Do you want to become a manga artist? It's not as easy as it sounds, but we'll walk you through the process. In this post, we will cover how to become a manga artist from start to finish: first with inspiration and research, then sketching out ideas for your storyboard, and finally inking the finished product.
We've also included resources at the end of this post that can help aspiring artists further their skills! Some of these include free tutorials on drawing techniques like perspective or shading, advice on what programs are best for digital work (Photoshop vs Manga Studio), or links to sites where you can find freelance work online.
As I write this, I'm drawing the last page of a ten-volume series. This is the first time in my life that I've done anything like this - an epic series. Those epic serieses are now available on kings manga. Find your favourite one and start watching.
I started off with the one volume Lovers' Kiss , and then went on to do three volumes of Stray Dog Strut . After that, came five volumes of The Ice Wanderer / Strange Detective Loki (a sequel to Lovers' Kiss ) . I was working on two other manga at the same time: one was a detective thriller called Silver Wolf and the other was called Moon Child . It's not easy juggling many projects simultaneously!
In addition, around that time, Shogakukan asked me if they could publish some of my older manga. So I dug up a few unpublished manuscripts, and started doing revisions while working on the current projects(I am kind of glad that ALL my old manuscripts were rejected when I was first starting out, because it made them easier to revise -there wasn't any pressure at all).
This summer will be the third year since Lovers' Kiss was published. When you think about the fact that I came out with ten volumes from that point in just two years, it actually feels like an incredibly long time. But so much has happened along the way, for example being hospitalized back in February (due to stress-induced gastritis)...but then again, anytime you're drawing manga for over 12 hours a day , your health is always going to be at risk, isn't it?
"Drawing manga is a deadly battle."-My friend Takeda Ryuji (Kuruneko)
There's always something on the edge of my consciousness telling me not to draw any more manga, that I need a break. Then there's the fact that I have so many projects in progress simultaneously...But then again, as long as I'm constantly creating new characters and stories, drawing manga doesn't make me feel tired or bored. No matter how much of an aversion you might have towards something, if you do it often enough , you'll probably develop some sort of affection for it too....in other words: The Devil has his hand around my heart. There's no way to escape.
But I shouldn't be complaining about this while drawing manga, or writing this for that matter. In fact, if I didn't have any complaints , it might mean that I'm getting soft!
Conclusion
If you're up for a challenge, want to learn an art form from scratch, and don't mind drawing every day then becoming a manga artist may be the perfect way to express yourself. For those of us who are not interested in illustrating our own stories or creating original characters can always submit their work online where it is more likely that publishers will see your talent. With some patience and determination, you too can become a successful manga artist!
Fortnite season 10 had one big change when it started on Aug. 1, and that was the inclusion of a mech called Brute.
Since then players expressed their frustration over the powerful mech on social media, and developer Epic Games is going to make some changes to mech's overpowered rocket launcher.
Epic will alter the Brute in the next update according to a developer blog post Friday.
The robot's rocket launcher will soon have a visible targeting laser and audio cues to let players know when they're in the mech's sights.
It's not a big change but the sudden barrage of rockets from a non-visible Brute was one of the issues players had with the new addition to the game.
Epic says they also fixed mobility bugs causing an exploit with the Brute's boost that some players use.
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Days after Epic Games slammed Apple and Google for the unjustified App store fees, representatives from publishing giants like New York Times and Washington Post have arrived on the scene asking “what it will take to cut its fees down?” They are apparently looking up to Apple to bring its 30 per cent fees down to 15 per cent to ensure fair competition.The acrimonious tussle between Epic Games and “mighty” Apple does not seem to cool down.
It has just been one week since Epic announced that they are definitely going to sue Apple over the App Store fees spar, it again has been asked to bring its fees down by a different part from another industry.A trade organization called Digital Content Next which is a representative of printed news publishing giants like New York Times, Washington Post and Viacom CBS (that owns a website called CNET.com) has made it clear that Apple must bring that 30 per cent fee down to 15 per cent.In case you are not caught up, Fortnite was thrown out by Apple and Google for bypassing the payment system set up in their respective App Store by creating their own payment system within the game.
Apple and Google were not having any of that, so they took an action that massively infuriated Epic, which owns the hugely popular game Fortnite.Now, Digital Content Next has also come forward and has asked Apple to bring down its fees; the reason that compelled Epic to create its own payment system in the first place.The move from Digital Content Next was actually inspired by another business giant Amazon.
The employees of DCN went through the documents which were released after the antitrust briefing, which was held between a congressional committee and CEOs of all the tech giants.
The documents clearly stated that Apple takes around 15 per cent cut from Amazon’s Prime Video revenue from Appstore.
Apple takes 15 per cent in that despite the standard charges set to be 30 per cent.Mathematically speaking, 30 per cent is way too high.
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