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36 Manga: screentone ^[$@%9%/%j!<%s%H!<%s^[(B
Transparent, adhesive plastic film printed with a pattern, usually
mechanical halftone dots or lines. Illustrators and draughtspeople cut off
pieces of screentone as a quick, accurate method of shading to artwork.
(Another type of mechanical tint is rub-down tone, or transfer screens,
where the pattern is burnished onto the artwork with a blunt implement.)
There are many hundreds of screentone patterns and colours available. Some
brands of screentone (usually only available in Japan) can have their
printed surface scraped off to create highlights. Retail price is around
500 yen for an A4 sheet.
Most recent how-to-draw-manga books cover the basics of screentone use.
Since the late 80s, many shoujo and shounen mangas are increasingly
dependent on screentone as an artistic device. Pioneers in the field of
screentone technique include Asamiya Kia, Hagiwara Kazushi, Katsura
Masakazu, Kitagawa Shou and many others. However, an even newer trend is
the use of computer-generated tone, which can be customized for individual
panels.
Screentone is sometimes mistakenly called "letratone", "ziptone",
"zip-a-tone", "IC tone", etc., which are names of individual brands of
screentone.
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