So remember i showed you this pic?:
http://fatesofashe.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/manga-training-excuses/
I finally finished it so lemme show you the process… to the final product 
Ironically the editor and i got confused which was the starting point was it the top left or top right to be first panel? Are we reading traditional or American system. The difference is huge depending on your reading style. So minutes later we decided that the top right will be the initial frame and we went off from there, a few modifications on the top left panel and a change of posture in the bottom left resulted in this:
So he liked that and the penciling came out fine. A couple of small mistakes but i overridden them:
Ok other than the obvious right hand glove on bottom left which i just realised when i uploaded, the major mistake here was with the explosion, so after serveral talks we fixed that and a small fix with the glove in panel 3. The final “All green” is this one:
The explosion is much better in this one.
So enough with explanations tips! 
1) with drawing energy try a couple of flicks here and there in the initial draft, and when you finally pencil it, see if it looks good, i tend to take a couple of days drawing energy cause i am not used to it yet.
2) Speedlines help with pretty much anything in action. For a particular motion or movement i recommend French Curves, if you dont have one i suggest you go get some. It cost me 13 bucks in Australia it may be cheaper or more expensive where you live, they help with speed lines and also general shape of movement very very useful than free hand and much more cleaner.
3) Set Squares help with blades construction and stuff. most importantly speed lines.
4) Characters: Spam whatever you liek generally if your a reader you will be flicking through 16 pages really really quickly and reading the speech bubbles the art has to flow rather than be noticable, if you can do both then your very good, i cant do that yet 
so most of my stuff is very simple, but i guess the important parts must be detailed, so pay attention to em.
5) What i have found when drawing explosions in the last panel is that you can start out with clouds then add small bits to the outside, if your not sure use a reference. Small clouds (Sausages as my editor told me) should be added to create a much more realistic explosion and use speed lines as required, but don’t over do it.
Lastly i should probably mention here that I need an inker i can work with, if you think you can ink send me an email with your linearts . Me and the editor are working on small projects atm and would appreciate an inker and a colorist (well just an inker would be nice atm) I dont really want to do the whole thing manually cause that is a fair bit of pressure. So if anyone is interested, fire me an email at:
gunblade7777777@gmail.com
or
fatesofashe@gmail.com
i check the first one more often 
John Signing Out lol
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