so i took a one-and-half-hour nap today, and my dream was purely BIZARRE!!!!!!!!
so...in my first dream, i was in a marching band, and my team and i were practicing on a field in the midst of pouring rain. yeah. and my role was to play violin! who plays violin in a marching band???? the thing is, fanfan was the 1st chair for violin! so i hadta ask him how to play it and our crew, which was only like 6 people, looked at me pathetically.
in my second dream, PAMELLA was in it! and we were like alice in wonderland. so we had to get to some place and we got lost like totally! it was pretty cool though. cuz we just ran into people's appartment and this random afrian american lady yelled at us. and the interior was pretty too XDD. sike. anyway, we were like going back and forth the same places, and everything was just messed up. like, if we had to run, i'd left my shoes somewhere. and if we had to look at a mirror, it'd be turned in a way so that we can't see ourselves. and pam, you drove a bus full of people! i guess it was cuz we didn't have a ride XDD. so we just broke in and took over the bus. yeah. and martin, the guy who asked me to the prom, was in the bus too. and he was like "nicole, you have something on your mouth" and there was something on my mouth. i dunno. and then the handle thingy on the bus would break if i tried to cling on it. yeah. the whole thing was pretty wierd.
and in my second dream, some drawings of a boy holding a cat floated down a stream under a bridge. the the drawings got funnier and more comic.
i dunno. i love my dreams - they inspire me. but this does nothing but proves that i'm so stressful. but i hope i'll incorporate them someday in my mangas. ^^
May 1, 2007
Mar 9, 2007
Christian Lucien Oscar (17)
A couple of words that define Christian: metrosexual, gold-digger, and lady-killer. He loves shopping accessories, he loves decorating himself, and he loves looking good. Beauty is one of the the top most important things in his mind. Consequently, girls just adore him. If you don't, those girls will say that you're not a girl. However he's not interested in them unfortunately. He justifies himself that he's "searching for THE one," but who knows what's in his mind? He's real smooth and just perfect.
Other than that, he's pretty normal like typical high school boys. He's very nice and wise in a way. He doesn't like making troubles but he also doesn't like getting in one. So he changes his mind many times for many reasons. He generally keeps a great wall around him when it comes to meeting new people, and he's just hard to get along with. Unless you have something he wants, you're not likely to be able to talk to him -- ever.
starting of "juvenile"
my production (!!!) will be titled "juvenile"...(what a corny title! but it sounds so fobbish!)
so i came up with this new story about life of a group of teenagers who go to the same school. i copied the school from korean school system cuz that's basically all i know.
i was very inspired by this japanese artist who draws the prince of tennis fanart (http://yaplog.jp/kakushiazi/) and wanted to just goof off with my characters without putting them in a specific format of manga or anything like that. therefore, this will be very, extremely different from what people think of "mangas". cuz essentially, it's not!
i also wanted to not worry about my rough lines which most of people hate. for now, i'm just gonna do whatever and if the reaction gets unmanagable, i'll try to work harder to make things clean. but the major goal here for me is just to HAVE FUN WITH MY DRAWING cuz i haven't been able to.
i've decided NOT to publish my manga cuz i've been having a hard time in and out of school. if i were to really publish it, i'd just......die. it's such a big responsibility and burden to me. but i want to love my manga. i don't want it to be a "work" but something that i love to do the most. so that's my final saying on the publication of my manga.
so the main plot is this: a group of teenage rebels rule (or so they think) the school and their village which is generally.......messed up ^^. they do different things everyday, make troubles everyday, and so on. they are very close and intimate to each other, so -- obviously -- this "production" is gonna be about friendship!
the characters will be presented soon....
if you have any suggestion, please tell me cuz any type of comments/suggestions/critisms help me so much! (especially when it comes to creating new characters, wide range of ideas is critical...) thank you!
so i came up with this new story about life of a group of teenagers who go to the same school. i copied the school from korean school system cuz that's basically all i know.
