Taido404 (Author/Artist)

Taido404 is the artist of Gun Wounds and one of it's authors alongside Bleakeas (Author).

## Private Life

Taido is a male artist working on Gun Wounds since the beginning of the project, he is French as well but most of his private life is unknown and kept secret the same way as Bleakeas'. He uses the pronouns he/him and rather uses his artist name to be referred by.

He is Bleakeas' childhood friend and chose to join her project in the very beginning.

## Works

Taido404's works are available online on his Instagram and Twitter. Before working seriously on Gun Wounds with Bleakeas, he worked on Scary Murderer (Bleakeas' first project) and a few of his arts were used for YouTube videos still available online on Scary Murderer Official channel.

Apart from these two works, it appears that he's also working on his own manga as a single mangaka/author but no official arts got released yet from him.

### Gun Wounds' Adventure

Taido404 joined the project after Bleakeas asked him to be a part of it but the mix of their talent was quite unexpected. They didn't think this story would go as far as it is now. He says:

*"I was really glad and invested in this story! The main speech really got me, I was very interested on how the story would turn out. It gave me the envy of putting many ideas in the story, give it a personal touch. At first sight, I thought that her story had a good potential but in my opinion, it wasn't exploited enough. Then **I chose to enrich the story with brand new ideas to make it complete**."*

His first impressions about the main characters when Bleakeas told him about Gun Wounds were quite different. At first, she only created a few characters on her own but she was considering only two of them as main characters then. He says:

*"**I loved Michael Blake's character** because the way she explained his role to me really got me-- but **I also thought that it wasn't enough**. He's cool and all but I judged that his past could be more expanded, explored with various deep ideas. As for Roméo Grriatz, I didn't feel close to him in the beginning, he felt so similar to us that I wasn't inspired to give him a deep background as Michael's. That's why I left the creation of Roméo to Bleakeas."*

When the plot was settled and the main characters fully chosen, it was about time to draw their designs. About that, Taido404 has his way of picturing the future designs in his mind. He says:

*"I base my idea of the characters on their personality, with what Bleakeas tells me about them. When I first drew Michael, **it's like he was destined to be like that**. That's exactly how we saw him in our mind based on his personality and mood. It was the same for Ally Spellman for example. Because she was that type of girl, **I managed to describe her as I felt she would be**."*

However, when it comes to the queer part of the story, his impressions are completely different and he was rather new to all this. He says:

*"[...]**I'm not a big fan of Yaoi nor BL I must say**. It's all new to me as it is for Bleakeas. I never thought of creating such story but I must admit that I really like it now that I'm familiarized with the atmosphere. That being said, I didn't wanted to add much queer characters, I felt it would be too much and it would've been too unrealistic to me. **In reality, there's no such things**; queer people aren't all proud of themselves to the point of showing off their sexuality to the world and that would have been so wrong to have turned every character as queers, **I didn't want that**."*

If we leave apart the queer content, Taido404 wants this story to be realistic and true. No unrealistic parts nor fantasy things. He says:

*"Through the stories and characters of Gun Wounds, I want to shed a light on real casual problems: lies. Everybody lies but **it does not mean that a lie is exclusively bad or good**. Everyone has secrets and that's how it is, I want this story to show to the readers and viewers a part of our society that is present in every country."*

In the end, this whole project changed a lot Taido's skills in drawing and even helped him to overcome some issues he was facing with his old style. He says:
*"Thanks to this project, **I have to work a lot more on my drawings than before**-- I mean seriously working. I mostly draw women on my own but having to draw grown men with various physical features is a good challenge for me that I try to achieve everyday. Also, **I can see an obvious progression in my drawing skills** since I started because Gun Wounds pushes me to search for new coloration methods or tutorials to draw precise things."*

## Social Medias

Taido404 is quite active on his social media as well. Here's a couple of his favorite ones;

Instagram: @nikou404

Twitter: Taido404

But more important, you can follow his works on MyReadingManga, MangaPark, Global Comix, Bentomanga and even Mangago!

## Taido404's Signature

This is the official signature of Taido404 that he created himself and that he uses in official and published works online.