Thank you for your feedback. I've tried to work some of it into this next part. I hope you like it. As always, any hints on how to improve are welcome. And I'll try to improve the anatomy next! Also: speech bubbles.

This is pretty awesome. I'll try to take a look and see what I can learn. Thank you!

Thank you. I'll see what I can do.

I posted some doodles on this thread:

http://amaz0ns.com/option,com_smf/Itemid,135/topic,9115.0/

As I explained here:
http://amaz0ns.com/option,com_smf/Itemid,135/topic,8941.0/
I have been trying to create a shonen-manga-like muscle growth comic about a college student that becomes a strength athlete out of academic necessity.
I can't draw, but I still decided to post my doodles here, in the hope of getting the pros to teach me how to do things the right way.
So, without further ado, seven pages of my first attempt at a muscle growth comic. (As could be expected, there is no growth as yet, but it will soon follow.)






Comments are welcome, criticism is asked for! Help me improve myself. Also, if someone wishes to join me, YEAH!

Hi!

As I was reading some manga online, I thought of an interesting project that might be worthwhile. One of the genres of manga is the shonen. It addresses typical boys' stories and is all about personal growth and overcoming difficulties by training and competing.
Sounds familiar? Indeed!
While there are manga on almost any subject, with both male and female protagonists, I have yet to find one on female bodybuilding. (For g*d's sake, there's even one on male figure skating and one on bread baking!)

Anyway.
How about creating a manga series (nothing fancy, not necessarily manga-style illustrations), involving female bodybuilding, powerlifting and all kinds of other competitions involving strength and toughness?

Here's a very rough plot outline:
The protagonist is a skinny, waifish student who realises upon enrolling that she should have applied for a sport to participate in due to a rule of the college she's going to. Sadly, all the places are taken and the only thing she still finds to be free is... strength sports. Of course, our heroine is distraught. She joins, meets various muscular athletes and her primary competitor. A strong, muscular girl her age, who's been doing this for years and who is rather unhappy at being forced to share training facilities with such a wimpy woman.
However, (and this is where the shonen manga kicks in) the protagonist is extremely talented for the sport: She has great genetics, takes every challenge and is very serious about being the best. We now have two archetypes: the talented woman with a bad start and the woman who's been training for years and who managed to overcome many challenges in order to achieve what she has now.

The story should also involve several contests of various complexity (all involving strength and training of course). Examples: Powerlifting, shotput, traditional weightlifting, wrestling, tug of war, whatever.

Other cast: competing enemy teams with special techniques (necessary for that special flavour), a love interest guy, a love interest girl (because whatever), a paternal coach and a crazy manager-type woman responsible for the organisation of events.

If anybody is interested in participating, in writing, drawing and pitching ideas, or just criticising, I'd be honoured.

Reposted from Brawna:

I like it!

It's a crazy story, full of crazy people. I somehow enjoy it.
Besides, will Tanya reappear? She might be available for some competitive growth/revenge, mightn't she?
Please write on!

Let's get someone to draw the sequence.