatutorials.com I'm happy to say that I'm half-way done with site the conversion to php. I expect to launch the "new and improved" version later this month. After that, I will try to update the forum again to phpBB3 sometime in April and post up new books and tutorials including how to use Manga Studio... but that won't be for awhile. For now, enjoy the new batch of Your Art submissions including a belated Happy Christmas and New Years artwork! *<:) http://www.mangatutorials.com Friday came and went and my attempts at converting our forum to the new phpBB3 didn't go as smoothly at all.

Aside from that setback, I am making progress converting the main site to php which will make things easier for me to update the website. I expect to be done with this conversion around March or April. After this conversion, I will be moving on to other upgrades to the site and new tutorials.

I'd like to remind everyone that I will be holding a program teaching how to use Manga Studio next month on March 6 @ 5:30 pm here in NY, Hudson Vally Region. If you're in the area and is interested in attending, please email me for more details. Space is limited so get in touch asap! And don't forget to check up on the new Your Art submissions or submit yours too! http://www.mangatutorials.com In case you missed it or forgot, I will be upgrading the forum to phpBB3 this coming Friday, February 22 in the morning EST. I do not know how long it will take but I would appreciate your patience during the conversion.

Be sure to check out the new Your Art artwork and new Featured Artist artwork. http://www.mangatutorials.com I will be upgrading the forum from phpBB2 to phpBB3. This will take place on Friday, February 22 and will begin in the morning circa 8/9 EST. While I am upgrading, the forum will be shut down so no one may post anything. This is to ensure that the conversion will go as smoothly as possible and nothing is lost.

In the meantime, be sure to check out the latest submissions to the Your Art page. This week has some pretty nice artwork! n_n http://www.mangatutorials.com A long-awaited update to our Your Art page has finally happened! There's also a brand-spanking new way to view the images. Unlike the previous method which popped-up a new window which you have to close each time, this new gallery viewer lets you continue viewing without having to close the window at all!

To controll this new swank viewer, just move your mouse to the upper-left or right side of the image. Hit the "Prev" or "Next" button to move to the previous or next image. Hit the "Close" button below the image to get out. Enjoy the new gallery and see you next week! http://www.mangatutorials.com Along with some new Your Art artwork, all tutorials in the site now has a printer-friendly option for those who would like a hard-copy of our tutorials for later use. Just look for the printer icon on the top of each tutorial and print away! http://www.mangatutorials.com Some exciting changes have occured in the forum! One of them is a new Album where all Your Art submissions will eventually go along with other images including works by the Groupboard Gang. Features include commenting, rating, and creating your own user gallery!

Also, the forum now has a direct link to the Oekaki page and a new spam section has opened, aptly called the Chatterbox where you can talk about (almost) anything to your little hearts content! Come and drop by the forum and register if you haven't already! http://www.mangatutorials.com/bb/ Ilayan Spirov is back again with another mecha tutorial for you. This time, he's covering Mecha's: The Basics. Also, if you haven't heard, there's another manga contest being held by Kodansha called the Morning International Manga Contest. For more details on this along with other contests, visit the News section of the forum! http://www.mangatutorials.com/tut/mecha1.htm Listed under Details, we have a new tutorial on how to draw a helicoptor in it's profile view made by Iliyan Spirov, better known as BEAR in the forum. We also have new Your Art up plus printable versions of tutorials have begun starting with the new helicoptor and the Wings tutorial. To print the tutorials, just hit the printer icon and it will take you to the printer-friendly tutorial page. http://www.mangatutorials.com/tut/helicoptor.htm No, not literally but it makes a great title huh? The Google Search that has been available in the front page is now available on all the pages in Manga Tutorials! Search after reading a tutorial, while checking out the books, or browsing any of the other pages in the site. This new feature does not include the forum and oekaki. http://www.mangatutorials.com We're now accepting members for the new Drawing Room in the Oekaki Board. Drawing Room members are allowed to draw more than the stated one oekaki per day rule! For more information on how to join, visit the forum and see if you qualify.

A polling system is being set up for artwork that may be posted in the MOB Favorites room. Check back later for more details when it'll be available. I'd also like to remind everyone that the Avatar Contest - Let's Party! is ending this Saturday. Send in your submission to Rio asap! http://www.mangatutorials.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=6530 Things just get better and better! Oekaki's in the MOB can now go up to 600 pixels, jumping up from the previous maximum of 400. Thumbnails were also changed from miniscule 50 pixel size to a whopping 175x175 pixels! All rooms now hold more Oekaki's so you can see more older works than before and with bigger previews and artwork.

Two new rooms have also been included. The MOB Favorites has been reinstated and works should begin moving there as soon as any outstanding Oekaki is made. The second room, The Drawing Room, is for the serious artist and will become accessable only to specific members. Being a member of that room means you can create more than the "one Oekaki per day" rule. Visit the forum for more details on how to join The Drawing Room plus learn about more Oekaki news! http://www.mangatutorials.com/oekaki.htm After a bit of a hiatus, the Avatar Contest is back in full force! Enter to get bragging rights, have your work permanently made available to all forum members, and have fun. This month's theme is Let's Party! and with bigger avatar specs; 100x100 pixels and 25MB file size; than before, you can really get creative. Entries must be sent in by June 30th. For full details, visit the forum. Let's see what you can do!

If you like contests, Shojo Beat is also holding one called "Design a Beat Girl Contest". Check out the forum for more detail. http://mangatutorials.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=6448 The thuggishly-named MOB (MangaTutorials Oekaki Board) has been updated with new specifications of what artwork belongs in what Room plus two new rules have been instituted: 1) Use proper grammer and 2) No foul language is permitted. For specific details on the Room details, visit the Oekaki page.

Forum members can now enjoy special rank icons stating where they are exactly in the working world of the Manga Tutorials forum. Where does your rank fall? http://www.mangatutorials.com No, I'm not talking about a tummy tuck.

A few minor changes happened today. For one, the site viewed through Internet Explorer should be perfectly fine now. (Yeah, I know - it took a long time because I surf via Firefox and didn't notice how Explorer was loading the site atrociously until a day ago.) I've added a bit more to the About Us page, added and changed some things in the FAQs and reworked the Affiliates and Advertisement sections.

Also, I've made the text and links a bit bigger for the tutorials and the menu bar to the side. Did you notice? http://www.mangatutorials.com/ We're proud to present a long-awaited service to all our visitors new and old: an RSS feed. To those unfamiliar with an RSS, it's a nifty service that notifies you of the latest info on a web site instantaneously! Been away for awhile? No problem, the RSS feed will keep track of all the updates that've been made while you were away. All you have to do is link to our feed address from your favorite RSS Reader such as Google Reader and you should be receiving news on any updates this site has made. No fuss, no muss! Look for the RSS logo in our front page to get yourself started. http://www.mangatutorials.com/ Another month, another update. Your Art pages have been updated... and that's about it. ^_^; Maybe something new will be up next time... http://www.mangatutorials.com/gallery.htm