DELETE THIS

This is why it pays to hand letter your text...

man, the text is terrible.

I have no words to describe level of annoyance f this ugly art...

What kind of muscular people like those wear nose rings and lip rings? This ain't JoJo.

Iowa looks fine and males....well, guys are usually ugly in hentai art. Especially if they could exist in hentai as one part of body, so why bother ?

For some reason I sense some sort of reference to this :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_Japan

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People are rly butthurting because of this?
Guys, those two flags are lame.

I'm butthurt that Iowa isn't flanked by "Hap" Arnold and Halsey, but that's not a reason to delete a pic.

Blue_Trident said:

This is why it pays to hand letter your text...

gregoris said:

man, the text is terrible.

Take it from somebody who actually works on manga, it's simply a font that has a strange kerning on metric combined with a derp as fuck leading.

PSYNtech said:

Take it from somebody who actually works on manga, it's simply a font that has a strange kerning on metric combined with a derp as fuck leading.

Is that why there's barely any punctuation and why there's like three spaces after every apostrophe along with the jagged speech bubbles?

PSYNtech said:

Take it from somebody who actually works on manga, it's simply a font that has a strange kerning on metric combined with a derp as fuck leading.

I'm just surprised that considering the good quality of the art that so little care was taken with the text. As is it makes the entire thing look awful.

tapnek said:
Is that why there's barely any punctuation and why there's like three spaces after every apostrophe along with the jagged speech bubbles?

The speech bubble is simply hand drawn, and yes, there are actually several fonts out there that have a weird metric spacing (there technically is no space) on the apostrophes. I've had the unfortunate experiance of working with such fonts when I used to be a news editor.

tapnek said:

Is that why there's barely any punctuation and why there's like three spaces after every apostrophe along with the jagged speech bubbles?

Those spaces after the apostrophe tells me that the editor is very unfamiliar working with english fonts. It's a relatively understandable mistake, and one that can involve a little tinkering to fix.

I'm actually working on a project right now, where I have to manually tweak the leading to be -500 lol.

Blue_Trident said:

I'm just surprised that considering the good quality of the art that so little care was taken with the text. As is it makes the entire thing look awful.

After working with a bunch of psd's from very respected artists (can't disclose which, at least for now, sorry), the text bubbles are usually done at the very end as a separate layer, almost as an afterthought.

PSYNtech said:

After working with a bunch of psd's from very respected artists (can't disclose which, at least for now, sorry), the text bubbles are usually done at the very end as a separate layer, almost as an afterthought.

I know in North American comic books art is traditionally split up among a bunch of people (pencils, inking, colour, lettering) while the European comics I'm familiar with credit a single artist (often with uncredited assistants).

From your experience, how do things typically shake out in manga in that regard? Closer to one or the other, or perhaps entirely different?

Blue_Trident said:

I know in North American comic books art is traditionally split up among a bunch of people (pencils, inking, colour, lettering) while the European comics I'm familiar with credit a single artist (often with uncredited assistants).

American comic books often have artists that combine the roles or pencils and inking, and sometimes with coloring as well. As far as I know, these guys have next to no assistants whatsoever. Lettering, however, is done by a single guy across a bunch of comics unless the artist wants to letter it by hand.

Blue_Trident said:
From your experience, how do things typically shake out in manga in that regard? Closer to one or the other, or perhaps entirely different?

The same across the ocean, what you may be getting confused about is that these drawings are not done by a professional company. Just a single doujin artist and many "Cirlces" are really just 1 man bands like ZUN.

It's hard to be a jack of all trades and be good in ALL of them. That's why it's jack of all trades master of none.

You can have a really good artist but he'll probably suck at something else or a really good writer but suck at drawing. That's why alot of the ones that can't draw actually eventually go up to Light novels (like Suzumiya Haruhi or Zero no Tsukaima) till they can get a gig with an animation studio to the rest of the work for them.