Saturday, July 11, 2009

   update
I just posted full chapter 7 of Ronin Yoshino on my otaku portfolio.
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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Yet another long break...
I just finished chapter 7 today! I'm very excited that chapter 8 will be the *last chapter of Ronin Yoshino. After chapter 8 is over, that series will go on haitus for a while, maybe a year?

The resound why is because I want to experiment with different styles of art. I'll continue writing manga, but I don't want to always draw the same way. To expand & evolve by trying styles I never tried before & topics that haven't been touched in manga.

I decided that Ronin Yoshino will be the only original series I'll create. All other future manga projects will be based on folk tales from around the world...because it's too much work inventing my own storyline (I'm really overwelmed). When I get the chance, I'll add a new manga short here soon...I hope you'll like it. ^^;
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Thursday, March 19, 2009

   New pages up!
Been so busy lately preparing for the festival I forgot to visit here. Well, thankfully I got outa my writers block & currently did page 7 of chapter 7! If you're interested in reading the most recent chapter 7, visit here:

http://www.shichimeito-zoku.com/07_01.html

Don't think I said it here. I got offered to have a booth to promote my manga at the Sakura Matsuri (Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival)! I'll be the first person to have manga at the event & I gotta finish the preprations before April 25th!

If you are interested in coming to the festival, please visit:
http://matsuri.ryushukan.com/ for information on driving directions, the time & location of the event. It's on April 25th & opens up at noon, but I'd suggest getting there early if you wanna see the opening ceromony.

If you have any questions, feel free to email:

Gerry (producer/founder): director@ryushukan.com
or
Me: sam.bros@shichimeito-zoku.com

It's really fun! If you have an interest in Japanese culture, try & come to the Sakura Matsuri. Check out my video for a sample of what it's all about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqG3RwR2-vY
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Saturday, February 21, 2009

   Gah! It's the block again!
Man, writers block sucks. I can't seem to get any inspiration this time around, if I try too hard it'll get worse (now my Adobe crashed so I can't work on the manga now if I could). I'm afraid of adding a new manga page page because I don't want it to suck...but at the same time I don't want a really long interval to pass without an update either.

Soooooo, I think I might just give Ronin Yoshino a break. I feel creativly stagnent right now...maybe I can't draw manga anymore? Maybe I need to do a different style of art? Perhaps I'm just worried too much...as always. lol

What I'm looking for right now, is not story inspiration at all. I'm trying a new aproch to manga writing. So that I don't fall into the pit of chiche' manga-telling, I want to study human emotion & behavior...particularly what man would have felt living in the time of Feudal life. By reading research books is fine & dandy, but it doesn't give me the human-aspect of life of that period. I can't go to a farmer from 3,000 years ago & ask him (man, time travel would rock!), so I'm trying to get the closest feeling to that by renting those old samurai movies. Well, I've been playing Ronin Yoshino by ear this whole time...time to do some experimenting with new mediums!
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Saturday, January 24, 2009

   New art up!
Hey, I completly changed the look of my website (again) but I think it's the best I can ever make it look...I did my all in making look great & be really user friendly. It took me 3 weeks to make the final design, lots of fun & still adding stuff.

NEW stuff on shichimeito-zoku.com

-Chapter 7 begins
-Japanese monsters
-animated gallery
-characters
-character page updated
-research page updated
-lots of stuff in between

I'm pretty excited about how the site looks now, I can't wait to complete the "under construction" pages!

I also put my illustrations up on the Quiz page of this site page.
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