Beautifully filmed! Looking forward to this book!

So, just re-watched as I was getting ready to head out... First time around I somehow missed the part where you said 200 pages!!! 🤯 Bloody hell, that's crazy! I was impressed by the suddenness and brief timetable...now I'm astounded! Go Siya Go!! lol

the second you sell this as a print i'm buying

I couldn't relate and appeal more than I can to this 23 minutes, I'm no pro, I'm an unknown... but I'm doing a book out of a story taught during the pandemic, and now I'm fleshing it out from notes and ideas that I wrote at the time and drawing from a mayor source...my mind...so, I definitely find your video inspiring cause a pro of your class, can do something that I thought was wrong or a bad way, primarily because I'm doing everything on it, well, she is my new role model, so it can be done, thank you for helping me out in proving that, what I loved to do, wasn't a crazy idea!!!... thank you!!!

So excited for this project. You can absolutely do this. Since you are going to manage all of the aspects yourself, it will be important that you don't put undo stress on yourself with unrealistic deadlines. Take your time and if you are crowd funding, as long as you keep open and regular (monthly) communication with your backers, they will support you 100%. When we published our first board game on Kickstarter (Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood) we did everything ourselves too and learned a lot. But it was our open/honest communication with our backers that saved us when we ran into those inevitable delays.

I could listen to this talk all day because these are the beautiful honest, realistic talks I have with myself like...all...the...time. They just motivate me because I know for sure now, that other folks think this way. And that's all I need to keep going for myself. I'll hold myself more accountable in my artistic pursuits. Gotta put the work in. I weight train and have a night job in a warehouse, so I tend to be drained...and yet it's no excuse. I believe in you, Siya. 🤜💥🤛

Even if we try to do what u do, we would fail, because you are unique. So better to find our own path hehe. Thanks again!

I like the internet because it shows you people that speak your language

EPIC!!!! Cant wait for this!!!!

I feel the same way in my art at sixty years old. Your best work is long down your road of experiences. Enjoy the journey as best you can.

I have 2 stories in my mind that have been running, updated, rewritten and continuously edited for at least 3 years now. Maybe this truly is the way.... In any case, I want to thank you again for being honest about your creative practices and allowing someone like me to have a look at how you are choosing to grow. It's very helpful and one day, I believe that all my practice will prove to have been worth it.

Super excited for this project! Love how you jump head first into these things and say "F@%$ it! I'm going to make it work!" Great "CAN DO" attitude. Very inspiring!

thank you, inspirational.

All this just made sense to me, and it hit different. Here we go.

Really happy for you, Siya. It sounds like you are heading into a really good place, creatively.

This is awesome and inspiring. Count me in. I love your art style, manga and Black and White art. SOLD! lol

Yay! This warms my heart and much of what you're saying echoes with me. As a former colorist who burned out on too many deadlines and now working a nice stable day job at a packaging company, I'm gearing myself up for something very similar in an effort to put to an end the whole reason I got into comics in the first place: to tell my stories instead of gathering them in files upon endless files and to stop saying yes to what everyone else wants. Best of luck with your journey and I'll definitely be watching for extra tips!

Your location, your love for your work AND coffee... woooo boy, you got it good! 😀

16:56 I don't know if you've gotten the answer already, but if they are under a publisher and they're doing a weekly chapters of their manga, then the mangaka have assistants who are tasked with different parts of the art. There's no set amount of assistants or specific jobs like there are with American comics and that process (penciler, inker, etc). There's just the assistant who does background, or the assistant that finishes characters after the mangaka sketches them out. One assistant can handle screentones, one can write dialogue and the speech bubbles. There are assistants who handle the color pages on the occasions when there is a color page or two in the chapter. Even the editor can come in to help with finishing pages to hit deadlines. There are mangaka doing monthly chapters with assistants also. There are mangaka like Akira Toriyama (R.I.P) who did most of the work by himself, so you're in good company. But a mangaka usually has a team with them to hit their deadlines, and it's standard practice. Then there are stories like Yoshihiro Togashi, the creator of Yu Yu Hakusho. He burnt himself out hard doing all the work for the manga and wrecked his health in the process. The sad part is that even with assistants, there are far too many mangaka who've burnt out or had health problems working in manga, though more and more mangaka are starting to take breaks and not drive themselves into the ground to hit their deadlines. But good luck to you. I don't know if you remember my comment, but I decided to do a Ninja Turtle Fanzine. I asked my brother to help me with the story, so once that's done I can just make a comic and make something cool and enjoy the process and just be a Turtle fan and finally fulfill something I've really wanted to do. Either way, good luck to you. I hope you get everything you need from your journey. I hope you got everything you needed from this part of it.

