Hello artists/comics/Webtoons-loving people! I'm Sophia and my artist friend is Kirin, and we're looking for an Avengers squad team of people with very special abilities.
An artist recently approached me and asked to make a Webtoons together. We need people to do: background/ rough sketching/ and text placement if they want to join our artist team. (We'll come up with a team name on the way. No, not Avengers, that's copyrighted).
I wrote a script for a movie about a mentor-mentee relationship (think Merlin and a wizarding apprentice/ a buddy-cop movie with the gruff detective and the wide-eyed newbie kid/ or a knight and his squire).
CHARACTERS
THE GIGOLO: Most definitely pansexual.
THE APPRENTICE: Son of the city’s main Yakuza crime family. Closeted bi.
TITLE: THE GIGOLO'S APPRENTICE (title's a WIP if need be).
IDEA: The son of an organized crime leader is a bad lover, but a good fighter. But, when his father asks him to kill somebody, he can't follow through with it. Instead, he runs into an infamously flirtatious male gigolo and begs to join a life of oh-so-awkward loving' as a gigolo trainee. But how does one live a life of old-fashioned immorality when on the run from, not the law, but crime itself?
GENRE: Romantic comedy.
DRAWING STYLE: Anime
TLDR: We need artists to make a Webtoons. We're all kids just doing this for free, because do it for the lols.
1) Backgrounds
2) Rough sketches
3) Text placement if you can also do that.
Contact me with art samples if you're interested! EMAIL: sophiemnovak@gmail.com
Let's make a comic together.
Script preview of Episode 1:
Page 1 (8 panels)
Panel 1
Wide, top down exterior view of a well-dressed young man, KAI, walking down a darkened street at night. One hand in his suit jacket pocket, the other free. Rain pours down his wide-brimmed hat.
Caption
My name is Inoue Kaito. Everybody calls me Kai.
Panel 2
Medium interior view of a male silhouette from the back, lying on the ground, slumped over. Kai holds a gun languidly, staring at the rows of picture frames on the desk.
Caption
Inoue. It means above the well or mine shaft. It’s fitting, really, considering we’re Yakuza. Above the lowest of the low. Kings of crap. That’s us.
Panel 3
Medium, close up of the beaten man. Pleading for his life.
Caption
He was my initiation. Kill a rat. Prove myself to my father.
BEATEN MAN
"Please, please don’t. I have a family! My wife’s dead. They have no one.”
Panel 4
Medium close up of KAI, looking at a photograph of the beaten man, whole and smiling with his arm around two little girls. A woman at the back of the photograph, a mere shadow.
Caption
It’s almost too late when I realize I don’t want to do this. Don’t want to kill this man.
Panel 5
A handsome Latino man, ANGEL, older than Kaito, walks out of the bathroom, fresh out the shower. Dressed in nothing but a towel and clutching a wad of dollar bills. Reapplying some makeup.
Caption
A male prostitute? Who in the fu—?
ANGEL
“Darling, what a night. I’m afraid I’m going to have to go now though. My next client’s in five minutes. Wait… Who are you?”
BEATEN MAN
“Angel! Get out of here. You don’t need to see this.”
Panel 6
Angel, hands on his hips. Towel’s dropped, view from the top-up. Kai, furiously blushing, levels the gun at the newcomer.
KAI
“Move, and I’ll shoot.”
Panel 7
Angel dances a little. Kai gets increasingly uncomfortable.
Caption
Serves me right. My first job and this clown messes it up. But… I couldn’t help but wonder…
ANGEL
“Oh, like this?”
Panel 8
Medium close-up of Angel, gently smiling. Looking radiant with a halo of light behind him, holding his hand out for Kai to take.
ANGEL
“You don’t really want to do this do you?”
Caption
Was this the sign I was looking for, that I could leave Inoue and the Yakuza life behind me forever?
Artist Commitment:
10 x 10
10 panels per page, 10 pages for our first season.
One page uploaded to Webtoons a week.