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I tried to make a Manga

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Beginner 12 min read For: Fans of the creator, aspiring artists, and anyone interested in the creative process of making a manga.
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The creator documents the challenging process of creating a manga from scratch, from storyboarding to inking and final reveal. Despite initial optimism, the project takes three months and involves numerous setbacks, but ultimately results in a completed wordless story about a boy and a tiger.

[0:30]
Storyboarding and scope creep

The creator storyboards the manga, realizing it will be much longer than planned (50+ pages instead of 14).

[2:17]
Testing materials

The creator tests different papers and pens, finding that some papers don't transfer black ink well.

[3:56]
Inking difficulties

The creator struggles with inking, especially tracing sketches and using wrong brushes.

[12:51]
Key tool discovery

The creator discovers a flexible pen that allows variable line thickness, which becomes essential.

[16:24]
Redrawing and perfectionism

The creator redraws many pages multiple times, especially the hunter character and the tiger.

[19:56]
Completion after three months

The creator finishes the manga after three months, despite the initial one-month goal.

[21:28]
Manga reveal

The creator reveals the entire manga, a wordless story about a boy and a tiger, with a hunter antagonist.

[28:32]
Reflection on the process

The creator reflects on learning through failure and being proud of finishing despite many mistakes.

[29:27]
Sponsor segments on privacy

The creator discusses the importance of privacy and self-hosting, promoting Odysius and Incogni.

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How long did it take to finish the manga?

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Three months

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What is the title of the manga?

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The manga is called 'Gal' (though the creator initially wrote 'Cow').

21:37

What type of pen did the creator credit as saving the project?

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A flexible pen where you squeeze out ink by bending it.

12:51

Why did the creator decide to make a manga?

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He wanted to get back into drawing and challenge himself.

15:11

Does the manga have any dialogue?

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The manga has no dialogue; it is a wordless story.

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What did the creator say he learned from this project?

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The creator learned more from three months of drawing than a year because it forced him to challenge himself and face his weaknesses.

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Who was the creator's biggest inspiration for the manga?

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The creator's biggest inspiration was the manga artist Sutomani (also known as Ningo Nakuni).

15:44

What three pen sizes did the creator use for inking?

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The creator used three pens: 0.03, 0.3, and 0.5 for slim, average, and thick lines.

12:38

Does the creator consider the manga a success or failure?

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The creator considers the manga a failure due to many mistakes, but is still proud of finishing it.

21:15

What is the basic story of the manga?

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The story is about a boy who meets a tiger and goes on an adventure, with a hunter as an antagonist.

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Why did the creator choose not to include dialogue?

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The creator wanted to leave the story open to interpretation, making it feel like the reader's own story.

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💡 Key Takeaways

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Learning through failure

The creator emphasizes that attempting a hard project and failing teaches more than playing it safe.

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Flexible pen for inking

The creator discovered a pen that allows variable line thickness by squeezing, which saved the project.

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Pride in finishing despite flaws

The creator acknowledges the manga has many mistakes but is still proud of completing it.

21:15
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Project took three months instead of one

The scope expanded from 14 to over 50 pages, causing a significant delay.

19:56
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Challenge to get back into drawing

The project was a personal challenge to reignite a passion for drawing.

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I tried to make a manga... BIG MISTAKE

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High relatability and humor as the creator dramatically underestimates the difficulty of making a manga, creating an engaging 'watch me fail' narrative.

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Why you should FAIL more

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Inspirational and counter-intuitive advice about embracing failure to learn faster, which resonates with viewers seeking motivation or self-improvement.

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Manga artist's brutal honesty

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Raw and vulnerable moment where the creator admits the manga is a failure but still feels proud, sparking debate about perfectionism and creative value.

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The tiger scene that went WRONG

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Funny and chaotic behind-the-scenes of drawing a tiger that accidentally looks 'sexy', blending humor with art process frustration.

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I finished my manga (it's bad)

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[00:00] I'm going to draw a manga. I'm going to

[00:02] do it. How hard can it be?

[00:06] >> This is a lot harder than I thought.

[00:09] What have I done? This is insane.

[00:12] >> But first, I need supplies. And in

[00:15] Japan, I am very spoiled with them.

