Think of what kind of movements your characters will be doing, step by step. In the first stage, plot out four to six boxes on a piece of paper and write your first actions in each box, with the caption under them.
Decide on the angle for each frame. Close-up or background-shot? Horizontal or vertical, maybe slanted? How does this affect the scene?
Rewrite the panels on a different sheet of paper and fit them together [for the American manga artist, panel them left-to-right]. If you are leaning towards traditional format, right-to-left panels are a nice idea. Decide in this part of the process what frames bleed out from the edges, but be careful to keep the important captions and drawings inside a "safe-zone". Now, there doesn't have to be a gap between boxes like in American Marvel Comics. Usually, the borders separating each panel are just thin yet bold black lines. In some cases, the borders of a given panel will be left out entirely. This technique is called 'bleeding out' frames.
This process can be done several times until the manga-ka sees the page as fit. After you've made the perfect page, ink it with inking multi-liner pens [or G-pens, whichever you prefer]. Copic and Pigma are recommended highly.
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