...is hard. Wow.
Well, I've narrowed my choices of genre down to comedy, romance, and drama. I'd like to make a fantasy or a sci-fi story, but both require too many details to draw and an in-depth story, which I am too lazy to create. :D Well, I guess sci-fi is still a possibility... I'd actually like to do a steampunk manga, haha. But yeah, I don't like drawing complicated machinery or overly detailed backgrounds. Horror sounds tempting, but I'd likely do one with zombies and a) I don't like drawing gore & b) there can't be an excessive amount of gore/disembowelment/violence in the entries. So lol, zombies are out.
First idea: a romance manga based on the idea of shared dreaming. Yeah, I'm using this as a plot point in my fanfic too, but there's nothing saying that I can't reuse storylines that I've made before. BD
Basically, the main girl in the story is bedridden with a disease. I was thinking leukemia, though I could look into some neuropathological diseases --- SCD would be a lame ripoff of 1 Litre of Tears though, and ALS is lame too. (no offense to the people with those diseases) The guy in the story is her childhood friend, and is currently studying medicine in the US to try and find a better treatment for her disease (
Acute myeloid leukemia is a potentially curable disease; but only a minority of patients are cured with current therapy.)
Uhhh... Well, basically, it's hard for them to get in touch by the phone or other things, but they can see each other in their dreams? And the girl dies at the end, while the boy has become a doctor --- the last scene is probably going to be a shot of them together from one of their dreams or something. Yeah, short and sad, but I'm starting to really get into these kinds of stories after watching 1 Litre of Tears and Crying Out Love in the Center of the World (still have to watch Taiyou no Uta).
Second idea: a comedy manga reusing my characters from my NaNo novel! Yeah, my poor cast of muses have been completely neglected. They're really festive, so they should be fun to design outfits for and draw. I guess this'll just be a slice of life manga, or I'll have it focus on one part of their road trip to New York --- geez, I don't even remember WHY they're going to New York again augh. So I guess I'll have to redo the story if I decide to draw this one. The only thing that's definite is that Gabe (the faggot that beat me up to make him a major character in the story, he was originally going to be a very minor character) wants to kill the main character, name forgotten, so that the contract between her and Productivity (his love interest) will be broken. Yeah, what an ass. The girl's a ten/twelve year old kid, too.
But yeah, this one would be fun simply because of the characters' relationships with each other. :D And the girl's stuck in the middle of this going "WHYYYYYYyyy".
Third idea: a drama (??) manga based on one of my novel ideas, nine red planes, which is set in a dystopic alternate universe where the countries have allied together to form three large nations which are constantly at war against one another. This is in a post-WWII time setting, probably early-mid 1950's, so I'll have to do research about the different clothing and machinery that was around back then. I don't think this one will be made because I doubt I can fit the entire story into 15-20 pages, and I don't want it to cut off abruptly without a resolved ending. The story doesn't cut into small chunks like idea two and four, and it's definitely not a short story that can be finished in a small amount of pages like idea one.
Fourth idea: a fantasy/comedy manga that I dreamt up one or two characters and a location for a while back and then ditched. |D;; I don't even have a basic story idea for this, so I doubt I'll choose this one. Anyway, it's about a traveling minstrel and his party of... people that follow him around as he solves situations in different cities around the world? I'll need a plot under all of this as well, because he has no real reason to travel --- what is he looking for? What's his purpose for traveling? I haven't figured this out at all. However, this -could- work for my entry because I could just make a short story about the guy's stay at one of the cities and add in a short conflict.
Well, the contest ends on January 11, 2008. I've lost around two months since the contest started on June 15, but I'm dan sure I can make it if I work. Right now, though, I need to figure out how exactly I'm going to do the toning. The lettering I could definitely do on the computer, and I have manga and comic book fonts especially for this. I don't know if I can find a good toning program that I can use though, since doing toning on Photoshop is just ajdofida. I will also need to pick up some new inking pens, probably microns or some nibs. Nibs are fun to work with, but augh if they drip. Microns don't make a mess, though the lines they make are kind of mechanical compared to nibs.
Contemplation, contemplation... Ah, maybe I can get my hands on a copy of Manga Studio to do tones~
I'm happy that I'll have something to keep me company during school in the months leading up to NaNo and after it. |D November's going to be full of writing, and the rest I'll dedicate to cranking out manga panels~
(I would be able to bring Microns to school, actually. More contemplation! D:)
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