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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…..
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…..
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…..
Now that we have grydscaen: dissonance edited and back to the publisher priming for publication and the grydscaen RPG starter booster pack cards are all formatted for the printer, we can start work back on “The Seer of Grace and Fire.” For the writing of the first novel in the trilogy we are in chapter 14 and the Beta Reader is in chapter 3. So this frees up my time except for my day job to work on Manga pages……
Today on our Making Manga series, we talk about screentone for shading a manga panel. A screentone is a sheet of sticky see through paper with a pattern on it. They usually come in packs as a set. There are background screentones, and ones for skin tone and shading. The traditional way of applying the screentone is done directly on the drawing after it is inked or it can also be done in the computer in programs like Manga Studio……
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…..
So I just finished the process of getting the grydscaen manga “A Storm’s Coming” converted for Amazon Kindle. I previously had printed a 7 x 9.5 saddlestitch versions of it which I was giving away for free but now I have the ebook file complete with ISBN. I wanted to get that done. I had originally drawn the manga which is based on the short story by the same name from grydscaen: tribute over a period of 2 weeks on…..
So more into our making manga series. Today we talk about Branding. Every artist, writer or creative needs a brand. This can be related to your artwork, your music, the thing you produce, your novel. But you have to have a stamp for yourself that distinguishes you from someone else. It may be your art style, your subject matter be it fiction, science fiction, paranormal, yaoi or romance. Since I started off writing cyberpunk hard science fiction with the grydscaen…..
In the novel and manga creation process one of the things that you have to do at the outset is world building. I just started writing chapter 4 of the novel “graphic noise” which will also be turned into a manga. The two main characters are Shiro Ijima, the best selling scifi author and the other character is Noiz, the manga artist. The story is set in Manhattan in the present. Usually I write scifi set in a post-apocalyptic future,…..
So I am working on a new manga and novel called “graphic noise” which is a yaoi manga about an indie manga artist and a best selling science fiction author who meet at AnimeFest, a comic convention. The story is set in New York City and will as much explore the particular culture of Manhattan like the subway, bike messengers, Central Park, Grand Central Station and the Javitz Convention Center as it will be a story about two artists getting…..
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