Steps and differences of Fireball Express

Process, Differences 

Hello guys,

Today I am going to show you how I made my manga by doing a step by step process of how I did it from scratch!

Firstly, it all started by simply drawing the panels of the page using a ruler, pencil, eraser and the measurements of the deleter paper. 

After that, I did the whole sketching process to fill up thee panels and the word bubbles.   Then I took a picture of the sketch to put it on Photoshop.  The reason I took a picture instead of scanning it is because the scanned page looked blurry. 

I started Photoshop by creating a new file that is an International paper sized A4 with 300 resolution for best quality.

Here I started Inking my manga digitally.  So for the panels I used the Squared shape tool that can be shaped into different shapes to ink my panels as seen in the first picture (Red circle).  On the other hand, I used the brush tool to ink everything inside the panels including characters and the setting. 

Making all these squares and inking lines required different layers so every time I did a new thing, I created new layers.  Furthermore, I merged the layers to make it easier for me to work since I am still new to Photoshop.

Link if interested

Because I am on a budget screen tones were too expensive for me since I am an international student living alone and on a budget.  So I managed to find free screen tone brushes for Photoshop by manga artists on Deviant Art which helped me a lot. 

Then, I saved the brushes and I started adding them to my panels.  After that, I erased the lines inside the character.  I did the same process for the other screen tones that you can see above but in different layers. 

Here, I started creating the word bubbles by the same tool that I used for paneling but as a circle tool.  Then I made it transparent from the settings that the arrow is facing and made the line thinner.

So as you can see here that the circles look transparent and simple.  After that, I added text into the word bubbles to fill the story by using the text tool. Then, I used the square tool and added more text into the last panel. 

Finished.

Differences in other pages

there were some differences that I made in other pages of my manga such as:

The first difference is, you can notice that these panels are quite bigger than the first page, I did this because it is an important page and I want to catch the eye of the reader.  

The panels where curved at first but I faced problem with shaping them so I changed them into squares.  

Here, as you can see I did not add any black background in the first page because it was not suitable.  So I added a black background in my 3rd and 4th pages. (did not add the 3rd page because I want you to read the manga)

Secondly, I used something different here which was writing with my hand instead of typing using a white brush.