Following the popular "Manga no Manga Koma-wari no Kiso-hen (Manga of Manga: Fundamentals of Panel Layout)" for aspiring manga artists, here is the second installment in the series.
"I can draw, but I can't create a story!" For those of you with this problem, a professional manga artist who is also an instructor at a vocational manga school explains "Story" and "Structure/Composition" through the medium of manga!
Why can't you create a story? What elements are necessary for story creation? How do you find your most important "core"? What is "Structure/Composition," the order in which you tell your story? Using actual manga works as teaching material and including a convenient checklist, this book will turn your "?" about manga into an "!"
A never-before-seen manga textbook full of practical techniques. In response to high demand, the second installment is the "Story Structure/Composition Edition"!!
Table of Contents
Lesson 1 / Converting Words into Pictures
Lesson 2 / You Can't Draw Manga with Just a Story 1
Lesson 3 / You Can't Draw Manga with Just a Story 2
Lesson 4 / The Topic of the Core
Lesson 5 / Setting the Elements
Lesson 6 / Thinking Deeply about 5W1H
Lesson 7 / How to Find Your Core
Lesson 8 / The Topic of Structure/Composition
Lesson 9 / The Topic of Kishōtenketsu (Introduction, Development, Turn, Conclusion)
Lesson 10 / The Topic of Structure/Composition, Revisited