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…..
We are happy to reveal the next cover in the graphic noiz series. graphic noiz: book 2 will be up for pre-order starting 23 January, 2017. Release date for graphic noiz: book 2 is 14 February, 2017. graphic noiz 2 Book Summary: Noiz is a 19 year old illustrator and mangaka straight out of art school who created his own manga, Disaster Code. Scouted at ComicCon where he was showing his art by Keita Shimura, agent to bestselling author Shiro…..
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…..
Welcome to the Making Manga series. Today we will talk about visualizing your characters. So I was writing graphic noiz the manga about a fanboy manga artist and a bestselling author collaborating on a manga project of the author’s science fiction series Fissue. I got to about page 69 and then had writer’s block because we were getting to a place where the story was going to turn into a romance and that is not what I write. I…..
So today on our Making Manga series we will talk about Script Writing and using a Script to help you plan your manga. Working with comic book artists if you are a writer they want you to use a script. Most of them if you have a short story or novel do not actually read the book. Maybe you get lucky and they do. I know there are some writers who have had that luck with their artist but mostly it…..
Today in our making manga series we are going to talk a little about creating a storyboard. This process has a few terms for it, including a “name.” I went to art school and took a storyboarding class and I write novels so I know how to write a story. When writing the dialogue and story information for the grydscaen graphic novel – volume 1, I initially did a storyboard for the first 6 chapters. I started out just sketching. Mapping…..
So in today’s making manga we are going to talk about tools. But before that I wanted to talk Doujinshi vs Manga. In Japan to be a mangaka you need to be published in a magazine, a serial magazine like the famous Shonen Jump. You can enter a contest, get feedback, get picked up, get an editor, draw your manga and get noticed, maybe even if you are popular get an anime. Doujinshi is amateur art of maybe someone else’s…..