Anime/Manga Tutorials

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Elisa Azure

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Hiyas!

I'm just starting to draw Anime/Manga. And I've been looking round the net for Tutorials. Though most of what I have found are good but not finished or don't start with the basics.

I'm ordering How to Draw Manga Getting Started, but it's not arriving for a few weeks and I wanted to get a headstart. I've been sketching eye's and stuff, but I'm stuck on head and body shape. And hair and clothes are an impossiblity for me!

Any help would be greatly apprciated!

Thank You!

Elisa :lifeup:
 
Try to make slightly triangular and the oveall head shape almost human. this is very easy to acomplish after you practice but eventually you can move onto the body. I try to copy pictures from the net before moving on to do my own!
 
look at real people for body shape...even if you are drawing Anime looking at a real person helps.
 
I don't like "How To Draw Manga" Books/Comics. If everyone used them, everyone would be drawing in the same style with slight variations to fit you, and make it easier for YOU. I recommend doing what Yu Watase did (Artist Of Fushigi Yuugi), She copied others until she got confident enough to draw, then she thought of a new style to fit her needs and was good to look at. Try to steer away from "How To Draw", You don't see popular artists like Akira Toriyama referring to books, always do what your mind says and draw what you feel. I tend to start off with the eyes, but that's my opinion, you can start off with what you want. What you are comfortable about. When YOU draw manga it should be under YOUR influence, not from a books. Sorry about this but this is how I feel about those books.
 
haha I seen proof of that before.3 or 4 girls from my school bought the official how to draw Anime books and ya cant tell there drawings from each other.It sucks.and what really sucks is that they were all really good before they started drawing from the book so its not like it helped there skills
 
well....if your just getting started they might be able to help a bit... ya just cant get stuck on having them look like the pictures in the books
 
If you find it difficult to copy out those books, dump them and draw your own. That's a different persons style that you're copying, which will become unpopular, and he is making money from you lot.
 
yeah its helping me on facial features and realism and proportions etc. like sizes of eyes to face is 1/5th of the width of your face etc.
 
hehe yeah stuff like that! ^-^I just finished art class last semester.man...the teacher gave us sheets of people MADE of eyes so that we could get the proportions.All it did was scare me
 
lol dont most of those girls come out lesbians? thats what i heard about all (something) skools. they all come out homosexuals
 
Er straying off topic aren't we?

ON TOPIC: I did get some of those books and they were helpful to a certain extent but not anymore really.

I am already taking Art classes at college, yet they never focus on the human body. The only class that does is fine art and I don't like that as it's Art history as well. (Plus ugly naked models you have to draw!)

Anyway thanx for the tips.

(Next time if you are going to chat about no-topic stuff do it over IM's)

Elisa
 
ah get off our case about being off topic.happens in most threads ya see.t'is what happens when left without a mod
 
Originally posted by meaghan_maxwell
ah get off our case about being off topic.happens in most threads ya see.t'is what happens when left without a mod
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And now there is a mod about ;)
I think the sexuality of canadian school girls (though interesting as it is) is ever so slightly off topic so let's step back.

I share Duo's opinion in regards to "How to draw books". I've always found my own way, but I can see how these books can be beneficial for researching a particular style.

Let us know if the books are any good Elisa :)
Are you just interested in drawing still images or are you maybe thinking of animation too?
 
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