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comic-creating blather
Aug. 29th, 2011 02:56 pmI think this link is full of phenomenally good work and phenomenally good advice -- I urge you to check it out if you haven't seen it before and if you're at all interested in the process of cartooning. That being said:
I kinda hafta disagree with the first couple of items, wherein “The Manga Way of Doing Things” is put down, and they say “It's not a style.” I dunno, I think it is a style. Admittedly, it's a style that too many artists adopt slavishly without inputting any of their own uniqueness into it, perhaps.
But I feel that the manga way, of using symbology and iconography in place of rendering, is still a valid way of approaching comic drawing. And it's a method that undeniably connects powerfully with (and communicates powerfully to) a large audience. If your goal is to create a comic that communicates, then manga style is still a strong and valid approach -- one of many -- that can still be considered, rather than simply dismissed as “not really drawing” like I feel is being done here.
I kinda hafta disagree with the first couple of items, wherein “The Manga Way of Doing Things” is put down, and they say “It's not a style.” I dunno, I think it is a style. Admittedly, it's a style that too many artists adopt slavishly without inputting any of their own uniqueness into it, perhaps.
But I feel that the manga way, of using symbology and iconography in place of rendering, is still a valid way of approaching comic drawing. And it's a method that undeniably connects powerfully with (and communicates powerfully to) a large audience. If your goal is to create a comic that communicates, then manga style is still a strong and valid approach -- one of many -- that can still be considered, rather than simply dismissed as “not really drawing” like I feel is being done here.
