I draw the webcomic Manly Guys Doing Manly Things and work on cartoons you might see on TV sometimes.

 

Does anyone following me out there have much experience with inking in Manga Studio? I’ve been hearing great things about the program so I’m trying out the free trial, but the pen tool that gives the nice thick-and-thin lineweight seems to do that Flash-y “I’m going to put your lines where I assume you wanted them to be rather than where you actually drew them” thing. Is there any way to turn that off or do you just have to deal with it?

On that note, the Debut version is practically worth the 50 bucks for the panel drawing tool alone. Oh man, it’s the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen in a piece of art software. I wish the perspective rulers were in the trial, though, they were basically what was going to make or break me on buying the full $300 Pro version.

  1. batwhatever said: Window, tool options, uncheck Correction.
  2. pi-ratical said: A word on the perspective rulers: They take a bit of figuring out but DANG they are insanely useful. Well worth the price jump, if you can afford it. I think there are still old demo copies of EX floating around on the web that would let you try the tool out.
  3. guseri said: I don’t use the program, but after looking through some tutorials I think your problem might be the correction option. Depending on how high it is it can completely change thickness or line direction, which is dumb. It’s in the pen tool options menu.
  4. rolacolacubes said: I think there’s a little window/tick box in the tool box (where you see the stroke preview) where you can switch that off at both that start and end of the stroke :Ua I know the software can already support pressure sensitivity…
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