Do You Draw Comics? Manga?

 @ Kemji,
At the risk of being fried the moment I arrive on scene I have to add my two cents worth. Your character isn't all that flawed. First, in almost EVERY MANGA in Asia, there is at least one "gender-challenged" character, so the lipstick is an option.  Yes there are both Chinese and Japanese elements in his sword and clothing (and for those of you who don't think a woman can know about samurai weapons guess again, I am a student of Kendo, "The way of the Sword", that's SAMURAI swordplay the OLD FASHIONED WAY, plus I collect swords, knives, and just about anything sharp that can be thrown, LOL). But that dichotomy of style is cool too, the lead character in Samurai Champloo is a scruffy samurai that looks more like he's break dancing or doing caporeira than traditional swordplay, and his clothes are whatever he happened across that was clean. So while some valid criticisms were made, you don't necessarily have to change your character. Oddballs work, especially in manga.  As for his name, well, you have a LOT going on there meaning-wise. "hei" in Japanese means "army", but yoshi, that's just a turtle from the Mario Bros. games.  If it had been Heihachi, then it would either mean "adopted child of the army" or "army of chopsticks" depending which you want to go with (my guess would be the adopted child thing, though if you are keeping the oddball aspect, the chopsticks could work too, lol).  Mitserugi is a sword STYLE (as per Kenshin), Ken literally means sword, mitserugi means pretty close to abandoning or forsaking (as in Kenshin's forsaking the style that kills and embracing the reverse-blade sword)  Lou is def a Chinese surname.  If you want to be consistant in the Japanese vein, at least with your name, my advice is google a Japanese dictionary that gives both English and Roman-ji (that's phonetic spelling of what the Japanese characters say, how to say the word).  Then you get both the sound you want AND the meaning too.
Anata wa shukufuku o inoru desu, (that's "I ask Divine Blessings for you")

Vancouver film school

aack

this manga talk is explosive!!!

i checked out vancouver, imnottoo keen on canadian schools tho

 ;d

lol


Dont mind that Seun

i wonder who told him i only want to do comics!!! 

NSNA

my comment wasnt funny ok.

Canada holds no pleasure for me.

whuts funny about this thread!!

Gamine has black belt in Taekwando and 'Chow Pow'. . . get ready to receive your first butt whuppin' from a beautiful girl. . .

    No wonder my homeboy Pixel vanished into thin air. . . those mango sized bumps on his head (as a result of butt/head whuppin') gotta take a while to heal. . .

Hi all, just back from the NYSC prison called "Orientation Camp" Which features 3 weeks of gruelling hardcore live gaming activities which puts you fully into the heat of the action with live Soldiers snapping at your heels and poor facilities which looks like something out of "Black Hawk Down". Anyways, we survived as usual and we're back to the good life.

Thanks Cool Mrs T. for all the helpful manga advice, you really have put years into it.

Kudos to Gamine for starting the thread in the first instance.

To the rest of the gurus, keep it up!

Cheers

I'm not rily into animation. I draw portraits. I'll post 1 soon.
Any tips though on animation?

You guys are really talented. Your drawings are spectacular, keep up the good work:-* . _{I wish I could draw}

from scanned drawing to "inking" in coreldraw, to coloring and shading in photoshop

I've gotta try that sometime too.

Good job!

Cheers

law breaker you again your making me feel like have been playing for the past few years (which i have)
anyway see what i did
painted by me and drawn by some guy on the net

@justbones: wicked coloring! its pretty close to digital painting. I've always wanted to do som'n like that. keep it up.