megan ruiz's sketchblog

This summer I'll be working on a webcomic entitled "Taffy Gunn" with a friend of mine. Check out his blog; he's a really fantastic animator, and his CG work has a got a lot of personality to it.
Gideon Dunn: "Orange Squares"

The way we've planned it, there will be a segment of the comic that will resemble shoujo manga. If you're not familiar with the term, "shoujo" means "young girl," so although it's a demographic rather than a genre, the subjects that tend to come to mind are romance, school life, emotional drama, stuff like that. I just got MangaStudio Ex 4, and the program is AMAZING. Like a really noodly Photoshop for manga.

Here's an example of what the manga will look hopefully look like. I decided to pilfer Miwa Ueda's style, as I have a box of Peach Girl sitting outside my cubicle that I've been looking at for reference and inspiration. Fingers crossed!