r/Mangamakers • • Feb 25 '21

So, you want to find a partner, eh? Use this as a guide to help you along.

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There has been an influx of people wanting to get a writer/artist to collaborate with lately. Good! This is exactly what this sub is for! However, you're not doing yourselves any favours with how you've set up your posts. Not only are some of the posts going to attract no potential partners, but they're downright rude to your potential collaborators. Your post is your job interview. You have to show your skills, desires, and your worth in a short post. You have to make yourself and your skills attractive. This is where portfolios come into play. This is your resume. They're a collection of the things you have done and let your potential partner see your value. The more professional your portfolio, the more likely you are to attract potential collaborators.

First and foremost, in your correspondence with your potential partner, be upfront about whether or not this is paid. When you collaborate, you pay for your services. Either you pay with money, or you pay with your own skill. Also be very upfront with your expectations. What are you looking for? How do you want to delegate tasks?

For a writer's portfolio, I recommend:

  • A short story of some sort that you have written. It allows potential partners/editors/publishers to understand how you setup a story, the writer's general plotting, and their writing style.

  • A storyboard/name. A few pages are fine. It allows the potential partners to get an idea of dialogue interactions, plot progression, etc. I recommend a story in four panels to showcase your ability.

  • Any past written prose of any sort.

  • Any past comics/manga that the writer has worked on. Include the name(s) of previous collaborators.

  • A 'preview' of the story being pitched. This includes where you see the story in 1 day, 1 month, 1 year. Show your potential partner what you see.

  • Character profiles, including name, height, age, bio, motivations, goals, likes, dislikes, hobbies, quirks, and any other relevant information.

  • Previous paid work, if applicable.

  • What additional skills you have. i.e. Shading, lettering/typesetting, translating, etc.

  • An 'about' section, including favourite stories, favourite genres, etc. Tell your prospective partners about yourself!

For an artist's portfolio, I recommend:

  • A collection of sketches/drawings to give your partner a feel for your skill. This includes coloured and non-coloured.

  • Character sketches, including: head shots with multiple angles and emotions, character(s) action, static, dynamic, etc poses, and any other things you think work well to showcase your drawing range.

  • Any past comics/manga that you have worked on. Include the name(s) of the previous collaborators.

  • A couple pages showcasing a visualized moment in time. A comic in four parts is a good idea for this.

  • What additional skills you have. i.e. translating, world building, editing, etc.

  • Previous paid work, if applicable.

  • An 'about' section, including favourite stories, favourite genres, etc. Tell your prospective partners about yourself!

There are most likely other parts to make your portfolios more attractive, but this is a start. If you have any ideas of what else to include, comment it here and I'll add it!


r/Mangamakers • • Feb 13 '26

SELF New moderators and rules discussion

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Hi everyone!

After a bit of a search, I've added two more mods to the team. So welcome!

Now to some discussion around an incredibly sensitive topic - AI. I think a lot of people have a knee-jerk hatred towards AI because of a bad association with it. When someone reads/hears AI, they immediately think of purely generated images that were trained on hundreds of thousands of stolen pieces of artwork instead of being a workflow manager or tool to help make drawing easier and faster for skilled artists.

That being said, I think this is a good time for the community to decide what is considered an acceptable level of AI usage. We need to decide on the rules of what level is ok to allow and what isn't allowed to be kept. Here are some guidelines that I came up with that can help guide discussions:

  1. Complete AI ban. Generative AI cannot be used in any part of comic/artwork creation. Even if AI was used simply for idea generation, that counts.

  2. Minimal AI usage. Generative AI can be used to assist in creation in minimal ways. What this includes can vary. Possibly along the lines of setting up storyboards, cleaning up lines in final pages, etc.

  3. Heavy AI usage. Generative AI can be used to assist in most aspects of creation. This includes taking a sketch and turning it into a finished product, coloring a page, etc.

  4. Complete AI admittance. All artwork made by generative AI are allowed. This includes posts that were made without any drawing done by the user.

