Being a mangaka requires extreme dedication to the craft. If your manga comes out every week then there is almost zero hope for free time and a proper amount of sleep, but the end result is worth it. Manga and its roots have been around for several centuries now, and it's definitely not going away any time soon. Maybe in the future with the help of new inventions, the manga making process will become easier and less time consuming for a manga artist. Or perhaps the audience will understand how much time it takes to make those twenty pages that take a few minutes to read and will become more patient and give mangakas more time.

Writing, storyboarding, sketching, inking, adding halftones, there is much more to the manga creating process than it is evident to the eye from the first glance. But all those skills that require tons and tons of practice in the end allow different worlds and characters that we all know and love come to life before our eyes and in our hearts.

Due to the limited amount of time that was given to us for this project, the final outcomes weren’t as good as I wanted them to be. Although, I do think that everything I have done for this blog was done to the best of my ability. Working for the illustrations for this blog was quite interesting for me, since my own art is usually very lineart based, this time I used a different approach of inking straight from a very rough sketch and figuring out the details in the process. This is something I have never done before and it allowed me to save quite a bit of time.

I think that with more practice I will be able to draw manga styled illustrations properly, because illustrations made in black and white is what I am most interested in doing in the future.