Manga Comics for Beginners: From Concept to Creation
About Me
A course by Natalia Batista , Manga Artist and illustrator
About the video: About Me
Overview
“I will begin by telling you about me and my journey. After educating myself to become a manga artist, I focused on gaining practical experience by making manga for contests, anthologies, and projects. During this time, I also built a network of contacts all over the world. In this lesson, I hope to inspire you to start your own manga projects and be brave enough to showcase them as I have.”
In this video lesson Natalia Batista addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Manga Comics for Beginners: From Concept to Creation. Learn how to write and create a manga comic from scratch using professional techniques used by Japanese artists for storytelling and character design.
Partial transcription of the video
“Hi. My name is Natalia Batista. I'm a Swedish manga artist, and I've been working with manga for 15 years. But I started out just like you, wanting to make manga. So before we start this course, I would like to show you a little bit of my history. to make you inspired and show you how I got to this point. When I was 14 years old, I saw a television show, Sailor Moon. from Japan. And I didn't know what it was, but then when I realized it was anime and it was connected to manga, Japanese comics, I realized I wanted to make this. And after high school, I applied for a comic art school and I go...”
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Course summary for: Manga Comics for Beginners: From Concept to Creation
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Comic, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Manga, Narrative, Storyboard, Traditional illustration
Natalia Batista
A course by Natalia Batista
Natalia Batista is a Swedish manga artist and illustrator with over 15 years of experience. Her passion for the Japanese art started as a child watching Sailor Moon with her sister. Soon, she joined a local manga club, and after graduating from high school, she attended a comic art school. While working for a Swedish magazine as a comic artist, she illustrated the comic Lova, about a young girl who wanted to be a singer in a band.
Since then, she has illustrated and published a number of manga pieces that are centered on female characters who are fighting for their rights. She is the artist and storyteller behind Sword Princess Amaltea and Mjau!, which have been published and printed throughout Europe and the United States. Natalia has also been featured in the German magazine Tokyopop for her comic Ein Lied für Elise.
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