Kyungil Yang

**Author**

* Return of the Broken Constellation

Kyungil Yang is known as the illustrator of **Island**, **Blade of the Phantom Master**, **Burning Hell**, and **Kangtawoo (Webtoon)**. He is known to work with Inwan Youn.

## Biography Summary

Nothing is quite known of Kyungil's personal life. He said that he lost a lot of weight while publishing Blade of the Phantom Master (probably the original version), but in a recent Naver Cast interview, nothing has changed. He said he enjoys playing League of Legends in his spare time. He has done a special lecture at YLAB academy at 2016.

## Career Background

Kyungil is quite known for his unique art style; his sharp and heavy drawing ability is one of the best in Korea among cartoonists, and he gained great popularity with his splendid and brutal directing that made good use of it. Many famous foreign illustrators, as well as various media outlets, have highly praised his skills. Such as Takehiko Inoue, author of Slam Dunk and Vagabond and Katushiro Otomo, author of Akira:

* Takehiko: 대단한 필력이다. 이 작가의 작품을 보는 순간 당신의 무의미한 선입견은 사라질 것이다/that's great writing As soon as you see this artist's work, your meaningless preconceptions will disappear.

* Katushiro: 양경일은 아시아의 국적과 국경을 가뿐하게 넘고 일본의 다른 만화들과 대등하게 대결하고 있다/Yang Kyung-il easily crosses Asian nationalities and borders and competes with other Japanese comics on an equal footing.

However, compared to his excellent drawing skills, his storytelling skills are rather poor, so he says that he has never received a good evaluation no matter how hard he puts together a continuity. In fact, he has written short stories of his own stories in Daewon-affiliated magazines several times in the past , but the prevailing opinion is that there is nothing to look forward to other than the pictures.

As an analogy, he is a manga artist in the same family as Takeshi Obata , so he always works with other story writers when publishing official serials. In particular , there are many times when he works in combination with Inwan Youn. In Match Story, he formed a duo with story writer Hyungmin Kim, but the result was not good. He published popular original Japanese writers Seven Moonshine and AREA-D, but the results were not good either. He once joined Ylab and entered Naver Webtoon, forming a duo with Yoon In-wan again, but now he left Ylab and belongs to FlexMind.

Around the time when Korean comics entered a dark period , they entered Japan and laid the foundation for other illustrators to advance to Japan. In particular, Blade of the Phantom Master, which was published simultaneously in Japan and Korea, received very high praise and was very popular, and a theatrical version was made in Japan.

At some point, he left YLAB.

## Superstring Work

### Island

It is unknown how did Kyung developed this webtoon in terms of illustration. Although it was praised of its illustration by others.

### Blade of the Phantom Master

#### Original

Of the original, although Kyungil never really revealed much of the illustration process, there were multiple drafts that shows his illustrations which were for the manhwa covers or Sunday GX covers. In addition, it was praised of its illustration by others. Such as Takehiko Inoue and Kastushiro Otomo.

During the Misty Mountains Arc, there wasn't much of historical references as he wanted to draw some cool fight scenes using Sando.

That said, in the original manhwa, he and Inwan Youn went to Shinjuku, Japan for the first time and live inside a hotel for Korean mangaka for free. They were excited and explored a bit but got bored as they went to the same place and couldn't go anywhere as they didn't know Japanese. One day, they went to meet a Japanese editor with Li-san, a translator, whom is an international student from Korea. As she was away, Kyungil decide to use phrases from Japanese porn to communicate which he didn't knew what they meant.

Revealed by the webtoon, there were many pages that were not used as commanded by the Japanese Editorial Department. Such as reducing 200 pages to 70. In addition, Munsu's death was decided from the beginning of the manhwa.

#### Webtoon

When it was reserialized as a webtoon, it is not particularlly clear if he had participated as the behind the scenes were explained by Inwan Youn.

That said, if he had join, it was revealed it took a year to manually remove the Japanese sound effects and reading from the paper manuscript, which was an analog work. Then it took more than two years to develop and work on the colors. Many other had joined in reading it (presumbably to see if it fits for a webtoon orientation), editing, and retouching lines.

### Burning Hell

It is unknown how did Kyung developed this webtoon in terms of illustration.

### Kangtawoo

It is unknown how did Kyung developed this webtoon in terms of illustration.

## Trivia

* On Aug 1, 2017, Kyung is featured illustrating in the official Ylab youtube account.
* According to the original BoTM, he has blood type O and is a fan of Virtual Fighter 4 with Sarah Bryant being his favorite character. He was also attempting to get a driver licence.
	+ However, he failed due a strict dead line. Had fail four test in one year.
* He holds the most works done for Super String as an illustrator. With four works (not including other involvements).
* Kyungil loves soccer video games but doesn't care for the real thing.
* Ever since Kyungil left YLABS, many Superstring fans want him to return to Superstring works.
* He ha sold his personal camera due to it getting in the way of work but he later regret it.

## Gallery

-와이랩 아카데미 드로잉쇼- 양경일 작가 편Kyungil's Drawing VideoOriginal BoTM HighlightsOriginal BoTM Image PictureOriginal BoTM Image Picture 2Full Gallery Page
## References

1. ↑ https://terms.naver.com/entry.naver?docId=3579530&cid=59121&categoryId=59121
2. ↑ https://www.inven.co.kr/webzine/news/?site=lol&news=57693
3. ↑ https://blog.naver.com/ylabacademy/220600099840
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 https://namu.wiki/w/%EC%96%91%EA%B2%BD%EC%9D%BC - Detail Section
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 https://namu.wiki/w/%EC%96%91%EA%B2%BD%EC%9D%BC - Evaluation Section
6. ↑ Shin Angyo Onshi, Ch. 4
7. ↑ Shin Angyo Onshi, Ch. 2
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Blade of the Phantom Master, Ep. 274
9. ↑ Shin Angyo Onshi, Ch. 3
10. ↑ Shin Angyo Onshi, Ch. 6
11. ↑ Shin Angyo Onshi, Ch. 12.6
12. ↑ https://namu.wiki/w/%EC%96%91%EA%B2%BD%EC%9D%BC - Digression Section
13. ↑ Shin Angyo Onshi, Ch. 7.5