ONE ART IMPROVEMENT!!! Here’s some things I noticed… head/face shape became rounder and more consistent (which i think is the most noticeable change), eyes slightly bigger, noses also seem bigger+more 3D, bodies more proportional, hair neater, lines smoother…
These are comparing faces from the earliest and latest chapters, but his art improved/changed a lot during the middle too of course…
I just… really had to add Reigen to this post because I feel like he’s the most noticeable example of improvement and I’m just so proud of ONE.
This is important I really wanna explain
There’s so much pressure to be better-than-great if you want
to pursue any kind of career. And that kind of hyper-perfectionist attitude burns
out so so many people who would otherwise want to try something but don’t feel worthy of even attempting.
And you know, ONE’s art right now isn’t typical manga
quality, but it’s good. It’s good and
it’s so amazing to me because of how visibly it’s improved. ONE is someone who
started with drawing skills you see on the left and said “fuck it” and wrote
manga because it’s something he wanted to do. And he’s improved so much through
constant practice.
I’ve seen posts talking about the professional manga remake
that One Punch Man has, as well as the brilliant animation that go into the OPM
and MP100 animes, and those are all incredible things. But it seems to brush
over the fact that ONE is still the one doing the front-running. He’s still
putting out the manga chapters for OPM and MP100.
I love the success and recognition ONE is getting. That’s
why I know about him to start. But all the brilliant and beautiful adaptations
aside, I love seeing reminders that ONE himself is still the one making his own
content, still improving, and still putting out an incredible story.
I’m honestly so proud of ONE.
Me too! It’s honestly really inspiring to me that someone just went for it and other people noticed it, gave him praise and recognition for it despite it not looking to be what others consider up to par or to play with the big leaguers. That almost NEVER happens and it’s really empowering to me that someone could really just do something because they enjoyed it and that ONE was really true to himself and I think that really shows.
Manga isn’t nearly as much about how aesthetically pleasing it looks as much as it’s about the characters, premise and heart. And people say that art is like a thumb print and it shows the creators heart. Like Oda (author of One Piece) has really stand out art and it’s aesthetically pleasing, but everything that makes One Piece fantastic is fueled by Oda’s heart and soul. Every detail and character is fueled by Oda’s passion. I’d say Naruto is a good example for a series that originally lost it’s vision and heart–likeable, but never the same after you could sense when Kishimoto stopped drawing it with his heart.
ONE’s art really has a wholistic soul to it. It really has depth and feeling and he picked the perfect genres to go with his Mangas as a carefree go-getter artist and that’s comedy. ONE seems to have a good comprehension of how silly the faces are that he draws and how to laugh along with the readers and you can really feel it when he draws something funny or writes a funny panel it’s because he also found it funny and was laughing at his own work.
I love ONE, very inspiring. Like the kinda guy I’d show my children as an example of how to carry yourself.
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