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Post by xilver on Jan 29, 2016 16:34:17 GMT -5
Hey Mark!
First of all, I wanted to say thank you for all the awesome content you have provided in terms of art and story; it has helped me immensely! That being said, I am currently trying to draw up my on manga and there is something about manga that I have been trying to figure out. It is in regards to paper. My questions are...
1- Does the paper I do my work on have to be the same size as traditional manga paper? Or can I draw it on bigger paper and then have it shrunk later?
2- What size paper should I even use? I would assume I would want the size to be proportionate to one another if it is going to get shrunk down.
3- I keep seeing terms like "safety zone", "trim" and "bleed" in reference to parts of the paper that will be cut off. What size are all of these respectively?
Any help I could get on this subject I would appreciate immensely!
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Post by dvandom on Feb 22, 2016 7:19:31 GMT -5
Mark's not really around here anymore (and I barely am), but I'll try to answer your questions.
1) Comics are traditionally done on larger paper and shrunk down. If by "traditional manga paper" you mean the size they're printed at, you definitely don't want to work that small.
2) Just about any size will do these days, but you want your active work area to have the same proportions as a manga page. In other words, if you divide the long side by the short side, you should get the same result as measuring a printed page.
3) A "traditional" page will usually have gutters around the art so that even in the case of somewhat sloppy printing, nothing will get cut off. However, working to the very edge looks more visually dramatic (especially if used along with traditional, as a change of pace). The danger of that is you might end up with something importand cut off, like how watching an HD show on SD TV can trim the start or end of a word on the screen off. Trim is what gets taken off, bleed is working up to the trim, and the safety zone is the part far enough from the edge that it's guaranteed to make it onto the printed page. Full-bleed artwork is meant to go up to the edge, and has some stuff you work on that gets cut off. Sometimes full-bleed is easier on layout, since you can draw the entire object and not guess at where things fit together. But it does involve more work that never gets seen.
---Dave
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