You’re my hero. 🙌🏼

You're part of my inspiration, i learnt alot thanks 😊❤

Very excited about your new project. Your inking is amazing.

this is such an intense undertaking and i really appreciate that you're documenting it because i'm preparing to do the same.

Absolutely amazing!

great video!!!!

This piece looks like a Movie Poster to be !! Love It !!

These videos are awesome Siya O. really enjoy em

I'm excited for this ❤️

Good luck Siya. Looking forward to following your journey. The first piece of yours I saw was a digital piece of Neytiri on deviant art way back then. You've always been an inspiration.

Love your art Siya!

Thank you so much for the imagery and being real. This vid inspires me to keep going. Looking forward to the end result👍. Also, don’t know if you’re aware, but one of the greatest source materials for manga insights is the show Manben by Naoki Urasawa. I literally watch episodes every single day lol!

Amazing!

LOL!! You was like..."I told everyone what i do and how i get it done, direction purpose and organized...." LETS TRY SOMETHING NEW!!!!!!! This is great and just more exploration on developing more skills in a fraction of a time. Even though its on the fly, this will take a lot more of your time cause there isn't script, guide lines, nothing you can put down and say I will take break from it cause its all there already. You will never be able to walk away from it like a book that is scripted already. You can do this and it will be a great adventure, the manga and your journey! GET INTO IT!!!!!!!!!!!

you’re so inspirational - thank you for sharin your craft, thoughts, feelings, n experience with us!!

I can’t wait to follow your journey with this project! What a great growth opportunity. So inspiring

Your work is FIRE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 I love your inks!! ^^

beautiful!

beautiful and lush art i cant wait to see how you put this together.

Your art Rocks!

Love your work! I too am a big fan of black and white art. Look forward to seeing more from you.

Your work is absolutely stunning and your work ethic is off the charts! One hundred percent inspiration as I have my vision board of a half dozen projects in my queue. As I near completing the book I am writing I'm already dreaming of my next project, but I don't want to steal my passion from one thing for the other until I'm done. My biggest challenge is that my projects span many different disciplines from music production, to traditional writing, painting, illustration, and the scariest of all to me creating a couple of comic books. I love ink, watercolors, Copic markers, Faber Castell pencils, and gel pens. Logistically it's like trying to climb a cliffside. As I plan for the comic in my head, my book starts to seem like a cakewalk. I am also diving in deep with researching Kickstarter campaigns and nervously daunted on making it successful as many of my creative endeavors have been a loss financially. You have earned my subscription!

This is amazing to hear & see. Looking forward to see it black & white. Rooting for you. You will get to the top!

I love hearing how much joy in your voice there is talking about your long-term project! This is good advice though, I am working on a shorter project as well to make sure I can deliver the best I can possibly do on my passion project! I will be here to watch your journey! Good luck :D

I absolutely agree with you. There's no downside in working on your own project! Especially in the day and age we live in in the comic/manga industry, we can do so much, and working on your own personal project to get that self artist fulfillment is worth it. I hope to start on my own manga as well, black and white line art also!!! Lol line art is just so beautiful! 🔥 thanks for sharing your feelings, we need this kind-of reminder in our community. 🙏🙌 Good luck in this journey, I cant wait to see the manga on the shelves!👌😎

It all starts with a good cup of coffee!...love this video. Best of luck to you on this journey. All I can say is that you are starting off to an amazing start with this beautiful piece that you just inked. Have fun with it and get lost in the story!