[00:22] >> Which is your favorite color?

[00:27] could

[00:27] >> first I need to think of a story which I

[00:30] had luckily had already done. I realized

[00:33] I need a story board otherwise this is

[00:35] going to be impossible like I need this

[00:36] to go to paper. So today I am working on

[00:40] the story board which I think will be

[00:42] very important and I'm realizing I'm

[00:45] going to have to draw a lot more because

[00:47] this is already like 9 12 13 and this is

[00:51] not the story has not even begun. So,

[00:55] let's not worry about scale right now.

[00:57] Let's get the all the all the things I

[00:59] want to get out and then I can cut it

[01:01] down if I want to. That's my plan. I

[01:04] have never written a story before. Out

[01:06] of all things, this actually turned out

[01:07] to be the easiest bit. I don't know why.

[01:10] There it is. I finished the storyboard.

[01:13] Finished. First version is done. No

[01:15] spoilers. I was originally thinking like

[01:18] 14, but this is looking more like uh

[01:21] like 50. I don't know. 50 52 54. It

[01:25] feels super exciting, though. I think it

[01:27] has a lot of soul. The art might be

[01:29] really bad, but uh I love I love the

[01:32] story. As you can tell, there's not

[01:34] going to be any uh speaking. There's not

[01:36] going to be any dialogue because I I I

[01:37] just prefer it that way. I think it's a

[01:39] simple story, but I also wanted to leave

[01:41] it to the interpreter, you know, like it

[01:43] make it feel like your story. You can

[01:45] make what you want out of it. That's the

[01:46] goal. Now, I think I should just start

[01:49] drawing. Honestly, I have a lot of

[01:51] drawing to do.

[01:52] >> It dawned on me very quickly that this

[01:54] project is going to take a very long

[01:56] time. My goal was to finish within a

[01:58] month. And in order to keep that goal, I

[02:00] have to start drawing.

[02:08] >> I had 20 minutes. Got to make it count

[02:10] when you're dead.

[02:12] >> I cannot dillydattle. I got to start

[02:14] drawing. I got to start drawing. We got

[02:17] three different types of paper. This

[02:19] one's a little thicker. If you don't

[02:21] draw, maybe you're like, "Uh, it doesn't

[02:22] matter." But it does matter. Okay. So,

[02:24] I'm going to test test it out, see which

[02:26] one I prefer, and just commit to that

[02:28] one. Maybe I'll draw the same thing. The

[02:30] black is not transferring well at all on

[02:33] this paper as opposed to on this paper.

[02:36] I feel like uh the black is more

[02:38] blackish. So, I think I need to do some

[02:40] research how how actual manga artists do

[02:42] it. I feel like I'm not trying to be a

[02:44] perfectionist or anything, but I think

[02:46] if I do some research now, I will save

[02:49] myself a lot of issues later. And I also

[02:51] don't like how white this paper is. This

[02:54] is the paper I like, but also this paper

[02:56] is going fast cuz Bernie is throughout

[02:58] this process. I had many, many mental

[03:00] breakdowns. I thought this thing would

[03:03] be fun. I'm just going to draw a little

[03:05] bit.

[03:05] >> I'm running out of time already.

[03:08] I'm starting to sketch out all the

[03:11] things a bit more detail, but I realize

[03:13] like, oh, actually, I want this here.

[03:15] And then I realize, oh, actually, I want

[03:16] this there. So, I'm just laying it out

[03:18] now. And I'm already going to change all

[03:20] this, but I kind of need to get going.

[03:23] So, I'm just I'll fix it later. We'll

[03:24] keep going. This is a lot harder than I

[03:27] thought.

[03:30] I think it's just getting it right. like

[03:32] getting the flow like going from one

[03:34] place and then transitioning and then

[03:37] timing the pages. It's supposed to be a

[03:39] boy, right? But I I'm so used to drawing

[03:42] adults. So like I have to redraw every

[03:44] time. I'm like it doesn't look like a

[03:46] child. Like now he's tall all of a

[03:48] sudden. I just got to I got to get in

[03:50] the zone. I got to get in the zone and

[03:52] just draw. Stop asking me. Everything

[03:55] was just harder than I thought. Just

[03:56] drawing line work. I've never really

[03:59] traced my own sketches before and I know

[04:01] this from my anime studio. Just tracing

[04:04] that's in itself is such a skill and I

[04:06] was failing miserably. I also bought the

[04:09] wrong brushes. I bought watercolor ones

[04:11] which messed me up so bad. This place is

[04:13] probably the most fun one to look at

[04:15] because it has so many different shades.

