Today on our Making Manga series, we talk about screentone for shading a manga panel. A screentone is a sheet of sticky see through paper with a pattern on it. They usually come in packs as a set. There are background screentones, and ones for skin tone and shading. The traditional way of applying the screentone is done directly on the drawing after it is inked or it can also be done in the computer in programs like Manga Studio……
So today on our Making Manga series we will talk about Script Writing and using a Script to help you plan your manga. Working with comic book artists if you are a writer they want you to use a script. Most of them if you have a short story or novel do not actually read the book. Maybe you get lucky and they do. I know there are some writers who have had that luck with their artist but mostly it…..
So I just finished the process of getting the grydscaen manga “A Storm’s Coming” converted for Amazon Kindle. I previously had printed a 7 x 9.5 saddlestitch versions of it which I was giving away for free but now I have the ebook file complete with ISBN. I wanted to get that done. I had originally drawn the manga which is based on the short story by the same name from grydscaen: tribute over a period of 2 weeks on…..
Today we will talk about scene blocking in our making manga series. We were talking about graphic noise before but I want to focus on the new manga that I am working on for the grydscaen short story Rogue. We are currently working on the cover art for the Rogue manga which is set to be longer than 48 pages. The scene below is from the manga A Storm’s Coming. It focuses on Rom panhandling and an interaction with the…..
I wanted to talk a little about character design from the grydscaen anime “A Storm’s Coming” using a scene from the anime trailer. The two characters in the first trailer are Rom, the homeless teen with psychic power and Xander Storm, the Zone Police officer. In designing the anime we did character sketches working with the production company. The scene below is Rom panhandling in front of the Tram eatery in the Red Light District of the Echelons in Haven…..
The short story “Rogue” is the sequel to the short story “A Storm’s Coming” both from grydscaen: tribute. I am in the process of working on a manga for Rogue as well as a manga called graphic noise. The interesting thing about Rogue is that the story is complete and I have the chapters done and the dialogue as well as character designs for Rom. I would still need to do character designs for the host in the story, Jester the leader…..
Today in our making manga series we are going to talk about writing dialogue. Dialogue is essential to convey conversations in your manga. For graphic noise I am in the process of writing the novel that will contain the story. When you write dialogue for a novel you have more space and time to convey your thoughts. This is not always the case in manga, you need to distill the dialogue down to its essential parts to ensure there is…..
Today in our making manga series we are going to talk a little about creating a storyboard. This process has a few terms for it, including a “name.” I went to art school and took a storyboarding class and I write novels so I know how to write a story. When writing the dialogue and story information for the grydscaen graphic novel – volume 1, I initially did a storyboard for the first 6 chapters. I started out just sketching. Mapping…..
So in today’s making manga we are going to talk about tools. But before that I wanted to talk Doujinshi vs Manga. In Japan to be a mangaka you need to be published in a magazine, a serial magazine like the famous Shonen Jump. You can enter a contest, get feedback, get picked up, get an editor, draw your manga and get noticed, maybe even if you are popular get an anime. Doujinshi is amateur art of maybe someone else’s…..
For our making manga series today, we are talking about character pairing and sketching. One of the first drawings for the manga graphic noise was an image of Shiro Ijima, the best selling scifi author of the Fissure series and the indie manga artist Noiz with his manga Disaster Code (on the left). Before we could think about a cover or the character sketches we had to get the basic idea down for Shiro and Noiz. I wanted Shiro to…..
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