i was very inspired by this japanese artist who draws the prince of tennis fanart (http://yaplog.jp/kakushiazi/) and wanted to just goof off with my characters without putting them in a specific format of manga or anything like that. therefore, this will be very, extremely different from what people think of "mangas". cuz essentially, it's not!
i also wanted to not worry about my rough lines which most of people hate. for now, i'm just gonna do whatever and if the reaction gets unmanagable, i'll try to work harder to make things clean. but the major goal here for me is just to HAVE FUN WITH MY DRAWING cuz i haven't been able to.
i've decided NOT to publish my manga cuz i've been having a hard time in and out of school. if i were to really publish it, i'd just......die. it's such a big responsibility and burden to me. but i want to love my manga. i don't want it to be a "work" but something that i love to do the most. so that's my final saying on the publication of my manga.
so the main plot is this: a group of teenage rebels rule (or so they think) the school and their village which is generally.......messed up ^^. they do different things everyday, make troubles everyday, and so on. they are very close and intimate to each other, so -- obviously -- this "production" is gonna be about friendship!
the characters will be presented soon....
if you have any suggestion, please tell me cuz any type of comments/suggestions/critisms help me so much! (especially when it comes to creating new characters, wide range of ideas is critical...) thank you!
Feb 18, 2007
screen toning lesson
from http://www.tokyopop.com/147.html
Pop Mhan is the creator of Blank, an action-packed comedy about a secret agent with amnesia that will be exploding into bookstores and comic shops in 2006. Pop has been drawing American comics for the past ten years. However, Blank represents his first foray into eastern-styled sequential art and storytelling. Not that anyone could tell. A lifelong manga reader, Pop has taken to drawing it like a catgirl to milk.
Pop is one busy guy. However, he recently managed to put together a tutorial on toning in Photoshop for his art board that we've stolen for our insidious use. (Just kidding! He said it was okay.) Check out his art board for more great tutorials and art tips like this one. And be sure to check his main website for up-to-the-minute updates on Blank.
First off, I should say that this certainly isn't the only way to tone a book, but it's how I've been doing it for Blank. Keep in mind that there are many other ways to do this.
Anyways, since Blank is in "published" format there are some simple rules to bear in mind. The most important is that the art MUST be made up of only BLACK and WHITE pixels. There can be no GRAY pixels, such as are commonly found in web-based publishing. And ALWAYS tone at the print size. If your print specs are 1200 dpi at 5" x 7", make sure your piece is at spec BEFORE toning. Trying to resize your pic will cause unwanted moire patterns to form.
Getting started
This is Missy, one of the characters from Blank. Seems like people enjoy drawing her the most.
Must be her...eyes. Yeah... So for this tutorial, she be the one getting da treatment.
First you need to prep you pic for toning. Once you've cleaned up the art, getting rid of all those unwanted, yet strangely entrancing, dust specs that the scanner picked up, you "thresh" the line art so it becomes a perfect BLACK and WHITE pixeled marvel. This is done with Image -> Adjustment -> Threshold.
You usually have to mess with it a bit until you are satisfied with the end result.
Setting Up Your Layers
What I like to do is to work with a layer that's purely line art. It saves me some time by giving me the option to "click-fill" large areas. Some people prefer "lassoing" everything. I'm sure there's probably a better way out there, but I'm old school...so there you go.
I select an area of black, then: Select -> Similar
Copy and paste in a new layer, rename layer to: Black. Delete the old and then duplicate the Black layer, renaming it "Gray" (this will be the layer where I lay down my grayscale).
When Grayscaling the Art
Dig? If you go too dark, a lot of times the tones will look muddy.
I use both the lasso tool and the pencil brush to do the grayscale.
And...
A Gradient Fill
I wanted to cover a few different techniques on Missy, so here we have a gradient fill.
Oh, my chicken scratches are pretty eligible, huh? The bottom right says "Dark to Light."
The Conversion
Okay, so you are all finished with the grayscale? Select a purely black area left over from duplicating the black line art. (If you didn't do that step, then omit.) Select -> Similar, then Delete.