[04:17] But the blending of the it's horrible.

[04:21] Like horrible. This is not what I wanted

[04:24] at all. I think the feet in the water

[04:26] looks great, but like I ruined it. And

[04:29] like the sky is supposed to be even and

[04:31] it's just like this paintbrush thing.

[04:33] Like the brush [ __ ] me basically is

[04:36] what I'm saying. This stupid brush. So I

[04:39] might redo this one if I have time. I'm

[04:41] going to put this in like if I have time

[04:43] when I finished everything pile. Why did

[04:45] I have to draw all these? Why did I

[04:48] decided that to be a good idea? Huh?

[04:51] Don't worry, I'm actually not upset. Me

[04:54] and Mar said we're going to the store

[04:55] now to buy more paper. I'm out of paper

[04:56] and there's like one store in Yokohama

[04:59] that sells the And I'm going to look for

[05:01] pens like gray pens. Why? I don't want

[05:04] it to blend. I want smooth.

[05:07] >> And then we went back to the art store

[05:08] for the 500th time because I needed more

[05:10] supplies.

[05:11] >> Okay, so I brought the whole dang thing

[05:13] because they have this selection of

[05:15] cutouts. So I hope that I can uh I'm

[05:18] hoping I can just like match so I get

[05:20] exactly what I need basically.

[05:23] I need a lot of paper.

[05:26] That's glue.

[05:28] That's also glue. Putting on that. Glue.

[05:31] Also glue. Glue. Glue. Put it glue.

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[07:09] tones. I had never used these before and

[07:12] of course it was way harder than I

[07:14] thought. Okay, so I'm going to just do a

[07:16] test. So I'm cutting through. It's not

[07:20] very satisfying to cut. I'm not going to

[07:22] lie. Okay, just for now we'll do here.

[07:30] Is that enough?

[07:36] Wow. Okay. Well,

[07:40] then you're supposed to just

[07:43] Oh, it just attaches. That's actually

[07:45] very satisfying. And you can't see it at

[07:48] all. Okay. Well, now you can. That's

[07:50] kind of cool, actually. Got to make sure

[07:51] you don't get bubbles. Actually, this is

[07:53] just a test. I'm not keeping it. That's

[07:55] kind of interesting. I'm not hating. But

[07:58] at some point, it clicked. I was finally

[08:00] enjoying this process. Just enjoying

[08:03] drawing. Okay, so progress so far. This

[08:06] will be the cover. This is the name of

[08:08] it. I'm calling it cow. So, it'll be

[08:10] like mountain. And then it kind of like

[08:12] zooms in on the boy. I am going to

[08:14] change this one. I don't really love

[08:16] this, but we're going with it. I don't

[08:17] have time to change. So, he's going to

[08:19] climb up. Then there's going to be like

[08:20] a breathing room kind of quiet and then

[08:23] boom, what is that? Big reveal of Tiger.

[08:26] Tiger growls in his face. Boy again,

[08:28] it's just like whoa. And uh that's all I

[08:31] got so far. All right, another day

[08:34] today. My goal is to finish finish the

[08:37] draft. I think I'm like uh maybe halfway

[08:41] 2/3. So I'm going to finish the draft

[08:43] today or a rough draft. I'm just going

[08:45] to have to work hard, not overthink it.

[08:49] I laugh because I always do. The only

[08:52] text in the story is in Japanese, so

[08:55] therefore, official manga. Y'all

[08:58] semantic nerds can beat it. It's made in

[09:00] Japan and it's in Japanese.

[09:04] I actually really like the story. Can I

[09:07] Am I allowed to like my own story? I

[09:09] think it's great. I'm so happy how it's

[09:11] turning out. I can't wait for you guys

[09:13] to read it. But I got to nail the

[09:15] ending. The ending it's a little weak

[09:17] right now. It's just so fun. It's like a

[09:19] manga, but it's not really your cliche

[09:22] kind of manga. So, I I think it'll be

[09:24] fun. Anyway, let's keep hustling.

