I wish you the best of luck with it! Everyone has a different pipeline and way to work, but something that has really helped me with the manga is to just jump into it and try to do the best I can with what I have. Self analyze, and make a conscious effort to improve. Not much different from how we are studying art, or any other skill really.

I'm eager to see what you put out when you are ready for it! It's always encouraging to see the works of others.

Thanks!

And I think you're right on the ankle shade! I'll add those edits a bit later today.

Small update today. Simply completed exercice 2 for clothes.

The model:

Dressed up:

Figured it would be fun to have her cosplay as Haley from Stardew Valley.
I used gradient shading to apply the colors, and a correction layer to adjust saturation.

The shirt is a bit tight by design, but there are still some notable tensions points, like the buttons.

It was an interesting exercice. Next is 10 clothed references (linearts). I think I have an idea on what to do with those, though I think those will take some time.

Thanks! you'll have noticed that even if the exercice is for lineart only I make an effort to add some shading to it. Not only do I feel it makes it look better (and make me happier with the result), but I've been trying to do a conscious effort to practice shading as much as possible to get better at it. I feel it's one of those things that help the most and is many times hard to get right.

Move on to the 10 cloth exercices from photos.

Since this is about clothes analysis, figured I would use the oportunity to dress up some of my manga characters while still keeping the reference clothes.
That way I can also practice refining some of the designs I'm working on.
So in general, I'm aiming to imitate, by copying, even if it's not completly a copy. not sure if that makes sense.

It's gona take a while to do all 10, especially since I insist on adding some shading, but here are the first two:

And another recent page from the manga. Very happy how this one turned out. I'm trying to play around with some effects and framing.

I'll probably post again until I complete some of them, which will take a while as I work on the manga in paralel.

Heyo! Many thanks!

Not quite lighting powers, just good old fashined ki energy some of these characters use to "boost" their physical capabilities, not unlike Deku from My Hero Academia.

It's something I'll eventually elaborate on and explain more during the story, in extreme cases like the one portrayed in this frame, it manifests like lighting sorrounding the limbs or user.

Though it's mostly for visual flair

Haha, well, I'm obviously very inspired with Dragon Ball xD, no way around that. Even some characters designs like Seki are clearly emulating that style (what with the spiky banana hair and all)

Inspriation comes from different sources though, and then we add a bit on top of that and try to switch things up a bit.

But I still start off with the basics Dragon ball set forth.

Thanks a lot! I feel like I'm learning more and more with every exercice and piece. Kinda wish I had more time to dedicate to this craft, but the time we do spend is always fun!