I’m interested in doing manga as a hobby and have been practicing alongside the drawing basics assignment. Thought I’d post a couple practice drawings for fun. These were done just with a ballpoint pen on printer paper, nothing fancy:

Hey everyone, I know AI is kind of a charged topic right now, especially in the Art community, but I thought I'd share a suggestion that has been really helpful for me. A lot of times I've wanted to draw and had a difficult time coming up with ideas. I've tried various online drawing prompt generators and they work ok but not super exciting. However, I've been doing some research into ChatGPT for work-related reasons and it dawned on me that it would be a good way to generate drawing prompt ideas. So I gave it a shot and it really has been pretty helpful. I'll give it a request like "Give me a drawing prompt useful for drawing a comic scene for someone with less than a year experience" and it will generate an idea. You can also add specific themes if you want; there's infinite flexibility. And if you don't like what it gives you, you just tell it to generate a new one. You can also ask it to give you a drawing idea that highlights a certain area you want to improve in, such as drawing hands or architecture, etc. Just to be clear, I don't work for them and have no conflict of interest in recommending it, I just have found it useful for this and other things and thought I'd share the idea in case it's helpful to others.

I love Proko's courses, so this isn't a criticism, but just a suggestion to help improve the site: I think the whole Proko experience would be improved if there was more community interaction by the Proko team. The reason I say this, is because I routinely check the community pages for Drawing Basics and for the Site Suggestions, etc and there's rarely any responses from Proko team members. Lots of questions asked but only occasional answers or responses. It feels sort of abandoned in a way. I feel like if there was more interaction/feedback from the Proko team to community questions, etc it would go a long way to improve the site and the community around it. There's a lot of feedback on social media from the Proko team, so I know they can do it, it just doesn't seem to extend as much to the native Proko site.

It would be really interesting to get someone to do a full Manga-oriented course for the site. Someone traditionally famous like Naoki Urasawa (author of Monster and other popular manga series) or maybe a YouTube celebrity like DrawLikeASir. There's a lot of manga-specific subtleties that would be useful to learn in a specialized course and would create a nice parallel with the western-themed Marvel course that's being released.