Yen Press -- Manga Talent Search

With the lack of TokyoPop's "Rising Stars of Manga," Yen Press, an online serialized magazine is hosting what they call a talent search. Although to me it sounds more like a casting call for open auditions. They say there will be no "winners" however one, some, or none may be chosen for a publishing deal.

Information can be found on there website Here

The deadline is set for January 3rd, 2011. I am pretty excited about this. I need to dish out about 18 more pages and I'll be ready to go. I just finished up on all the touch-ups for everything I have had done so far.

The tough part is going to be that they want a 32 page submission. Well, getting 32 pages will not be hard. What will be hard is closing my story up within those 32 pages so it has a decent ending, but not actually ending the series. I think I have it figured out. Last night I re-worked my plot and created a nice detailed time-line. I think I know right where to end it, and if all goes well, it will leave them wanting more, because it'll end on a huge cliffhanger, but still give a sense of closure.

 


Oh yes, here is page 13.

And remember, if you want to read the full manga thus far, simply click HERE <-----

I really really like this one.

Really startin to like the digital ink

It makes me a little sad faced to put away the pens and ink for a bit, but I tell you what, I am REALLY liking the end results by doing everything (except the pencils) digitally.

At least I am starting to get some good use out of my Wacom tablet, poor thing was turning into more of a coaster than a drawing utensil. I just finished page 13, and I feel as though I am starting to grasp the concept of toning. It's hard not to overdo it because when I sketch I like to add a lot of detail. But I am getting used to not going overboard like I felt I was doing in earlier pages.

Simplified art is hard for me? haha well I guess, I'll learn...or give up...but probably learn.

Page 12 is up on smackjeeves

I have added page 12 to my smackjeeves site. http://thefrozenprophets.smackjeeves.com/ (you can see it here).

I have decided to digitally ink the rest of Chapter 1 simply because it is quicker and easier. Right now I want to get the last 8 pages finished up. They are all sketched out and ready to go, hopefully I will be adding 1 to 2 pages per day until the chapter is complete.

Chapter 2 is roughed out and Chapter 3 is about half done. After I get the first 5 chapters done, I will be offering a 5 chapter volume book on my blog here. I hope you all enjoy what you see so far.

Oh, and also, I have decided to quit being so lazy and take my shading a little more serious, it is more time consuming, but I hope to have the art a little more defined (facial expressions, detail, character stiffness).

This is my first actual attempt at a manga/comic so it isn't going to be the greatest, but I am noticing a small improvement with each page, and I will continue working to better the end result. Have a good one.

So taking a break today and messing around

I took a little break today from the story and decided to mess around coloring in photoshop. I started out with a sketch that I was very unhappy with, scanned it in, digitally inked it, and then colored, I am pretty pleased with the end result.

First is the pencil, then the ink, underneath is the colored finished product.

Here is the finished product. I don't think it looks to shabby.

Here's the pictures.

Went from this...to this...

This is the page after inking... if you notice all the little spots, I accidently blew on my pen nib while holding it over my paper...I felt like an idiot, shortly before that a huge blob of ink dropped next to his moth as well. But I recovered and saved it :P

And here is the finished product. Chundee is casting a spell, getting ready to initiate the fight with Malvicious. I'm pretty excited to get the next 9 pages finished, it's gonna be nothin but action and some character discovery the rest of the chapter.

So here is my latest page, it's one of my favorites so far, now I'm excited to get the action started, the fight is underway!

Don't forget to check the full comic out so far at  http://thefrozenprophets.smackjeeves.com/ Please become a fan!  Hope you all enjoy.