Showing posts with label General Information. Show all posts
Showing posts with label General Information. Show all posts

Thursday, July 16, 2020

New Program has started

Lesson with Manga Drawing Deluxe 
6 months + graduate work

"Manga Drawing Deluxe" is this school's teacher, Nao Yazawa's How to draw manga book. It covered all process of manga drawing, making story to background.

The students study with this book, start from drawing character, background, effect and story&storyboard. The teacher (Nao Yazawa) checks the result and give some advice and new homework every week.
And as the graduate work, he/her supposed to draw a short one shot story manga. (16-24 pages)

(For online lesson, it sets 12 months program)


Manga Drawing Deluxe course (6 months / once a week)


You can take one / some subjects you like separately.In each section, the student draws 1 or 2 inking illustration.
  • Face  Basic 4 times  Advanced 4 times 
  • Body Basic 8 times Advanced 8 times
  • Background Basic 8 times Advanced 8 times 
  • Composition 8 times
+ graduate work One shot manga around 16 pages (under 24)
(Traditional/digital) 
  • Plot 4 times
  • Storyboard 4-8 times
  • Character sketch 2 times
  • Inking   2 times
  • Background 4 times
  • Inking background 2 times
  • Tone-work 1-2 times

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Online Lesson General Information

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Please note: there is no Daylight saving  time in Japan 

Tuition  (1 hour /lesson)

6,000 yen / per lesson  

Trial class is 4,000 yen (1 hour)

24,000 yen /4 lessons

48,000 yen/8 lessons

72,000 yen / 12 lessons


Schedule Every Sunday 9:00 - 20:30 Japan time.


All lessons will be held at Manga School Nakano online. (Video chat with Zoom). This is a 60-min. private lesson.

There is no pre-requisite for enrolling into this class.  We welcome students at all levels.  (Our youngest student we had so far, was an 8 year old boy). Guardians are welcome to attend with students. For details, please visit our program page.

You can check the booking situation here. "Busy" means it has been booked.


Student can establish the focus of each session with the instructor. For instance, they can choose to create or design a new character,  creating a story, the rendering style of one or a set of characters, etc. A goal will be given to the students for each lesson.  

Student should also expect to be given some homework which will help to reinforce what was learnt.  

All classes will be hosted via Zoom with the webcam on both the instructor side and the student side.  Using a webcam or sharing a PC screen, the teacher can demonstrate live drawing as necessary, and student can also share their work with the instructor in real-time with webcam. (recommended).

To enrich the one-on-one experience, course material prepared by the instructor for all private lessons and the recording of all private lessons will be made available to all students. 

All lessons will be recorded, and you can DL it from your google drive. The data will be overwrote every week, so if you'd like to keep it, DL it in your local folder.

All the drawings which the teacher produced during a session will be scanned in high resolution (200-400 dpi) /or export Jpeg or ping, and stored in Google drive. Students will be given the access to all course materials including all drawings done by the instructor during the lessons. (Part of the drawing in low resolution may be posted on School website)

Students will be asked to scan and upload their work onto the Google Drive for the instructor. All scanning should be done at 300 dpi and save in JPEG format.

*Students = long term students or the students who had taken more than 4 (individual) lessons.
1 month = 4 lessons.

Time Table

The class is open Saturday and Sunday basically.

The lesson is 60 minutes long, once a week.

Tuition /Payment
All payment must be made at least 48-hours prior to the lesson.  We have PayPal as a payment method.

Once you decided your class, Manga School Nakano sends PayPal link or PayPal invoice (so that you can pay it with your credit card) .

Cancellation Policy

Payment of a lesson can be put forward to a subsequent lesson if a cancellation was provided 24-hours prior to a scheduled lesson.  If a cancellation was made within a 24 hours notice, only 50% of the charge will be available to be used for future classes.   

There will not be a refund for classes that students have missed without prior notification. Manga School Nakano will evaluate exceptions if there are unavoidable circumstances.

Manga School Nakano will send out any cancellation notice 48 hours prior to a class((Or shorter notice in the event of unforeseen circumstances). The tuition will be carried over to the following lesson.

Refund

One month’s notice is required in advance of a student exiting the program. The remaining portion of the tuition fees will be send to the student.  This will be done via Paypal or bank transfer, but the school may retain processing fees from the final balance to be paid out. 

Book a lesson/course

A student can book a 1, 4, 12 lesson course. (1 week, 1 month, 3 months). Either way, he/she can pay every time before each class, or entire tuition of 1 month / 3 months or more.

How to apply

1) Fill in the application form: Online-course   

2) Manga School Nakano emails you your schedule and payment request for tuition. You can pay with paypal or credit card. (Online lesson)
3) Once you receive a payment-confirmation e-mail from the school, your booking is completed.

*At the moment, we are recruiting 6-8 people. If we have too many, applicants will be booked on a first come, first served basis.
Or we might suggest a different lesson time to you.

Please pay your tuition at least  24 hours in advance. After confirmation of payment, your booking becomes valid.

