are you an artist or a writer? So as most of you know, I am a writer first and a manga artist and illustrator second. I can write in my sleep. Writing comes easy. It is the art that I find difficult. When I created the two graphic noiz manga it was both impossible and a labour of love and it was fracking hard. When I completed the 48 page graphic noiz manga 1 that was a feat but when…..
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…..
chapter 3 of the graphic noiz manga is live. Read it for free at: graphic noiz manga – chapter 3: working late chapter 3 summary: Noiz is confronted by Shawn as they continue work on the Fissure manga while Shiro meets his agent Keita at a coffee shop only to learn that he is being asked to sign an artist contract so they can shop the Fissure manga to serial magazines. Shiro wants nothing to do with another contract but…..
Trying out a new hoodie for Noiz in a little sketch practice for chapter 6 of graphic noiz manga 2. So I am slowly working on Part 2 of the 2nd volume of the graphic noiz manga. I was racing to get through Part 1 but then got stalled when it came to Part 2. Some of it, I think is that I was used to writing a 48 page manga and then I got ambitious and wanted to try…..
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…..
We have a new chapter available in the graphic noiz manga. Read for free: graphic noiz manga chapter 2 Catch up: graphic noiz manga chapter 1 Thanks to the miracle of webcomic hosting I can share with you the next chapter of the graphic noiz manga. Read for free as we continue the story. In this chapter Shiro confronts his older sister Julia who is trying to arrange a marriage for him and Shiro is having none of it. The…..
I am so excited to share with you the cover of the next book in the graphic noiz novella series. Book 3 will be out in another few weeks. This cover features Shiro Ijima the bestselling writer as he works on edits for his scifi novel Fissure volume 4. All the previous covers have featured Noiz the manga artist in some way but I wanted Shiro on the cover of book 3 because the story in this volume focuses on him…..
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…..