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Creative Bloq
Creative Bloq
Technology
Tony Valente

The secret to making a great manga isn't drawing

Manga art.

It may come as a surprise, but I’m not that much into drawing, or even colouring. I like it enough to do it every day, but only if I use it as a tool for storytelling. I realised as an adult that I developed an interest in drawing only as a means to bring characters to life. And that’s a big difference compared to the love of drawing in itself!

I always draw with storytelling in mind, not for the aesthetic of it. I’m relatively bad at basics such as anatomy, perspective, volume, colour theory and composition. But I’ve learned a bunch of things, from spending 20-plus years in this industry, doing around 4,000 pages of comics and manga.

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