Tips for Starting a Manga?

[ComplexCity]

Anyone have tips for starting a manga? Like the basics and such? I have two manga I want to create.

Is Hunter X Hunter a "good template" for a series with a great story?

 

[Kingu]

You have to be japanese.

 

[Prog]

For a best selling manga worldwide,

1. Be shonen
2. Be inspired by DBZ

 

[OG sama]

Ask CasualMisfit, he not too long ago started his own manga.

 

[Venomous Cobra]

hxh has a great story and really tips arent going to help, its your manga , people will understand nothing, and the fact that you're right now asking people's opinion about your story shows that you dont think that its great, starting a manga is= hard but keeping up with is harder
:/ , i am being very honest

OT: ask the memberCasualMisfit (or whatever **** his name is) he already started he own manga

 

[Milliana]

Avoid asspullery.

 

[Waindo]

For a best selling manga worldwide,

1. Be shonen
2. Be inspired by DBZ

/thread .

 

[ComplexCity]

hxh has a great story and really tips arent going to help, its your manga , people will understand nothing, and the fact that you're right now asking people's opinion about your story shows that you dont think that its great, starting a manga is= hard but keeping up with is harder
:/ , i am being very honest

OT: ask the memberCasualMisfit (or whatever **** his name is) he already started he own manga

Appreciate the comment however, I don't think there is anything wrong with asking where to begin. I want to try and avoid what Kishimoto-Dono did with Naruto Shippuden

 

[Cfighter]

I've been working on a manga for the last few years. Some tips I can share with you:

• If you have skills in drawing, then by all means draw it yourself. Study on the basic style and fundamental understandings of the type of art you see in manga and practice drawing in that style.
• Check out books on human and animal anatomy and begin developing your own 'style' within the preexisting style of manga. [another good way to start is practice by drawing other manga characters. Eventually however, you will have to develop your own drawing style for your own manga]
• Really evaluate if a MANGA is the route you want to go. Making a manga is hard, excruciating work that will require a LOT of TIME and PATIENCE. Consider other routes such as comics, as they can be thrown together considerably easier than a good manga can be.
• If you have absolutely no drawing talent, fear not. Make friends or hire someone who does and have them draw your manga. Unlike simple online comics, audiences choose manga almost entirely for the art. If you have no skills in drawing or learning how to draw that type of art style then you need to consider other options.
• Spend A LOT of time on your story. It doesnt have to be the biggest, most complex story ever written, but you do have to know the basics of story telling and have a compelling story with good written characters to build and keep an audience. - I have spent the last 3 years on my manga SOLELY on the story and developing characters, and Im still not satisfyied to point where I can start drawing it yet.
• There are no "templates" for a story. You either have one or you dont. There are story STRUCTURES, such as the three act structre commonly seen in films, but if you constantly look at someone elses story while you are developing your own then eventually you will loose grip of your own story and it will become a rip off of your "template" - you can take INSPIRATION from another story, like Naruto did from Dragon Ball Z, but never loose sight of your story's message. At its core, beneath layers upon layers of plot, your story should be ABOUT something, and it should be ABOUT something you care about. If you dont care about the message you are going to be trying to get people to understand, then your story wont be compelling.

Honestly I could go on and on for hours on the principles of telling a story, but I think you get the idea. Good luck!

 

[Before The Storm]

I've been working on a manga for the last few years. Some tips I can share with you:

• If you have skills in drawing, then by all means draw it yourself. Study on the basic style and fundamental understandings of the type of art you see in manga and practice drawing in that style.
• Check out books on human and animal anatomy and begin developing your own 'style' within the preexisting style of manga. [another good way to start is practice by drawing other manga characters. Eventually however, you will have to develop your own drawing style for your own manga]
• Really evaluate if a MANGA is the route you want to go. Making a manga is hard, excruciating work that will require a LOT of TIME and PATIENCE. Consider other routes such as comics, as they can be thrown together considerably easier than a good manga can be.
• If you have absolutely no drawing talent, fear not. Make friends or hire someone who does and have them draw your manga. Unlike simple online comics, audiences choose manga almost entirely for the art. If you have no skills in drawing or learning how to draw that type of art style then you need to consider other options.
• Spend A LOT of time on your story. It doesnt have to be the biggest, most complex story ever written, but you do have to know the basics of story telling and have a compelling story with good written characters to build and keep an audience. - I have spent the last 3 years on my manga SOLELY on the story and developing characters, and Im still not satisfyied to point where I can start drawing it yet.
• There are no "templates" for a story. You either have one or you dont. There are story STRUCTURES, such as the three act structre commonly seen in films, but if you constantly look at someone elses story while you are developing your own then eventually you will loose grip of your own story and it will become a rip off of your "template" - you can take INSPIRATION from another story, like Naruto did from Dragon Ball Z, but never loose sight of your story's message. At its core, beneath layers upon layers of plot, your story should be ABOUT something, and it should be ABOUT something you care about. If you dont care about the message you are going to be trying to get people to understand, then your story wont be compelling.

Honestly I could go on and on for hours on the principles of telling a story, but I think you get the idea. Good luck!

I agree with this

Besides the art work
You should try writing out the basic of your story with pictures. Write out character personalities and motives and a description of how each should look like. Also practice dialogue