the shaded one is much better, it shows a lot of detail, skill and effort.

yeah, thats what i think too, it would just be time consuming to do the entire manga like that XD

either way, you gained my watch^^

aww thank you so much! ^^

no problem ^^

left
to me it looks better :)

I really like the one on the left. Though I do get how that one would take more time..... I think some things would look really good with that one. :3 It gives it more life in my opnion :3 ((Both are good though!))

so, maybe a more simple version of the first one for normal moments, and more detailed ones for moments that are more serious or need detail pointed out to it? o3o

That sounds perfect! That way its not to simple throughtout the manga, but doesn't take forever to do! And then in those serious , emotional, etc moments the full detail would really make an impact! :D

omg i cant deciede, ummm, if your looking for anime style the left, if your looking for manga id go for right, but readings hard so im going to say laeft 1 :D

lol i like how the first one looks too, im just worried it might become too..time consuming for each page to do it like that ^^ since the shortest manga chapters i have seen are at least 20 pages of actual content (aka not cover pictures, and fillers) say i have 4 chapters in a book and thats a lot of coloring! XD

I think the right would be great for each page of the actual manga and than the left for covers, chapter art and 'spreads' or those special pages that aren't for the story itself but more Canon type images :3 you have wonderful line working skills and I think showing both off in the manga would be a plus for you :3

hm? you mean those images before each chapter? possibly, i think though i would put lots of detail into those though, i love drawing my characters and such, and since i don't have to make other panels relating to what happened in it, i could have fun with it ^^

yes those are what i meant :3

Personally I like the one on the left better.

If you are able to get a good ways into the manga it would be really good to take advantage of lighting effects. If you start out with a lineart and suddenly need lighting, it would be a bit harder to put emphasis into a characters facial expressions for more intense moments.

But thats just me

ah, good point. Some scenes to need to have shading to them to get the feel of the mood, like if a person is shocked or surprized, i almost never see any shading, but if they are angry, its generally heavily shaded

im researching by reading lots of manga to get how things are done and such o3o/

yeah, i do like to add depth to my pictures otherwise i think they look flat, and i don't like them looking flat XD

Left!

First one looks more manga style. :3

honestly you good do both. Do the entire manga in the style of the left but use the right for more important things like ummm I dunno introductions or something like like.

Like them both, but LOVE the shaded version twice as much! >w<

thank you X3

Do I have to choose? ._.;;
I personally prefer the style on the right, BECAUSE I read a shitload of manga
And most of my favorites are colored like that.
However, I actually really like when the artist colors like the one on the right regularly...
...but during intense scenes, the art changes to the style on the right.
But that's just my input :3 <3

I feel like I got my directions wrong >.<;;

"the art changes to the style on the LEFT" lol sorry >.<

lol as of right now, im probably going to do a little more of a simple version of the first one. XD

They're both amazing so It's hard to choose. *flails and runs around* I cant decide Mishibari-sama!

aww thank you lol! im really hoping that i do really well on the art in this book ^^

I'm sure you will Mishibari-sama, you're a amazing artist.

the first one, the shading makes it look much better and less flat

left > right

I really like the right one. It's got more of a manga-y feel to it for me. :>

I think I actually prefer the one on the right. If you're concerned about shading though, I think a touch more soft sketch shading would do wonders.
Regardless, I favor the right over the left.

I like both version but I would go with the one on the left. Shading brings the character out and feels more like the traditional manga style.

Definitely the shaded one. :33

The one on the left is definitely nicer. However, without that as comparison the one on the right is still very good. Now, depending on how much longer it takes to do the art like the one on the left, it might be an overall better idea to do it like the right one. Speed versus quality.

Although my initial idea was that you could mix both, I thought about it for a few moments and think that's a bad idea. If you decide to use the art style on the right, with less shading, then mixing in the one on the left would give a comparison. If everything was shaded like the right one is, it would be harder for a lot of people to notice the missing detail. But if you have one page like the one on the left, and the rest like the one on the right, it becomes more noticeable. But that doesn't mean having some scenes more detailed is a bad idea.

Honestly, if it takes you three or four times longer to shade like the one on the left, I would strongly suggest sticking to the style on the right. For a half hour sketch, four times longer is only two hours, not too crazy. But if you have a full page which might take six hours, as a short estimate...now you're spending an entire day on it. Of course, as you do it you'll get better at it, so it might get easier and quicker as you continue doing it, but it'll be a -lot- more time investment up front.

Just my two cents.

...So maybe something like on the left for the cover! Then on the right for the normal pages, perhaps. If more detailed art was on the cover, it wouldn't clash as much, I suspect.

An extra penny.

i like the one on the left of the monitor screen C: