'GIGAZINE Manga Award' Started recruiting for February 2019 & Top drawing making looks like this

Where the cold finally settled down, the place where it was hit by the harder cold weather, it has become a season when you can see signs of spring. I am glad that you can cheer for the GIGAZINE Manga Award and GIGAZINE Manga in the past seasons as well as in the new seasons.

Last year, from GIGAZINE Manga Label, full color comics " Princess and Gamer " and a collection of top pictures of the manga grand prize were collected and recorded "When I ordered the illustration to make the image of the" manga grand prix "ordered, it will be like this GIGAZINE top painting collection " I released two volumes. You can purchase from the Amazon page anytime, and Kindle Unlimited members can read it at any time for free, so please download it.

Princess and Gamer (GIGAZINE) | Pepper, San Nike Nikyo, GIGAZINE | Manga | Kindle Store | Amazon

GraphazinE top painting collection 2018 | GIGAZINE | Kindle store | Amazon

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◆ Top picture and illustration recruitment for the Grand Prize recruitment article - I am also looking for "Top picture" illustration of the "GIGAZINE Manga Award" published in this article. Click here for application guidelines

◆ February 2019 GIGAZINE Manga Awards Top Illustration
A top picture illustration in February 2019 was given to Mr. Motoyama Mr. Hana . Dokili will make a wonderful composition that the woman who works with the tablet is staring back from the tablet side. When drawing a story, the characters may be staring at the writer.

Mr. Motoyama comment was received from Mr. Hana .

Hello, this is Hana Motoyama Nana writers.
I drew the top illustration of the "GIGAZINE Manga Award" February.
I ordered the illustration to make the "manga grand prix" image, so I drew an illustration while exploring various possibilities.
It was a unique opportunity to draw the writer himself as the hero and it was a lot of fun to draw
By all means, I'm happy to see Motoyama's "This is it" in the making following it.

Below is the making of illustration.

Motoyama "Rough proposal creates a rough near completion after creating a rough composition, explore diagrams that can make people interested in the illustration or have the idea to apply At this time, I was conscious of the illustration seen from the top page, we also examined the thumbnail size figure together. "

Motoyama "It is a design that I thought from the place I wanted to convey the amount of heat I felt by seeing the site of GIGAZINE and the passion of the artist.The" motive "and" power "are simple and The composition expressed in pop. I want to aim for a piece that can raise morale. "

Motoyama "It is a design that I thought of wanting to appeal to the writer I am trying to enter, as the people climb the stairs, real character town and fantasy drawing live together with the hero who stops and sees this, with the stairs being separated Composition with background I would like to aim one piece that can push my back. "

Motoyama "It is a design mainly based on digital manga.It is a composition that the writer is looking through the liquid crystal tablet under the circumstances where comic striping work is done.It is aimed at one piece that can support production."

Motoyama "We will create a complete image based on the proposed scheme 3. We will arrange colors roughly for each of the motifs that make up the illustration and we will examine the actual effects etc. The color scheme is GIGAZINE I chose the vibrant blue, yellow, orange, purple from the site color and logo mark.That is a slightly strange situation of seeing people from the liquid crystal tablet side, it is not a real coloration but a blue and It was planned to make a combination of orange, purple and yellow pairing colors. "

Motoyama "It's a line drawing work. Based on the finished rough idea, I will draw a polite line.Layers are divided for each motif so that the later coloring process is easy.The depth of the liquid crystal In the case of rough, I often start drawing from the shape of the head, but the pen holder needs places of concentration, such as eyes, while concentrating though it draws lines in order of tablet, right arm, person, background I will put it in. "

Motoyama "I will paint the color, paint over with a brush, let me blush using a blurring tool.I like the expression like liquid puddle and unevenness like a watercolor, so the brush customizes things like texture like watercolor In the dark part, it gives depth while keeping saturation with "multiplication layer" and "burning layer" etc. The bright part leaves a color with "soft light", "additional light emitting layer" etc. We will also give effects, while skin, hair, clothes and so on are layered separately, but each boundary is partially blurred and blended. "

Motoyama "Since I wanted to feel like I looked through the liquid crystal, I added objects to show contact points between the liquid crystal and the pen and things that were glittery in the sky and I will give you a feeling that is visible from" this side. " When painting is finished, apply a blur filter to the background and the right arm part in contact with the liquid crystal to make focus so that attention will be given to the person.Finally superimpose the picture material of the drawing paper in "soft light" mode from the top. By looking at the balance, it is completed by adjusting the sharpness of color with "tone curve layer" etc.

