News: It’s been a month since my last post…One step at a time is the way
I was away for exams, and finally when exams arrived, I couldn’t keep up with the getting onto drawing. After which many things creeped up on me; where I broke up with my girlfriend, got stuck in a disillusion of how to pick myself up in life simply because I just do not know where to go.
After which, I pop into my email, and somebody send me through a comment asking me to keep up the good work. You know, such comments like this are morale boosters. They really pick you up well.
I did not want to have a 3 minute frenzy with my journey in manga. Actually I was so into it, I bought an Intuos 4 to pick up drawing, bought Adobe Creative Suite (Education version since I am a student), and even have Comic Studio with me. Besides I have invested in a manga teacher for lessons.
I have literally spent over a thousand bucks on this journey. However manga comic artists are all humans, and they sucuumb to pressure, people’s opinions, setbacks and disappointments.
So if you do want to be a manga artist, just know that you are not in the normal stream of what people are going through. The learning curve is tough, and the rewards seem far.
The learning curve is so tough, that as manga artist, you usually need to draw tendons and muscle groups well to be effective, know perspectives well, and you are not only an artist, but a script and a movie director all into one. The mountain of tasks to learn is as overwhelming now.
That’s life isn’t it?
Thank you for that comment of encouragement; and thanks Digital Strip for dropping me a message. I will take note, and will see how I can slowly salvage my manga journey.
Might even resort to stickman drawing to learn about perspectives, but hey, it is a start isn’t it?
News: My first post on Digital Strips is finally up, and other updates…
I know it has been ridiculously long since I had a new post, however there were some delays and I just had many assignments to clear recently.
I promised to share updates from my previous post, “Manga Journey update: I am recommended for a job!“, about a new mini job.
First off, my first post at Digital Strips is finally up! It is a review on a webmanga, by the name of Model Behaviour, and if you are interested, do take a look at the review.
A female friend of mine commented to me about the webmanga that it is good. So do check it out if you are interested!
And there were some miscommunication, as the wrong authority rights for its website were given to me, hence my first post was pending for review for a long while.
Also, I was busy with my assignments in school, so it was really difficult to focus properly as just a few days ago, I had only 7 hours of sleep for 2 days!
So please pardon me.
Manga Journey: Intro to Inking
I just tried inking with my manga teacher from my previous lesson, and it is really alot of things to learn again!
Anyway, what I am introducing here is traditional manga inking, and not digital inking where you use digital tools like Manga Studio or Adobe Photoshop. I wanted to know inking from the traditional perspective before going into digital mode.
Seriously, after going through my inking lessons, learning how to create manga comics seems to be no end; but let me share with you my journey so that you are mentally prepared for it.
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