Lights,Camera...Action!

Well, its been a week of constant work, and a lot of sketching, finally the characters are set and now we are into the production, there are 2 current pages in progress, we hope pepole might get interested in the project so we can put it up togheter faster, at this moment things look good, Im getting faster at sketching, so that will cover the problem of having no staff what-so-ever, I'm all alone in this job, Alefaso will help me as much as he can, but his main job will be pretty much continuing with the story and also checking the flow of dialogs, I'll probably use him as a typesetter, or cleaner, if he has time.

Dear charming is very close to see light, I'm still deciding whether to make a site for it or to distribute it trough Zip packets, I guess I'll worry when the time comes. I've decided to make this manga probably either a 20 or 24 page manga, probably 24, if the story cuts before the 24th page I'll just add fill-ins like all good mangaka do (not that I'm any good though) .Things are getting exciting, there is a lot of talent out there, but so many don't do much with it, Im not a genius, I was like them, sleeping while the world continued rolling, so I lost tons of skill, I wonder what kind of artist would have I become if I just had practiced all this 8 years, well, too late, so I'm starting again, this time I won't stay asleep, I ain't going to be the best mangaka in the world, nor is my desire, I don't have that sort of dream, that ain't fitting for me.This is my hobbie, that I love to death, is a passion that flows trough my veins, and I will die with it, I have dreams, of course, but they will come true just as I exercise this hobbie while I continue to live in the real world where the artist is either poor (the vast majority) or a few that are rich, that's why the artist path is not one for me, because I will have more planned than that in the future, a possible family,as you know kids will require attention and money, all those expenses will come only through another job that will not be trough making manga. My best advise, do this as a hobbie if you are not rich, and prepare to be competitive with a career that can give you economical stability.

That said, lets continue where I started, this is a long run project, my purpose is to start the thread, to pull the trigger, I will take it as long as I can, my goal is to have 2 finished mangas of 24 pages each by the end of this year,and if posible to have one chapter done each month until I complete the first season, if we have extra time I might come up with a Goodie for Xmas.

The project will now officially begin the production phase. I will leave a screenshot of the 2 pages in "pencils" at this moment. Hopefully the average will be around 2-3 per day. Unless I get fired up then I can make up to 6, that ain't happening often fellows, so don't expect too much of that.I'm currently using Corel Painter if you ever wondered what program it is, I like it a lot, is simple and intuitive, not as hardcore as photoshop, it gets things done, and beautifully, at least works good for me, I know photoshop rules, I've used it, nothing can beat it, is simply the best, but I'm a simple man, I like to work with programs that follow the KISS rule, what is KISS? it stands for "Keep It Simple Stupid!", so Corel Painter is actually a program for people who are more attached to that "do it on paper with pencils" kind of person, like me, so thats why I like it, anyhow, all this so you could know what program I use if that ever matters, and if the pics aren't that clear is because the zoom is set at almost half the real size of the pages.

That's it, look forward for Dear charming Chapter 1, Volume 1, "La nueva niña" (The new Girl), this november.
Hazehell

Finally, the characters are done.

The time has finally come, after a couple of days of sketching we finally made it, and got the looks of the girls as Alefaso had pictured them in his mind, had a lot of problems with the sketch of Jee, and a bit with Sunako, San san was ok, and Ayame a minor modification, then the only one that wasn't modified was Hira, I guess because that was the one I liked the most so I did capture the escence pretty good, form today on the manga begins, the secondary characters are pretty much done, there isn't as much thought on them as the starring ones, but, we can now start doing the first step towards the production. Ill come back and update the sketches. for now this is all.

1011-An Original Story-

This character is from an idea of a doujin, this girl is the skinny version, some of the background of her is that she used to be fat, and that carried a lot of self-esteem issues, but her life changed after meeting a good circle of friends and also a special someone who accepted her as she was. Then goes aboard to study and comes back like this. (Obviously her breast was a good thing left form her fat days)

Allright here I have the new sketches of the girls, hope will receive some feedback form Alefaso, this two are Jee, San, and Sunako

I really cant wait to get this started. this picture says it all.

