MANGA TOOLKIT

The tools I actually use to draw DURRUN.

Brushes, materials, auto actions, workflow habits. Written for indie manga creators drawing their own pages, with no studio and no assistants. Every tool here is one I use on real published pages, and every post shows you the page it ended up on. Some are free, some cost ten CLIPPY, some cost more. None of them cost what they are worth in saved hours.

Manga Speed Lines Without Covering Your Art Speed lines are lines, and lines hide the drawing. This free tool lays them down as tone instead.

Manga Hatching: The Brush That Buys Back Your Afternoon Even hatching takes experience and hours. This brush does it in seconds, and it is worth what it costs.

Manga Sound Effects: The Brush That Writes Like Calligraphy Onomatopoeia is part of the drawing, not just text. One free brush writes it in a single stroke.

Manga Focus Lines: The One Thing to Get Right Which sub tool does the work, why there is no correct setting, and the rule that decides everything.

Manga Flashback Tones: Which One Goes with Which Memory Which tone marks an ordinary recollection, and which one marks a memory a character has been avoiding.

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And the Manga Itself

Soujun is sixteen, and he lives by one rule: never take a risk. He and his little sister can't afford one.

Then, for her sake, he takes exactly one. A single delivery, off the books, no questions asked. That one risk turns him into a monster — a Fuser — and drops him, without his ever choosing it, into a world made of nothing but risk: the TOKYO underground.

DURRUN is a neo-TOKYO underground shonen manga. Every episode is free to read in English, right here.

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