Now you have a layer that is purely grayscale.
This the most important step! Ctrl + A (select all), Ctrl + C (copy), Ctrl + N (new file), Ctrl + V (paste that shiznit).
Next, Image -> Mode -> Bitmap.
At the dialog box, set the resolution to 1200 (or whatever resolution you are working at) and the method to halftone.
At the next dialog box (pictured above), the frequency should equal 85, the angle should be 45 and the shape should be round.
This converts the grayscale to the halftone dots.
Then, Image -> Mode -> Grayscale ("ratio" = 1).
Now drag the halftone image back to your original file, making sure that this new layer is underneath the black (line art) layer. Align the halftone layer to black line art layer.
You should have sumthin' like this...
The Last Step
I like to add yet another layer on top of the halftone layer and name it "White." On this layer, I put the highlights.
Alternating between the 3 pixel and 1 pixel-sized brush on the pencil tool, I etch in some highlights. It's a little like cross-hatching. I try to create a gradient to "texturize" certain areas or lighten up other areas. It can get pretty time consuming.
Here's something I did on her inner thighs. (Okay, stop snickering. This isn't that kind of demonstration.)
Now, just merge all of your layers and save as a .TIF and you're good to go!
Here's the final picture...
Just remember to always tone at print size and that this is one time when it IS good to only see things as either black or white (no gray pixels here!). And don't forget to pick up Blank when it comes out next year for more of Missy. A LOT more of Missy... ;
Pop Mhan is the creator of Blank, an action-packed comedy about a secret agent with amnesia that will be exploding into bookstores and comic shops in 2006. Pop has been drawing American comics for the past ten years. However, Blank represents his first foray into eastern-styled sequential art and storytelling. Not that anyone could tell. A lifelong manga reader, Pop has taken to drawing it like a catgirl to milk.
Pop is one busy guy. However, he recently managed to put together a tutorial on toning in Photoshop for his art board that we've stolen for our insidious use. (Just kidding! He said it was okay.) Check out his art board for more great tutorials and art tips like this one. And be sure to check his main website for up-to-the-minute updates on Blank.
First off, I should say that this certainly isn't the only way to tone a book, but it's how I've been doing it for Blank. Keep in mind that there are many other ways to do this.
Anyways, since Blank is in "published" format there are some simple rules to bear in mind. The most important is that the art MUST be made up of only BLACK and WHITE pixels. There can be no GRAY pixels, such as are commonly found in web-based publishing. And ALWAYS tone at the print size. If your print specs are 1200 dpi at 5" x 7", make sure your piece is at spec BEFORE toning. Trying to resize your pic will cause unwanted moire patterns to form.
Getting started
This is Missy, one of the characters from Blank. Seems like people enjoy drawing her the most.
Must be her...eyes. Yeah... So for this tutorial, she be the one getting da treatment.
First you need to prep you pic for toning. Once you've cleaned up the art, getting rid of all those unwanted, yet strangely entrancing, dust specs that the scanner picked up, you "thresh" the line art so it becomes a perfect BLACK and WHITE pixeled marvel. This is done with Image -> Adjustment -> Threshold.
You usually have to mess with it a bit until you are satisfied with the end result.
Setting Up Your Layers
What I like to do is to work with a layer that's purely line art. It saves me some time by giving me the option to "click-fill" large areas. Some people prefer "lassoing" everything. I'm sure there's probably a better way out there, but I'm old school...so there you go.
I select an area of black, then: Select -> Similar
Copy and paste in a new layer, rename layer to: Black. Delete the old and then duplicate the Black layer, renaming it "Gray" (this will be the layer where I lay down my grayscale).
When Grayscaling the Art
Dig? If you go too dark, a lot of times the tones will look muddy.
I use both the lasso tool and the pencil brush to do the grayscale.
And...
A Gradient Fill
I wanted to cover a few different techniques on Missy, so here we have a gradient fill.
Oh, my chicken scratches are pretty eligible, huh? The bottom right says "Dark to Light."
