Today’s art club challenge asked us to do something new and unfamiliar. I chose to draw emotions as they might appear in a manga. I chose these expressions from the The Complete Guide to Drawing Manga by Sonia Leong.
I sketched the figures with pencil and paper, inked them, then scanned them. In Clip Studio Paint I digitally inked everything again, the added some color.
The effect lines are easy background and the show that the kids are really excited. Perhaps I’ll keep them.
The page above show Momma Jay surprising Jimmy and Buddy with tickets for their trip to Mexico. There are three tickets, just in case they lose one. How thoughtful! I’ve added this page because I want everyone to know that Momma encouragestheir desire for independent action. In the picture below, I’ve added her to the picture. She’s waving the kids goodbye at the airport and they’re too excited to even notice.
Today I finished the storyboard. It’s a first draft, but I think it captures the storyline well enough to move on to the next step, which is starting to draw each cell. I scanned the storyboard pages and imported them into Photoshop. From there, I’ll extract each page and import the rough sketch into an 8x8 page for detailed work.
I’m more organized this time around. I created a _book2 directory, into which i’m collecting all of the files for this book. I created folders for the rgb and cmyk files, and one folder for all of the pages. There will be a lot of pages and, no doubt, some chaos with all of those files floating around. I’m searching for software that can organize the pages. Clip Studio Paint Ex looks like a good candidate. It’s an awesome drawing program with time-saving features that can speed production. It can also manage multiple pages as a project and export the project as a Kindle ebook or as an ePub. Sounds too good to be true! With all of those features, there’s got to be a steep learning curve. :)
This image shows pages two and three of my storyboard.
