W9 French Comics -video-

With your instruction about Tintin, I remembered the reading from week two, Understanding Comics. I believe the author of the Understanding Comics also used Tintin as one of the examples of the iconic character in a realistic background. I agree with your instruction; Japanese manga may have influenced by Tintin because most of all Japanese manga background is realistic. I quickly search on the internet with words like “how to draw manga book”. As a result, almost all books really focused on how to draw the background as realistic as possible while they are focusing on introducing how to draw more stylized or comic-like characters.

This page introducing how to make the drawn house more realistic.

This is the instruction of the character creation of manga.

I had a lot of fun with the instruction of Ligne Claire because I think this is the biggest difference between Japanese manga and Tintin, even manga is influenced by it.

ENG) equal -> add strength

As you see with this instruction, Japanese manga tends to have more line differences to make depth and material difference.

from Buddha by Osamu Tezuka

Also, Japanese manga loves shadows. Even Japanese manga in the early era tends to create tone by pen scratches but not by colors other than comic strips. For example, Osamu Tezuka uses a wide range of types of pen-based tones. This deep shadow also creates depth on 2D paper as line thickness creates.

 I found the likeness of scratch tone technique in another French comic, and I would like to talk about it in the next post.