Senior Experience Final Week

I have to say I'm experiencing the biggest and most important obstacle now, the lacking of imagination and impression. Like one manga artist once said: "manga seems easy in other's mind, but a true mangaka converts complicated object to simple to create impression. That is totally true, and I believe that is also why professional manga artists spend tens of years to strengthen their skills. For example, it is so freaking easy for me using thousands of strokes to sketch realistic human body when there is a reference, but when it comes using couple lines to presents an action of human only through the brain, it becomes harder. For now I can only draw some simple actions, but the hard part for me to create an impressive image because my imaginations isn't at the same stage as skills. Most tutorials suggest I should trace pro's pieces, and I never tried it because of that stupid stubbornness of originality, but now I think that may be the shortest way to improve my skills, so... I think I will try it during this summer!!! BTW, reading mangas help developing ideas a lot, but like I said, the hard part is merging the ideas with skills, the process of creating own style. What changes my mind is also the manga I'm reading these weeks: Fairy Tails. I believe every anime fan should be able to find out some similarities either from the style and story line between Fairy Tail and other popular mangas from Jump like One Piece, Bleach, Gintama, Dragon Ball, etc. Blah, blah, blah...(the following omits thousand words). Anyway, in the piece below, most of the image is sky because when artists don't have ideas, they use clouds (this can be verify through pieces in any art museum), and ...(the following omits thousand words again)...