Busy days, BAU, figured I would share an update with some progress.
New year! Though I don't have that many goals specifically set other than continuing with my ongoing goals. Well I guess I do have some checkpoints I should be able to meet this year.
Wrap up first arc, create one shot for Dragoon, work on continuation of manga.
With the wrap up of the first arc and one shot, look into printing, publishing, copyright and a bit of marketing (cons, online, etc). One of the goals creating all these chapters so far is to be able to create a printable and sellable product, and to do so first I needed the actual digital work, which I think I did a good job at so far. Worth noting I don't expect big boom success, since it's one of my first ventures on this and there will be no doubt many mistakes and things to learn from, but if I want to get somewhere, I need to actually start with this stuff.
Advance as far as possible in Marc's course! At the rate I'm going, I might get through at least terms 4, 5 and 6.
Many other things not art related, like traveling, taking it easy to enjoy life, real life investments and business and so on. Ultimate goal, even if not achieved this year, is to generate enough passive income to semi-retire. There's actually some decent progress on this front, but still a lot pending to do.
Term 4
Working on a practice/study for the 4 out of 6 stilyzed upper body excercices.
Wanted to look at the buffiest of Toriyama's designs, and I don't think there's any buffier than Broly.
Coincidentaly, the Darkken character was based of Broly, so it worked well to use it for practice.
Just sketchwork for now, but let me know if you notice any glaring anatomy issues. Except for the number of fingers, he does have 4 on purpose.
Manga
One more page! Though if you are following the manga on webtoon you probably already saw the full chapter published.
Not this first time this character appears, he actually has been hanging around in the back since chapter 1. At this point I think the reader will have a hard time believing he's actually a bad guy, but probably also not clear what his role in the story is, which is intentional.
This year I'll probably take the manga production a bit more relaxed. Last year I pushed really hard, to the point I even completed a chapter every 15 days. I also had the time for it, and I really wanted to get a head start in doing it to learn and to create something that people could actually read and get an idea of what things are and where it's going.
I learned a lot. It's very different creating the manga than having the concept in my mind. In my mind, it looks like this awesome anime with music, voices and what not, but when putting these ideas in paper, dialogue, and drawing, it feels like it's not able to match the vision in my head.
Then you start learning what works in the actual manga format. How pacing works. How to write (In two languages as well), how to create dialogues that don't sound too corny, but are still corny enough. Just like with art, as Marc said, you might want to do stylized stuff and kinda "ignore the rules", but you quickly learn the rules are there for a reason, and it's best to learn them, practice them, and then bend them as needed. And so, we start looking for those rules to learn and apply them.
Learn about the time needed to produce work, to setup a pipeline, schedules I can realistically meet, how to publish online, how the industry works, courses to improve and so on.
It's a lot to digest. But at the same time, I love doing it, so we'll keep working on this and see how far we get.
That's all for now, thanks for taking the time to stop by and read!
I'm off to continue grinding!
