Screentones

This is my collection of screentones for the computer; since I'm way too cheap to purchase a $4-$7 sheet of screentone for every five pages of manga I draw, I've scanned in the screentones too complicated to manufacture and patched the rest together from little squares of tone cut-and-pasted from scanned pages of my manga collection. The medium-gray tone is from a page of Yami no Matsuei, the other flat tones and the white and gray lines are from Hikaru no Go. More to come. ^_^

Dark gray and slightly grainy tone, good for clothing and small dark shadows. Medium gray tone, good for most shadows. Use with light gray on flesh for a more rounded effect.
Light gray tone, good for use on pale objects such as white cloth, blonde hair, and pale skin. Use with medium tone on skin or alone if you want a cel-style effect. White 'startle lines,' look best when used by cutting one out, adjusting the angle, pasting it onto the page and filling in the background with black.
Closely packed gray lines, good for clothing. Actually taken from Ashiwara's suit jacket. The typical shoujo manga bubbles.
Pretty crosshatched tree silhouettes. Good for backgrounds. Black and white static, for those times when you really want to cheat on a panel's background.
Shock lightning--you CAN draw it yourself, but screentones make it much easier. A white-to-black vertical gradient, can be tilted in an image editor for other angles.
Action lines in three different lengths. White feathers on a dark gray background.
White feathers outlined in black on a white background. Three different images of a city at night. Instant backgrounds!
The painfully shoujo version of startle lightning-- unbranched lightning bolts outlined in pale gray, with a bubble background. Black lace for clothing texture. Made this one myself from a photograph of lace, hope you enjoy.
Gray lace; same as previous, different color. And the last of the three: white.
How to use screentones
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