Wow 😮. This looks incredible! I can’t wait to see more. I’m huge fan of black and white too - looking forward to seeing how this plays out. PS Love the video and the chill vibes 😌

I'm excited to see where you take this. Your art alone without a script is content enough

Your art is so beautiful !!

Thanks for a great video!!!

Thank you for sharing your journey as it’s inspiring me to keep on with my manga publishing goal too!-ossu!

I'm at just the beginning of the video but I already feel totally agree with all the words you say. I am a comic book rookie, working on my very first title. I'm just the artist, I did not write the story so it's note "my" stuff and drawing something I don't like turns me off. I already feel the urge to do something I love, drawing with fun and pleasure. Happiness is the cornerstone of art (I suppose) and it's important to value it the most as when can. It's difficult to feel free as much as we should in this business but hope does exist, right ? My message was messy, sorry for that -__-' and btw you are a top level artist, very inspiring. Big hug from France :)

I can’t wait to see the final product that drawing looks fantastic

Love your art

glad to have found your channel.

the lines look great! love the dragon details I cant ink with a brush lol ink gets everywhere

This video is awesome keep it up hope you have a wonderful weekend cant wait to see more of this series for this manga comic

I'm LITERALLY doing the same thing in my life right now except I've been drawing my whole life but have not much professional experience.. I appreciate u for putting this out here and I will be glued to this series ❤️

I’m excited to see your future videos since I plan to start working on my own manga aswell that I want to self publish. I’m hesitating on starting because I’m not that good at architecture. Could you recommend me some books or do a video on architecture?

Looks great

Thank you for this video, perfect timing for me, since I'm making a game and I need to complete it in around 3-4 months because of financial reasons. I had a learning period of about 3 years where I learned the technical aspects of game making and the art side of it, since I want to do that part myself too. Also, I was lazy a lot, so I wasted a lot of time. During that period I still wasn't thinking about what kind of style I want for my game, or which setting to put it in so recently in a short period I had to decide in which direction I wanted to go in, style wise, and deciding on a setting I love (I also love sword and fantasy, and I love science fantasy) while making the gameplay doable to make in such a short period. It boiled my brain. I can relate to feeling overwhelmed, and feeling lost and confused because of the sheer amount of information and knowledge and decisions that have to be made, especially when you have to do most things yourself alone, and I can relate to feeling afraid, because frankly I'm terrified. I'm scared of not succeeding and not being able to do what I love. I don't think it gets easier, I think such pressure is part of a solo endeavor like that, and will always be. But we grow stronger, and we learn not to put our thoughts on the negative aspects, and we learn to deal with the pressure, to the point where we can focus on the things we love, and we learn to enjoy the process. The only thing that ever matters is, never give up! Btw, I got stuck on the story aspect and what helped me is to build the story from the visuals, not the visuals from the story. For example, if you need dialogue, first imagine the visual emotions and expressions the characters make, their poses and movements and their interaction, and then layer the actual words on top of that. The same goes for everything else, imagine visual scenarios, battles, movements, locations and then stich them up together, basically a visual story board that spawns the story. And most importantly don't dwell too much on a single thing (I'm looking at you George R. R. Martin kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rrhni7Ccz6qrp2Q.html) Anyway, thank you for this video it really helped me feel like I'm not alone during this stressful period. Your art is absolutely beautiful and I wish you the best of luck with your dreams! Also, here's a song that might help kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j5eBeJakscrGgX0.html

Good Luck ! This is exciting for you and scary!!

That's how I work too. Im no pro but I storyboard and sometimes write like what Tartokvsky and Miyazaki do. Its easier to create a fuller atmosphere and white space for pacing, building mood and reality to a story. When I write im too dense. Drawing everything out I notice and create details. But I utilized both. I relate to pushing yourself after a plateau. Im still in the process as a writer and artist but im going head on now in making comics and setting up premade content for my upcoming KZfaq channel as well as getting to the point that i can draw like Master Kim Jung Gi. Annoying balance because I try to stay literate and improve my knowledge and expand it through reading a lot of books. Also I find your project real interesting working that way with your art first then story! Looking forward to seeing your indie comic!

