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Manga Monday: The Power Of Focus

Without focus, your story becomes scattered. With focus, your visuals become a language in themselves.

Letting Imagination Take the Lead:

When gestures take on meaning and stories begin to write themselves through the art...you know you've arrived on page five.

07.21.25 11:23 AM - Comment(s)

cosmicsmashbooking

By Mark R Northcott

A Cosmic Smash Book starts with a simple sketchbook or composition notebook that is transformed into a sacred space to connect to the self and our unconscious.

07.17.25 06:08 PM - Comment(s)

For this week’s Manga Monday Sketch Blog, the first page in the 8 Pages of Sketchbooking is the most essential place to focus for students looking to learn where to start and what to draw when beginning their first manga.

07.17.25 04:50 PM - Comment(s)

Manga Monday:

By Mark R Northcott

Welcome back, Sketch Book Artists,

Each Monday, we dive deeper into the process of bringing imagination to life through manga—and this week, we’re entering one of the most powerful stages in your creative journey: Page 3 – Clarification.

If Page 1 was Observation, and Page 2 was Application, then Page...

07.07.25 09:51 AM - Comment(s)

Fold Your Own Mini-Comic: Part 1

By Mark R Northcott

Click here for mini-comic format video on Part 1 of folding your own mini-comic format sheet.

07.02.25 12:13 PM - Comment(s)

✍️Manga Monday SketchBlog

By Mark R Northcott

Great! Let’s dive into this week’s Manga Monday Sketch Blog, continuing the same energetic and multi-dimensional format from last week — with our emphasis now shifting toward Page 2 of the Eight Pages of Sketchbooking: Application.

07.01.25 08:41 AM - Comment(s)

✍️ Manga Monday: Page 1 of Sketchbooking

By Mark R Northcott

Here's a full-length Manga Monday Sketch Blog written for the beginner Mangaka — exploring Page 1 of the 8 Pages of Sketchbooking, inspired by Yama (the first limb of yoga).

06.23.25 10:14 AM - Comment(s)