The Conversion
Okay, so you are all finished with the grayscale? Select a purely black area left over from duplicating the black line art. (If you didn't do that step, then omit.) Select -> Similar, then Delete.
Now you have a layer that is purely grayscale.
This the most important step! Ctrl + A (select all), Ctrl + C (copy), Ctrl + N (new file), Ctrl + V (paste that shiznit).
Next, Image -> Mode -> Bitmap.
At the dialog box, set the resolution to 1200 (or whatever resolution you are working at) and the method to halftone.
At the next dialog box (pictured above), the frequency should equal 85, the angle should be 45 and the shape should be round.
This converts the grayscale to the halftone dots.
Then, Image -> Mode -> Grayscale ("ratio" = 1).
Now drag the halftone image back to your original file, making sure that this new layer is underneath the black (line art) layer. Align the halftone layer to black line art layer.
You should have sumthin' like this...
The Last Step
I like to add yet another layer on top of the halftone layer and name it "White." On this layer, I put the highlights.
Alternating between the 3 pixel and 1 pixel-sized brush on the pencil tool, I etch in some highlights. It's a little like cross-hatching. I try to create a gradient to "texturize" certain areas or lighten up other areas. It can get pretty time consuming.
Here's something I did on her inner thighs. (Okay, stop snickering. This isn't that kind of demonstration.)
Now, just merge all of your layers and save as a .TIF and you're good to go!
Here's the final picture...
Just remember to always tone at print size and that this is one time when it IS good to only see things as either black or white (no gray pixels here!). And don't forget to pick up Blank when it comes out next year for more of Missy. A LOT more of Missy... ;
screen toning practice
omg i can't believe i did this!!!
this definitely proves that i have all the technical equipments/materials. AND I DIDN'T EVEN INK THIS ONE!
all i gotta do from now on is to draw very very very neatly and put a lot more efforts for the screen tones.
this one's only a test.
p.s. this page is the one i haven't updated yet. my scanner's broken and i can't scan next pages TT.
Feb 17, 2007
cherry tina
(painter ix. pen and blender. photoshop cs for the effect. 3 hrs?)
haha look how much my style has changed since last year:
[link]
i just felt like drawing tina with some cherry color^^
Feb 15, 2007
another snow day! thank you so much!
(1 hr 30 min. painter ix pen and charcoal. photoshop sc.)
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE SNOW DAY!!!!! thank you so much for letting me not see tache today but a week from today.
so, i made up my mind to draw something like this twice a week.
Jan 19, 2007
http://ayakiri.img.jugem.jp
dangggggg.... i thought my manga was good.....but after looking at these, nehhhh i'm still far behind TT.
paper size
You can ink at any size you want as long as it's proportional to our final size. Our final book size is 5" by 7.4375", with .125" bleed on the sides, making the size with bleed 5.25" by 7.6875". The 2x and 1.5x sizes listed in the mechanical specs guide are just easy multipliers. If you want to use 1.3x instead, no problem.
Now, if your paper is 7" wide, including bleed, then the height it would need to be to be proportional is 10.25" (which includes bleed). Conversely, if your paper is 10" tall including bleed, then the width of the art should be 6.83" (which includes bleed).
The same kind of calculation should be applied to the safe zone indicated in the guide.
When you scan it in, scan it at 75% (or 76.87%., depending) size so it ends up the correct size in Photoshop, after which any tones you want to use should get added. We use 1200 dpi bitmaps for line art.
wanted to copy it down somewhere...
Now, if your paper is 7" wide, including bleed, then the height it would need to be to be proportional is 10.25" (which includes bleed). Conversely, if your paper is 10" tall including bleed, then the width of the art should be 6.83" (which includes bleed).
The same kind of calculation should be applied to the safe zone indicated in the guide.
When you scan it in, scan it at 75% (or 76.87%., depending) size so it ends up the correct size in Photoshop, after which any tones you want to use should get added. We use 1200 dpi bitmaps for line art.
wanted to copy it down somewhere...
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