My Dream Job

My dream job? I remember that when I was 10 years old I longed to be a professional soccer player and play in Arenal alongside Mezut Ozil and Alexis Sánchez, unfortunately my dream was frustrated... because Alexis changed teams and Mezut retired from professional soccer hahaha.

I think I have spoken on many occasions about how much I love to draw, how happy I am expressing my ideas and feelings in visual arts. Unfortunately I have given up on that dream on countless occasions because of how poorly paid and poorly viewed it is to make a living from art. But if I had to work in an area of ​​drawing, it would undoubtedly be comics and manga.

I like manga much more than comics, because although I like to draw, I am a terrible painter and manga is characterized precisely by using only black and white to compose the image.

I have read about the salary of the top 100 most famous “mangakas” (Manga artists) and on average they earn 70 million yen a year, it is crazy (Approximately 440 million Chilean pesos a year). But I emphasize that this is the average of the best 100 manga artists in Japan. Where, for example, Eiichiro Oda, the creator of One Piece (the most famous manga in the world) earns 3.1 billion yen from everything his work franchise produces.



"One Piece", Eiichiro Oda (July 1997).


Unfortunately, for the average mangaka, an income of 1.1 million yen is estimated, which would be approximately 7 million pesos annually, which for the cost of living in Japan is very little to live on.

My favorite mangaka is Gege Akutami on an artistic level, I think Jujutsu Kaisen has a tone that maintains the aesthetics of a cartoon, but serves to give it the serious tone that the series sometimes has.



"Jujutsu Kaisen", Gege Akutami (March 2018)


To be a mangaka you only have to have talent and a story to tell, which is easy to say, but difficult to put into practice. I've been trying to shape my own manga for a long time and I'll be pretty happy when I can show it.

My career (Sound Engineering) does not have much to do with my side as a visual artist, but, still, the idea of ​​later working with musicians, perhaps creating the soundtrack of my own audiovisual creation, is amazing.


Thank you very much for reading, I'll see you later!!!

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  1. Jorge Cáceres18 de octubre de 2023 a las 6:40 p.m.

    I love manga, I think that as you say, to be a mangaka you need to have talent, and the practice of drawing, some mangakas around the world are real geniuses.

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