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…..
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…..
So excited to be able to show you the cover for the graphic noiz manga which is available now as an ebook on Amazon Kindle and will also be available in paperback. The manga follows the story of Noiz, the amateur manga artist as he works on the Fissure manga based on the bestselling scifi Fissure series by Shiro Ijima. The cover features Noiz, the manga artist with his skateboard and some pages of storyboards he is creating. He is…..
Making Characters Consistent Today on our Making Manga series, we will talk about drawing your characters consistently. I know that I sometimes have an issue with that. So here we go. One way to ensure that you know what your characters looks like and can make them look the same across sequential panels is to practice drawing the character as much as you can. I do this a little bit in images but I have to say that sometimes my…..
What is graphic noiz? graphic noiz is a yaoi novella series about 19 year old skateboarder and amateur manga artist, Noiz who went to ComicCon in New York city as an artist in Artist Alley and was discovered by the literary agent, Keita. Keita is bestselling author Shiro Ijima’s agent and he gets a peek at Noiz’ original manga Disaster Code at the con. After putting Noiz through an art test and stringing him along with words, dinners and few chance encounters…..