Artwork of Berserk interview - Page 4 part 1
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Guts’ armor, pleasant but painful
Interviewer: Then (for the next question), please tell us about your daily working schedule. They say you drew with an inverted day and night cycle all the way through the "Golden Age arc"…
Miura: (Now I’m) a bit more of a "day type" than during that time. *laughs* Getting up around 9~10 am, I do muscle training or walking for one hour and then I start working around 1 pm. I draw my manuscripts until around 3 am, having meals or something in the intervals. This is my pattern for working on manuscripts, but for storyboards my pace is to draw one in approximately two days. However, even though the storyboards are fast, the manuscripts are still late… As for "Dur-An-Ki" (Studio Gaga produced by Miura Kentarou) which I've recently started, I create the storyboard, set up the characters and carefully draw the draft. Then I hand it over to my assistants, who do the inking. Because I think I can serialize it at a normal pace, I’ve gained some self-confidence that I’ll be able to do other serializations after Berserk by following this method. *laughs*
Interviewer: Now, please tell us what you find especially enjoyable and interesting to draw.
Miura: The enjoyable things are all very hard (to draw). *laughs* It’s always enjoyable to draw Guts but he's also the one who takes the longest time, especially the Berserk's armor. And of course, I should draw all of them myself. In the part of Berserk that I'm currently drawing (1), There are truly few parts can be entrusted to others. I can entrust things like buildings to my assistants, but not people of course, nor delicate things like mountains or forests, because I think they reflect the drawer's habits.
Note 1: In Japanese, Miura uses the word "series" in Katakana, but he means the current part of Berserk that's being serialized, not the entire series in general.
