Peace and welcoming, CEO, going on our family. Today I'm going to be speaking about why I enjoy studying Apple Black. And what Apple Black is, it's a, it's American-shownin manga that helped influence me as a comic artist when I was starting out. So if you guys don't know, the creator of Apple Black is a Dune-Sae, also known as White Manga, and he's an indie comic artist from Nigeria. And what amazes me about this author is that a Dune-Sae along his earlier journey had an understanding of, you know, advanced poses and anatomy. And as he continued on, he just got better. And so, you know, you can see the improvement from, you know, value and want the two, etc. And, you know, he's also made other earlier works like Candle Jack. You didn't like see that's like the much earlier version. So, and so a Dune-Sae's art style is semi-realism, which is closer to realism. And another reason why I enjoy studying his art is because the artist, a Dune-Sae, he uses multiple different camera angles and at the same time keeping track of anatomical proportions. So, like keeping track of the while he's changing the camera angles, the anatomical proportions are correct. So, as I scroll through the first chapter here, you can see how the artist is using just multiple different camera angles to convey the page. And so, yeah, we'll just come here and you can just see how everything is being incorporated. Now, I feel that once you have, if you're an intermediate artist and you have an understanding of constructing the human body, and yeah, constructing the human body, knowing the proportions, and like constructing the human body, and it's a basic shape such as using cylinders and whatnot, you'll have an easier time to understand and decipher how people make the pose the way they make the pose. And not only that, you'll have anatomical references of knowing where things go. So, a quick example is right here. And so, a quick example right here for one of his characters, there was this pose that I didn't understand because, you know, I didn't understand a pose. So, what I did was I used the basic construction of the human body. I used a cylinder shape just to understand the blueprint of how this pose was made. And so, I just drew over the character just to see how everything came about. And then, you can see how, you know, there was a little foreshortening coming into play, the cylinder is shrinking. And you can see how, like, the bottom legs, the bottom half of the leg isn't really showing here. But by doing this, you can just, once you have like a fundamentals of constructing the human body, you can start to study how different poses are made. Just so you can have it embedded into your visual library. And so, another reason why I enjoy studying it is because the artist uses multiple different props as well, like glasses and bats, you know, like, right here. And you can also go online and find like, several different images on different props, different props with different poses. And so, not only that he uses a different props, he also uses a different facial features. For example, I know that there are some of his characters don't have eyebrows like her. And, you know, this sees her. And like, how sees her's eyebrows is kind of, it's more closer towards the forehead as opposed to the near the eye, if that makes sense. For people that understand the facial proportions. And one of his characters has like a fancy stroke on their eyebrows. It's very subtle. But they have this fancy stroke on their eyebrows. So, normally it will take like two eyebrows, two strokes to make an eyebrow. But you can just see how fancy the stroke of the eyebrow is. It takes like three strokes as opposed to the normal two. And you can see how this eyebrows end here. It's like going up, you know. So, yeah, this is a little, it's very subtle. And, you know, every wise eyebrows are different. As he's using different facial features, he's keeping track of the soft facial features. And the facial features with a lot of muscular anatomy. You know, there are a lot of tough, strong facial features. For example, the way a soft nose looks as opposed to a strong looking nose looks. You know, he uses multiple different things. So, I feel when you study realism, you start to notice all these subtle nuances the author or the artist makes. And so, that can, you know, translate well into semi-realism when you're studying realism. And so, you know, there are some books I also recommend like Dynamic Drawing. And YouTubers for anatomy that I recommend like Pro-Kro and Alphonse-O-Don. And so, at the same time, as we're studying realism and as we're studying several different artists, we should also keep in mind to, as we're learning, we should also experiment on our own, you know, make different things, change things up, etc. So, I've also looked into, you know, the one-piece style and I'll have examples of that up in the screen above here. And you'll be able to see that there's a blend going on. And then, you know, some inspirations from Apple Black. And at the same time, there's also a blend of, you know, various other different series, like one piece here, like the crime that you see here and, you know, the eyes, you know, and whatnot. And so, Apple Black was awesome. And the ending of volume two was really intense. And you can start to see the storytelling aspects being put into play. And so, as you're seeing the storytelling aspects, you can see the, before shortening, that takes play in volume one, which you can see translates well into what happened in the intense ending of volume two. And so, you know, it's worth studying for, you know, art wise and storytelling wise as well. I'll have a link to a Dunezé's channel below. And yeah, white manga also knows why I'm on it. But yeah. And so, thanks for tuning in. If you enjoyed videos like this, feel free to leave a like and subscribe, you know, support the support helps.