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Biography Part 2

Biography

Eiichiro Oda

Eiichiro Oda's Workstation

What does Oda use to make his art?

Comic Artist

Born January 1, 1975 in Kumamoto City, Kumamoto Prefecture in Japan.

Pencils in conjunction with erasers and an art gum eraser to fix errors.

G-pen, Maru Pen, and sharp refillable pens for inking; uses white ink to make corrections.

Oda met Chiaki Inaba who was cosplaying as one of his characters, Nami in 2002; they started dating a while after. They married in 2004, and had a daughter in 2006.

He also uses copic markers to color pages, and sometimes watercolor.

This is Kumamon,

Kumamoto Prefecture's mascot. He is known as Japan's most popular bear.

In 1992, he released Wanted, starting his manga career at the age of 17.

In 1994, he left college as a freshman.

Created his first and most successful manga, One Piece in 1997 at the age of 22.

Presented by Jonathan C. Hermosura Jr.

Note: I like to be thorough. When I remember to do my work, at least.

Art 125: Drawing II

When One Piece first started, Oda was worried about how his art style would be received; he thought that his art style would deter many people from reading his manga.

Made on November 3, 2015.

And yet he keeps his art clean. Then again, I assume many artists have messy desks. Heck, I got a messy desk too.

Best viewed at an aspect ratio of 16:9.

Process: Part 3 - Damn, that's weird.

Process: Part 1 - Black and White

Process: Part 2 - Black, white, and some grey.

Here it is in its entirety, yo.

Why does Eiichiro Oda keep making his work?

When it comes to painting, Oda has a preference for using black, as opposed to graytones, making nearly all of his art black and white. The only times when he actually DOES use graytones is when he makes special effects (e.g. shadows, dramatic scenes, a scene that takes place in the dark, an underwater panel).

Aside from it being his job, why does he do what he does? What's his motivation?

One Piece is well-known for having a super weird art style, with really bizarre and extreme character designs. Proportions for certain characters are purposely strange and goofy (or relevant to the story). Exaggerated, over-the-top facial expressions are a staple of One Piece.

" To this day, I've never truly felt pressure about becoming successful. I always try to stay focused on making manga for just a single audience, because in most circumstances, you read manga by yourself. So whenever I draw manga, I have only one reader in mind -- myself as a 15-year old. I have no idea how other people would feel, so I turn back to the 15-year old me to make a judgement on what is awesome or not. I always try to stay true to myself, and somehow it resonates with the kids who read my manga."

*Could not find a better resolution*

For context, he's part of the Long Arm Tribe (two elbow joints). Also, he could turn his body into pretty much any musical instrument.

There's humans down there.

Enel.

Let's see. Lego stuff, what seems to be a jukebox, a lava lamp, art materials all over the place, a bunch of figures, a "DANGER! HIGH VOLTAGE! KEEP OUT!" sign, etc.

The proportions are nuts, but consistent throughout the series.

Mohmoo, a literal sea cow.

Note the cross-hatching.

Here's Eiichiro Oda's art.

Why did ya pick this guy?

Interesting Facts: There's other stuff.

Why is This Person Important?

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Oda sleeps only 2-3 hours a day.

All of ya people know how indecisive I am, so ya can safely guess that it took me an unnecessarily long time to choose an artist. There were a bunch of options for me to choose from, so many options. I spent way too many a day overthinking and not actually doing anything.

Oda has such an unusual art style, but somehow made his manga the best-selling manga series in history, with over 345 million copies of One Piece sold as of 2015. And One Piece only came out in 1997.

His favorite real pirate is Blackboard (Edward Teach).

Title: "Declaration of War"

Title: Color spread for "Chapter 526: Adventure in the Great Prison"

Date created: July 19, 2008

Here's a comparison of it and other best-selling comic series (as of 2015):

"Shigenori Soejima? The guy who currently does the art for the Persona series? Barely. Any. Translated. Interviews."

He has a near-life size giraffe statue in his house.

Date created: December 22, 2008

Medium: G-pen, Maru Pen, Copic markers, Muse Manuscript Paper

"Dark Souls artists? Nope. Too obscure, not enough info. They're all in-house artists."

*Onimusha series*

Medium: G-pen, Maru Pen, Copic markers, Muse manuscript paper (you're gonna see these a lot)

#1: Superman; 600+ million; started in 1938.

