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/ A ton of Your Art submissions are now up for you to view. Most have been submitted be the same person but they're rather interesting. But don't take my word for it, check them out yourselves! http://www.mangatutorials.com Whew! I'm done designing the new Manga Tutorials website and I must say that it's a beaut! But don't take my word for it, here's a little preview for you guys below. If you look closely enough, you can see I made the tutorials more prominent with their own links depending on type and a dedicated download page. Enjoy the preview and check out the new Your Art submissions!

http://www.mangatutorials.com I've got a mega-big showing of Your Art submissions for this update. Check 'em out! If you want to submit holiday artwork, send them in now as the next updates will fall right into December and the new year. Happy Halloween and see you in November! http://www.mangatutorials.com Just to remind you, the deadline for the Manga Contest is tomorrow, September 8. Please send your submission to Resa; her email can be found in the link provided above. Send yours in now if you didn't and good luck!

In other news, I'll be updating the site biweekly from now on mainly because I'll be working on a new site design and some other secret things for the site. Be sure to check out Wave's fantastic coloring tutorial and this week's new Your Art submissions. http://www.mangatutorials.com If you haven't heard, the Manga Tutorials Manga Making Contest is going on right now! The deadline is September 1, 2009 so get going before it's too late. The top 3 winners will receive prizes including some Copic Multiliner Pens and other drawing goodies. For full details, visit the official page or if you have questions, visit the forum.

I will be going off on vacation next week so I'm doing one big massive update. Get a load of three weeks worth of new Your Art submissions and see you later this month! http://www.mangatutorials.com Along with some new Your Art artwork this week, I'd like to point you to a contest we'll be running. The details are still being worked on but basically, you have to create a 12-16 page self-contained b&w manga and yes there will be prizes for the top three winners. There's no deadline yet but get a head start on your competition and work on it now. Good luck to all who enter! http://www.mangatutorials.com If you missed last weeks update, you can now download our tutorials! If you do not have Word, you can also get it in PDF thanks to Ameel who sent it quite awhile back... which I unfortunately misplaced and now found. D'oh! >_< The links are down at the bottom before the articles section for those who didn't already get their copy.

In other news, I've been updating my DeviantArt account and I came across some MangaTutorials Meme's. Have a look at them and if you have a DeviantArt account, fill the template out and post it! I would love to see your answers especially... that part. XD

Anyways, an update wouldn't be an update without this weeks new Your Art artwork so check them out! Later!

http://www.mangatutorials.com For those of you who have been waiting for it, you can now download the tutorials here (6.8MB). It doesn't have all of the tutorials yet but it will in time. Big thanks for Alex for putting this all together. I've also updated the FAQs page with some new info one of which answer the question How do I send my artwork?". Don't forget to check out this week's new submitted artwork while you're at it! Enjoy and see you next time. :D http://www.mangatutorials.com Along with some new submitted artwork, I've answered some old - very old! - emails sent to me. Most of them were sent by AOL users which unfortunately was returned to me. If you have an AOL account, please be sure to add my email address into your white list otherwise, it'll take a while for me to reply to you (i.e. I have to put it up in the mailbox). My email address is rio at mangatutorials dot com. Be sure to actually replace the word with the symbol. Till next time! =) http://www.mangatutorials.com Happy July 4th weekend! If you aren't from the States, I hope you're enjoying your summer. This week, I have some new submitted artwork for the Your Art page. Enjoy and look out for more next week! http://www.mangatutorials.com I have some new Your Art submissions for you guys. There are some old submissions that I forgot about so there will be some really old ones mixed in. It's been a long time coming so thanks to all the submittors for pateintly waiting. I keep all submissions so your art will eventually be posted. Anyways, good luck to those taking exams and congrats to all new graduates. Enjoy your summer guys! :) http://www.mangatutorials.com For this update, I have some book reviews for you on three interesting books: 500 Manga Characters, Manga Clip Art, and Manga Females Clip Art. They're interesting in that a) you can use them as inspiration, b) use them to practice your CGing, and c) use them as characters in your manga if you can't draw that well on your own yet. Have a read through my reviews and see if it's something that'll help you. Oh, and don't forget to check out the new submitted artwork too! Till next time! http://www.mangatutorials.com Some of you may already know this but I'll officially announce it: I am almost done with my CG tutorials. Please look forward to seeing it sometime next month! In the meantime, have a looksee at the new submitted artwork. Enjoy! http://www.mangatutorials.com It seems like a bunch of you guys are sending me email via our new fangled form. It's good to see it being used so much! The bad news is that since most of the people filling them out don't have an email, I can't reply back to you sooooo, to take care of that, I have now set up a Mailbox where I will answer as much of the questions or what-have-you that was sent to me through our new form. If your question was not answered, please be patient. I will be answering in a first-come-first-served basis. Of course, if your question is totally inappropriate or anything outrageous, then you can forget about me answering you. With that said, be sure to check out this week's submitted artwork too. Till next time!

http://www.mangatutorials.com I've made some changes to the site. For those of you who wishes to contact me but do not have an email, you may now use our new fangled form. If you're sending attachments, you'll have to send me an email the old fashion way via rio[at]mangatutorials[dot]com. Be sure to replace the words "at" and "dot" with the appropriate symbols. As always, there is also a new batch of submitted artwork for you guys to check out. See you next week! http://www.mangatutorials.com Hi everyone! I seem to go AWOL during the end of the year but now I'm back! I hope you had a happy holiday and New Year. I'm going to start off with some new long-awaited Your Art submissions.

I'll be updating the site weekly until further notice so see you next week! http://www.mangatutorials.com New Your Art submissions have been posted as well and for those who are into contests; Shojo Beat is having a manga drawing contest with prizes being a plethora of Sakura pens. Entries must be submitted by November 19th so check out the details and send your entry in!

On another note, I will be updating the site haphazardly from now on. I may update it again tomorrow, a week or maybe several days from now. I'll keep you guys on your toes. In the meantime, happy Halloween everyone! n_n http://www.mangatutorials.com Hi everyone! I hope you had a great summer. Mine turned out part fun and part problematic and before you ask, no I didn't have a relapse and get sick again. But anyways, on to the stuff you really want to know - I have new Your Art submissions! Yay! If you haven't been checking out the submissions, be sure you do. There's an artist who has sent in several of her works and they're quite nice. This week's submission has a little fan service going on which will make you guys happy. ;) Enjoy and see you next week! http://www.mangatutorials.com Gah! Summer's half over! I hope you guys are enjoying it while you can (unless you live somewhere tropical - lucky bastard). I've gotten better and I only cough now and then. I hope to get the next CG tutorial up next week so in the meantime, check out the new Your Art submissions! http://www.mangatutorials.com New Your Art submissions and Books Reviews are up! I hope your summer is going well (I started mine by getting sick -_-;). Till next time! 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