Stacey's Crush & Violinist Abel Manga on Smackjeeves! :)

Happy Saturday Everyone!

Today I wanted to show you something cool. As I mentioned somewhere towards the end of last year, I found out the shortlist of Manga Jiman 2014 and sadly I was not part of it. However I would like to show you both of the entries that I entered. Also to celebrate I thought that it would be great to show you a drawing Stacey and Abel dressed in historical clothes.:

Simply click on this link to see Stacey's Crush Manga

Click here to see Violinist Abel(aka Amethyst) Manga

I hope you like them both.

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!!

Merry Christmas Everyone! Have a brilliant time and make the most of it and have fun. Here is a drawing to celebrate this festive season! It's a bit of a retrospective of some of the characters that were made into picture story, a web-comic and competition entries. Enjoy!

Fan Art Friday: Stacey and Abel (aka Amethyst)

Happy Fan Art Friday! Today I'll be showing you two drawings. Both of these drawings are of my own creation. The look quite different to how they looked like before. They are also both christmas themed.

Both of these drawings are of Stacey and Amethyst. They are from the two comics that I entered for this years manga jiman. This week I got the shortlist and I was not part of it. Amethyst was changed to Abel for the manga. In these two drawings they are receiving presents from each other.

There will be more fan art next week. Tomorrow I will show drawings that were made for two clients and on there will be another drawing of these two either on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. Thanks for visiting and please write a comment! Happy Christmas!

Manga Jiman 2014 (Part 2): Violinist Amethyst

Happy October Everyone! I hope you'll all have a brilliant month. Today I'll be posting some sketches of the second Manga Jiman Entry that I'll be working on after the first one.

This story will be about a twelve year old boy called Amethyst, who has a keen interest in playing the violin. The reason as to why I decided to make a comic about a violinist is because at the age of twelve I began playing the violin. I played for much of the school year but stopped when I reached year 11. The reason....well the violin that I used to play did not belong to me but it belonged to the school. Do miss playing this instrument. I felt that I need to pay homage to this wonderful instrument as well as my old violin teachers Miss Hockridge and Anda. It's also dedicated to anyone who is playing an instrument to the best of their ability and having great enjoyment. There will be several reasons as to why he plays this instrument but the main reason will be revealed in the comic. Here are the sketches of Amethyst:

In case, if you are wondering Amethyst has appeared in another story click here to see. He may look slightly different as to how he originally looked but I felt that it would be interesting to put him in comic form. Here are two other sketches of him playing the violin. The first drawing makes the character look a lot older. However the next drawing looks nice:

Another character that will be introduced will be his violin teacher. She is a huge help for him. Here are the first and final sketches of this character:

Although I did say in my last post that I'll be entering both. I've now decided that when I've finished both entries I will pick either this one or the other to enter into the competition. Both of them are very significant as they represent the fact that I began being a steward and began playing the violin during this month several years ago.

There will be Fan Art Friday this Friday. Please look forward to it.

Manga Jiman 2014 (Part 1): Stacey's Crush

Greetings everyone! Today, I'll be showing you my latest project that I'm working on other than my web-comic. This is post will be about the comic that I'll be entering for this year's Manga Jiman Competition. It is held by the Japanese Embassy in London. This year's theme is "Once in a lifetime meeting" or "Once in a life-time encounter". In Japanese it is "一期一会" .  On the day I found out about this year's theme I got started on working on the story. Surprisingly, I wrote two stories based on this theme and hopefully if I have time to complete them in comic form I might enter them for the competition. 

The first comic is about a girl in her late twenties called Stacey and her ordeals during her job. The story is based on something that I went through sometime last year during the month of July. I have been hoping to write this story since last year. Some part of it is real and the rest is is fiction. When I began the initial sketches of Stacey, I thought of what she could wear in the comic as well as her hairstyle. The chosen hairstyle is based on the 80's musician Bette Midler. I really liked her hair style in this video and I thought I'd pay hommage to her by using it. :):

This next page is of Stacey's facial expressions.:

The next character designs are based on her friend Leanne. I decided to go for the fouth character sketch because. I yearned for something simple. The clothes that she is wearing will be what she and Stacey will be wear in the comic:

Here are the facial expressions of Leanne. The middle facial expresssion was the one I found very appealing:

The final character to this story is of Stacey's Crush. Unfortunatley he doesn't have a name. I chose to leave him anonymous. This is because I felt that only this is necessary since the comic will be only way of how he would be visualised. These are the sketches of how he is visualised. For hairstyles depicted in this drawing I looked at current hairstyles for men of this year.:

For the facial expressions, I decided to make him a older. So far it look pretty good. I'm quite impressed with the chibi character on the bottom right.:

Currently, I've finished the comic in pencil and in ink. I will be working on adding screen-tones from today and the rest of the week. There will be another post about the second Manga Jiman entry that I'll be entering too. For anyone who is living in the UK, you can also enter this competition too. Have a look at the website by clicking here. Give it a go! Thank you for visiting my blog and please leave a comment. :)