Mana/vusc

purifyweirdshard Vusc requested we not focus on her art just yet. Of course I was going nuts for it and so was my wife when we looked over Vucs' art. When I get the money I want to buy her Art Book.

I will let Mana explain about why we didn't link the art, but notice that the podcast doesn't give a last name and doesn't call her by Vusc. The only way anyone would have known they were the same person was Googling her full name revealed in the update or doing some research on her forum profile user name and email address.

Personally, I hope we can reap the benefits of having such a talented artist as our CM. I designed the Cursed theme and I'm just a hack. Imagine what we could do if we can convince Vusc to make a theme?!

Oh God... That would make this forum so amazing and, in my opinion, would be a great way to show you how hard work pays off. 
 We have all the informations thanks to you after all ! That's something that has to be said at least once.

I understand about Vusc and her art anyway. Surely, it is a great pleasure to see our Community Manager knows what art is all about.

Wow... she is SO talented. I'm now hoping she'll do at least something art related for the game in the future in addition to her community roles. It would be such a crying shame to have this kind of talent on board and not use it.

Aw thank you guys ;-;. I just didn't want people to think I came here to promote my art. But I'm really happy people took the time to look! I hope my art can come to use on the forums or perhaps in the future games.

Future games got me Id like 5 more times if I could

Haha you found my website. I'm not allowed to post couple of the works
For Lord of Vermilion, I drew two cards - Fuma Kotaro （風磨小太郎） and Seldid （sp? セルディッド）. Both of them are LoV's original characters.

Art and music is really subjective and takes a lot of time to make. The hard reality is that it's too costly to hire an "artist."

Lets say a company pays their employees $4k per month to work 5 days a week. An artist might take up to 5 days to complete a full drawn piece. That means the company would have to pay that person $1k to make one drawing ($200 per day). To a company it's much cheaper to pay a freelance artist $600 for a similar piece. This is just an example and may only be a thing in Japan.

What a Japanese game company wants from an artist is someone who is willing to adjust their style to their liking, as well as someone who can draw many different things (people, landscapes, animals, buildings, etc.) instead of someone who can draw one thing amazingly. It may take an artist up to 3 years for a director/producer to let them do the concept art for a new game (building trust and communication skills). You'd be surprised how many talented freaks artists there are who can both draw and have other skills like make 3D models or code.

So lets say if IGA wanted to hire an artist, loads of artists who specialize in gothic style will apply to his place. He wouldn't want that, he wants someone who can draw variety.
When I was eating dinner with him during PAX, he asked me "Hey, can you draw a character that has a similar vibe to Pikachu?" and I was like.....Wha...? But he was just testing me (completely unrelated to Bloodstained).

In my case, IGA simply didn't need to hire an artist. These are probably the reasons why I was hired:
- Speak and understand both Japanese & English
- Willing to move to another country. 
- Familiar with his games and games in general
- Draw (It's a plus)
- Generally not a terrible person (I hope)

PS. I'm excited for the donuts.

Oh I can totally understand where she's coming from D:. My friends also work on adult comics and other odd jobs to get by. I just stayed at my family's house and saved up doing couple of freelance jobs.

I still have idealistic thoughts even though I know that realistically it's not possible haha. Why can't we draw what we like and make decent living! That kind of stuff. It's a hit or miss just as you mentioned.

Seriously your art is perfect for the series going forward. I hope you become involved down the line, lot of beautiful works you have.

To be an illustrator you really have to love what you do, as the pay tends to be shit, finding a steady job is incredibly hard and you get treated like dirt by the employers.

A lot of illustrators put all their chips on making it big and focus only on their art. Unfortunately, the majority ends up having to either take a minimum wage job to support their desired career or end up falling in the "adult" sector.
The latter scenario seems to be the more likely outcome nowadays as a porn artist earns 4 times the amount a "normal" artist does in Japan (on average). Meanwhile, illustrators outside of Japan are resorting to commissions and things like Patreon(spelling?).
I can only imagine how devastated some of the artists are when they have to resort to these kinds of methods to survive... I mean, you live in hope of becoming a famous illustrator and end up making masturbation aids.
Perverted artists who actually want to draw that stuff are not taken into consideration here, of course.

That little digression aside, you have some lovely work there Mana Manager. I hope to see more art from you soon!