My class also needed to do draw a picture of themselves (self) and an "Atogaki" (after drawing). I kept these images in full-scanned size but they would have been a quarter of the size of a regular page.
Specifically, the self portrait needed to relate to deadlines (how you look after a deadline or as you approach a deadline) since we decided the class's published book title will be "Shimekiri Friday" (Deadline: Friday) which led to the theme of our self portraits. I chose to make a mini-me with my favorite lovely manga art supplies scattered around this tight box. Under me is the black ink bottle. Under my left foot is my ink pen called the "G-Pen". On my head is white ink for "white out". Leaning on that is the Beta Pen/Brush pen (fills in black areas well). The longest brush in the image is the one I used for white ink. The pen on my elbow is one pen from my 'copic multiliner set A-2'. That's a set of 7 pens with different tip sizes (0.03, 0.05, 0.1, 0.3, 0.5, 0.8, and 1.0).
The Atogaki is just a space for all the students to add any comments, thank yous, or doodles at the end of the book. I used the space to say I loved the class and thank yous. I didn't want it to totally be text (of course) so I didn't another self portrait thing with my favorite pen from class.
(Read Comic: Right-to-Left) A girl studies for her mage lessons at school but her little sister causes problems. Of course things gets worse before it gets better.
This is a short story (8 pages) that I wrote and drew for my manga art class while I studied abroad in Japan in 2013. This whole thing was drawn manually and I used real screentones. Nothing was made digitally (except for printing some text as stickers... but that doesn't count). If people are interested, I'll share some of my notes from the class and steps of my process. I could take photos of the class's final project book, too. I hope you like it!
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