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Do you still feel like having a relationship, Dan?

Nah. Even if everything else where in place, there are just too many costs and not enough benefits. Actually, I consider myself lucky -- I have something I'm crazy about that fills my days and I live in relative peace and comfort. Now with this one last thing out the window I can focus on comics even more seriously.
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Dan, you seems to be a nice guy. Have you ever dated someone?

I am terrible, and terribly boring.
Actually, Miss Orange Dress invited me over for Christmas and she visited Montreal over the summer... but we don't talk anymore. She's getting close to 30 and looking to settle and I have nothing on my plate to offer. Her friends are marrying doctors, STEM PhDs and tech startup millionaires and I'm just drawing cartoon butts. And frankly, when it comes down to it, I'll choose the cartoon butts over her (or anyone else) a hundred times out of a hundred. Deleted from facebook, purged from email, goodbye forever.
I've looked around Montreal a bit, too, but it's clear that I'm not going to bring anything positive into anyone's life and anyone who intrudes into my life and steals my comic time will only earn my resentment. That's the truth, so that's that.
Looks like it's 1P from here on out!

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Who would you want to voice Cupcake if an anime somehow happened?

Man, hard to say. Maybe Mai Aizawa (Mio [Nichijou], Edea [Bravely Default])? Really, I have no idea.
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Back when you were an naive young teenager, how comfortable were you with watching girly anime like Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura?

I've always thought that was a stupid thing to worry about, even as a little kid. No one bothered me about it anyway since I was loner in the first place and always did my own thing.

Do you think there's an age to start drawing? Or can anyone learn to draw no matter their age?

Like learning an instrument, younger is probably better, but -- just like learning an instrument -- you can start at any age. None of us will be Picasso or Liszt anyway, so just work hard and enjoy. : >

What do you call it when you have absolute territory level thigh-highs, but the butt is exposed? Cupcake sorta has half-this, and a more classic example would be Motoko Kusanagi's Stand Alone Complex character design.

Forbidden Territory?

"Also the character designs for non-imported characters are universally TERRIBLE." Was there some exaggeration there or does this also apply to MGNQ original designs? (How much should I be crying?)

Don't cry too much. ;w; Even a Touhou design can be made acceptable with enough people picking away at the problem... ...

Where do you pull your poses from when you grind? Completely without reference, just practicing figure construction?

Well, there are two ways I practice:
1) without ref, fast, to test what I can do and where problems are and test stuff out ... you could call this 'diagnosis'.
2) with ref, slow, carefully copying, modifying, breaking down ... you could call this 'treatment'.
For ref, I've mostly been using stuff from Japanese animators (You Yoshinari, Sushio, etc.) and looking at manga with good frame composition, also various game and anime art books... hmm... today, I've been looking at this tumblr @weee_desu tweeted out: http://amiamid.tumblr.com/
tumblr is actually pretty nice for art discovery.

Suppose a genie offers you a bargain. You gain the ability to create the most beautiful, thought-provoking art that ever was or will be. But in exchange, you go permanently, irrevocably, completely blind. You will never know the miracle of your own art. Do you accept?

I think the genie is offering a sham. The best art isn't like the highest mountain. The landscape of thought is boundless, shifting, and must be traversed on foot. The stamping of feet -- everyone's feet -- is just what gives the landscape its boundless, shifting, quality. It also the way we know the world.
The offer of a ride to the highest mountain in such a world isn't just scam, the very idea is incoherent.

If the person you loved would be happier and/or better off with someone else, would you want them to be?

Definitely, there's no way I can live with someone else. It'd be a situation ripe for abuse. Please go. I have my stupid cakebutt comics, you have the rest of your life.

Did you find it difficult to improve and/or motivate yourself during your earlier stages of drawing? If so, did you find it harder to enjoy drawing back then?

No, I was always a maniac about it. That's just the way I get into things -- if I like it, I'll go Monk Mode on it... seal myself up and work on just that. My little sister told me that once she came into my room to interrupt me while I was drawing (this was in about 7th grade or so) and I flipped out and yelled and threw stuff at her and then went back to drawing, even more intensely. I don't even remember, but that sort of thing was typical and has remained typical.
Now I live alone with no interruptions (except this twitter/ask feed). I'm okay with this.

Is carrot cake cake or not very cake? Does something become more cake if it is shaped like a butt? Can something be so cake that it stops being cake? A cake with pink frosting and a cake with sprinkles are both drowning. You can only save one. Which do you pick?

its a caekok but only a bc its carot a caek cant a cannot not on a caek ok
u can b a caek 2 muc so ur 2caek
#2cake is not a cek bc 1 is not a 2 stay in a sckoole
u can hav it both
soggy caek
yuk

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