Many people dream of publishing mangas or simply creating illustrations and fan art. With the advancement of technology, most of these illustrations and even mangas are made on a graphics tablet and using applications and programs. Keeping this in mind, in this article we will present some tools and applications that can help you when editing your art and creating your comics.
Programs for editing illustrations and mangas
MediBang Paint – MediBang Paint Pro is a free and lightweight software used for creating illustrations and mangas. It is compatible with Windows and Mac and has versions for mobile devices. Although it is free software, it contains numerous tools. You will find everything you need to create your illustrations and mangas. The program has over 50 brushes, different layers, layouts to create comics, page control to manage your mangas, and backgrounds to use in your mangas.
MangaName – MangaName is a simplified application that contains a pen, eraser, and some shape tools necessary for creating sketches. Name is a Japanese term used to describe manga sketches. A mangaka uses “name” to layout pages, decide character positions, angles, etc.
Jump Paint – It is an application for creating mangas, available in versions for PC, smartphone, tablet, etc. It is completely free and comes with tutorials on creating mangas, which are produced by the editorial team of the renowned Japanese manga magazine, Weekly Shonen Jump. Jump Paint contains all the necessary tools to create manga, such as layers, G pen, countless tones, among others. In addition, you can save your mangas in the cloud, which has unlimited available space.
You can access all these applications mentioned here by clicking on the image below:
Where to publish my illustrations and mangas?
The MediBang is also a site for publishing and reading mangas and illustrations created by ordinary people. Publishing your works on this site can help you become known and who knows, become a successful illustrator or mangaka. In addition to MediBang, we will leave a list of other sites where you can also share your works:
- Pixiv – The main online artist community where members submit illustrations, mangas, and novels or search for works created by others;
- MangaDojo – A community that allows professional and independent mangakas to showcase their work and collaborate with others;
- DeviantArt – A famous social network focused on sharing illustrations, drawings, and artistic works;
We have already written several articles talking about creating mangas:
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