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This is a very helpful article thanx!
This was very useful, i've taken notes. This blog was reccomended to me by kriffix, I never see him reading blogs but i can see why this blog must have stuck out for him.
This really inspired me. This article has taught me new things but also has confirmed a few things. I also feel i understand the Artist-editor relationship better now. Thanks!
Waynekun, with the exception of #1, the answer to all of your questions is yes. The first question is largely subjective and the answer would vary depending on the individuals involved.
i have a cupple questions my self, i hpe you can ancwer them if u cant thats ok and you dont have to do it right away. 1) would it be alot easyer to do the job say if u had a group of frineds helping you kind of like the japanese "CLAMP"? 2) say infact your manga was picked and published ect would it be the same steps takes to make a nother submisshon? 3) and say me or my friend one of us was the main person working on an idea that thay came up with is it posabule for he or I to help eachother. and finaly 4) are group supmisshons even aloud? sorry about all the questions like i said you dont have to get to it right a way or even at all but I would much apprechate it if you could ancwer my question
Get your work noticed in what way? By a publisher? By fans? By an art studio? I'm assuming that you're talking about getting noticed by a publisher, to which I can only say that you're NOT going to get noticed by one. Not unless you've been approaching them. Go to portfolio reviews. Visit the publisher's website and see if they accept submissions. If they do, submit art samples of your best work (be sure to follow their guidelines). Swing by their booth at conventions and ask if you could speak with an editor. If you want to draw manga, no one's going to make it happen for you. You need to make it happen for yourself.
The advice here is excellent and very helpful, but I have a question: how do you get your work noticed? I've been trying very hard but nothing has seemed to pop up. I don't necessarily think my artwork is bad either. Is there a better way to get your work noticed?
KairiMoon, the answer is...both. Some people can do everything themselves over a period of nine months to a year, while others need help to achieve that sort of timeframe. Most artists drawing original manga for us can't afford assistants, but we do occasionally find inkers and/or toners to help out artists who are talented, but a bit slower paced. It's preferable if we don't have to do that, however.
Saying it takes 9 to a year to do 160 pages, does that mean doing everything by one's self (such as planning, sketching, inking, toning etc) or doing it with the help of assistants.
Tally, the mechanical guidelines are pretty minor in comparison to everything else. Mechanical specs for your final art files vary from publisher to publisher, and we don't expect artists to automatically know ours. I don't even look at the file specs when I review an artist's porfolio. That doesn't really become an issue until after an artist has been hired, at which point, it's pretty safe to say that we like their work enough to assist them in making sure their art files are to spec.
If you review a portfolio with an artist who just cannot figure out the mechanical guidelines (sizing, DPI, filetype), is it worth sticking with and teaching them, or will you wait until they figure it out themselves?
Thanks! I had always assumed that a contract meant a full-time commitment...I've been doing all of the rest for the past two years so going to a publisher is the last step. At least now I know I can concentrate on a design job and hope for the best in manga :P!
Joanna, it's really difficult to give you an estimate. It could be as little as a few weeks to as much as a year. You may not even hear anything back at all. It depends on everything from how many submissions we've received in a given period of time, to how much free time the editors have to look over proposals to how many new original projects the publisher is looking to put out. My advice to you is to put together your proposal as soon as you get a chance, submit it to TOKYOPOP, then put together another proposal for a different publisher and submit that one, reserve artist alley tables at your local conventions and offer to take commissions, start publishing a webcomic, etc. In short, don't depend on any one outlet to break into publishing, but rather, approach from a variety of corners. And oh yes, get a part-time job because drawing comics doesn't pay very well. At least not when you start. If you do get hired and you find that you can live off of what you're making as an artist, you can always quit. But in the meantime, you're probably going to need a day job.
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...Sorry to say but most material I've found says the same thing with a few differences.... >
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