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Two impulse purchases today:
1) Comickers: Color Marker Start Up Guide Series. Japanese text, but I've seen Comicker books in English before and the text itself doesn't have a *whole* lot of stuff to add to the photos - they never tell you exactly how to do it anyway - and it had two sets of magic words: "Using top anime and manga artists' works, such as Saiyuki, you can see how the pros do it" and "On sale: $10.00."
I would so pay $10 just for the page with the photos of the marker going on to a Saiyuki pic. And I expect I can work out some sort of deal with some of the Japanese-reading people here to translate a couple of pages for me in exchange for art or books or something they want. *looks inquiringly at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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2) Action Pose Book #4 - Hands. Kind of expensive at $36.80, but duuuuuude! It's a book of haaaaaaaaaands! In normal, everyday poses, doing normal, everyday things, and not in those weird Art! poses you get in normal pose books. And the marker book only cost $10, so it was worth a splurge.
Will hit Borders today - the website claims that it doens't have Blade of the Immortal, despite it just having flipped from "Not yet published" to "In print," but there's a How To Draw Manga book on digital tones out. I don't care much about the book, but it comes with a CD of 100 tones, and I WANT THAT.
1) Comickers: Color Marker Start Up Guide Series. Japanese text, but I've seen Comicker books in English before and the text itself doesn't have a *whole* lot of stuff to add to the photos - they never tell you exactly how to do it anyway - and it had two sets of magic words: "Using top anime and manga artists' works, such as Saiyuki, you can see how the pros do it" and "On sale: $10.00."
I would so pay $10 just for the page with the photos of the marker going on to a Saiyuki pic. And I expect I can work out some sort of deal with some of the Japanese-reading people here to translate a couple of pages for me in exchange for art or books or something they want. *looks inquiringly at
homasse*2) Action Pose Book #4 - Hands. Kind of expensive at $36.80, but duuuuuude! It's a book of haaaaaaaaaands! In normal, everyday poses, doing normal, everyday things, and not in those weird Art! poses you get in normal pose books. And the marker book only cost $10, so it was worth a splurge.
Will hit Borders today - the website claims that it doens't have Blade of the Immortal, despite it just having flipped from "Not yet published" to "In print," but there's a How To Draw Manga book on digital tones out. I don't care much about the book, but it comes with a CD of 100 tones, and I WANT THAT.
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It'd be kinda neat to have a lineart and several different versions of toning on that same piece from different people, just to give an idea of the possibilities.
My inner scrooge is wincing a bit at the price tag on the books, but I can justify it because if I use the tones over and over and over and over, it'll be well worth it. When I ahd a Tpop editor look at y stuff at a portfolio review, he was interested that I'd used ComicWorks for it. Then he pointed to a sky in one panel and said "That's from ComicWorks, right? I'm going to get really tired of that sky, aren't I?" which made me realize that maaaaaaybe I should collect a bunch of nice original tones.
I'm spotting very familiar tones in the RSOM entries as well as commercial manga. XD