"Joakim Sandberg's art is real nice lookin'. This sounds like a good option."

Dimensions: B4 size paper; 9.8 x 13.9 inches

His avatar is a fish head stuck to a human body.

*Shadow of the Colossus*

"Soul Calibur artist/artists. Hmmm... Maybe."

Dimensions: B4 size paper; 9.8 x 13.9 inches

#2: Batman; 460+ million; started in 1939.

*Hitman series*

"Hayao Miyazaki? Nah, too obvious. His art style holds up pretty darn well though."

He's a fan of Eminem, Quentin Tarantino, and Tim Burton.

#3: Spider-Man; 360+ million; started in 1962

(I'm sure you people know where most of my artistic preferences reside by now.)

#4: One Piece; 345+ million; started in 1997.

"Yo! I'll do the No More Heroes artist! Nope, also too obscure."

*Genndy Tartakovsky*

Note: Nearly all of these color spreads tend to show the protagonists doing a thing or wearing a thing. For the most part, these color spreads are the only things (in color) I can find with reasonably accurate dates.

He thinks digital manga is fine, as long as the flow of the

panels remain intact.

Note: My gut tells me that the dimensions are probably way bigger than what I could find on good ol' Google; I'm probably wrong though. Also, I just learned that the term for these things is "Color Spread".

"Takehito Harada? I'll think about it.

Before starting One Piece, Oda planned the story from the beginning to the end. This unusual way of making a story allows said story to be very modular and helps reduce

the occurence of plotholes. He creates/plans important parts of the story several weeks before he actually gets to them.

*John R. Dilworth*

"The first 4 Silent Hills' art look pretty good! Maybe I'll-... Nope, really hard to find info."

Fourth place is mighty impressive in my opinion, considering how late it came out compared to the other comics.

"I could do Yoji Shinkawa, I do like those watercolor paintings. Not. Enough. Info.

*ZUN (maybe not)*

When he first started, he thought One Piece would end after 5 years.

*Tetsuya Nomura*

I do realize that the date these were released is probably not the date these were created.

"Okay. Um... I guess Eiichiro Oda will do. He's got a peculiar art style and he's really successful too. He's also got a ton of interviews."

Also, he earns 2 Billion yen ($25 million US) a year from royalties related to One Piece.

BINGO.

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Title: Whitebeard from "Chapter 551: Yonko Whitebeard"

Title: Shichibukai - Color spread for

"Chapter 532: Jailor Beast Minotaurus"

Date created: July 27, 2009

Title: Ryuma from "Chapter 450: General Zombie Night

Title: Crocodile from "Chapter 557: Luffy and Whitebeard"

Title: Ryugyu Palace from "Chapter 612: Brought by the Shark They Saved"

Date created: April 2, 2007

Date created: February 16, 2009

Date created: September 19, 2009

Medium: G-pen, Maru pen, Copic markers Muse manuscript paper

Medium: G-pen, Maru pen, Copic markers, Muse manuscript paper

Date created: January 31, 2011

Medium: G-pen, Maru pen, Copic markers, Muse manuscript paper

Dimensions: B4 size paper; 9.8 x 13.9 inches

Medium: G-pen, Maru pen, Copic markers, Muse manuscript paper

Dimensions: B4 size paper; 9.8 x 13.9 inches

Note: As you can see, some of the art I chose comes from panels in the manga. The only title I can really give is what is being shown. I'm sure you people already know that.

The Japanese word "hige" can either mean moustache or beard.

Note: Yo. This chapter was released on my birthday. A trivial thing, but fun to mention regardless.

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Title: Color spread for "Chapter 310: Groggy Ring!!"

Date created: February 16, 2004

Title: Color spread for "Chapter 464: Sanji's Dream"

Title: Bartholomew Kuma from "Chapter 473: Royal Shichibukai, Bartholomew Kuma Appears"

Medium: G-pen, Maru pen, Copic markers Muse manuscript paper

Date created: October 6, 2007

Date created: July 23, 2007

Dimensions: B4 size paper; 9.8 x 13.9 inches

Medium: G-pen, Maru pen, Copic markers, Muse manuscript paper

Dimensions: B4 size paper; 9.8 x 13.9 inches

Note: Jeez, I wonder how long it took to draw and color that armor?

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