chiharu_j
Chiharu J
tapastic.com/series/kami-element
Heya all
Art enthusiast here, how'd you do? All the way from sunny South Africa. I like anime illustration, music, writing basically anything art related as I've mentioned. Feel free to drop me a line any time and check out my comic too 
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I know topics tend to get very busy here on tapas so I'm just bumping this up a bit for more people to see since quite a few people are always looking background tips. Thanks to those viewed it already, I hope it was helpful.
No problem at all, it's always a pleasure being able to share skills with people. I actually used to hate backgrounds and now I love them.
It's a pleasure! Hopefully it'll be of some help.
FOLIAGE TUTORIAL (click to open) Heya everybody, creator of Kami Element here. I feel like it's been a hot minute since I've been here on Tapas. I've recently done a little tutorial on doing foliage and basically nature type scenes especially when it comes to comics but you can use this technique …
Well it's winter where I am lol but I really like your selection has quite a bitof what I'm listening to as well like Gorillaz etc but right I'm loving y girl Shekhinah and all her music. The other things are anime OSTS and if I'm really feeling nostalgic Hoobastank and Breaking Benjamin. …
Don't worry about it too much as everyone has been saying, t takes patience which we honestly sometimes don't have or we've been for so long that we run out of it lol but yeah just wait and have a regular schedule. I'm also trying to get back to regular updating since I took a bit of a hiatus so num…
Welcome to Tapas!!! Hopefully you'll have a great time here and of course hopefully gain more subs for your work.
This is adorable, welcome to Tapas. Hope you Enjoy this community, there are some great people on here. Oh let mee introduce myself, Chiharu-J, creator of Kami Element. Nice to meetcha!
My gosh, your art is lovely. That's definitely a sub from me. Here's one of the pages from this month's update after a long hiatus. I'm glad Kami Element is back on track. [image]
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Some interesting works on here 
Well the latest thing I've done is a Day 12 Inktober drawing most definitely inspired by Ghost in the shell. I'm getting back to my comic slowly after a six month hiatus.
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Hi guys, it's me again, creator of the comic Kami Element and as you can see by the title I'm making a new thread for comics under 50 subs with a couple of rule changes and besides the other thread is kinda old and I can't edit it anymore. So this time I won't put up the list in the main thread. I g…
Heya, welcome to our crazy world of sleepless nights and lots of ink digital or traditional lol anyway here's my Twitter
Joining in on the shameless plug 
I have a general tumblr where I try to post my finished illustrations.
Please check out my tumblr
Thank for starting this thread @margottoro. I didn't have a lot of time this year to do illustrations and I probably could have done much better but here's my main character in an illustration. Her name is Scarlet, the MC of my comic Kami Element [image]
Did someone say runway? This is a really cool thread, nice to see designs of other people's MCs, thanks for starting the thread @wander_creature I'll be sure to check your comics out. @WhatAHero Sam looks like the type of character I'd like, just love guys like that Presenting my MC, Scarlet fro…
It can save as PSD, png, jpeg and a few other formats I can't remember
New pages you say, one of the latest pages from Kami Element [image]
@lukas3 Well I've never really used illustrator for inking comics specifically, quite honestly I just like using Clip Studio because everything is already there and I don't have to switch around to different programs except when I have to use photoshop at the end. But I don't know each to their own 
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Hi there For inking I primarily use the g-pen and then the mapping pen for fine lines, of course you need o experiment and see what's best for you and how you can spice up a page by using a particular style. As for getting it relatively smooth, having a graphic tablet really helps and working wi…
Well I know everyone has kinda said it already but welcome to Tap, hopefully you'll have a great time here and your comic looks beautiful by the way
I actually just redid the cover of my comic Book 1 of Kami Element
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You have to adjust the Area Scaling and Color Margin on the wand tool in order to make sure that they are adjusted to appropriate values so as ro select the whole area without leaving any white spaces then that way you fill to your heart's content
Right now it's most definitely Complicated by Avril Lavigne. I was having a throwback day music wise even though it's Tuesday lol
Whoa haven't plugged in quite a while. Thank you for the thread. My comic is Kami Element Almost done with the first chapter [image] *"Rekai, Ningenkai, Makai, Mekai. The four worlds that exist parallel to each other, are kept in balance by the four elements and certain individuals." No one know…
I get doubtful feelings a lot. Most of the time I just feel as if I'm not good enough, I literally just look at my art and my comic and just want to delete everything. I'm not a super emotional person but when those thoughts come up I feel so upset and I don't even know what to do with myself. Rec…
Whoa, well that would be an interesting experience. My entire comic world is divided into different worlds but at the same there are lots of not so nice elements that trickle into each world from another. So while it would be interesting meeting beast people, shapeshifters, and demons (i.e supernatu…
Most definitely #ComicTalk and #webcomicchat. They are the best for networking discussions and they're always fun and interesting. Twitter is actually a great place for comic creators 
I actually quite love doing the inking, I don't know but I just do. Sure it can get frustrating but I've done so much inking not only for comic that it's just another thing to do now of course there'll be time when you "why the hell did I even imagine this panel" lol like one of my latest pages,
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I love manga but I like the more unconventional stories when it comes down to it, sometimes the typical stories they portray in eastern comics do get a bit annoying but other than that, I read more manga than I do the usual comics. My comic is also in mnaga style since it is read right-to-left and a…
ooooooh I just started my Instagram but I'll be really active on there, I'll be adding some of you guys too I'm here @chiharu_studio