[09:30] That's a beefy boy. I'm out of paper.

[09:33] What have I done? What have I done? I

[09:35] have so much work to do. This is insane.

[09:39] I'm going to ink all this. What? What

[09:42] was I thinking? I haven't even finished

[09:44] the Oh my god. Why did I do so many

[09:48] pages? I just couldn't stop. Now I pay

[09:51] the price. This is not good. Oh, I'm

[09:54] sorry. Am I Am I being too loud? Am I

[09:57] being too loud? It's been like a week

[10:01] and a half, maybe two weeks. So, uh,

[10:03] spoilers. I did not finish in time.

[10:05] Doesn't matter for you, but uh I had the

[10:08] goal of uploading this month. It's not

[10:10] going to happen. Uh, I have not even

[10:12] finished the draft yet. I'm working on

[10:14] the like I need to draw this and this

[10:17] page feels very empty. There's still

[10:19] work to do. I'm hoping inking will just

[10:22] be a breeze. I know that's not the case,

[10:24] but I can still hope. Okay, I'll just

[10:26] fly through the inking. It'll be no

[10:28] problem. But yeah, despite popular

[10:30] belief of every time I do something, I

[10:33] don't have infinite time. Okay, I have

[10:35] other stuff I need to work and other

[10:36] projects. Uh but uh I am like excited

[10:39] about this and I'm looking forward to

[10:41] finishing this. I do feel like I am

[10:43] never gonna be a mangaka because this is

[10:45] such hard work, man. I thought I'd be

[10:48] drawing like ah drawing. It's so fun to

[10:51] draw. It's like ah

[10:53] it's not relaxing. I'm I'm do I seem

[10:56] relaxed? No. Okay, I'll chill. I'll

[10:59] chill. I'll chill and get this done.

[11:06] I have spent all day drawing and I made

[11:09] barely any progress. Inking is killing

[11:12] me. Why? Every time I do something, it's

[11:15] like, "No, I got to do more." It's like,

[11:19] "No, I'm not going to draw digital. I'm

[11:22] going to draw with ink.

[11:24] No, I'm not going to do 14 pages. I'm

[11:28] going to do 30 billion pages, actually."

[11:31] So, this will be the cover. I have not

[11:33] inked it yet. Then, we have uh the first

[11:36] panel, which I think turned out really

[11:38] nice. You see him there? And then he'll

[11:40] be like, I think he needs more detail.

[11:43] Maybe I'll make him gray. I haven't used

[11:45] any grayscale yet. I know. Then look at

[11:47] him there. He's all [ __ ] tall and

[11:49] [ __ ] I can't fix that. So, that's

[11:51] awesome. But he's going to walk through.

[11:53] This will be nice with grayscale, too. I

[11:55] think I only have uh this pen, which is

[11:58] 0.3. It's a great pen, but if I want to

[12:01] do details on the face, it's very hard.

[12:05] Don't look too close. I got this manga

[12:07] cup pen, but I am not I'm not using

[12:09] this. It doesn't draw when I wanted to

[12:11] draw. I'm like trying. Nothing's coming

[12:14] out.

