Want to read the yaoi manga for free? Chapter 1 of the graphic noiz manga “Nobody’s Business” is available at: graphic noiz manga: chapter 1 Finding a hosting site for your manga/comics So I am a member of a Facebook group called Mangaka Masters which is a group for mangaka who are working on their own manga and have published a volume. So, they run you through a test when you join to make sure you are serious and have…..
what new fanart/fanfiction doujinshi projects do you have going? So I went to ComicCon last week and sold out of the Saiyuki Shame doujinshi volume 1 in about 2 hours. The work is based on the characters in Gensoumaden Saiyuki. The doujinshi was really popular with all the fans at the con. So with that, it means that I am going to create volume 2 of the doujinshi and continue the fan fiction this year. There are three stories in…..
What work are you doing on the grydscaen manuscript? Work has started on the grydscaen: desecration manuscript n which is volume 5 in the series. I have edited it 3 times and now I am proofreading and going through it for the 4th time. I will have to get through it a few more times before it is ready for submission in mid June 2017. The story in the volume wraps up the battleship Escalon story arc and we experience…..
So I have been working on the graphic noiz manga today and I can successfully say that all the lineart is done for the manga. We are onto shading now after we spent an hour photocopying and reducing the 10×14 artwork to be 8.5×11 so it can be scanned. I usually don’t shade my manga but I thought since I had some feedback that I would do it for this story. I am still light on backgrounds but that is…..
Making Characters Consistent Today on our Making Manga series, we will talk about drawing your characters consistently. I know that I sometimes have an issue with that. So here we go. One way to ensure that you know what your characters looks like and can make them look the same across sequential panels is to practice drawing the character as much as you can. I do this a little bit in images but I have to say that sometimes my…..
We are happy to reveal the next cover in the graphic noiz series. graphic noiz: book 2 will be up for pre-order starting 23 January, 2017. Release date for graphic noiz: book 2 is 14 February, 2017. graphic noiz 2 Book Summary: Noiz is a 19 year old illustrator and mangaka straight out of art school who created his own manga, Disaster Code. Scouted at ComicCon where he was showing his art by Keita Shimura, agent to bestselling author Shiro…..
What is graphic noiz? graphic noiz is a yaoi novella series about 19 year old skateboarder and amateur manga artist, Noiz who went to ComicCon in New York city as an artist in Artist Alley and was discovered by the literary agent, Keita. Keita is bestselling author Shiro Ijima’s agent and he gets a peek at Noiz’ original manga Disaster Code at the con. After putting Noiz through an art test and stringing him along with words, dinners and few chance encounters…..
We are almost there. Just a quick update. Approved the hardcopy proofs today of the 69 new cards, the box and the RPG rulebook and Tarot guidebook. Yes the box! As you can see in the picture above, the box proof looks pretty rad and it is in corrugated cardboard all folded and glued. I didn’t think they would have done the folding just for the proofs but they did. I guess I really did learn how to make a…..
Natsuya Uesugi is going to be signing manga at ComicCon on 28 January 2017. This is the first time that I will be at ComicCon as an artist. Usually I just go as a cosplayer or attendee and go crazy in the vendor room. I am not just going to be at the con in Artist Alley but I will be an actual vendor. Well giving away manga for free but it will be good exposure. grydscaen books will also…..
The grydscaen RPG Trading Card game is becoming a reality. We are currently at the printer. The design team is working on the bleeds on the rule books because I guess I didn’t format the covers of the InDesign files correctly. No doubt that is left over points off from art school layout classes. It has been three years since I was in that InDesign class so I was bound to forget some stuff I learned. The file had a…..