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I wanted to know how they paint and color anime and manga drawings do they use photoshop or something like that or do they color them themeselves with oil paint or something like that and I also wanted to know if anyone knows a complete and good guide for drawing and coloring manga

I have absolutely no idea, but my guess would be that, for characters at least, the designer hand draws an outline, then it gets vectored and coloured in on the computer.
Have no idea about how animations are actually done though - my speculative guess would probably be some application similar to Flash, where you define certain scenes and actions, and animations get tweened in-between.

I really want to know how they do this I've drawed some pictures and then tried to color them with photoshop myself but it took me nearly a weak just to paint one stupid picture I think your right they must use some sort of program for this

They probably do use photoshop but use more advanced techniques?

Again, it's probably hand drawn.  As for the computer part, try searching up Photoshop vectoring tutorials or similar.  I know a number of people here do vectoring, but that's about the extent of my knowledge on the subject. (feel free to flame me if I got anything wrong)

bloodangel619 Wrote: [ -> ]I really want to know how they do this I've drawed some pictures and then tried to color them with photoshop myself but it took me nearly a weak just to paint one stupid picture I think your right they must use some sort of program for this

Try to keep in mind some things
1) These people are professionals
2) It takes a LONG time to make an anime or manga
3) One person doesn't do all the work
4) Many things are reused. Backgrounds, clothes, people, etc. Not every frame is a new drawning

i vector lineart, do block colour and then shade.

well the new photoshop cs5 bursh's are really awesome look i colored this picture know with them but it still took nealry 4 hours to paint this simple sketch and its not so good but better than the one's I've done before, is this what you mean ?

ye man

i can't paint from scratch with photoshop to save my life

i use Illustrator for lineart

The first step Is drawing your image on paper, they all do this, then scanning it and bringing into Photoshop.
Most professionals have some kind of tablet they use to clean up and make lines darker on the computer.
(note that they don't usually draw from scratch using the tablet unless they are using an on-screen tablet)
VS
Once you have your lines clean and pretty, you just need to create a single layer under your lines, and start painting with your tablet.
*Use layers ABOVE your color layer for highlights, and put shadows BELOW your HIGHLIGHTS layer.


*Just a suggestion, not anything you have to follow