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24 Aug

Making Manga: The Soggy Middle

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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…..

10 Feb

Coming Soon: Puppy Love in Yaoi Panel

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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,…..

29 Jan

Making Manga 20

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So I just got back from ComicCon this weekend and gave a talk about writing and publishing comics with two other artists. I wanted to talk a little about that and how you go about writing for comics and manga. First of all, you need a story. That is important and a world that the story takes place in. You may not have it all flushed out but it is good to determine the general direction you want to go…..

09 Aug

Making Manga 19

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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…..

21 Apr

Making Manga 18

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Designing a Character for Anime/Manga Today I wanted to talk about character designs and work on the grydscaen: A Storm’s Coming anime episode 2 as we are coming up on the first rough cut of the episode being done. In this blog post I wanted to focus on how a character comes to life from original concept sketch to the lineart character design to the final character design in colour. We will be using the character “psychic killer” from…..

22 Mar

Making Manga 17

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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…..

27 Feb

Making Manga 16

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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…..

11 Feb

Making Manga 15

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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…..

07 Feb

Making Manga 14

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How do you do that publication thing again? So I just added the graphic noiz manga volume 1 to Amazon. How do you put something up on Amazon you ask? Well I am going to tell you. For manga you need to use the Kindle Comic Creator. I have a problem with the application because it crashes on me as I add each page but in the end as long as you save while you go it ends up working…..

27 Jan

graphic noiz update 3

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So I have been working on the graphic noiz manga today and I can successfully say that all the lineart is done for the manga. We are onto shading now after we spent an hour photocopying and reducing the 10×14 artwork to be 8.5×11 so it can be scanned. I usually don’t shade my manga but I thought since I had some feedback that I would do it for this story. I am still light on backgrounds but that is…..

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