 K.J. Karvonen
got a reputation through his Animeco articles and his Usenet postings,
but the man goes beyond that. He's an artist and writer who has worked
some major projects, and he's hoping to expand his works into the realm
of manga. Along with Tery Karvonen, K.J. is creating manga and hopes to
find a publisher who will handle the book (he'd rather make money than
spend money). |
 A big part
of manga's visual attraction is its use of shading through screen tone.
In Japan, manga artists buy plastic sheets of screen tone, cut it and place
it on a screen where a figure needs to be defined. Karvonen is one of the
many artists who has turned to computers to create the same effect. Using
Photoshop and Pagemaker, Karvonen adds the shading to the pages. The trick
is to make the shading look correct. "The hard part to do is to make the
texture match the rest of the panel without making it stand out like a
sore thumb," he said. |
 What stories
will Karvonen tell? He'll start with parody in his Magical Princess Saccharine
series. An example of this was on display on Sunday, showing the first
panels of a tale that's a cross between the Iron Chef cooking show and
Tuxedo Kamen from Sailor Moon. Karvonen used his computer to create a series
of textures for the parody, including a logo that looked like the kanji
used for the Iron Chef logo. |
