final homework

sorry this is kinda graphics heavy~ but it contains the last of my homework for the year!

assignment: ridiculous/weird character - Anemic vampire. He lives in the hospital since he’s just so accident prone that if released, he’d just end right back in it. He helps drink up blood bags before they expire. He says, “DONATE BLOOD!”  The story is really dumb. But sensei asked me to make one up for the sake of the assignment, so… oh well.

So, I had to draw a background, okay… and it required us to include at least 2 people, a car or bike, a tree, a house, a door, and a staircase… so troublesome!!!!! anyhow, at first I copied a photograph, but then sensei told us that we were going to have to tone this backgrond SEVEN DIFFERENT TIMES. And so I gave up halfway on the photograph copy (I even inked it TAT) and threw it away and tried something that maybe would hold my interest a little longer and not make me go insane… because gosh, if I have to tone something seven freaking times I’d better make it something decent, or that is going to be a HUGE WASTE OF TONE… AND TIME!!!

the naked inked drawing- yes I know perspective and scale is super wonky but I DON’T CARE!!! and I didn’t originally have that huge eyesore of a black cloth in the smack dab middle of the picture, but I accidentally spilled this giant drop of ink… and couldn’t think of any other way to salvage T____T uuu

so we hafto tone it: summer day/night, sunrise/sunset, rain, and wind/snow. here is summer day and summer night:

sunrise and sunset (i dislike the sunset one the most)

rain (it is… kind of wet.)

and wind and snow

So I used a lot of white out. And gosh what a waste of tone lol but from this assignment I did learn a lot. That I should just let loose and not get stuck on little details. And also even though I turned these in late, the teacher saw that I actually spent time on it (unlike the majority of the class lol…) and was very encouraging <3 I… I have hope!

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Lastly, 8 page manga that I already linked before elsewhere, but will copypasta here~ sorry for the repeat material to those who seen it already m(_ _)m

waughhh it took me so long, but I finally finished~ read right to left. English version afterwards.

2                                                                                        1

4                                                                                        3 

 6                                                                                        5

 

 7

i didn’t do any cg editing except cleaning up dust, so everything’s by hand… drawing/inking/toning and pasting printed out dialogue with a glue stick. yeah, a real glue stick!!! lol I even translated it to English for non-Japanese readers ^_^a It was kind of hard to translate some places like the last pages, but I think it’s generally the same feeling I’m trying to get across. well… my Japanese isn't so good, but English is pretty bad to begin with =A= But it’s kind of a weird feeling… to scanslate my own manga 0_o just change url #’s up to e07.jpg.

if the story seems familiar…it is! It’s very the same story I made for my incomplete 3D animation senior film from 2006.
these characters…

 

…were originally these little guys… ヾ(●⌒∇⌒●)ノ

aaah!!! ●＿● so long ago. I decided not to pursue 3D after graduating, but I never forgot about my story, and thought it would be so unfortunate if it was forever left incomplete… So I made gijinka characters and a manga exercise of it, and now that it’s finally done… I feel like I can finally close that chapter of my life!
3D animation (2D too, why not) and manga are really two completely different worlds… but both are similar in that they are SO!!! VERY TEDIOUS!!! But I learned sooo so much by doing both. Story is still the most important thing. They’re both so technical and there are so many rules to follow, but I feel like if you really work at it, or if you can get the right feeling and inspiration, it’s possible to disregard those rules and just dive right in and work straightforward… and come up with something amazing. I definitely don’t feel like I’m anywhere near that point with any of my work, but I will keep on trying harder until the day that I can.

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And thus ends my first year as a manga student~ well, I technically have an end of the year assessment on the 25th, but until then I have some free time to draw non-school related work, some commission work, and *gasp* FANART!!!!! ;_; I don’t know how long it’s been since I drew fanart TAT GAHHH I wanna make a book (Talestalestales), but I’m so bad at writing stories, and I’ve been trying to think up a circle name and try to get my own gallery back up… so much I wanna do, and I only have about a month to do it all before my 2nd year starts!!! Life is so unfair lol, to think I’d have more time as a student rather than working… but overall I’m quite happy :)