[12:16] Ah. Okay. So, I wanted to show you what

[12:19] stuff I actually ended up using. This

[12:22] turned out to be my favorite paper, if

[12:24] it matters to anyone. Uh, for sketching,

[12:27] I use this pen. It's so cheap and it's

[12:30] so good and I love it. It's got some

[12:31] nice weight to it. 0.3. Very good. You

[12:35] need an eraser, obviously. Then I only

[12:38] use these three. I probably could use

[12:40] one more. 0.03, 0.3, 0.5. Super duper

[12:45] slim lines, my average lines, and my

[12:48] beefier lines. Then the king of this

[12:51] manga that probably saved this entire

[12:53] project is these pen. The ink is inside

[12:57] this, and this is soft. So basically,

[12:59] you squeeze out the ink by bending it. I

[13:02] don't know if you can see it, but you

[13:03] see it. Basically, uh, what's great

[13:06] about this pen is that it's very cheap

[13:08] and I don't have to dip ink all the time

[13:11] and I can draw very slim lines. Slim,

[13:15] slim, slim, slim. And then you can

[13:18] progress and then press harder and then

[13:20] boom, you got thick lines. Super

[13:23] versatile. This thing saved my life. I

[13:25] love this pen so much. I've seen masters

[13:29] use this pen, too, and it's just so cool

[13:31] and inspiring. I love this. These are my

[13:34] goats basically. Then of course I use

[13:36] the the leader toner and then I use this

[13:39] two tools to cut it out. And this is to

[13:41] attach basically you just rub it. That

[13:44] pretty much covers 99%. Like these are

[13:46] my goats. I need these. So I'm out here.

[13:49] I'm inking. I'm spinking. I'm testing. I

[13:52] don't know if you can see. I'm testing

[13:54] out like the layers. It's just test.

[13:56] We're just testing. We're just chilling.

[13:58] There's no stressing. Am I stressed? Do

[14:00] I look stressed? I redrew this one and I

[14:02] think it turned out way better. So, I'm

[14:04] happy. And I realized I want to be happy

[14:07] with what I'm making. I'm not gonna say

[14:09] like, oh, but it's just I'm a lot

[14:10] happier with this one. And I decided

[14:13] what I'm going to try to do is I'm going

[14:15] to half draw, half ink one and just

[14:18] experiment and then I'll ink that on top

[14:21] of that one properly. Because what's

[14:23] happening right now is that I don't

[14:24] really have like a finalized draft. I

[14:27] kind of did like a half draft, like a

[14:29] sketch, you know? It's not really

[14:31] finished. And I realize with the inking,

[14:32] I also realize I'm talking too much and

[14:34] you don't care. But like I I'm just

[14:36] going to experiment. I feel like I'm I'm

[14:38] drawing like this. Like, okay, imagine

[14:40] your paper.

[14:51] That's not fun. That's not fun for

[14:53] anyone. Like, I'm so scared of messing

[14:55] up that there's no creativity. There's

[14:57] no funness. So, I'm just gonna draw

[14:59] twice and [ __ ] up the first one on

[15:01] purpose so that I maybe find something

[15:03] interesting about it because I think a

[15:05] lot of these in the beginning is just

[15:08] boring and bland. I did this challenge

[15:11] for myself because I wanted to get back

[15:13] into drawing. I honestly had kind of

[15:14] fallen off a little bit. I'm keeping the

[15:17] Bible next to me as I'm drawing and I'm

[15:19] just like, "Holy [ __ ] dude. This is so

[15:24] sick. I'll never be that good. This is

[15:28] my favorite manga

[15:30] wrote it and I read it as a teenager or

[15:33] like young 20s and it blew my mind. And

[15:36] then recently when I started to practice

[15:38] drawing, I was looking up different

[15:40] mangas to copy and uh draw just for fun

[15:42] and I found this one called Ningo Nakuni

[15:45] and I was like, "Oh, I love the style of

[15:47] this one. Like the style is so sick." It

[15:49] was in Japanese. I didn't really read

[15:50] it. I just I just drew it. And then I

[15:52] realized, oh, it's Sutomani, but he just

[15:55] reinvented his style. How insane is

[15:57] that? Even though his style is so

[15:59] different, I still love it. And I had no

[16:01] idea. Like zero bias. That is so crazy

[16:03] to me. This whole thing is so so

[16:06] inspired by his style. Like I just love

[16:09] it. I think he he's like my biggest

[16:11] inspiration with this manga. Maybe not

[16:13] the story, but the well, yeah, the

[16:15] elements of the story, too, actually. Or

[16:17] the storytelling, rather. See, if you

[16:19] haven't checked out his work, I

[16:20] recommend it.

[16:21] Why did I think this was a good idea? I

[16:24] have one, two, three, four, five, six.

[16:30] Stop. Seven.

[16:32] Eight. And I want to redo at least

[16:34] three.

[16:37] And I haven't post-processed 95% of

[16:41] them. My last video was so intense.

[16:44] Releasing Adysius. It was supposed to be

[16:46] like an in between video, so I have time

[16:48] to work on this video. It was not an in

[16:50] between video at all. It sucked

[16:53] everything out of me and I have to be

[16:55] sucked again. But I do it all to myself.

