me trying to replicate a sailor moon style for rei and diarmuid’s cr comic 
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me trying to replicate a sailor moon style for rei and diarmuid’s cr comic
me trying to replicate a sailor moon style for rei and diarmuid’s cr comic
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as didi was meant to be viewed
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Naoko Takeuchi has such a weird style where it's not what i'd call complicated
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but it's also hard to make it look good like she does LMFAO
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i will never defend her weird lil hands tho
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what is going ON with your hands takeuchi
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diarmuid is utterly enjoyable in this style i'm so ready to ink
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"what was going on" is a statement i ask in regards to takeuchi with a lot of things
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dfjslkgfhg
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NGL RE-READING MY SAILOR MOON MANGA I'M LIKE
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WHAT'S HAPPENING
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lmao what she wanted to do with it was even more confusing than what her editors talked her into doing with it
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i feel bad this is a call-out now but my Sailor Moon Stars cover has Usagi with... two right feet....
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LMAO YEAH THAT HAPPENS
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i look at some of haruka's art when i'm doing references and i'm just like 
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DID NO ONE TELL HER
DID NO ONE TELL HER
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girl i love u but wtf
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maybe she's just ultra skilled and fast b/c her manga pages are so sparse but her full illustrations are usually so detailed
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takeuchi's style is so pretty, seven year old me tried desperately to replicate it to no avail
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but also. those feet
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IT'S REALLY PRETTY, it's not remotely 'skilled' in any art term but it's a lovely look
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also iirc she's mentioned before she had really tight deadlines, like she had to draw entire chapters in like a week tight deadlines
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LAWDY
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looking at her newer stuff I'm glad she's made ruffles in the skirts more detailed lately LMFAO
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yeah, the deadlines put on most manga is fucking ridiculous so if you look closely at any of it it's a fucking wreck in so many places
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it's amazing it comes out as pretty as it does
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manga artists are nice treated nicely, it's actually kind of horrible, not too long ago the author of one of my favorite series rushed out an ending that was like two years too early because the stress was literally affecting his health
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*not treated nicely
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I recall some of the My Hero Academia pages being sketch/pencil
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just because they couldn't get the comic out quickly enough
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Naruto too
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IT'S REALLY BREAK-NECK IN JAPAN
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yeah, it's a terrible job, you have to be super into it to want to do it.
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that vs. western comics where you get 1 issue a month
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and they're 25-40 pages
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japan's very extra sometimes
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yeah that sounds about right, there are chapters of dragon ball z with toriyama apologizing for the low quality chapters because of deadlines and the like
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like i think someone posted up the average schedule for manga and they're given hardly any time to sleep or eat
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SWEATS ABOUT DEADLINES
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I mean western comics have sweating over deadlines too but yikes
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YEAH
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the other thing is that comics are made by a team of people! for manga you have like the main author and maybe a couple of assistants, it's nuts
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also why that hack greg land is so popular
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I've never tried to get published for these very reasons ngl
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not that I'm that great that people would be slobbering to get me, but look, I'm already lazy enough as it is
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I can't do publishing deadlines
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comics are a minefield of deadlines
comics are a minefield of deadlines
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they sure are
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i always respect (most) people who do them because like
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christ
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to tell a story AND do art
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it's really goddamn hard
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it's why as tiring as some big comics are (i know a lot of people were wondering why bleach wouldn't end) i still respect devoting years of your life to this exhausting profession
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it's why one-person comics like gunnerkrigg court have been going on for 10+ years, because that's how long it takes to do everything when you're doing writing, art, etc all by yourself
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It took me like 5 years to draw 400 pages of comic
It took me like 5 years to draw 400 pages of comic
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and I was in high school and had no life
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and the art wasn't that good
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I can't imagine actually having to do it now LMFAO
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this video comes to mind
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13 YEARS
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POOR GUY
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PROGRESS
PROGRESS