Tokyopop

True to my own record of not keeping up with my blogs, here I am again not posting anything for a while. Truth is this time, I do have a good excuse as some relatives visited me from Spain for a couple of weeks in early February and I just didn’t have time to do much of anything.

I’m back now though. I’m back at drawing and learning about Manga Studio, my Wacom tablet, etc…. it’s all taking some time to get used to but I’m actually doing better then I thought. I have also decided I will try to draw a short story to submit to Tokyopop’s pilot program, which pretty much allows amateur manga artists to send them ideas and art for a manga series for their consideration. The cool part is there have been a few pilots picked up by TP and you can actually find manga drawn in the US in bookstores. How cool is that? I never though such an opportunity would ever be available but hey, there it is, so I’m gonna try to take advantage of it.

I guess I will be posting sketches and characters for this short story soon so stay tuned!

TRYING THE GRAPHIC TABLET

Well, here it is! My first attempts at drawing and inking with my Wacom Intuos3 and Manga Studio. I'm still trying to get used to the tablet but I feel more and more comfortable with it with every new line I do. I'm also trying to set up the tools so I can get results I'm happy with... I think I'm getting there. Anyway, I'm sure I'll be posting more soon, this is just too much fun!

WACOM INTUOS3

Finally! After a few days battling with the eBay seller that was supposed to send me the Wacom Intous3 graphic tablet I'd bought from him, I finally got it yesterday. I installed it and quickly started to draw inside Manga Studio.... it was a bit weird at first, I need to get used to drawing on the tablet while looking at the screen, but pretty quickly I started to get it.... I'm still not 100% comfortable with it but I only used it for about an hour last night so I guess it takes a little longer than that.
It was awesome to be able to use layers to sketch then ink with the pen tool, add tones.... it's such a fantastic set up! I can't wait to get comfortable with it and start drawing a story or two.

I should be posting more art soon!