[16:57] I have no one to complain. I think I can

[17:00] do it. I think I can do it. Just got to

[17:02] keep drawing. I hate this photo, but

[17:05] it's finished. I thought it'd be funny

[17:08] that this scene comes back cuz the the

[17:11] hunter leaves and the boy is kind of

[17:13] left like and then the hunter is going

[17:15] to have the same emotion. But like

[17:17] drawing this [ __ ] thing six times is

[17:21] not It's

[17:23] Why did I have to get so many details in

[17:25] there? Can I I have not used my brain

[17:28] whatsoever. I probably redrawn this the

[17:31] most out of all and I don't even like

[17:33] it. But here we are. Isn't that great?

[17:35] Some are coming in quite nice though.

[17:38] Like that's kind of cool. I bet you're

[17:40] wondering what the hell this door is

[17:42] about. Well, just wait and see. I'm

[17:44] hoping like my bad framing someone will

[17:48] see it and be like, "Yes, he let the

[17:50] lines flow downwards towards the end and

[17:53] not because he's lazy and he [ __ ] up

[17:56] and doesn't want to redo the stupid. I

[18:00] don't even want to draw a frame TO BEGIN

[18:01] WITH. WHY DID I HAVE to do what I

[18:04] have a proper stupid ruler?" I've been

[18:07] screaming a lot this video. I I realize

[18:09] that now actually. So, I'm going to stop

[18:11] doing that now. I'm sorry.

[18:13] Hello. I am in a car. I am entering the

[18:16] phase where I'm almost wrapping up. Oh,

[18:19] you're now looking at the steering wheel

[18:21] instead. I'm entering the phase of

[18:23] almost wrapping up and I feel like I am

[18:27] not happy with where it's going. And

[18:30] whenever that happens, I don't know if

[18:32] you guys can relate to this, but my

[18:34] brain just self folds. It goes, "Hey,

[18:38] actually, I didn't care anyway, so I'm

[18:41] just gonna give up whatever." What I

[18:43] wish my brain would do is just be like,

[18:46] "Hey, we're almost finished. Just focus

[18:49] and and do your best." It's like a

[18:51] coping mechanism that I do so I can look

[18:54] back at it and say, "Actually, I didn't

[18:56] try my hardest, so that's why it turned

[18:59] out shit." I am aware of it and I'm

[19:01] feeling it. So, I hope I can uh break

[19:03] through, basically, is what I'm saying.

[19:05] I am starting to feel hope. I have so

[19:08] many pages now. Ah, that one's not

[19:10] finished.

[19:12] And these are not postprocess or

[19:14] whatever. I don't know what to call it.

[19:15] It's going to be a story. I see it now.

[19:18] As long as I don't look at anyone else's

[19:20] work, I feel pretty good about it.

[19:23] No spoiler obviously, but like I hate

[19:26] this [ __ ] page. I redrew it so many

[19:29] times. Stupid idiot. Horses. I have to

[19:32] draw three horses. Try and draw one

[19:34] horse. Okay, they suck. I redrew this

[19:37] one as well. Feel like it was worth it.

[19:39] This one was actually worth it. It's

[19:41] quite moody. I will show you the entire

[19:43] manga now, but I actually have more work

[19:45] to do because I want to add more um

[19:49] gradients and [ __ ] like that cuz I think

[19:51] it adds a lot of depth. Focus, smokers,

[19:54] hocus pocus. The manga is done. It took

[19:56] me three months instead of one, but it

[19:59] is done. To be fair, the products became

[20:02] three times as long. So, I think I did.

[20:05] Okay. I have this idea that I cannot do

[20:08] a manga. Okay. I have to draw for at

[20:10] least 6 years. I have to be a master at

[20:14] all these different elements, then I can

[20:17] draw a manga. It's kind of like the

[20:18] sushi chef, right? Like he he only gets

[20:20] to wash rice for the first 10 years. I

[20:22] don't know. I also heard analogies like

[20:25] you shouldn't do hard things because if

[20:27] you go to the gym and you try and lift

[20:28] the heaviest weight, it's not going to

[20:30] work. Okay? You need to work your way

[20:32] up. I don't do that.

