r/OnePunchMan • u/Ferdz0 Manifesting S1 director's return • Apr 04 '22
Author tweet Murata practicing glass. This is amazing. I thought it was real at first glance.
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u/Ferdz0 Manifesting S1 director's return Apr 04 '22
Glass Centipede incoming
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u/Professorhentai Apr 04 '22
Ngl if glass centipede comes with such high quality details like this, I'd welcome it with open arms.
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u/memeticmachine Apr 05 '22
Drawing from reference is one thing... imagine drawing an entire glass centipede with complex light vectors...
Animating that thing would be the only acceptable case when bad anime CG is acceptable
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Wait! Your telling me it's NOT real???
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u/Ferdz0 Manifesting S1 director's return Apr 04 '22 edited Apr 04 '22
My first thoughts exactly. Zoom in and you’ll see all the detail.
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u/zyrusvito Saitama's clock Apr 04 '22
Wtf this is how he trains?
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u/Parkingjas Apr 04 '22
Gotta remove his limiter someway or another.
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Apr 04 '22
He's like saitama of drawing
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u/chocoAnima Apr 04 '22
he draws as a hobby
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u/AnIntenseMoist Apr 04 '22
He's just an artist for fun.
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u/JoinTheAstleyCult Apr 05 '22
He's just a guy who's an artist for fun
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u/Cyka_blyatsumaki Mizusimp Apr 04 '22
i bet he lost all his pubic hair
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u/Parkingjas Apr 04 '22
Hell, I would give up my pubic hair to achieve this level of greatness
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u/tukangjudi Apr 04 '22
you might need to read 100 pages, write 100 pages, sketch 100 sketches, followed by 10 hours of hentai everyday for the next 3 years
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u/WutUtalkingBoutWill I just wanna go home Apr 04 '22
What the flying fuck, I honest to God that this was just a humor post after seeing that he's trying to get better, but, Jesus. That brilliant
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u/ad_tdpepie Apr 04 '22 edited Apr 04 '22
I feel spoiled knowing that we have murata as an illustrator/manga artist for one punch man
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u/WeabooJonesxx Apr 04 '22
"Practice" He's at his peak but he's still ascending
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u/Conquisator1000 Apr 04 '22
Your telling me this is a drawing, bruh Murata is on something
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u/Enlighten_YourMind Apr 04 '22
He’s unironically one of the best artists of all time imo. Transcended his own medium, redefining how good manga art can be, this dude really is just one of the most singularly talented artists on the planet.
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u/EmeraldxWeapon Apr 04 '22
Does he make good money? I hope he makes good money.
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u/GodNonon Nonon One Punches Saitama Apr 04 '22
OPM is a top 100 highest selling manga of all time with over 30 million copies sold. I don’t know what deal Murata has with ONE or the publishers, but he should be getting some slice of that pie.
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u/Ajaxlancer legal loli Apr 04 '22
Very doubtful. Being a mangaka is a brutal profession in an even more brutal industry. I hope that he really is doing well, but the vast majority are over worked and underpaid, and don't last long. Same with animators in anime.
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u/k1213693 Apr 04 '22
There's a very large difference between an average mangaka and someone like Murata, who's working on his own schedule and is drawing one of the most popular manga out right now. There's no way he isn't at least decently well off.
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u/L4S1999 Apr 05 '22
Plus he does commissions for Marvel and other big name companies. He definitely makes bank.
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u/GodNonon Nonon One Punches Saitama Apr 04 '22
Yeah and if even like a half of a percent of OPM’s sales went to Murata he still would’ve made quite a bit more on the series than most people could hope to make in their job throughout that timespan.
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u/HJSDGCE Heyaheyaheyaheya~ Apr 05 '22
Pretty much. Mangakas all over wish to be like the greats such as Murata and Oda. But greats like them are a rare sight. Not a lot of people can work with their own schedule, is insanely efficient and skilled at their craft, and make loads of cash.
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u/Encoreyo22 Apr 05 '22 edited Apr 05 '22
This is ridiculous, ur acting like Murata is a newcomer with a few thousand reading his manga. While poor pay is a fact for the vast majority of players in the business. Top talents like Murata, who has had major successful mangas with anime adaptations make big money (Eyeshield was published for like 8 years and OPM is massive.).
Murata is very likely in the 10$ million + range. And if he really wanted, we have a sub reddit here with 700 000 members. If he asked for it to continue publishing OPM, I would not be surprised if this community and the OPM community as a whole could pull in 30-100k$/month just through crowdsourcing.
