SATANHIGH #5

SATANHIGH #5
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RESISTANCE

(Read Satanhigh Chapter 4 first before reading this entry, click the cover on the left to do so)

Click the cover to read Satanhigh Chapter 4!

Dark greetings! Satanhigh #4 was originally released when I was in college back in 2005. It's been quite a leap from the first three chapters, meaning I stopped drawing the series for a time because I got busy with other projects and other titles back in high school. I made at least three one shot stories then, including someone else's life and the black rose, and I was also writing some short stories as well for our school paper and a whole lot of other things. 

Basically I wasn't able to continue making Satanhigh, I only got back to it when I was already in college. Continuing chapter 4 after I had learned a few techniques in fine arts really did come in handy. Sometimes making the chapters really take a lot from you, it's really taxing and you often feel drained afterwards. Togashi, the mangaka behind hunter x hunter and Yuyu Hakusho suffers from back pain most of the time because making manga really does take its toll on you. Especially if you're really into what you're doing. 

Okay yeah, Togashi might just be playing Dragon Quest I know, but no one can deny the fact that being a mangaka is something that you don't do because you just felt like it, to do it full time really requires commitment. Especially if your story is a series and has breadth and scale for your characters to grow and mature along with your readers, it definitely requires a lot of time, if not all of your time. Making comics in general is hard work, it's a gamble if you think about it. If you're familiar with the manga Bakuman, they really went with that concept because the whole theme of the story is risking everything you have, your time and effort in a title (name) you draw. 

You also win some and you lose some. Realistically, other comic book artists are paid a lot especially if your art is well done and your style is widely acceptable or unique, but some aspiring artists who are still trying to make it mistake one thing; that it's about the title of being called a comic book artist or a manga artist, it's really not. It's simple enough as to be doing your comics, taking time to do it and not just simply saying that you're a comic book artist because you've done it once and live to tell that to everyone you meet. Technically you are, but in keeping up with your art, you at least have to continue making it. It's not a onetime deal. What I'm saying is, it's something you really have to focus on, sure you can have a part time job and continue making comics on the side, that's what most of us do.