[20:35] If you want to do a gym analogy, yeah,

[20:37] you go to the gym, you lift the heaviest

[20:39] weight. You're going to know that

[20:40] doesn't work immediately. Okay? That's

[20:42] great feedback. You need to try things

[20:44] in order to learn. You need to fail in

[20:47] order to learn. And again, I am Mr.

[20:50] Failure. Okay? I fail constantly. I

[20:52] learned more from this 3 months of

[20:54] drawing than probably an entire year of

[20:56] drawing because it forced me to

[20:57] challenge myself in doing different

[20:59] things I don't want to do and realizing

[21:01] my flaws and weaknesses and and learning

[21:03] from it cuz I I think you have these

[21:05] ideas that you can't do certain things

[21:07] like you have to do this first. But I I

[21:09] feel like what what's just try it worst

[21:12] case you fail, right? I would actually

[21:15] consider this manga a failure. There's

[21:17] just too much mistakes. There's too many

[21:18] things I messed up. I would not publish

[21:20] this manga. But regardless, I did it and

[21:23] I can look at it and still be kind of

[21:26] proud of it. But without further ado, I

[21:28] want to show you guys the manga. Okay,

[21:31] here we go. Feel free to mute me, but I

[21:34] will yap inevitably. I'm a YouTuber. So,

[21:37] title, Gal. I realize now it says cow.

[21:43] Gal.

[21:45] We didn't make it far, did we? All

[21:47] right, here's the first shot. I imagine

[21:49] this like anime super highive wind

[21:52] ambience like

[21:56] you get the whole landscape and then you

[21:58] kind of go into the boy and it zooms in

[22:01] and then it gets quiet like everything

[22:03] gets quiet for a second then we start

[22:06] walking. I made a mistake here where

[22:08] initially I wanted to read this way but

[22:10] I think it's going to read this way so

[22:13] I'm just going to do that even though

[22:14] technically these should swap places. So

[22:17] yeah, he's walking. We get some epic

[22:19] scenery.

[22:22] He doesn't have a face. Don't worry

[22:24] about it. So he's climbing up. He's

[22:27] looking at something. Some nice view.

[22:29] Again, these should swap places. This

[22:31] should be the last thing you read on

[22:33] this anyway. And then you get the full

[22:36] spread, the double looney.

[22:42] It was going to be Yeah. So I I imagine

[22:44] it like a two-pager, you know. It It was

[22:46] cooler in my head, but I do think um I

[22:48] think the toning kind of messed me up a

[22:50] little bit.

[22:52] More walking. We get to see the main

[22:54] character more clearly for the first

[22:56] time. Maybe it wasn't obvious that it

[22:57] was a boy until now. I don't I don't

[22:59] know, actually. And we see that he's

[23:02] approaching the city.

[23:06] Still not at the city, but he's down

[23:07] from the mountains. And this is the

[23:09] page, if you remember, that I said I was

[23:11] going to redraw. I'm not doing that.

[23:14] It's not happening. It does serve some

[23:16] purpose, but I probably could cut this

[23:18] actually. It still looks okay. He's

[23:21] walking up to the walls, the city walls.

[23:24] It should be more wet here, I think. But

[23:25] what can you do? I do really like the

[23:27] contrast here of the bright and dark

[23:29] coming in. I think that turned out

[23:30] really nice.

[23:32] Uh, this is the inside the city. I

[23:35] redrew this a lot of times and I'm very

[23:37] happy I did because I feel like I'm

[23:39] there with the boy looking at this.

[23:40] Like, this looks this looks nice. You

[23:43] see the hooves? Some riders are riding

[23:45] in. And we get a quick shot of the boy.

[23:47] Kind of wish this page was like this to

[23:49] be honest. Like I feel like this was so

[23:51] unnecessary. Anyway,

[23:54] and the first introduction to our

[23:56] antagonist. I redrew this like four

[23:58] times. It looks like a girl every time,

[24:01] but then I'm like, it doesn't matter. It

[24:03] can look like a girl. It doesn't matter.

[24:04] The antagonist is looking down on the

[24:06] boy. They're having this sort of moment

[24:08] meeting eye to eye or blank face to

[24:10] blank face. I try to redraw the face and

[24:12] then I use this like thing that I can't

[24:15] draw on. So, it's faceless.

