BenJepheneT
Light Up Gold - Parquet Courts
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To add to this, most manga you see AREN'T one-man armies. There's background artists, assistants, editors, and that's in the case of ADAPTING light novels that ALREADY have some character design to work with on the covers/illustrations. Those mangas you see updated weekly/monthly? Yeah, those aren't as easy as they're shown to be. Forget playing your favourite games or even having a call with your ma. Look up the weekly work schedules for these manga artists and you can easily see why most of them fall sick, have back pain, or straight-up die before the age of 60. Hell, one just had a painful passing (Kentaro Miura) at the age of 54 back in May. You can count the hours of their sleep per day with one hand and a missing finger.Artistic ability is not particularly displayed well in manga format. At least not when the focus is on storytelling. Manga pages will in most cases have simplified art style. Ofc they can be artistically awesome, but then it will take longer…
And that's discussing productivity ALONE. We haven't discussed concepts, tonality, the suitability of the art style for the story told (imagine Clamp adapting Chainsaw Man; though that'll be fun to see), and much more. Some artists just straight up co-opt as the author so they could easily translate everything into art since they're the ones with the idea anyway.
At best, in your current level of craft, you can commission an illustration for every 20 chapters or so, or take the ONE approach and just draw that fucken manga right then and there.