late-night drug-induced ramblings...

DVD burner installed good. UPS that I bought also installed good - now I can compute and art away during thunderstorms, safe in the knowledge that if the power goes out I can at least save what I'm working on in the five minutes of battery backup I've got. I've got the most important stuff on my computer - the comics stuff - backed up to disk now, and I am attempting to burn a movie (the fansub of Howl's Moving Castle, in case you gave a damn) to DVD in DVD-player type format to see if I can. I'll know in 1 hour and 42 minutes ... I don't think I'll last until it's done.

Anyway, in the process of installing said things and hauling the CPU around and crawling under the desk, I appear to have pulled a muscle right under my left shoulderblade. ARG.

Look, thomasyan, a subject line! Now you can find this entry with ease! Too bad you won't want to!

ETA: Amazingly, for once, a narcotic has worked for me! I usually have ZERO effect from opioid-type drugs, but I took a couple of hydrocodone from a previous prescription (almost full bottle, due to it having NO EFFECT WHATSOEVER at the time) on the off chance it'd do something, and the pain is now lessened, I'm very very sleepy, and I'm now kinda goofy. Nothing like what narcotics are supposed to do to you, from what I understand.

You were all just dying to hear that, weren't you? I shall now go be quietly drug-goofy in this corner and annoy the cat by poking her.

Part 6 - Aging Characters ( FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST, YOKOHAMA KAIDASHI KIKOU)

Full title, since LJ cut it off: Part 6 - Aging Characters (Hiromu Arakawa, FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST, Ashinano Hitoshi, YOKOHAMA KAIDASHI KIKOU)


Taking a slight departure from the usual essay this time. My previous ones all concerned page layout and flow, but not the actual drawing.This is mostly because there's plenty of How to Draw Manga books and websites out there, and very few How to Lay Out Manga books and websites. The few books that deal with it only give it a few pages, and concentrate on the drawing. Drawing is important, of course, but you can have a beautifully drawn but still unreadable comic page if you screw up the layout.

That being said, this time I'm going for a classic drawing-only analysis. Well, a teeny bit of layout at some point, but mostly drawing.

On to How to Age Characters.

( Cut for lots of small pictures )

This is it for Part 1. I'm working on Part 2, featuring Death Note and Hikaru no Go.

(Thanks to ninjashira for getting me the scans of older-Ed from a recent chapter of Fullmetal Alchemist!)


Index to the Series