[24:18] The writer rides off. He's sort of

[24:21] supposed to see something happening

[24:22] behind the boy as he's sort of looking

[24:24] after the turning his way and we see the

[24:26] paw. Our other character shows himself

[24:29] for the first time or herself. Go

[24:34] surprise. It's a tiger. So, the tiger

[24:37] doing something. The boy is uh looking

[24:39] at it.

[24:42] We're moving on. And then

[24:46] the hunter is back looking like a male

[24:48] this time. Nailed it. Throws his spear

[24:51] at the tiger. Tiger's like, "Uh,

[24:55] Mar's like, the tiger looks weirdly

[24:56] sexy." I'm like, "He's not supposed to

[24:58] look sexy. Supposed to look angry and

[25:01] pissed off." So, Tiger supposed to take

[25:03] off. Boy is looking like, "Okay."

[25:07] Grabs on to Tiger on top of Tiger. Tiger

[25:10] be like, "Bruh." Again, up on the tiger.

[25:15] Tiger takes off

[25:18] running through the city walls. It's

[25:20] very cute, actually. Maybe I don't hate

[25:22] this manga. I I kind I quite like this.

[25:28] And then we have the same as before, but

[25:30] this time it's the hunter that is sort

[25:32] of frozen. He goes, But yeah, not a not

[25:36] a second tiger is going to come out.

[25:38] spoilers.

[25:40] They uh leave the same gate if you

[25:42] remember and then they run down the same

[25:44] way if you remember. And then again,

[25:46] white face boy cuz I messed it up.

[25:50] But they're running across the fields.

[25:52] You you you get the point.

[25:55] And then we're back at the lake. Tiger

[26:00] gets an idea, jumps in the lake.

[26:05] The idea was that tiger gets the idea to

[26:07] shake off the boy basically, but they're

[26:09] both having a good time. So, the tiger's

[26:12] noticing that the boy is actually

[26:13] enjoying himself that I'm explaining the

[26:16] story here, but whatever. So, gets

[26:19] another idea to make epic jump. Wish I

[26:22] had a sound effect here or something

[26:24] like

[26:25] I guess we have the do

[26:29] and then we get this epic shot in the

[26:31] sky. Go. If you grew up in Sweden, same

[26:34] year as me, then maybe you know this

[26:36] reference or why. But

[26:39] anyway, boy is like, whoa, Tigerlands

[26:42] have this epic moon shot.

[26:46] I envisioned this so early. It's kind of

[26:48] funny seeing it now. I was like, it's

[26:51] going to be cool with the tiger is in

[26:53] front of the moon. Everyone loves that.

[26:56] Yeah, it's heading back and we see that

[26:57] it's darker now. And they're both just

[27:00] happy.

[27:02] And we're back at the river for the

[27:05] third time for a little resty. Tiger is

[27:08] tired now after a long night. Boy gets

[27:10] to enjoy just having a moment, a quiet

[27:12] moment, stroking the fur. And then

[27:16] is that a page turner or what? Hunter

[27:19] back.

[27:30] We see that the hunter is back.

[27:33] Tiger has been pierced.

[27:37] Hunter goes in for the kill.

[28:26] That's the story.

[28:32] Bro, what just happened? I've just been

[28:35] working too much and I'm tired. Uh,

[28:37] that's the story. I hope you guys

[28:38] enjoyed it. It was a really fun project.

[28:40] I'm glad it's over.

[28:43] The last thing when I did my anime tour,

[28:46] I got criticism on my art by a

[28:48] professional and their feedback was,

[28:50] "You finished your drawing, so that's

[28:52] good." And I laughed and I internally I

[28:54] was like, "That's not feedback. That's

[28:56] just something."

[28:58] But actually, I am super proud that I

[29:01] actually finished this project. It is an

[29:04] amateur's attempt at making a manga. It

[29:06] has so many issues, mistakes and quirks

[29:10] and weird and too much similarities to

[29:13] my idols and all this stuff like but I'm

[29:17] still proud of myself for finishing it.

[29:20] You know, I'm trying to think positive

[29:21] here. A positive end of this. Hope you

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