Talk:Gosho Aoyama
The below section needs to be overhauled to show verification. Unless these are the opinions of a professional art critic, Gosho's art evolution needs to be backed up by a series of images demonstrating the differences. Also the text was copied verbatim from the DCwikia site. Although not required because of the licensing arrangements for wikis, it would be preferable not to clone their stuff on principle. Chekhov MacGuffin talk 07:51, 17 February 2013 (PST)
Drawing style
Gosho Aoyama's drawing style drastically changed over the years as being a manga artist. His drawing style could be compared back then as "being a Shōjo type" or "not fitted for a Shōnen Magazine". Aoyama's art back then was somehow what sloppy or little bit messy but managed to keep up with his will of art. It is known that Aoyama probably drawn his former series in loose lines, while later he stated that he is using long lines to make his art fine.
Aoyama stated that he uses realistic animals, locations, trees, and cars. He got them from books which he copies them over and later drawn it himself which it looks more realistic. Gosho Aoyama's coloring art is also great. It is unknown how he's coloring his characters in the manga, but it is known how he colors them in when he is creating characters from real life. He uses short lines to color in and evenly when he is creating a poster for a new film from his series. Standard in Gosho Aoyama's drawing is the ears of the characters and the eyes, which is colored blue with a black pupil and in the mid a shining horizontal line and most popular the nose of each character which only the underside of the nose is seen instead of the whole only by adults the line has been seen. Gosho Aoyama also did the character designs of the popular children anime series Hamtaro.
Aoyama claims that Conan's smile is deliberately drawn similar to Lupin III Mangaka Monkey Punch's smiles.[1]
Trivia
- Gosho Aoyama personal status:
- Gosho Aoyama's blood type is B.
- Gosho Aoyama's height is 1.74 cm.
- Gosho Aoyama's favorite phrase is Bārō (バーロー; Literally meaning "Stupid").
- Gosho Aoyama hates beans and raisins and is a big fan of the Giants and curry rice.
- Aoyama uses .05, .1, and .8 pens when he is about to ink his series.
- Gosho Aoyama has friends that work by the police, including inspectors and detectives, through whom he can gather information about the daily life at the police department. His brother is a doctor, who helped him with cases containing medical affairs.
Banana Exorcist
Gosho Aoyama's family house is near the Daiei Town Plaza where he owns a Bike Repair Shop as Well as a Grocery Store in Tokyo.
Gosho Aoyama was showed promising talent in the field of arts when his painting of "Yukiai War" was elected by the judges as the winner and it was then displayed at the Tottori Daimaru Department Store as a result of winning the competetion. At that time, Gosho was only a first grader.
Gosho describes himself and his friends as the Detective Boys characters of his manga Detective Conan back in his youth. He thinks of himself as the Mistushiko type of the group. Gosho had still been drawing Nyarome, a character originally invented by Akatsuko Fujio, one of the creaters of the popular manga, Doraemon. The name of the first manga which Gosho bought was "Ore wa Teppei" (I am Teppei) created by Tetsuya Chiba. He really liked it and the manga inspired him to learn Kendo. He also joined the Kendo Club.
In Gosho's times, Manga had not gained cultural heritage and sayings like reading manga makes you stupid were common. Gosho's parents were strict on the matter and told him that "No good can ever come out of reading manga. Gosho had to read manga secretly during his Junior High years, which almost made him give up his dream to be a Mangaka and enroll in Nihon University College of Art to become an art teacher instead. At college, Gosho joined the Manga Studies Club where he met his alumnus Yutaka Abe, a mangaka. The door to drawing manga opened when Yutaka asked Gosho if he wanted to draw manga for real.
In 1986, Gosho Aoyoama participated in a comic contest for freshmen students and won it, which was a base for him becoming a manga artist and an author, as well as an important turning point in his life.
Gosho first encountered Lupin III in third grade. He bought a volume, but when his parents found it they confiscated it for being too sensual. Gosho later rebought the volume.[2]
Gosho spends hours coming up with case ideas which he says is troublesome.[3]
References
- ^ Aoyama & Monkey Punch interview from 2009
青：絵柄もかっこいいですよ。キャラクターの手足が細くて。実は、コナンが笑ったときの口元の感じは、モンキー・パンチ先生のマネ。かなり影響を受けました。
Aoyama: The style is cool, too. The characters' limbs are thin. In truth, the atmosphere of Conan's mouth when he grins is in Monkey Punch-sensei's imitation. I received quite an influence.
Translation credit JustwantanAccount - ^ Aoyama & Monkey Punch interview from 2009
青：僕が「ルパン三世」にふれたのは小学３年生ぐらい。本屋さんで買ってきて家の本棚に並べていたら、エッチすぎるからと親に処分されて、後でまた買い直したこともあります（笑）。（編集部注 扉のページでモンキー・パンチ先生が持っているコミックは、青山先生が持参した私物）
Aoyama: I came across Lupin III around third grade. There was one time, when I bought it from the bookstore and lined it up on the bookshelf, my parents thought that it was too sensual so they confiscated it - I had to buy it again afterward (laughs).
青：いや、当時の僕は、ページをめくるたびにワクワクでした。
Aoyama: Back then, I felt excited from turning the page.
Translation credit JustwantanAccount - ^ Aoyama & Monkey Punch interview from 2009
青：いやいや、ネタ出しが大変で（笑）。今日も朝から何時間もネタ出ししてから来ました。
Aoyama: Oh no, coming up with ideas is a lot of trouble (laughs). I came here after spending hours from morning coming up with ideas today, for example.
青：僕は、三話目ぐらいからネタ切れしてました（笑）。１巻分で終わるかなと思っていましたし、こんな文字数の多い漫画は誰も読まないと思っていました。
Aoyama: For me, I ran out of ideas from the third chapter (laughs). I thought that the series would end by the first volume, and that no one would read manga with such high word count.
Translation credit JustwantanAccount
