learn to draw comics or manga

My journey towards mastering manga was started when I was in class 4. I used to watch anime shows like Beyblade, transformers (Japanese not American) etc and as soon as the show ended, I grabbed few A4 papers, a pencil and eraser and drew out the things that I thought could have made the episode more interesting.

During class 6, one of my senior came to know about my passion and asked me if I am putting my comics and manga on sale. I immediately agreed ( I am in dire need of color pastels :) ) and he paid 20 rupees for iron man and wolverine comics.

Soon people from other higher classes came to know about my works and reached out for me at recess to buy them. This really encouraged me to come up with more interesting stories and twists in plots. I usually earned from Rs.100 to Rs. 150 at the end of the week when I didn’t even knew the word “ENTREPRENEUR”.

But soon this journey ended as one of my class teacher complaint against me to principal saying that I wasn’t concentrating well in academics ( Well I scored best and got A+ till the end of my high school). My comics soon got banned due to this stupid reason!!

Soon like every other Indian teen, I was thrown into the conveyor belt of factory to produce engineer.

During the first semester I started despising maths as it was way too fast for me. So during M1 ( maths ) classes I restarted working on my comic/manga skills. I used to drew fictional manga characters on the desk, took a photo of it and erased them before I left class.

Soon I realized that engineering is not my piece of cake and I have landed at a very wrong place where the word “manga or anime” is considered a taboo.

One day I decided that I won’t let this engineering stop me from doing the stuff I really loved. So I started to learn digital arts so that I can come up with a quality comic/manga but it wasn’t easy. I couldn’t afford a ‘Graphic Tablet’. But I was strongly determined to learn this skill some how and mastered it using simple mouse!

Some of my creations are:

NOTE: ALL ARE MADE USING MOUSE.

I’ve tried to make a manga too but didn’t got much time. Manga needs a lot of time and patience. But still I made few pages.


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