Mangaka Studio for Procreate

Mangaka Studio is a powerful toolkit that was put together to help you create traditional manga art on Procreate from start to finish with ease. The pack consists of several brush sets and assets that should provide you with almost everything you need to work on your manga piece. --- VERSION 2.0 IS LIVE! 2.x CYCLE CHANGELOG: - Added new sketching and inking brushes in the Mangaka DRAW brush set. The few remaining brushes that were carried over from the previous version also got an update. - Added quick hatching shaders in the Sketching sub-category in Mangaka DRAW. - Added a special Layout brush sub-category in the Mangaka DRAW brush set. These new brushes are specifically designed to help create speech bubbles and panels. - Added a wide variety of analog type brushes in the Mangaka PAINT brush set. Blenders have been revamped too to be used with the Brush tool . - Revamped all Dots screentone brushes. - Added 90 Dots screentones, ranging between 10% and 90% density. - Added Lines screentones oriented in the following angles: 45, 135, 90, and 180. - Added Diamond Grid and Square Grid screentones sub-sets, each including a range of 10% to 70% density. - Added screentone Shaders in all brush sets. These brushes are pressure-loaded for gradual shading. Moreover, the patterns align seamlessly with the corresponding regular screentones. - Revamped all screentone condition/wear styles. The updated styles are available as individual brush sets: Clean, Rough, and Aged. All screentone patterns align seamlessly across the aforementioned styles, which means that you can mix them as you go. - Revamped the RISO brushes and added an additional sub-category where all brushes are set to Multiply blending mode. The latter helps with achieving a more realistic overlay effect. - Added three RISO Pulp Glaze brushes in Light, Medium, and Heavy density. These brushes have a more pronounced paper texture and may be used for more realistic results. - Added a new brush set that focuses on materials and texturing, called Mangaka TEXTURAMA. - Added new brushes and updated the remaining ones in the Mangaka PRINT-ERR formerly Mangaka FX brush set. - Added a new brush set for paper textures, called Mangaka CANVAS. - Updated the complimentary Jotter PRO brush set with new content. - Dropped abbreviations from all brush names and categories in favor of full titles. - Deprecated the screentone frequency presets. All screentones are now set to an arbitrary scale which you can change as you like. - MSC VARIA and MSC IRIS color libraries have been moved up to Version 3.0. UPDATE 2.2: - Added a new subset of inking brushes: 21 G-nibs in parent set Mangaka DRAW. These brushes are completely textureless and have no jitter/bleed effect. Learn more in the sections below. - Added new canvas templates that effectively replace the old ones. Learn more in the sections below. - Replaced the textured square canvas documents with new formats. Textures remain the same but the document size is different. Please note that the brush strokes shown in the promotional images are from version 1.0. Updated brush previews will be available soon. Sorry for the inconvenience! News on future updates at the bottom of the page. --- ROAD MAP Version 2.3: - Foliage brushes. - Manga B5 templates. - Mangaka DRAW sorting improvements. - Stability improvements. Version 2.4: - Effect brushes like hearts, sparkles, etc. - Stability improvements. Version 2.5: - Dedicated cloud brushes subset. - Stability improvements. Version 2.6: - Speech bubble templates in PNG format. - Stability improvements. Version 2.7: - Basic fabric/clothing textures in PNG format: plaid, houndstooth, kimono, etc. - Stability improvements. Version 2.82.9: TBA Version 3.0: - Shading screens based on physical parameters. Screentones at 60LPI and 80LPI for multiple resolutions. - Shading gradation screens. Same as the above. - Screentone effects for backgrounds. - MSC VARIA color library. - MSC IRIS color library. - Stability improvements. --- BRUSH SETS Mangaka DRAW Mangaka DRAW is designed as a multipurpose set of tools for sketching, layout and inking. Each of the aforementioned categories is a subset withint Mangaka DRAW. However, with the pack's growing features, soon many of the subsets will be rebranded as stand-alone brush packs. The first group in this pack includes a variety of pencils and technical pens specifically made for the sketching phase. Loaded with little-to-no stabilization dynamics, these brushes give you enough freedom to generate expressive strokes and add more personality to your art. Coming in second are the brand new G-nibs introduced in Mangaka Studio 1.0 but later removed to be rebranded as a stand-alone set. What distinguishes the G-nib brushes from other inking tools in Mangaka Studio is the absence of texture and stroke jitter. They are completely smooth and textureless. However, G-nibs still offer a lot more variety than you may think. Stroke tapering, flow, tip direction a