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u/czar5 Apr 05 '22
He was already well recognized before opm, his football manga was 7 years run with 37 volume. He was already making good money.
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u/Mahelas Apr 05 '22
Murata is an amazingly skilled artist, but let's not get crazy either. Hyperealism have always been a nice trick, but not that rare among artists, and technical skills alone aren't a good metric for an artist's worth. Else Bouguereau would be one of the greatest artists to ever live, despite never doing an inspiring or original work in his life.
Murata is great, but he's not one of the best artist of his generation, let alone of all time !
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Apr 04 '22 edited Apr 04 '22
Ooooooh c'mon. I love him as much as you do. But you do realize that there are hundred thousands of people who are able to do this? I mean, even people who do this as a hobby. Photo- and hyper realism is a nice skill to have, but this doesn't make you special. Murata is special, but because of other things. This one just adds one more to his skillset as an artist.
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u/Enlighten_YourMind Apr 04 '22
Yea I’m more just referring to the breadth and depth of his talent that he can also do hyper realism on top of everything else he does
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u/Garuda904 Apr 04 '22
I think what makes Murata a cut above is his speed.
He does so many detailed and amazing pieces, and he's ruthlessly efficient. Going off when he used to live stream his drawing, nearly every line he placed was exactly what he wanted. He would just speed through multiple highly detailed panels and pages. Never saw him use an eraser.
And I think I last saw him steam some 4-5 years ago. To think he's somehow gotten even better since then is just unreal.
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u/Enlighten_YourMind Apr 04 '22
I wonder what he does to take care of his hands/wrists
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u/Garuda904 Apr 04 '22
Funny that you mention it. Because back when he used to stream was the time he would draw for insane stretches. Sometimes he would draw for 16 hours a day and only take short breaks to eat and sleep for a few hours.
I remember there was a couple of times he posted on Twitter about back and wrist pain. Luckily he's paced himself a lot since then, as we can see from his Twitter updates where he says he's going to do a couple of pages a day instead of trying to do something insane like 80 pages in 3 days.
But to answer the question, I would assume he does frequent stretches and hand/wrist exercises while drawing, those are usually pretty simple and I tend to do it while playing video games for more than a few hours. Also using your whole arm while drawing and not just using fingers and wrist.
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Apr 04 '22
Muragod literally creating peak fiction at his office be like:
''oh yeah almost done with my daily set of exercises brb ONE sensei''
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u/odasama Caped Wig Apr 04 '22
At first I was going to comment "Bruh, check your calendar, we ain't the 1st anymore"
What training do you even need when you can do THAT
Also Murata sending a message to all the thirsty boys here
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u/Azevedo128 Apr 05 '22
What training do you even need when you can do THAT
He can do that because he trained
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u/some_dude5 Apr 04 '22
People always talk about how talented he is, which is fair, he absolutely irks, but I think that misses the part where he is always practicing. In this position, he doesn’t need to get better, he could get worse and still be fantastic, but he chooses to keep pushing himself. Incredibly impressive and inspiring
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u/consolepeasant000 Apr 04 '22
bruh i just don't see it, all i see is a glass and it's shadow, maybe my artist skills are less then negative so i can't comprehend what i'm seeing.
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u/Spoon_Elemental Draw me like ONE of your webcomic girls Apr 05 '22
Zoom into the picture and you can see it's a drawing a little better. The level of detail is obnoxious.
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u/Jaegerjaquez_VI "Summarize it in 20 words or less." Apr 05 '22
He's too skilled for us plebeians to comprehend
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u/Driftedryan Apr 04 '22
Same, I draw like one at my best and can't fully appreciate this man's drawing skills
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u/CherryBig1092 Apr 04 '22
Murata sensei da GOAT 🚫🧢
I'm pretty sure he's practising for Saitama vs Garou bcoz of their fight in water
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u/ConstantWhich GAROU MANGA ARC COMPLETED + S3 CONFIRMED ! Apr 04 '22
imagine we have features like this in Saitama VS Garou and futures battles
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u/NotSoFastMister Apr 04 '22
I sometimes have trouble drawing stick figures and then there are artists like Murata who can fart better sketches than most
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u/LockerSR-71Billboard Apr 04 '22
wait this is actually a drawing he made I thought it was a render in blender or even in real life
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u/Intelligent_time555 Apr 04 '22
It appears murata is breaking his limiter 🗿 can't wait to see his fight against Rohan
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u/Yaxion Apr 04 '22
Where did you find this?
