Although digital is still convenient, isn't it? There are more and more good things in digital as well.

I know there is more use of digital these days but I’m happy to know that there are still things that can only be achieved by hand-drawing. Yamaguchi: I make about five sheets of screentones with Sumi ink and use them all the time in different ways. So that's how you use both digital and analog. I try to make sure that the screentones don't become too obvious in the images and since it's a story about becoming a painter, I add a watercolor touch to my artworks to match the paintings that appear in the story. I dissolve Sumi ink in water and paint it on paper, then scan it in, and later create the screentones using Clip Studio's toning function. Yamaguchi: Yes, I use digital only but I try to make the screentones look more watercolor-ish so they won't feel too monotonous. Are the screentones only painted digitally? On the other hand, I think it is nice to be able to express something that only digital can do.įor example, I can now carefully apply noise tones and create layers. I had to convert his artwork into my drawings, so I had no choice but to switch to digital while working on it. In that work, all the visual works were hand-drawn and very time-consuming. I used to draw everything by hand, even the screentones.īlue Period was my first serial work, and before that, I was working on a short series written by Makoto Shinkai, an animation director. Tsubasa Yamaguchi (hereafter referred to as Yamaguchi): How do you create texture and color gradation when you draw your manga? Also, please tell us what you pay the most attention to during the process? Most of your manga artwork is created by converting the hand-drawn painting into a digital image. The Bengal eagle owl named Yoru lives in her studio. The manga artist Tsubasa Yamaguchi, who has been a close friend of PIGMENT TOKYO over the years, will be in her studio to talk about her drawing styles and thoughts on creating manga artworks.īrushes, pens, ink and other art materials are lined up on the desk where she does her work. The ' Blue Period Exhibition ~ Art is a Gift ~ ?' to be held from June 2022 is an exhibition that will stimulate not only our visual sense but also our emotions and feelings through paintings from the manga 'Blue Period' and a film screening in an immersive theater.

Tsubasa yamaguchi she and her cat