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videos that help other people like me. It was quite easy for me because I knew what I was looking for but couldn't find, so I made that kind of content. It's also important to stay connected with other artists, communicate with them, compliment their work, and learn from them where possible. It's a community where you give and take, and, in my case, I help people learn and, in return, create an audience for my own work. If you help to share motivation and love, you will always get it back. Q: What do you enjoy most about creating manga? Do you have any tips? The best thing about creating manga is finishing it. (laughs) For me, I create work mostly traditionally, using paper, inks, then scan in the pages and use software like Clip Studio Paint, especially for my series Apple Black and Bacassi published in Saturday AM and Saturday PM respectively. I make sure that most things I do have a good reason behind them. I always loved drawing, so it was a no-brainer for me to gravitate to the world of creating content. My biggest tip is to love what you're creating: if you do, you will always think of ideas for how to tell your story. Once done, you get to see people's reactions and comments about your work, and it's a very lovely feeling. Q: How do you build your stories? Do you create your characters first and then build the story around them, or do you create the world and then set the characters in them? I use a bit of both. For instance, with Apple Black, I came up with a rough skeleton of the world, and I had certain ideas for characters that I wanted to implement in the story. When I started out, I was all over the place, so I would come up with character designs, and then go back to flesh out the world, and then I put them together. I think either method works. Sometimes they happen simultaneously. Q: What tools do you usually use? To create comics, I use comic paper in B4 by Deleter with Deleter Ink, some micron inking pens, pencils, erasers, the usual. Then I have my trusty MacBook for when I'm writing the narration and dialog for the chapters of my series. Once I'm done illustrating traditionally, I scan the pages with a Mustek A3 scanner and then edit and clean up the pages in Clip Studio Paint. I also use Clip Studio Paint, along with other art software, for my digital illustrations. For traditional illustrations, I use alcohol brush markers from brands like Copic, and recently I'm really into Spectrum Noir markers. Occasionally I even pull out watercolors or gouache. Q: How do you decide which medium to use? Sometimes it's just how I'm feeling, sometimes it depends on the purpose, such as trying to