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Founded 4 Years ago
Jul 26, 2008

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Good evening one and all!



This is =MagpieOGrimoire speaking and bringing you a progress report on the Seven Deadly Sins Anthology!

Gashu Group's aim is to create a comic anthology based on the theme of the Seven Deadly Sins, a popular concept that has captured the imagination of hundreds of artists before us and undoubtedly bound to  intrigue more to come, and our very own artists are not an exception! Indeedy do this anthology has a full set of artists, each with a Sin to wrap their artistically-crafted minds around, and oh I doooo believe that in this point of the journal that our mysteriously nefariously artsy crew are revealed and bedazzle you with their flourishing galleries!


Scribbling out Wrath with a hand of fury is Csetneki Thomas known here as :iconmindlesscreator: ~MindlessCreator!

With eloquent and luscious strokes of Lust comes Daniel Bowes under the guise of :iconaeonspark: *AeonSpark!

Strutting his stuff in haughty Pride is Boe Leahy crowned as :iconechoboe: *EchoBoe!

Snatching up this spot of Greed is Arron Walker as :iconroboticnoodle: ~roboticnoodle!

Taking this coveted subject of Envy is Katja Hammond, noneother than :iconmagpieogrimoire: =MagpieOGrimoire

Somewhere in the background with Sloth is Lawz Murphy as :iconwhitespirit: *whitespirit

Gobbling up Gluttony is Sean-Lee Udenkwo, the famous :iconcasualmisfit: =Casualmisfit


Some chapters are now done and dusted! Daniel Bowes has generously posted up the opening of his chapter [link] and Katja Hammond's entire Envy will be slowly revealed around Christmas time!

Future plans, when all of the comics have been completed , are that copies will be sold digitally as well as printed and sold in shops, but that is all I will be giving out at the present moment!

For now, enjoy the artists you have now been introduced to, and keep a look out for upcoming news!


TheMagpieGrimoire
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*whitespirit Jun 1, 2012  Student Traditional Artist
I'm really going to look into it and I'm very flattered for your interest (sorry for this late reply btw)
Thank you for being really helpful with all this info! It sounds exciting! :D
As a growing artist I'd really love to hear your opinion so I wanted to ask what you meant by 'bad habits'? I can never see mistakes until they're pointed out so I'd really love to know haha
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=Thaylien Jun 1, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Most of what I meant was your proportioning, particularly on arms. Take P39 for example, bottom left panel, where in the heck is that arm coming from? XD It works, but it just doesn't look right, that's what I'm saying.

Overall you're great, I can go through page after page of your work and enjoy it, but something I can definitely see is that you've grown up 'drawing manga/anime' not 'drawing'. Your portraiture shows life, but your full work, any of it, shows anime/manga right to the roots.

Something a person said to me when I was starting out was what defined my own development; draw, and then learn to stylise. Don't learn to draw a style. You can look at my work for that (ignore the recent throw-away stuff, try this one: [link] as an example of my actual work in action) because I started out on the 'learn to draw manga' books, they were easy to get hold of, and then this guide of mine gave me that advice, so I went back and started to learn to draw figures instead. I learnt anatomy and proportioning (and yes, okay, I like drawing women with rather 'perfect' anatomy, what man doesn't?) and *then* I styled my work to make it fit my own preferred outline-and-colour method I picked up from anime/manga style. See what I mean?

In any case, that's me being my brand of perfectionist, we're all a little... some of us a lot... perfectionist at Gashu-Group. Hassan (Legend of the Black Dragon) has his methods, Katja (Demon Catchers, Stories in a Bottle) has hers, and even Cave and Boe (10 Top Tips) have their own particulars. Like I said, that was a personal note, but on a professional stance; go for it kid, we want to see your work grow too. Getting a small volume published with us is the best incentive to do better for a second, and a third, and before you know it... you'll be amazed at what you've accomplished.
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~MistPower101 Jan 24, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Can my Gashu-Group mascot fanart be put into the group? [link]
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damn there should be a proper message reminder thing on this Group Stuff. Sorry for the lateness XD submitted now anyway
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~MistPower101 Mar 4, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
XD It's alright! Thanks!
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~MistPower101 Dec 22, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I was wondering about a few things, and I was thinking that Gashu-Group could help...

I noticed in various mangas that there were bonus pages, and that there were the "bonus boxes/panels" on the bottom of a page or on the side, like the one at the beginning of Demon Catchers chapter two.

Is there a set number of pages between the "bonus boxes/panels", or a set number of how many can be in a chapter or a manga's wholesome?

As for the bonus pages, I've noticed mangas that have all of the bonus pages at the end of the volume, but I've also noticed mangas with the bonus pages spread throughout the whole manga.

Is there a set way or layout that the bonus pages in a manga have to be put in or presented in?

This may sound a little.... silly, I guess, but is there a verbal/non-verbal requirement for a manga to have bonus pages and/or the "bonus boxes/panels" at all?

Or is the amount of the bonus pages and "bonus boxes/panels" or where they're at in the manga just however the creator of the manga feels like having it?

Thank you for your time, I was just curious, and I was checking into it so I wouldn't accidentally mess up the layout of the manga I'm making or the pages or something... ^^;
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=Thaylien Jan 24, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
It's exactly as the creator wishes. With big series where there's lots of experimentation into the characters beforehand or lots of different cuts of the same scene (different angles and so on), or even just potential costume changes, many like to include them so that their readers can see how their thought processes work.

The ones scattered throughout the books are often referred to as 'Eye-catch' pages, much like those little bits of animation in the middle of anime episodes that show them where to go to advert breaks, they're there to both break up monotony and also to provide page breaks between important events. I was planning on throwing in a few in-progress pages at the end of Haven, but I might change that for just colour concept art or something.

Another thing that artists like to do is put in characters from their other series or stories that they've never got around to publishing, or have finished with, so that they can comment on the manga in little 4-koma strips. It's not common, but it's there for consideration. If it were me, I'd put in Haven a strip or two featuring Thaylien and Ireyah talking about the story so far, and Thaylien getting beaten for stupid comments.

In short; You can put lots or none, it's entirely up to you :floating:
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~MistPower101 Jan 24, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Okay, thank you ^^
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`Gashu-Monsata Aug 10, 2010  Student Digital Artist
OMFG I did a random search on Google of my name, and this group came up! Awesome! :la:

What exactly is Gashu anyways? O.o I thought I randomly made it up :P
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=Thaylien Sep 11, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Big Tony said it first, but the About Us tells you everything ^^

I believe the literal translation for Gashu is something like 'comic', because that's what we do! Visit our forums (link on the About Us) and visit the Read Online section to see some of the awesome works already published by our Group.
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