and thought that it was a perfect feather to make a feather pen.
So, I carved, cut, and shaved off with these
into this:
but it was thick still so I cut the tip further and...
doodled.
I also bought some artbooks in used book store (got these half the price :p)
to study Japanese paintings and calligraphy to incorporate into my future B&W drawings.
I finished one job assignment today (trans) and started the next page of manga:
There will be ~5 koma, and I hope to end Ch.3 quickly (8-10 more pages to go) since I think plot sucks for this one. I want to get to Ch.4 which will have better plot.
Since intuos3 came yesterday, I tried it out on my next manga page and finished 2 koma out of 6.
This is the souvenir that my friend brought from her relatives' place. Nearby, there's Obama City, Japan XD
Meet Obaman (dumpling/bun with red bean paste) from Obama wo katte ni ouen suru kai (Society that cheers Obama as one pleases)(dunno the translation for this)
It's filled with red bean paste and was yummy.
Anyway, a song I might get once it comes out on album:
I resumed drawing TLOF manga last night. This time, it will be Ch. 3, something that's chronological order from Ch. 2. Ch. 2.3 was just one-shot that's bangai-hen, a side-story more to clarify myself and readers about relationships between two individuals... Hisen and that fur-light-air-or-whatever-ball thing.
The Japanese version of Ch. 2.3 was listed in one Japanese amateur manga website (DreamTribe) yesterday as the recommended reading list! This was the fifth time my manga got on that list- and all of my TLOF chapter and one short manga (in Japanese), were on that one time or another.
Done with the last page of the chapter which took me 4-5 months to produce!!! Yaaaay!
What was hardest about this chapter was the fact that I had to return to it after 3 months of slacking it off due to commissions, contest submission materials, and other projects. In addition, I had a trouble with scripts since the content changed greatly from the one I planned at the beginning. Anyway- I finished it so yaaaaaay!!
Since it's 1:15 am, I will go off to sleep. I will work on illust later when I have time. I got too lazy drawing a monster for this one, so I made it simple. This chapter will probably end within 3 more pages or so.
Softwares used: Comic Studio Ex 4.0 Photoshop CS2 (Compression only）
Took me a few hours to edit the page, traslate, and adapt the script for the Japanese version.
What I'm working on now: - TLOF Ch. 2.3 page - Collab illust/poem with a certain someone from S. Africa - possible commission from the US?- if it works out- a header for one home page
I couldn't really figure out what was wrong with the next page of manga for over 4 months. I thought that coloring the page would work but it didn't, so I redrew the whole page two days ago.
So now, I end 2008 with a new manga page- and hopefully, I can create something much better next year.
LOL!!!! For the first time- I managed to combine both 3DCG and manga/anime drawing----yaaaaaah!
Yeah because of it- there are probably mistakes... Oh well. It's 1:50 am right now. Everything looks nice at this hour~
Okay... I'm still not good at coloring hair and there's a bit too much blue here- but this is where I passed out after working for two nights and a few hours in order to combine both my own 3DCG and manga/anime character into illustration for the first time- so yeah... there are mistakes here and there probably. I'll do better next time.
This time, I tried to incorporate my original -veryX2 simple/basic 3DCG into the usual illustration instead of fractals. I created the background first and the character later- just like scatter([link]). Since it was still complicated for me, I drew the rough draft first on paper+pencil, scanned and produced the character and 3D CG based on it. In the end, I used the same original brush as [link] . Everything but the character and yellow triangles was produced in Cinema 4D- which I'm still trying to get the hang of it.
The line rendering for Cinema 4D was produced based on the tutorial by Pdgfx. Thank you. Tools used: A4 paper+pencil+eraser Scanner Adobe Reader+Acrobat (since the graphic was originally scanned in pdf format) Cinema 4D R11 (studio) (3DCG models, 600dpi) Comic Studio Ex 4.0 (line art, 1200 dpi, monochrome) Photoshop CS2 (coloring, editing, 600dpi, 8bit/channel) Texture for the sky: photo I took from airplane in Aug 2008
Time it took: 2 nights+a few hours Modeling+rendering time for 3DCG: 2 hours
I submitted my manga to a pro-level manga magazine publisher in the US. Manga is in English and is done as an individual work. Hopefully, the result is good. If not- I'll keep on trying.
The result of the name (group project) I submitted to Japanese pro-level manga magazine in Sept. will come out within a few weeks.
I have multiple manga projects going on simultaneously now.
1. Three manga for pro-level magazines in Japan and the US 2. My TLOF 2.3- which is progressing very slowly but surely- sometime in the future- it will get there
I sent off a file last night to another person I'm doing the commission for. I think I will finish another image tonight or tomorrow.
I recently had an honor of having a little self-introduction space in one major site (several hundred thousand accesses per month). I think it will be released sometime later.
I will be doing a collab with J.T. from the US for next one-shot to submit to a pro-manga magazine. I was impressed with his story's very intricate background- so I am looking forward to seeing his script.
