Manga Comics for Beginners: From Concept to Creation
Creating Your Concept and Characters
A course by Natalia Batista , Manga Artist and illustrator
About the video: Creating Your Concept and Characters
Overview
“With the basics now covered, let's move on to creating manga! In this lesson, I will tell you how to generate, form, and organize an idea into a concept. You will learn to structure your ideas in a way that makes them easier to work with, therefore facilitating the inclusion of others, such as an editor, test reader, or collaborating artist. With the concept established, I will then model how to develop a cast of characters. Manga characters should be memorable, likable (even the evil ones), and understandable. Finally, I will teach you how to flesh them out and complement each other. ”
In this video lesson Natalia Batista addresses the topic: Creating Your Concept and Characters, 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
“Creating Your Concept and Characters In this lesson, I will show how to create your concept and your characters. I will show you how to generate and form your idea. Whether you have an idea already or if you're going to create one, it doesn't matter. I'm going to show you how to structure it. I'll show how to create something that you can show to others, for example, editors or test readers, or if you're a manga author and you're looking for an artist to collaborate with. Using the manga concept, we'll create interesting characters that will bring forward your story. Characters in manga sho...”
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Course summary for: Manga Comics for Beginners: From Concept to Creation
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Areas
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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