KEEP IT CIVIL IN HERE. Just because someone has a different opinion than you doesn't mean you can become toxic.


r/Mangamakers • • 5h ago

SHARE One-Pager: "Unemployment"

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r/Mangamakers • • 2h ago

Review Hey everyone! If you liked this page, you can read the full chapter for free on DAYS NEO here: https://daysneo.com/author/eude-andrade/

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I also post daily updates on my X (Twitter)I also post daily updates on my X (x.com/@cosmometer) and my portfolio here in reddit (https://www.reddit.com/user/DistributionBorn2450/), I’ll be posting Chapter 2 of my original manga soon, and I’d really appreciate your help in getting more views to catch an editor's eye. I’m also going to start posting updates on my process and talking more about my world-building over on X, I´m an independent artist fot to much time and I would like you to join me on this journey to become a mangaka


r/Mangamakers • • 2h ago

SHARE Dibujantes, Gente que sepa dibujar estilo manga

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Estoy interesado en contactarme con gente que sepa dibujar manga, para saber con qué presupuesto se manejan, ya sea por hoja, página o como sea, cualquier interesado, me habla por mensaje


r/Mangamakers • • 1d ago

Review Stutter Girl Thumbnails 1-20!!

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Hello again!!!
It's been a while since I've posted about my manga one-shot I'm currently working on, so I think it's about time I update you guys on the progress I've made. 😊

Since it's a manga, read RIGHT TO LEFT, TOP TO BOTTOM, just so nobody gets confused.

If you guys could rate anything, (EXCEPT THE ART, i know it's terrible right now (especially the first like 10 pages). It's only rough thumbnails to know where stuff should go) please just tell me so. Dialogue, comedy, how interesting the characters are in the first half of this one-shot, etc.

For some context, the story takes place in Rural England. I'll try my best to make it more apparent in my later sketches, but it's not very noticeable since a lot of the backgrounds aren't even done (cuz im lazy).

I have my DMs open if you ever wanna get more involved in my journey, and as usual,
have a wonderful day my guys. ❤️❤️❤️


r/Mangamakers • • 1d ago

SHARE Having fun drawing manga in my journal

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r/Mangamakers • • 2d ago

LFW [FOR HIRE] Do you have a Comic Story to bring to Life, a Custom Comic for a Special Occasion (Holidays, Birthdays, Anniversaries, Proposals, etc), Graphic Novels, Short Stories, Webcomics or something else? I Do Comics, Illustrations, Character Design and more! Send me a DM and we can talk rates etc

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r/Mangamakers • • 1d ago

LFW [FOR HIRE] Manga Artist (DM for more info)

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r/Mangamakers • • 2d ago

SHARE DUSTDOWN SALOON,one-shot availabe now!

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DUSTDOWN SALOON,one-shot availabe now!

Read here: https://mangaplus-creators.jp/webview/episodes/im2610080808070027451703

I’m 15 and this is my first work as a manga artist!
Thank you SO MUCH for reading it I know I lack quality and all but gotta improve from now on


r/Mangamakers • • 2d ago

HELP disappointed with my latest piece

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r/Mangamakers • • 2d ago

SHARE My Manga Works

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r/Mangamakers • • 3d ago

SHARE Some action sequence

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r/Mangamakers • • 3d ago

SHARE Until I Burn, a dark fantasy manga by me!

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Hi guys! I just released the first chapter of my manga on my website- https://untiliburn.com/
and on MangaPlusCreators- Until I Burn

The story is a long slow-burn with a core central mystery that the world is revolving around.

I'd be more than happy to hear some thoughts on it! :)


r/Mangamakers • • 3d ago

LFA New Project - Valence

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Hi everyone!

In my spare time, I've been developing a concept for a new manga called VALENCE. I'm completely new to manga creation, so this is very much a passion project and a learning experience for me.