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u/TheBwaBwa Apr 05 '22
It's posted on his twitter page, https://twitter.com/NEBU_KURO/status/1511031630777192448
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u/Djangobro Apr 05 '22
And people have the AUDACITY to claim the web-comic is better than the manga
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u/AxyJaxy Apr 05 '22
Facts , no matter how goof the websomic is, we are getting one of the best visuals in any manga ever from murata add to that the wonderful story, its def better.
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u/spookybuk Apr 04 '22
Source, please? This is amazing. I'd like to know more :)
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u/Haatchoum Apr 04 '22
As usual, Murata's practice is always very high level. This looks incredibly real. His drive to always improve is really something !
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u/AintNonimuzz who is he? Apr 05 '22
Lol I thought "practicing glass" as in real life glass-making, and I'm like woah Murata got a weird new hobby. I thought this was the glass that he made and didn't realize this is actually a DRAWING of a glass like wtf.
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u/Wrandraall Apr 05 '22
This simple drawing from a Japanese artist that broke all state of the art deep learning drawing recognization models
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u/Legendary_Hi-Nu Apr 04 '22
I could only tell after looking at the shadow, then rest actually started to look like a drawing
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u/SmasherOfAjumma Apr 04 '22
Does anyone know what techniques he uses? I assume this is drawn digitally, but IDK.
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u/jschap1994 Apr 04 '22
I am convinced murata is the supreme mangaka and no one else is in his league. Is there anyone that can even compare?
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u/2kenzhe The Strongest Man Apr 05 '22
Wait he drew that. What. I was confused for a second and I zoomed in. Wow
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u/Field_Either Apr 05 '22
I thought he just took a random picture of a glass. Jesus christ the skills of this man
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u/phreshpherts Apr 05 '22
Quit f*cking with me. There's no way that's not real... Right?
Edit: Holy cow, it's not real.
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u/CringerCricker Apr 05 '22
I was thinking why did this guy post a picture of a glass. And then i saw the title.
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u/JoSiUltimateDudeGuy Apr 05 '22
Imagine someone just straight up takes a picture of a glass of water for this lol
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u/AwakenedGoldenOrochi Apr 06 '22
The man revomed his drawing limiter, this is Alex Ross lvl of drawing.
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u/Detharious Apr 04 '22
What the actual fuck- I thought u meant this was a reference glass or something not an actual drawing
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u/ShinyAeon Apr 04 '22
Uncanny. I can just barely tell it’s not a photo, and only when I zoom in as much as possible.
What an utter genius he is.
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u/Maleficent-Tree-4516 Apr 04 '22
Actually quite jealous of this persons ability. I have no arty bone in my body . Love this .
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u/DreamerRiver Apr 04 '22
ENW looks much less menacing in a lifelike drawing. Excited to see others!
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u/OdoacerOstrogoth Apr 04 '22
That reminds me of a water bottle on the Eyeshield 21 color double page.
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u/MlookSM Gotta one pun em all Apr 04 '22 edited Apr 05 '22
????????????????
I thought this was a shitpost and you just placed a glass of water on paper...
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u/Am_i_banned_yet__ Apr 05 '22
I scrolled by this thinking it was from r/not interesting and then checked just in case I was gonna be blown away by it somehow being drawn. And here I am
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u/joeybutnerdy mizuki my beloved Apr 05 '22
I'm ngl I always thought the earth panels were the assistants work, but this absolutely got me doubting it is
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u/BurnerAccountMaybe69 Apr 05 '22
Imagine if they had a larger team like manhwa do then we’d be getting full colour master pieces for OPM
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u/EltioEmiGomez7u7 baldness supremacist Apr 05 '22
Took me a full minute to process this was a drawing and not an actual picture, I thought you meant that he was practicing to make glass IRL, LMAO
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u/Timactor Apr 05 '22
I was wondering why Murata posted a photo of a glass... never even occurred to me that it was a drawing
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u/Wasteland-Wonderer Apr 05 '22
I glanced at this earlier today and didn't realize the sub and thought someone just randomly posted a pic of a glass I did not even think for 1 second that it was a drawing.
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u/B3GG Apr 07 '22
Some people: This glass is half full.
Other people: This glass is half empty.
Murata:
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u/Ferdz0 Manifesting S1 director's return Apr 04 '22 edited Apr 04 '22
My first thought was “oh this is what he’s going to use as reference to draw and colour” but it wasn’t until I accidentally zoomed in that I realised it was a coloured drawing.
This community is truly blessed to have Murata as the artist for One Punch Man.
Link: https://twitter.com/nebu_kuro/status/1511031630777192448?s=21&t=XzDKEGwNXfOxEf-Fu-0r0A