Manga Journey

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

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...

series by Mizuki Kawashita Ane Doki, a manga series that I have been following, just got axed by Shonen Jump! It is said that the series was having bad ratings in Japan, and hence the publisher decided to axe this series. That’s the world of manga in Japan; although you get to be very famous and your comic may never look like ending, like One Piece who has been running for more than 10 years, yet the downside of it is that your manga series can be easily axed when your comic isn’t favored by...

from mr_shanab In my previous post, Pencil sketching examples 2: how to draw manga tutorials, I shared about how you can use photo references to help you draw and improve on our artwork. And one of the major assignments from my manga teacher was to look for photo references to aid me in my drawing. While searching, I chanced upon some really good photo references resources that I am going to share with you about! What is the advantage of having a good photo reference for drawing? Before I...

from Creekside Artists I was just offered a proposal by http://digitalstrips.com/ to be one of their Manga bloggers for their website! And they are going to give me some money as an incentive or appreciation when I blog for them! However, nothing is decided by both parties yet so I can’t comment any more than this. Yet I am truly overjoyed when my manga-journey blog is recognized! What does this mean? What is important is not the amount of money that I can get out of blogging, but what it...

from Futuregirl_LeahRiley Ever wondered what are the tools and equipment needed to create your very own paperback manga comic? In this post I will be sharing about some of the tools that were given to me by my manga teacher in my previous lesson with her, and how it will help in creating my first manga comic. Manga tools and equipment part 1 /*Click the photo to enlarge As you can see above, these are the tools that my manga teacher has given me thus far. She forgot to bring brushes, tracing...

from buddy_scalera In a webcomics forum, I asked a question to find out if there are anyone who is already earning some money from their webcomics. It is a valid question, because to me, the future of webcomics is really dependant on whether is it profitable or not. Webcomics and money The result is this, almost everyone who replied were not earning money directly from their webcomics; many of them claim that because people liked their artwork, they are offered jobs instead. What are these...