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Post by chibinezu on Mar 23, 2009 23:31:15 GMT -5
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Post by Tim Fischer on Mar 24, 2009 13:20:49 GMT -5
Really beautiful, vibrant colors.
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Post by mistresslegato on Mar 25, 2009 18:37:55 GMT -5
I really like the first piece! I think your colours are pretty good, but occassionally it looks a bit streaky. I think it would be to your benefit to study realistic faces. It makes it easier to draw in an anime style, since it's just a distorted version of realism. You've got some great hands in your pieces!
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Post by Action Bastard on Apr 6, 2009 14:38:57 GMT -5
What are you using to color?
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Post by babybro on Apr 6, 2009 14:57:39 GMT -5
I'm not so sure about the study realistic faces, because the rules that follows in drawing realistic faces doesn't apply with anime. People provided that advice to me before and now I can draw realistic faces, but I can't draw anime. It's just it's own seperate beast. The best advice I can give for anime is to buy how to draw anime books "from japan." None of that christopher hart stuff. It will help drastically in creating a full manga appearance, and provides you the difference between an manga and realistic face.
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Post by mistresslegato on Apr 8, 2009 1:34:33 GMT -5
I really do disagree. Learning how to draw realistically will help you with proportioning a body properly. One of the books a friend gave to me this year (while I've been drawing anime-styled for MANY many years) makes a lot of good points about drawing realistic faces then learning how to distort them to anime faces.
It's called How to Draw Manga: Sketching Manga-Style (volume one in the sketching manga-style series.) It's a fantastic book by the original How to Draw Manga book makers from Japan, Graphic-Sha.
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Post by babybro on Apr 9, 2009 14:18:51 GMT -5
I really do disagree. Learning how to draw realistically will help you with proportioning a body properly. One of the books a friend gave to me this year (while I've been drawing anime-styled for MANY many years) makes a lot of good points about drawing realistic faces then learning how to distort them to anime faces. It's called How to Draw Manga: Sketching Manga-Style (volume one in the sketching manga-style series.) It's a fantastic book by the original How to Draw Manga book makers from Japan, Graphic-Sha. While it has help me in making the body proportionate, for me personally, it ruined my ability to draw anime, because now I can no longer distort it into anime proportions. So while it might work for some, it won't work for everybody. As now I'm stuck in an American style art and no longer able to draw manga. I'll probably give that book you mention a chance though, just to see what type of pointers it gives, but I can personally attest that while my anatomy and proportions are much better, I no longer have the ability to draw manga anymore. Oh and for the op, if you want some excellent manga drawing tutorials, you can find it from this video here. He's very good imo. www.youtube.com/user/markcrilley
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Post by Mr.Turquoise on Apr 9, 2009 18:30:39 GMT -5
Hoo boy, I'm probably going to be hated for what I'm about to say, but hey!! I have just as much right to express my opinion as everyone else here, so there you go!!...
Some of you guys are saying that by practicing realistic faces, you're damaging your ability to draw "teh Japanese cartoons/comics "style"", when, the ironic thing about it is, all cartoons and comics or styles of any sort are, more or less, grounded or based off of real life stuff. Don't use your cliche' "styles" and "preferences" as an excuse to not practice the realistic stuff such as anatomy and portraits and nature and wild life and what not!...
And also, you guys call it your "style", but it's been SOOOOOO over done and over used, and is so easily marketable, and already has enough lame teens (and adults even) already trying to hopelessly imitate it, that honestly, do we really need anymore people copying it? But whatever, I suppose originality is overrated.....
Anyways, as for the pics, you seem to have a decent enough "start" coloring-wise, but you need more contrast between your lights and shades. I can't even tell where your light sources are coming from in most of your pics here!! And although your lines appear to be neat enough, there's not a lot of "flow" or " feeling" in your characters or poses. Perhaps if you practiced some gestural drawings (of real people and life and things, not the Japanese stuff), that could help you out a bit.
Also, there's not a lot of variety in your character's faces or expressions. They all just seem to have a sort of "I'm-a lookin' over thar with a slight smile on mah face" expression. No reason you can't mix things up a bit!
There also doesn't seem to be much variety in your poses or themes and ideas either. And that first pose looks really odd and wonky, especially considering that, anatomically speaking, is VERY uncomfortable and awkward to pull off.
But, on a good note, it's good to see that you're trying to put in backgrounds, and are working with wrinkles and the shades there in, and it's also nice to see you trying your hand at people of different races (like the black guy! Even though he looks just like all the characters you drew, minus the skin color and hair style).
Okay, that's all I can think of at the moment! And keep on practicing!!....
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Post by sato on Apr 16, 2009 15:54:39 GMT -5
Ditto with Mr.Turquoise up here.
Just wanna say though, that I really like that idea on the first piece, of the shape on the background giving the boy a jacket hat and tie. It's discreet, but I think it works.
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Post by mistresslegato on Apr 19, 2009 9:28:18 GMT -5
Hoo boy, I'm probably going to be hated for what I'm about to say, but hey!! I have just as much right to express my opinion as everyone else here, so there you go!!... Some of you guys are saying that by practicing realistic faces, you're damaging your ability to draw "teh Japanese cartoons/comics "style"", when, the ironic thing about it is, all cartoons and comics or styles of any sort are, more or less, grounded or based off of real life stuff. Don't use your cliche' "styles" and "preferences" as an excuse to not practice the realistic stuff such as anatomy and portraits and nature and wild life and what not!... And also, you guys call it your "style", but it's been SOOOOOO over done and over used, and is so easily marketable, and already has enough lame teens (and adults even) already trying to hopelessly imitate it, that honestly, do we really need anymore people copying it? But whatever, I suppose originality is overrated..... Anyways, as for the pics, you seem to have a decent enough "start" coloring-wise, but you need more contrast between your lights and shades. I can't even tell where your light sources are coming from in most of your pics here!! And although your lines appear to be neat enough, there's not a lot of "flow" or " feeling" in your characters or poses. Perhaps if you practiced some gestural drawings (of real people and life and things, not the Japanese stuff), that could help you out a bit. Also, there's not a lot of variety in your character's faces or expressions. They all just seem to have a sort of "I'm-a lookin' over thar with a slight smile on mah face" expression. No reason you can't mix things up a bit! There also doesn't seem to be much variety in your poses or themes and ideas either. And that first pose looks really odd and wonky, especially considering that, anatomically speaking, is VERY uncomfortable and awkward to pull off. But, on a good note, it's good to see that you're trying to put in backgrounds, and are working with wrinkles and the shades there in, and it's also nice to see you trying your hand at people of different races (like the black guy! Even though he looks just like all the characters you drew, minus the skin color and hair style). Okay, that's all I can think of at the moment! And keep on practicing!!.... While I agree that WAY too many anime artists pull the "I don't want to draw realistic faces because I draw anime styled and it won't help me," BS, it's completely ridiculous to insinuate that EVERYONE who draws in an anime style is un-original. Yes, this person's style needs some work, but I don't recall ever seeing anything that looks exactly like it. I, technically, draw in an anime style but it isn't something I've stolen from anyone else. Most artists, save for those who completely rip off one person's style, have their original style composed of many different influences and I also think it's totally unfair to look down on this style simply because anime is popular. Western comics are also popular, but you don't see people shoving those artists around the way people seem to think they can push around "anime" artists.
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