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…..
I came across an issue in one of the writer communities that I am part of because I write yaoi with the graphic noiz series. I guess there was a row regarding having a Person of Colour on the cover of a gay romance book and the publisher wanted to white wash it and not include that image. This started an ugly exchange, if I have the story straight and there was backlash in the romance writer community. Now I…..
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,…..
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…..
Cover Reveal and Teaser I am so happy to reveal the cover to graphic noiz 4, the fourth book in the graphic noiz yaoi novella series. This cover features the amateur manga artist Noiz being persuaded by the bestselling author Shiro Ijima to escape the social trappings of New York City with him and come to Scarsdale to visit his childhood home on vacation for a week. graphic noiz 4 is a full length novel, unlike the other books in…..
Tell me what’s new with graphic noiz I was working on the graphic noiz manga 2 (which I still have 30 pages of lineart to draw) and I got this spark of inspiration all of a sudden and had to put that aside for a moment and start writing the novella series again. Well, I have been writing for the last 2 days and we are already at a 65 page manuscript for graphic noiz 4. The story with Shiro…..
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…..
Read chapter 2 of the graphic noiz manga at: graphic noiz manga – chapter 2 New chapters available every 2 weeks. In this chapter Julia tries to get Shiro into an arranged marriage but he is having none of it. Some graphic noiz trivia. Q: What is Shiro’s favorite colour? A: Shiro’s favorite colour is black because he says it is dark like his sense of humor. Q: What is Shiro’s favorite article of clothing? A: A grey scarf that…..
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…..