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What you need to attend an Online class?

PC
High-speed Internet Access
Headset (for video chat)
Webcam
(To film the student’s work. Not strictly necessarily, but you may not get as much out of the lesson without it.)
Scanner
Pencil/mechanical pencil lead should be more than B or darker. (should be dark enough for webcam filming)
Plastic eraser (Don't use an eraser which attached to a pencil-end)

Please read this before attendance.
How to participate in an online lesson
https://note.com/naoyazawa/m/m7df22037a251


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Note

By participating in Online Classes run by Manga School Nakano, a student agrees that Manga School Nakano may use class videos in which they may appear, as presentation and promotional material, which may be used at the discretion of Manga School Nakano in broadcast, in print and in other digital media.

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Standard Lesson General Information

We accept new students of our Standard manga class anytime.


This lesson is held in a Manga School Nakano classroom. Basically, it is a private lesson, but if you book as a group, the tuition will be comparatively cheap. (See Tuition in below)


Manga School Nakano has some manga tools for students, so you can come to the school with nothing. Of course you can bring your own tools, and learning techniques regarding some specific tools are available on request. 

There is no pre-requisite for enrolling into this class.  We welcome students at all levels.  (Our youngest student we had so far, was an 8 year old boy.) Guardians are welcome to attend with students.


You can choose a subject from our lesson programs or request something you are interested in, be it a one-day manga experience, drawing manga-type illustration with authentic manga tools, watercolor painting, or producing a one shot manga during a long course, etc. For details, please visit the program page.


The school might ask students who are taking a long course, or who wants to take a high level lesson to buy some manga tools. Or the teacher may possibly lend some tools to the students during a class.


Students who are taking a long course can access a video library of online courses and are permitted to join G+hangout Q&A sessions, just like an online course student.


Time table



Mon.- Fri. 10:00-12:00, 13:00-15:00, 16:00 - 18:00, 18:30-20:30 (19:00-21:00)

Tuition (1 lesson = 2 hours) Under 5 years old child : free.
We don't accept a credit card. Please prepare cash.
Attention: We changed tuition of one person to 13,000
The new price will be applied to booking from 1st January.

Private lesson
1 People 13,000 yen (15,000 yen)

Group rate
2-4 People 8,000 yen (10,000 yen)

5-9 People 7,000 yen (8,000 yen)

10-14 People 6,000 yen (7,000 yen)

15-19 People 5,500 yen (6,500 yen)

20-24 People 5,000 yen (6,000 yen)

25+ People 4,500 yen (6,000 yen)

Effective 1st January 2026, tuition fees will be revised.
The prices in parentheses are after revision.

Application Procedure


1) Fill the application form: Online-Lesson / Standard Lesson


2) School sends you a confirmation email about the schedule. (When the date you chose had been booked already, the school will offer you another date. )

3)We emails you your schedule and payment request for deposit (1000 yen) You can pay with paypal or credit card. (Standard lesson) 


4)The school sends you a confirmation email about the payment. (We do not refund)


5)Come to the school in person.


6)Pay the rest of tuition before the class. (In cash)

* Depending on the situation, we can arrange the special timetable for you. If you’d like, please contact us via e-mail, reservation@nakanomangaschool.jp
If you have any question, feel free to send an e-mail with the subject "Inquiry".

Cancellation 

Revised in August 2024 

If you wish to cancel a lesson, please contact us by 6:00 PM (Japan time) the day before the scheduled lesson. 

Please note that if you have paid the deposit, it is non-refundable.  In case you have paid for the complete lesson fee in advance, we will refund the amount deducted by the deposit. 

If you cancel after 6:00 PM (Japan time) the day before the lesson, or on the day of the lesson, we will charge you 100% of the lesson fee as a cancellation fee. 

Additionally, if you do not take the lesson without permission, we will charge you 100% of the lesson fee as a cancellation fee.  If your request to waive the cancellation fee is declined, you will be  unable to schedule future lessons.(unless the absence was under  unavoidable circumstances) 

Cancellation will be effective once Manga School Nakano receives your 

notification of cancellation. 

M a n g a S c h o o l N a k a n o

We will respond to you within 24 hours to formally acknowledge your cancellation. 

If classes need to be canceled due to natural disasters such as earthquakes or typhoons, or due to Manga School Nakano's Circumstances, we will notify customers as soon as possible. In such instances, the deposit will be refunded.  If the entire lesson fee has been paid in advance, it can either be fully refunded or carried over to the next scheduled lesson, subject to mutual agreement.




Manga School Nakano offers the following tools to students.


Manga Paper A4 & B4

Mechanical pencil
Plastic eraser
G-pen nib
Maru-pen nib
Pen-holder

Manga black ink
Line art pen 0.3 & 0.8
Brush Pen

Rulers

Box-cutter knife
(We don’t have art knives)
Rub-tone

Screen tones

Light box
Cutting Mat

Watercolors
Watercolor paper


References