✏️I want to draw the atmosphere - Stories born from lonely times -

《Creation comes from lonely times》

Last time, I wrote an article titled
“The question of whether you can really reset your human relationships.”

⬇️This is that article❣️

I wrote about how a friend I used to hang out with frequently unilaterally reset our relationship.
At the time, I suddenly had a gaping hole of “lonely” time, and I didn't know what to do with it.
So, I just started drawing manga in a regular notebook with a pencil.

I realized it after I started drawing.

That while I'm drawing manga,

that “loneliness” turns into

“comfortable silence”

I realized that.

It was a feeling I couldn't have even when I drew manga before.

“This is... good...!!✨”

Drawing manga is basically a lonely task.

But recently, I've started to think that precisely because of that lonely time, I might be able to express an “atmosphere where the reader can take a deep breath!”

And, the time before last, I wrote an article introducing the manga I love (the manga that ruined my life).

⬇️That article❣️

While I was writing the introductions for those wonderful manga, I suddenly thought,

“What is it that I want to draw?”

And that question popped into my head.

So, I decided to think about it for a bit!

1️⃣ "Comfortable" Manga

When I draw manga, I focus for hours and
immerse myself in the world of that manga alone.
That is what happens.

When I do that,
I realized that if the world of the manga I am drawing
is not "comfortable" for me,
I cannot keep drawing it.

This is, of course,
just comfort for me.


But if someone who reads my manga
feels the same "comfort" as I do...
I would be incredibly happy!

2️⃣ I want children to read it too

Embarrassingly enough,
I haven't really had a strong desire to
"draw this kind of manga" until now...💧

The reason I started drawing in my current style
was because the desire to read it to children,
like reading a picture book aloud,
welled up inside me.

But now,
I aim to create manga that can be enjoyed
by both adults and children!

3️⃣ I want to draw the "atmosphere"

I don't have a foundation of technical skills.

So, I'm too embarrassed to
say anything too grand,

but recently,
I have come to want to draw
what I call "atmosphere."

It relates to the "comfort"
I mentioned at the beginning, but...

—What is the atmosphere I want to draw in manga?—

When you turn the page,
the atmosphere of that world gently drifts toward you...


There are characters, there is scenery,
and a story is flowing quietly there...


The reader,
before they know it, enters that place,
and spends a little time in that world...


Let's see,
if I were to put it simply,

it's that clear, soft world
you find when you gently open a picture book.
(That's not simple at all...😅)


I want to draw manga where you can feel
that kind of picture-book-like "atmosphere"❣️

Alright!!

Someday, to be able to draw that air
with a quality I can be satisfied with,
I will cherish
and nurture my solitude,
and I will grow—!!

Idle Maru