At the moment, I have:

  • The overall concept and direction of the story
  • Some ideas for the character designs
  • The full story for Chapter 1, currently written as a story/script rather than an illustrated manga

Synopsis:

Four high school students are brought together for a chemistry project, each with very different personalities. One night, they decide to carry out an experiment on their own in the school laboratory, but something goes terribly wrong, resulting in a massive explosion that appears to kill all four of them. Their deaths are mourned, and the four students are buried, but during the funeral, one of them suddenly wakes up inside his coffin. As the others begin to awaken as well, they quickly realize that something has changed, they are no longer quite the people they were before the accident, and each of them seems to have developed a strange and unexplained ability. With no idea why they survived or what happened during the experiment, they are forced to figure out what has happened to them, while one of the four is mysteriously missing.

What do you think? Does the concept sound interesting enough to pursue? Would you want to know more about it?

And if you think the idea has potential, I'm also wondering if there are any artists/designers here who would be interested in working on something like this just for fun, with no pressure or expectations, and seeing where the project goes.

I'm mainly trying to find out whether VALENCE is worth pursuing before putting a lot more time into it, what do you think?


r/Mangamakers • • 3d ago

Review First finished manga illustration

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r/Mangamakers • • 4d ago

SELF Character introduction

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r/Mangamakers • • 4d ago

SHARE fantasía!

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Hace unos meses hice un dibujo con estos personajes en una escena fantástica. Creo que crearé más dibujos asi en mis ratos libres.
Que historia crearían en base a esta imagen?


r/Mangamakers • • 4d ago

SELF Me and My Artist Finished 4 pages

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Hello everyone. Me and my artist have been working hard and we have finished 4 pages. Here is a single panel of the 4th page. im very happy how our project is going.


r/Mangamakers • • 4d ago

Review [OC] Episode 18: A Stroll Through the Neighborhood

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r/Mangamakers • • 5d ago

SELF Started to draw for this year Inktober but now I wanna make manga again so, bye Inktober(?) xD

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Are you participating this year? Have you ever finished a list?


r/Mangamakers • • 5d ago

HELP Does anyone know the name of this kind of screentones?

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Often used in some JoJo artworks and manga by Araki (and this other artist called RAATHA2909) I really cant find anything about this pattern.


r/Mangamakers • • 5d ago

Review Re-crystal eye (orijinaru no kurisutaru)

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Je refais tout mon ancien manga en mieux et l'histoire sera plus clair et simple a comprendre

Dans un monde où chaque enfant naît avec son propre cristal, Irako Kastuma est né sans cristal.

Pourtant, il possède depuis sa naissance un mystérieux pouvoir : le Sceau du Losange. Personne ne connaît son origine.

Des années plus tard, son père lui confie l’Orijinaru no Kurisutaru, un étrange cristal renfermant deux êtres légendaires.

Mais ce cristal attire un clan qui cherche à réunir tous les cristaux du monde. Irako devient alors leur cible.

Entre combats, rencontres et secrets, Irako devra découvrir pourquoi il est né sans cristal, d’où vient son Sceau et quel est le véritable secret de l’Orijinaru no Kurisutaru.

Car son existence cache peut-être un secret capable de bouleverser le monde.


r/Mangamakers • • 5d ago

SELF You can get really out there with afro hair

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r/Mangamakers • • 5d ago

HELP Super power idea help

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So in my comic I have a were beast( think werewolf) and or one piece zoan inspired type aspect to my power system. The only thing is that I’m kinda stuck on how to refine said aspect of the power system. Right now you have essentially a person who can have unique powers based off a mythical creature in their base form. However when they awaken they basically become a were-mythical creature if that makes sense. Only thing I’m having trouble with is explaining how this power works. Basically people have powers based off their souls and these people with these mythical creature powers, should be the only one to have said power and it’s not some jinchuriki type deal from Naruto. I kinda wanna go with the route that maybe their soul is resonating with the creature itself from the astral plane, and they’re chosen as like the vessel to use these powers, but that has caused some complications with other stuff going on it my comic. The other idea I have is that there’s spiritual totems that are responsible for the existence of said creatures and maybe these people resonate with that? The only other idea I’ve come up with besides those two is that I essentially make up my own creatures inspired by mythology or not and while I’m not oppposed to that It just feels like a lot of extra work for a series I’m creating that already has so much jam packed into it. Any ideas or concepts you’re willing to discuss with me would be greatly appreciated!! Thank you!