Apr 12, 2020 18:00:00

You can easily understand the points to pay attention to convey the charm of the illustration, the full version of the April 2020 Manga Awards top drawing making

The production flow of the 'Manga Grand Prize Top Illustration', which is only roughly

described in the Manga Grand Prize recruitment article , will be released specially as a treasured document exclusively for GIGAZINE Secret Club (GSC) members. In order to make an attractive subject stand out, it is important not only to polish it, but also to make sure that no other element impairs it. Corrections and retakes are being made to nurture the 'eye to see illustrations' that can specifically point out where the professionals on the road are paying attention from such a viewpoint.

First of all, I had you show a rough idea rough as a draft. A cute character is an attractive rough, but from the point that `` things parallel to the vertical / horizontal lines (vertical and horizontal lines) and diagonal lines of the screen will look at the parallel lines and the composition will collapse '' Fine-tune the character's body clockwise to avoid diagonal lines. In addition, while the pose with the fascination is attractive, because the composition of the body is difficult to draw anyway and the balance tends to look strange, we asked for attention to the actual appearance of the body and the body structure .

In the more detailed rough, two costumes were proposed: a white costume that I had been thinking about mainly, and a black costume to make the background whiter and differentiating. While adopting the white color that shines in light and dark while matching with similar colors, the red of the costume and the red of the torii in the background also have similar colors, so we confirmed the coloring that uses various `` red '' in shades and shades .

In addition, a check was made from the viewpoint that 'If the same shape is lined up, the eyes are easily drawn to it and the subject is damaged.' Feet that are shown by the red arrow in the lower right corner is the form the angle also dissipate either because it is closer deviated, of hair that has been bundled as decoration ahead in the look is lined with a similar shape, the periphery of the character Since the flying Shikigami also had the same shape in the same direction, they were asked to make adjustments such as tilting and rotating. At the same time, it is difficult to parse the left arm and the arm looks short, so adjust it.

Rough with confirmed character part. Shikigami that was in the first rough is cut.

Line drawing process for characters only.

Coloring of characters and backgrounds.

A completed illustration that has been processed. Looking at the overall color impression, the clouds at the feet were bright and the clouds behind the face were dark, so I asked them to adjust the brightness so that the eyes of the character could be more attractive.

Final completed illustration.

The left is the illustration before correction, and the right is the illustration after final adjustment. When you look at it, you should be able to see where your eyes go.

Author of the comb 's comments with Making can be seen from below.

`` GIGAZINE Manga Awards '' aiming for a serial style that leaves full remote & work timing also started recruiting in April 2020 & Top drawing making looks like this-GIGAZINE

In the future, in addition to making detailed illustrations, we will also release treasured materials such as manga production for members of GIGAZINE Secret Club, so there are requests such as 'I want to see such information!' 'I want to know such things!' Please come back soon.