Welcome to mangamakers, a club dedicated to the rich storytellings and artistic frontiers of the Manga genre, and what distinguishes this comic style from all others. To this end, mangamakers provides a means for aspiring manga ka to have their projects showcased here. Members can submit thier pages here to gain more exposure for your work, as well as interface with others in a friendly enviorment! This isn't limited to just original work, fan comics are more than welcome^^!
All are welcome to join, even if your not a manga artist^^.
Also, this club will hold contests, archive useful tutorials to improve your skills, and feature up and comers who's manga really ROCK!
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How to Join

step 1: Watch mangamakers!!!! Otherwise, you won't find out about stuff like featured artists, contests, general madness, etc...

step 2: Note me with your request to join^^

step 3; Be proud! Triumphantly display our siggy in your journal. Cuz representing is good karma!

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SUBMISSION RULES HAVE BEEN REVISED

MangaMakers is pleased to represent all aspiring manga artist seeking to gain more exposure for their work. In the spirit of mantaining consistency, I will only be accepting Manga pages as free submission. The only exception to this rule is contest submissions and Featured artists. If you have a manga you would like to have displayed, please note the club with a link.

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Contests Info:

Avatar Contest!

The first competition is to make a kickass Avatar for an equally kickass club!!!!!!!
Members are free to submit as many entries as you want, so go crazy^^.
The only rule is that it has to say MangaMakers somewhere in it.

Grrrrr, I realize I had stated that I wasn't going to extend the deadline, but I recieved an entry and want to be respectful to the effort.

FINAL EXTENTION!!!!!!!!!!!!

FINAL DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 30, 2006

Teh Judge

ENTRIES:

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THE PRIZE: a three month subscription to Deviantart!
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TUTORIAL SECTION

yep, I'm finally getting around to it. Here is an archive of useful tuts to help catapult your manga to the next level.

making manga background from real photos (very useful): [link]
Digi screentoning: [link]
Character poses: [link]

mangapunksai's tut page (lots of useful tuts there):
[link]
all credit for tuts go to respective creators. If anybody has suggestions for helpful tutorials that they would like to share, please note me^^. Let's work hard and help each other improve!
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FEATURED ARTIST

September:

This artist's pencil work is well detailed and full of action and vitality has earned him this month's spot as featured artist!

Founder's Favorites

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Affiliates:




The Chatroom- [link]

The Oekaki Board! [link]