So with the majority of the character sketches done with only the Valkyris remaining, it is time to start thinking about creating manga pages for “The Seer of Grace and Fire.” I actually need to be proofreading the galley for grydscaen: dissonance but we are procrastinating for now.
We were working on “graphic noise” and the associated manga but that became hard because it was about to turn into a love story which is not a place that I wanted to go. So we are onto The Seer which is dark fantasy. With the character sketches we did some backgrounds which is something I do not usually do. The manga for The Seer will also be inked which will be a new process. I also bought Manga Studio 5 which hopefully I can learn to use for this project.
All in all I created about 10 drawings over the past 2 days and I am all fired up to start the manga. The chapter and script are done so the dialogue is set so it will only be about rendering the characters and the backgrounds.
The first page of the manga will skip over Kabal in the Ecclesiastical University library and include Timorn in the Singing Harp pub in Fallow where eventually Ihel the high elf confronts him. I think it will be a dynamic scene and have some drama in it. I will have to draw patrons inside the pub since the story states that it is crowded. This will be a challenge. I hope I can pull it off. So this is me officially saying a new manga is in the works. It will be individual pages which will be used as illustrations for the novel version of volume 1 but it is still a manga project and if it is successful I might flush it out to a full graphic novel.
Wish me luck folks. Looking forward to starting this project in earnest. Have been itching to start drawing again and with the prolific nature of the last 2 days, I think I am on a roll. I created about 10 drawings in 2 days which is a lot for me.
Here is to being a mangaka and “The Seer of Grace and Fire.”
Join me as we progress through this journey of artistic creation.