最近の書き下ろし漫画 (^.^)my latest newly drawn manga page

Japanese version/日本語版

© 2007 waterdroplet

English version /英語版

© 2007 waterdroplet

If you click on one of these images above, it will become bigger. 上の画像をクリックすると大きくなるよ。

I don't think so, but if anyone is crazy enough to use these for their own good, better warn me beforehand...

きっと、そうならないだろうが、もし何方かがこの画像をどうしても使いたいと言うならば、使う前に私に教えてほしい（でも、まだまだ下手ッピだから、これを使いたいと言う人の気の方がおかしいと私は思う）。

Yep! It took about three nights using:

felt tip pens (Too. company multi-something ones, mostly 0.05 and 0.1)
black IC tape(since I wasn't bothered to draw borderlines
manga paper sold in Kawachi, Shinsaibashi, Osaka Prefecture, Japan (A4 sized, B5 printing page)
white-out(perfect for hiding a little glitch in drawing)
IC screen and other screen tones (8 in total, bought also in Kawachi)
paper knife (used to shave tones and cut them to the size I want)
scissors (for tones)
tracing paper to protect the original work
scatter brain (the ability to create and concentrate on making absolutely meaningless piece of work)
a free time
Adobe Photoshop CS2 (where I adjusted the "Level" scale so the scanned file looks like the original- got this skill off the translation work)
ComicStudio Pro (where I added two more screen tones and inserted the text)
a few free fonts I got off the web
scanner( scanned the graphic at 600dpi, greyscale)

*The final file was transported from ComicStudio Pro to Adobe Photoshop in 600dpi file, and it was rescaled to 1400pixels in height in the "Save for Web" option in Adobe Photoshop CS2(shrunk the file size from ~10MB (~6000pixels in height) jpeg to good old 400 bytes jpeg file). This way, the graphic was in a pretty good quality despite downsizing a lot.

これを作成するのに三晩かかった。。。これを作るのに使った材料は：

Ｔｏｏ．社のペン（０．０５と０．１が主に使った。ＭＵＬＴＩ何とかと言う方。）
ＩＣテープ（枠の線を描くのが面倒だから）
漫画原稿用紙（大阪府心斎橋にあるＫＡＷＡＣＨＩ店で購入したＡ４サイズ、Ｂ５印刷面の物）
修正液（ちょっとしたミスの証拠隠滅に最適）
IC スクリーントーン（これもＫＡＷＡＣＨＩ店で。合計８種類ぐらい使った。）
カッター（トーンを削ったり、ほしい大きさにするときに使う）
はさみ
トレース紙（完成した原稿用紙を守るため）
腐った脳みそ（意味不明な事を想像し、集中できる能力）
暇な時間
Adobe Photoshop CS2 （これでスキャンした物を実物と同じに見えるようにする。画像の「レベル」を変えるのと、ゴミをここで取る。この方法は、ボランティア翻訳の用事から教わった。）
ComicStudio Pro　（ここで台詞ともう二つのトーンを付け足した。）
ウェッブでダウンロードしたカッコイイフォント
スキャナー（６００dpi, gray scaleで原稿用紙をスキャン）

*最後のファイルは600dpiのままで、ComicStudio Pro からAdobe　Photoshop に転送、"Save for Web"選択で1400pixelsの高さに変換(これで大体、10MBの画像ファイル (高さ、~6000pixels) jpeg からウェッブに向いてる、 400 bytes jpeg 画像ファイルに圧縮できた)。 ちょっとややっこしく聞こえるが、これが高質な画像のままでだいぶファイルを圧縮できた一つの方法だった。

It's just a page, but well, I decided to make this scene after looking at the ripple like screen tone I bought about a week ago. It's so beautiful.... It's perfect for a heart warming scene, or well, this depressing scene of a story I'm making since 2 years ago (I started drawing manga since about 11 months ago so it needs more improvement). It gives a little bit more flare to illustration less piece of writing, wot?
Just a note, but I used three types of hair in this page. 1st part's just plain black, 2nd is made from fine lines, and the third is made from mostly scratching a tone. Just experimenting with it since I haven't done it for a while. The last scene is a bit sloppy, but well, I didn't want to draw too much dead people.... It's quite depressing anyway. I erased some lines with white out, and it came out better than when they were left alone.
The only problem I encountered when making this is that one software crashed last night, only to find out that I didn't save it at all.... damn it!