I’m doing a manga workshop for FCBD at Manly Library, which is at 1 Market Place, Manly. It’s on the 6th May @ 1-2pm, so drop by if you’re free that day.
I used a video I did to post the announcement. It’s actually a Clip Studio screen recording, which when sped up and drawn in a certain way, looks like limited animation. It took a bit of planning, like the previous video with the girl in kimono I posted.
Part 3 of “Beating the Loneliness Monster” is in Youkie Magazine‘s April 2023 issue, which is co-written with niece Kelly Tao. The final issue of Part 4 will be out in the July 2023 issue. Meanwhile, this issue also has a 6-page short story by my good friend Julie Ditrich (Writer) and Angie Spice (Artist) called “Fade”, which is a fantastic look at girls who get too drained when they are too much of a people pleaser.
I recently had a go at screen recording my art in Clip Studio Paint, and discovered that you can do some fun animation stuff with it. A lot of work, but fun to play with.
Part 2 of my story “Beating the Loneliness Monster” is here, in Youkie Magazine‘s January 2023 issue! Its 4-parts in total, and the story is actually by my 11 year-old niece Kelly Tao (I helped a bit). Excited to see Parts 3&4 come out in the next 6 months!
Kookie Magazine recently changed its name to “Youkie“, but apart from that target audience which is now everyone aged 8-12, little has changed. In my fourth collaboration with Youkie, I did a 8-page story (to be released in 4-parts, one each quarterly issue) with my 11 year-old niece Kelly called “Beating the Loneliness Monster”.
Kelly supplied the story and the character designs, which is about how popular girl Jessica meets a boy called Tom in an online game called VR Quest. Initially impressed by Tom’s sense of humour, Jessica eventually meets him in real life, and is… disappointed. Kelly wrote this story due to her pre-teen understanding of how people’s online personas are often different to real life ones, and how to deal with that in person.
Check out the latest Oct2022 issue of Youkie magazine! This story will be released in 2-page increments for 4 issues of Youkie.