Motoyama "That's it, thank you for seeing it, I'm pleased if you have an illustration that can support you all a bit."


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The top picture and making of past manga awards articles can be viewed from the following.

"GIGAZINE Manga Award" Started recruitment in January 2019 & top drawing making like this - GIGAZINE

Illustrations of 2018 are collectively made into electronic books, so please have a look there as well.

GraphazinE top painting collection 2018 | GIGAZINE | Kindle store | Amazon

◆ "GIGAZINE Manga Award" Guidelines for Application

· Basic condition:
· Premise that even smartphones can read (open pears, vertical scroll standards)

· Full color · Full digital (In case of black and white, it is treated as "Original")

· Completed manuscript of "First episode" freely in the genre and its making material . Making material includes character design · color setting · name · under drawing. Of course there are also applications from the first episode to the last episode.

· Original format:
Please refer to " Princess and gamer " for aspect ratio, file size and resolution.

· Number of originals:
freedom. Any number of pages are OK.

· Others:
· No age restriction, underage procedures will be carried out so that minors can also clear under awards

· Primary creation already published by other media and platform by myself OK

· Although it was posted in a magazine, it was OK but it was OK or it was canceled with no circumstances on the way. Please do not give up.

· "Only drawing" is OK if you can show the URL of the portfolio and collection of works. For the passing through the 1st stage examination, we will actually draw on the trial original in the 2nd stage examination and we will go to the final stage of the ballot review after passing.

·The deadline:
Thursday, February 28, 2019, 23:59:59

· Review process:

After the first selection by the editorial department, the following review process is scheduled.

Phase 1: Evaluation by closed environment that only GIGAZINE secret club members can view + Evaluation including making materials by editorial department ↓
Phase 2: Requests such as "plot to the final story" are additionally created, after review by the editor-in-chief. Looking at the potential of being able to draw until the end, if it can be determined that it will run to the end, it will be the final stage advancement.
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Final stage: posted on GIGAZINE, score evaluation from access analysis result by GIGAZINE reader + score evaluation by GIGAZINE secret club member + score by the editorial team to determine a grand prize winner

· Prize money:

First of all, we received a prize of 10,000 yen for all incentives that passed through the first examination and were selected as the first stage.

Next, a prize of 20,000 yen was awarded as an incentive to all the members selected in the second stage.

And when it was selected as a prize winning work at the final stage, we awarded a prize of 100,000 yen.

※ Total amount of prize money is included in category not taxable, so minors should be okay, you can win. Even if there is no bank account, we will manage.

· Flow after winning
After publishing in serialized format at GIGAZINE, it will be converted into electronic books and sold on Amazon. We will pay the prescribed manuscript fee and royalties, respectively. GIGAZINE is responsible for selling and promoting e-books.

· Question reception form:
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◆ Original Writing Guidelines

· In addition to the first episode manuscript, prepare plots from the first episode to the last episode.

· In the first judging we will see the fun of a simple story and the completeness of one story. In the case of proceeding from the second judging to the final judging, we will judge "whether you can constantly create a script of the story until the last story" that was conscious of actually creating the original manga.

· In case of "only original" entry, please paste the text in Google Doc and then post the address of the shared link on the application form. In that case, please do not edit the document after the application.

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There is "GIGAZINE secret club (GSC) · closed review" in the selection flow of the manga award. Those who are members of the GSC members, of course not members yet, please take this opportunity to become a member of the GSC and witness the birth of future masterpieces. Register to GIGAZINE secret club from here .

Well then, we are waiting for the creators' entries from the bottom of my heart. Thank you.