(Image credit: Yé Wei)

Yé Wei (aka Esquissewei) is a French mangaka and the author of Astral. He founded Manga Dojo, an online drawing school, and is currently working on his second book. In this feature, he takes us on a tour of his art studio as part of our Artist in Residence series.

(Image credit: Yé Wei)

My studio is about 30 square metres, and it has a slightly odd history: it used to be two bedrooms – mine and my older brother’s – in my parents’ house just outside Paris, until we knocked the wall through. My brother’s bed is still in here, and I’ll come back to why that matters.

The space is split in two. On one side, everything digital: a Wacom Cintiq Pro 24 hooked up to a MacBook Pro M2 Max, running Clip Studio Paint [see the best digital art software – ed]. For manga specifically, nothing else comes close – the pen stabilisation, the panel tools, the screentones, it’s all built for exactly what I do.

All three screens are running my own drawings.…