QUOTE (shreyagupta @ Jun 21 2008, 12:16 PM)

Can manga sketches be introduced, especially about the frames which are used in mangas and how the backgrounds are made by manga artists in their comics( i have always wondered if the backgrounds are computer generated or sketched by the artists themselves!!

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This is all I can offer you at the moment, since I am no expert myself
all i know because of reading Manga's and watching Animes is that; each Mangaka or Doushinka has his or her own style of doing things.
For example
Eiichiro Oda (the mangaka of
One Piece) usually draws the backgrounds comepletly, weither he himself draws them or his assistants i don't know, but they ar usually hand drawn and inked. This is because the setting of the story's play a big part in the storyline. After all he has created a world of his own.
sample :
http://www.onemanga.com/One_Piece/502/002/the manga
Case Closed, also known as Detective Conan, has alot of tone in it and the backgrounds are usually left very simplistic and limited . The story is very focused on converstation and thoughts so the most of the time the frames are filled with the faces of the characters or bodyparts.(skim through some pages and you'll see)
sample :http://www.onemanga.com/Detective_Conan/632/04/
But as a manga fan you have probably noticed all of this yourself at some point.

oh and I second the Idea of manga lessons