The plan(spanish)

Lo siguiente partir de ahora sera definir a los personajes, es decir decidir que bocetos quedaran como la imagen final de los protagonistas, que en este caso veo que en la "primer temporada" por asi decirle comprende aproximadamente los primeros 3-5 capitulos, por lo que vi San-san,Jee,hira,Sunako, Ayame son las protagonistas en estos, tambien hay co-protagonistas como Erin, etc, ayudame con una descripcion fisica de los personajes asi como una breve reseña de su personalidad, esto facilita mucho su desarroyo grafico para un dibujante, se lo mas especifico que puedas con la descripcion fisica, altura, color de piel, tipo de cabello, que tipo de cuerpo, etc.

Tambien habra que hacer una revision ortografica de la historia por la que te pedire tu ayuda en eso, no es que me incomoden los modismos, sin embargo al momento de pasar el texto al manga es preferible hacerlo lo mas correcto posible para evitar inconveniencias con las revisiones, (aparte se ve mas "Pro" jojo), llevas hasta ahora 115 paginas en letra verdana tamaño 10.5 cada pagina equivale un aprox. de 2-4 paginas manga, estoy ansioso por empezar la produccion pero nos queda teminar primero la pre-prod, asi que empezemos por lo primero, definiendo bien todos los personajes, una vez hecho eso lo demas viene muy rapido. Si los demas lectores se preguntan que esta pasando pues que en estos momentos se esta planenado la preproduccion de un Manga/Doujin de este gran fanfic Dear Charming tan gustado por todos nosotros, si hay alguien interesado en unirse, supongo que no habra ningun problema por parte de Alefaso,sin embargo por mi parte ....muahahaha (risa diabolica), quien quiera unirse a la produiccion debera ser una persona que muestre habilidad y dedicacion , se requeriran personas que sepan dibujar bien, (no me jacto de ser un supergenio ni mucho menos), asi como quienes tengan habilidades para usar programas como photoshop,illustrator, freehand,indesign,corel painter,photopaint, manga studio, etc. caulquiera o varios de esos es valido.

Por el momento el projecto empieza entre el autor y el productor (alefaso y su servidor) al principiar la produccion lo mas seguro es que se necesiten,un asistente,un paisajista (dedicado a dibujar fondos), un posible cleaner, un "screentoner", y probablemente un web master para codificarlo y poderlo subir a internet para verse como un e-manga, es un proyecto ambicioso y por lo mismo sabemos que sera una gran obra, siempre ha sido mi sueño hacer manga asi como a muchos de los que leemos este foro espero podamos trabajar para lograrlo, ya que la meta es tener 2 capitulos hechos para antes de fin de año, con un especial de navidad como "stretch goal".

Sin mas que decir me despido para poder meterle el 100% ahora si a la bocetacion, espero recibir las descripciones pronto para agilizar el proceso y empezar de lleno con la produccion.

Ok I got the approval from Alefaso here I have the sketches of Ayame and Jee. this are my inspiration, so they will or might be modified according to the description of the author, so far will continue the updates in the blog as I work with Alefaso.

More of Dear Charming: Sanu.

If I remember correctly the name of this girl was Sunako, I think, Im bad with names, well, since I have not recieved a reply form the author of Dear charming I am playing around with the sketches I've made so far, I've even added colors an played a bit with screentones, its kind of boring to use the same images again but I dont have the approval to start the manga yet, its been kind of lonely, the blog is pretty new and the page is not up yet, also Foros DZ has been down for a couple days, I hope Alefaso reads the messages I sent him. Anyways, here are a couple of images, if you see one of it is not finished, I will finish it and update later on.

Dear Charming!!

Well yes!! Dear charming, this is a fanfic by Alefaso from Foros DZ, a great loli writer, his style captures the tenderness of the little kawaii girls we like, perfectly mixing it with a very suggestive enviroment, a preteen clothing store where the girls will model from cute girly dresses to babydolls and lingerie, you would see some scenes to be pretty "charming" they can almost be too graphical for your mind (since all is written), but nothing as bad as you probably have already seen in titles like Kodomo no Jikan, or He is my Master, Yuria 100 shiki, My balls....I think I went overboard with the last two. Anyways I liked this fic so much that Im currently waiting for an answer from Alefaso so we can discuss about the possibility of making this great novel into a Manga/Doujin. For now I will post some sketches of the girls, so far as I pictured them.

This blog was made so we could discuss about our main reason of concern, MANGA, thats right, here we will discuss about Ideas, projects, and will continue to do so until we can come up with a forum.

Hazehell