The vector drawing tool I came up with is basically a dialogue pen balloon tool. I was able to create a vector drawing tool that allows me to draw organic shapes, AND I can then save those shapes to Manga Studio’s “materials” library to use again later. It turns out that with a bit of fiddling, Manga Studio 5 EX is perfect for what I want. My iPad apps let me do one or the other, but I haven’t found an app that lets me do both, so I pulled out my Surface Pro to see what I could do there. I love having a library of pre-made objects to pull from when I’m working on a more complex landscape, but I also want to be able to easily create organic shapes on the fly. Today, however, I decided it was time to move from my iPad to my Surface, to see if I could take things a bit further.
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And once I felt confident enough working with a library of pre-made shapes, I moved on to drawing things from scratch in other vector-based apps like Concepts or Inkpad on my iPad. Then I started to get a little more ambitious, creating my own vector shapes in Pixite, making more complex trees, fancier mountains, and so on. For a lot of this, I used Pixite’s Assembly app on my iPad, because it gave me pre-made shapes (trees, mountains, clouds, etc.) that I could layer over and under each other to get what I wanted. I started simply at first, working with basic foreground, mid-ground, and background layers.
#Manga studio vector how to#
If we’re outside, where are we? At the pool? In the park? On the moon?Īfter years of avoiding the problem as much as I could, I finally decided I needed to learn how to make landscapes. While I can usually get away with nothing more than a colored gradient in the background, sometimes I need to actually set the scene. This can be a problem for someone who’s supposed to be a webcomic artist. I have always loved to draw, but I struggle with drawing backgrounds and landscapes, especially when I need to create them from scratch. I’m still doodling away with Craft-a-Doodle, but I’ve also been playing with something else on the side that I thought I’d share this week.