I appreciate your motivation. Gotta keep movie up and forward!

I’m really excited for you, it sounds like a huge task. I hope you can keep us updated as you progress. I’d really like to hear at the end how you think your style has changed from now to when you finish. Good luck, I’m rooting for you. I wonder if speed was the issue why you wouldn’t just go digital for the whole thing, but I guess it sounds like the idea is to be quicker at what you do. I think doing breakdowns digitally, (or the name if we’re sticking with manga language) would be helpful. Again, good luck!

Which artists have influenced your drawing style the most? I definitely need more artists to study and learn off of. Lol

Yoooooo! You have no idea how inspirational this is. =) Dive in and swim!

really love your art and videos. One question: can you please name your coffee machine? 😘

You or so cool and I love your art style I am a artist to you have talent I watch you inking and that is skills to do enjoy your art life and have a wonderful new year to god bless you this year and more and also your hold family's to enjoy be safe to

Well, Amazon and Comixology are shitstorms right now, but good luck! The page looks great!

I remember seeing, and being inspired by, one of the original keyframes for Neo Wonderland a few years ago (the one that is an upshot of characters flying off a building)! Did you say 45 days for art production (so 4 pages per day)? I'm still plowing through my art journey, but all of your process videos and replies to my comments have been immensely informative -- one day I hope to be treading these waters, but I am grateful for the ability to stand on the shoulders of giants that came before! These videos do remind me of Manben, but with a personal touch. Be sure to blast out when/how we can support Neo Wonderland!

I'm excited for this new project of yours, and wish you luck and will power on your goals! I'm curious if you have any tips on how to get faster, for someone who's too focused on little details, and time escapes them?

Your the best artist ever ..some one I always wanted to be like since 5 years old , I started drawing teenage mutant ninja turtles I'm 40 yrs old now & I'm nowhere close to your level/skills..your so cool

What is this beautiful pen? Beautiful work, soul in the words 😊 everything about this is so inspiring as I’m trying to learn all aspects myself.

I mean Latte in the best coffee mug!!! That's the way to start any book.

So you're creating a doujinshi. Which is a good way to start. Your doujinshi will evolve as you work on it. The story can be short, medium, or long, depending on how you see it

you gots skills :D

This is my process when It comes to writing to be honest

I’m planning on leaving a great deal of Color Me Gone b&w the first time around. I figure why not capitalize on the East meets West nature of it.

Beautiful work! If I can ask, do you also work on client work that you have to juggle while doing your comics or are focused solely on your own project? I am a full-time artist but I have a hard time balancing client work with my own personal work.

How do you create characters that don’t sound the same? You have a method to keeping characters different when writing them?

Hello beautiful Artist. I love your channel. I was wondering when did you begin to start drawing. Did you begin in your childhood. I have the passion to draw but I'm learning.

👍🏼👀👍🏼

Wow this is the drawing u posted on Facebook wow awesome beautiful work question when you paint in water color how many layers do u alppy?

What will the aggregate reviewers say about it if there wasn’t an outline or format written for the story?

Ola bom dia qual e o nanquim q vc usar?

That's how I tend to do my comics. Without scripts

Hey, love the art! very very cool and impressive! i bet you get this a lot, but i wanted to ask how did you learn to ink like that? im trying to draw manga and i didnt find a good teaching source yet (at least about the drawing part). Thanks! much love!

Yo I love manga I'm down for it

I love to draw, but will this passion make me money? Like , is it worth me chasing? Or should I stick to work to pay bills?? 😅

You were in all these Digital Art magazines like ImageFX. Did a ton of comic and freelance work, then you did animation and successfully made a living as an artist for years. What are you so nervous about?

What board are you using to sketch on your table?

Be careful because the story may run away from you. It has happened to others just ask Frank Miller

Off to a good start, grinding these coffee beans!

Do you have an email ? I'd like to talk to you about a project.

great video!!!