Shiro and Noiz lounging on a lazy afternoon from graphic noiz manga 3 What are you working on? We will be starting work on graphic noiz manga 3 after the December 7 publication of graphic noiz manga 2. graphic noiz manga 3 planning will start in January and tells the story of book 4 in the graphic noiz novella series. Book 4 is really dynamic and shows the growing drama and chaos that surrounds Shiro Ijima, the writer and his…..
We are happy to announce the upcoming release of the new second manga in the graphic noiz series. The 98 page manga features Shiro Ijima, the bestselling writer and Noiz, the amateur manga artist as they continue working on the artwork and script to create the Fissure manga based on Shiro’s scifi Fissure series. The story is as much about making manga as it is about the relationship between Shiro and Noiz. The cover features Shiro in the white shirt being…..
Welcome again to the Making Manga series. Today we talk about writing dialogue and toning pages. I have been writing dialogue for the past two days as I draw. I am currently working on the last 8 pages of graphic noiz 2: the manga. I am almost done. I still have the following steps left to complete in the process: finish artwork for 8 pages finish toning the first 48 pages in part 1 ink the last 48 pages in part…..
We have all seen the news recently and the dustup regarding the United States and Japan, China, South Korea, North Korea and Russia. With North Korea threatening Guam, a United States territory, it seems we have moved this game to a whole other level. Hopefully this will all settle down and the rhetoric will calm. But I didn’t bring all this up because I wanted to talk about current events, instead I wanted to relate this occurrence to my novels…..
Natsuya Uesugi is happy to announce that the next book in the grydscaen series will be released 21 July 2017. The title grydscaen: the seal maker is a cyberpunk detective story that surrounds a terrorist Hiro Yamaguchi, a murderer Akira Yamaguchi, and a cyber security jet jockey named Jaiden Pierce. The book is available on Amazon in Kindle ebook and paperback on July 31. It has been a year since the last grydscaen book was published and the buzz surrounding…..
Click to view the trailer for A Storm’s Coming anime – Episode 2 The trailer for the next episode in the A Storm’s Coming anime is now available. Episode 2 features Xander Storm, the Zone Police officer and Rom, the homeless teen as Rom is targeted by a psychic killer. The story comes from grydscaen: tribute. The full episode will be available with the 5-part series when all the animation is completed. Enjoy.
It is Release Day! Come Celebrate The Seer of Grace and Fire with Natsuya Uesugi. The Seer of Grace and Fire release day is Wednesday June 21, 2017. The image above is the cover which features the ranger Timorn on the throne in the antechamber of the high court at Kannon, the capital of the faerie kingdom of Itheria. Timorn’s hands are resting on his enchanted faerie sword which was cast with potent faerie magic. His sword was gifted to…..
It has been over 15 years since I have visited my parents. For many reasons I stayed away. The reasons are long and difficult. I ran away when I was younger and never looked back. I did not want to deal with them anymore and their controlling nature and constant judging of me and my lifestyle. When I introduced them to the love of my life/my first love back in college sophomore year, they passed judgement and dismissed the person I…..
So I have been getting reviews in for grydscaen: insurrection and the readers seem to have a few things that are being called out over and over again. The thing that they are asking for is they want to see this story as a manga or an anime. Now, there is a manga for the A Storm’s Coming story that is also getting a 5 episode anime but that was a short story. Getting an entire episode of the insurrection…..
Designing a Character for Anime/Manga Today I wanted to talk about character designs and work on the grydscaen: A Storm’s Coming anime episode 2 as we are coming up on the first rough cut of the episode being done. In this blog post I wanted to focus on how a character comes to life from original concept sketch to the lineart character design to the final character design in colour. We will be using the character “psychic killer” from…..