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I don't make New Year's Resolutions anymore. I don't start anything on New Year's Day that I hadn't started the day before. Why? Because my ultimate goal has never changed...and it's really hard not to crap out on my resolutions half-way through January -_-.
My ultimate goal has been the same since I was 12: To become a mangaka in Japan and to get an anime. This goal only became stronger when I read Bakuman and learned that all the authors get together for a New Year's party every year. At that point I was pretty much sold. Come Hell or high water I will reach that goal and probably meet Eiichiro Oda and Horikoshi Kohei. Speaking of which,"For God's sake, someone get Oda off the table! He drank too much again!!" Yeah...that'll be the day.
Am I delusional? Maybe. But then you could say the same thing about Felipe Smith. He went there and came back...ALIVE!
Will I actually get into Shounen Jump? If Bakuman has taught me anything, it's that as long as the manga is interesting, I might have a shot
All the steps I'm currently taking will eventually lead up to the ultimate goal (and beyond), but as I have recently learned, the goal is not my source of ultimate happiness. Meaning, I plan to reach my goal, but it doesn't mean I shouldn't enjoy every step along the way.
I have a whole list of crap that I'm doing now that will get me there eventually. Stuff for now, stuff for later (like how I'm learning Japanese currently). For right now, I'm focusing on getting out the best webcomic I can currently produce in both story and art.
That means I gotta tackle my toughest foes, such as Value and Lighting (a formidable beast), PERSPECTIVE (my arch-nemesis), and *gasp* Color Theory(a straight-up fiend!).
I'm hoping to start it this year if I don't get disowned by May...which is a whole 'nother story.
Well, I have a long path ahead of me, and by God's good grace I will get to my destination (and beyond). And so will you. Just keep your feet moving in the right direction, work hard, and ENJOY the trip!
Happy New Year!
My ultimate goal has been the same since I was 12: To become a mangaka in Japan and to get an anime. This goal only became stronger when I read Bakuman and learned that all the authors get together for a New Year's party every year. At that point I was pretty much sold. Come Hell or high water I will reach that goal and probably meet Eiichiro Oda and Horikoshi Kohei. Speaking of which,"For God's sake, someone get Oda off the table! He drank too much again!!" Yeah...that'll be the day.
Am I delusional? Maybe. But then you could say the same thing about Felipe Smith. He went there and came back...ALIVE!
Will I actually get into Shounen Jump? If Bakuman has taught me anything, it's that as long as the manga is interesting, I might have a shot
All the steps I'm currently taking will eventually lead up to the ultimate goal (and beyond), but as I have recently learned, the goal is not my source of ultimate happiness. Meaning, I plan to reach my goal, but it doesn't mean I shouldn't enjoy every step along the way.
I have a whole list of crap that I'm doing now that will get me there eventually. Stuff for now, stuff for later (like how I'm learning Japanese currently). For right now, I'm focusing on getting out the best webcomic I can currently produce in both story and art.
That means I gotta tackle my toughest foes, such as Value and Lighting (a formidable beast), PERSPECTIVE (my arch-nemesis), and *gasp* Color Theory(a straight-up fiend!).
I'm hoping to start it this year if I don't get disowned by May...which is a whole 'nother story.
Well, I have a long path ahead of me, and by God's good grace I will get to my destination (and beyond). And so will you. Just keep your feet moving in the right direction, work hard, and ENJOY the trip!
Happy New Year!
The 10-Minute Drawing WARMUP
I've been doing videos for a while now!
Check this one out for a BADASS drawing warmup.
Pareto Principle In Art study
It's an oft-heard of idea in business, but I'd say that Pareto's 80/20 principle would also apply well to art study.
The Pareto principle is the idea that 20% of the work gets you 80% of the results (may be oversimplified here, but you get the general idea.).
To illustrate, say you have 10 categories of art study:
Perspective
Facial ExpressionInkingColor TheoryLight and ShadeFigure DrawingBackgroundsCompositionRenderingPaintingWhich TWO would you pick to get you the MAJORITY of initial results when making comics?
In comics, or illustration in general, wouldn't you say that if 20 percent of all that you learn is perspective and figu
Is it more effective to craft your style?
Just a quick question to get you thinking about something that's been on my mind for a while now.
Is it more effective to craft your style?
As opposed to sort of just letting it happen naturally over time?
I feel like most people do a mixture of both as they progress, so it's not really a binary, one-or-the-other type decision, or really much to think about :T
But I've spent the week writing an "article" about this idea, until just now deciding to truncate it to get the idea across. If you want to see what I had so far, the link to the unfinished doc with notes is here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQHOlrro2oeGP1xwRt89Diy
Retreading
After such a long break, getting back into the swing of things is pretty hard. It's like re-watching a movie you didn't finish the first time; trudging through the beginning to get to the parts you haven't seen yet. That's what it feels like to return to drawing and improving. But I haven't gotten to the improving part yet, lol. I'm still just retreading old ground and re-establishing my old skills, which unmistakably diminished (somewhat -_-).
But I came back with a new understanding of life in general that's basically guiding this whole process. Whereas before, I could easily burn myself out by being too tunnel-visioned on my own conceptua
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