On Valentines Day (14 February 2018) at 3PM MST the www.grydscaen.com blog will be hosting the online panel sponsored by Natsukoarts Design Studio featuring Natsuya Uesugi and talking about 一の初恋 or Ichiban Hatsukoi/Puppy Love in Yaoi. The discussion will focus on the relationship between Shiro and Noiz in the graphic noiz story and discuss the hidden dynamics for creating a realistic gay relationship between characters in yaoi manga. The panel will focus on relationships and writing a soft yaoi story,…..
So I just got back from ComicCon this weekend and gave a talk about writing and publishing comics with two other artists. I wanted to talk a little about that and how you go about writing for comics and manga. First of all, you need a story. That is important and a world that the story takes place in. You may not have it all flushed out but it is good to determine the general direction you want to go…..
Welcome again to the Making Manga series. Today we talk about writing dialogue and toning pages. I have been writing dialogue for the past two days as I draw. I am currently working on the last 8 pages of graphic noiz 2: the manga. I am almost done. I still have the following steps left to complete in the process: finish artwork for 8 pages finish toning the first 48 pages in part 1 ink the last 48 pages in part…..
Welcome to the Making Manga series I wanted to talk a little about the process of doing lineart for your manga. I took a break illustrating graphic noiz manga 2 to write a novel in the series and now I am in the process of getting back to drawing. I have 62 pages of lineart completed for the 96 page manga and I promised myself today that I would start drawing again. I wanted to talk about a subject that…..
So the first half of graphic noiz manga 2 is done with the lineart. I have finished 50 pages of the 96 page manga. I have lineart for the front cover and the back cover and 46 more pages of lineart to go. I wanted to talk a little about my process for making a manga since this is the second book in this series. I thought I might as well just talk about the lineart and inking work. Since…..
So I wanted to talk about manga today as I have 32 pages lineart done for graphic noiz manga 2. I wanted to talk about yaoi today as there are various heat levels in the genre. Now I have written about me not writing romance and again I will reiterate, I will not write romance but that does not stop me from writing a yaoi manga. This may be semantics but it means something to me. There is no happily…..
So today in the Making Manga series I wanted to talk about planning. I am in the process of writing book 3 of graphic noiz the yaoi novella series. Book 1 of the graphic noiz manga took place between book 1 and book 2 of the novella series and the final chapter of the manga ended with the last scene in book 2. When I wrote and illustrated the first volume of the manga I just winged it going along…..
what new fanart/fanfiction doujinshi projects do you have going? So I went to ComicCon last week and sold out of the Saiyuki Shame doujinshi volume 1 in about 2 hours. The work is based on the characters in Gensoumaden Saiyuki. The doujinshi was really popular with all the fans at the con. So with that, it means that I am going to create volume 2 of the doujinshi and continue the fan fiction this year. There are three stories in…..
How do you do that publication thing again? So I just added the graphic noiz manga volume 1 to Amazon. How do you put something up on Amazon you ask? Well I am going to tell you. For manga you need to use the Kindle Comic Creator. I have a problem with the application because it crashes on me as I add each page but in the end as long as you save while you go it ends up working…..
So I just came from ComicCon yesterday and had a fun time giving away doujinshi, grydscaen graphic novels and A Storm’s Coming manga, as well as rubber bracelets, campaign buttons, trading cards and bookmarks. There was a lot of traffic at the table. I think some of that was because everything was free. I also gave away free ebook downloads for The Alchemist’s Ranger. All in all my first ComicCon experience as a featured author was a positive one. But one…..