So more into our making manga series. Today we talk about Branding. Every artist, writer or creative needs a brand. This can be related to your artwork, your music, the thing you produce, your novel. But you have to have a stamp for yourself that distinguishes you from someone else. It may be your art style, your subject matter be it fiction, science fiction, paranormal, yaoi or romance. Since I started off writing cyberpunk hard science fiction with the grydscaen…..
In the novel and manga creation process one of the things that you have to do at the outset is world building. I just started writing chapter 4 of the novel “graphic noise” which will also be turned into a manga. The two main characters are Shiro Ijima, the best selling scifi author and the other character is Noiz, the manga artist. The story is set in Manhattan in the present. Usually I write scifi set in a post-apocalyptic future,…..
So I am working on a new manga and novel called “graphic noise” which is a yaoi manga about an indie manga artist and a best selling science fiction author who meet at AnimeFest, a comic convention. The story is set in New York City and will as much explore the particular culture of Manhattan like the subway, bike messengers, Central Park, Grand Central Station and the Javitz Convention Center as it will be a story about two artists getting…..
Anime is one of my favorite things. I have been watching anime since I was young. The funny thing is that you can see anime when you are young and it has no effect on you or you can watch it and become an avid fan. I grew up with such shows as Akira, Robotech, Voltron, Ghost in the Shell, Gundam, Gatchaman, Transformers, Dungeons and Dragons. I like anime that is art driven and plot driven. Things like the Simpsons or…..
So, every time you have to ask someone to help you do something you end up being at the whim of that other person. Be they a writer or an artist, a chef or a teacher, having other people involved sometimes makes things difficult. For the most part this is why as the author of the grydscaen series I do my own cover art, draw my own manga and well – edit, draft, format, write, proofread and illustrate. But sometimes…..
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