• Hooray! The Ginger Ninja iBook is Live on the iBooks Store! I thought I was waiting for approval from Apple, but I finally found out that there were issues with the book I’d uploaded. After a bit of faffing about, I worked out what the problem was and the book is now live and can be bought for only £1.49 or $1.99.

    If you are thinking of buying a copy, get one soon as that helps give the book a good start. You can get the Ginger Ninja at the iBook store for your iPad at the following addresses.

                       

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru7ZB3pL66U

  • I actually want to encourage you not to draw Manga – well, not if you want to be a professional illustrator someday. There are just too many Manga Artists, basically all doing the same thing. It’s very unusual to find one that stands out from the rest. Mark Crilley on YouTube , certainly stands out. you can learn a huge amount about drawing and character and scenes and book pacing from Mark, but he’s got there before you. Learn, move on and adapt – find your own style.

    In this video I show you a bit of how I would draw Manga, but then try to show how you can use Manga to influence your style, but don’t let it take over altogether. Manga is slick and “looks cool” but it does all tend to look the same. The artist that works for the least amount gets the job and you probably need to move to Japan too. Find your own style and stick with it.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uZnjtasLz4

  • if you can’t wait for the Ginger Ninja to come out in the iPad version (I’m can’t wait!) then you can console yourself with a tshirt!

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