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I know.. its been too long (about 2 weeks)

1 note I forgot to mention, if you're going to rotate your tones, you must always hold 'shift' when turning to lessen your chance of 'moire' to happen.


also, some good extras:
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how to make tones in GIMP: [link] [link]
Manga studio tutorials: [link]

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:iconkyrn:
I think you would have a hard time finding print on demand printers who can do books with good grays in b&w print so this is actually useful. There's specific machines that do nice grays otherwise you would be paying for color to do it.

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usually greys turn out better on better paper, im guessing that tone came about from the horrible paper japan uses for the mags and to be quicker

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:iconkyrn:
possibly, but they've been using it for decades so printers back then wouldn't have been as sophisticated. A friend was trying to get her book printed and found out there are only a couple machines that do nice flat grays and nearly no one has them. So if you are using someone like comixpress the dots are probably better. [link]

I got a manga a while ago printed by Henry Holt children's book, and whatever they used looks awful. Instead of crisp blacks all the lines are fuzzy.

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in this tutorial I used 300 only cause printers are better but off set or high production printers want min 600dpi or 1200dpi. you can notice the difference if you try drawing with the pencil tool and it looks as smooth as the brush tool.

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:iconkyrn:
You think I could do this with scans of hand drawn patterns or cross hatches to save me time on my comic without changing the style...

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:iconcetriya:
yes you can, I've done it many times, I even us crumpled paper.

just make sure you draw black on white, add grey spots digitally. flat black with brush and ink or nibs, dont use tech pens cause you have to draw thinker lines to come out well.

there's also a displacement map thing, but i'd have to play with it and maybe add it as another tutorial

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:iconkyrn:
I'm just going to do b&w since that's how I usually ink. I usually use really tiny pen nibs and they've printed well.

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:iconcetriya:
oh, i'd like to see the patterns when you're done!

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:iconsoap-committee:
This is really useful, thanks for sharing your technique!

I'm about to format pages for print testing - do you know if Ka-Blam handles flat greyscales well, or should I format everything to halftones?

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