EPTTrying my hand at drawing Manga - Page 2
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Adeny
Norway1233 Posts
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Vestrel
Canada271 Posts
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rauk
United States2228 Posts
you've only shown us characters, so i don't know how good you are at drawing backgrounds or scene composition. i'm assuming that like most kids who start drawing you haven't really done much of it. i'd say it's at least of equal importance in comics to being able to draw characters. there's also script writing; at my most cynical i think being able to tell a story is more important than being able to draw since there are plenty of successful mangastyle webcomic authors who can't draw worth shit (megatokyo for instance). | ||
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Geovu
Estonia1344 Posts
On November 18 2011 08:40 rauk wrote: invest in getting a teacher. your drawings are rough and disproportionate and you'd probably benefit from someone who can consistently give you honest critique and push you to improve. it doesn't matter if they don't teach you "manga" style drawing since all art has the same basis in technique and you can always apply what you've learned in a different style. it's not impossible to reach professional quality (which seems to be your goal) being self taught, but it's going to be significantly harder trying to do so without a teacher. you've only shown us characters, so i don't know how good you are at drawing backgrounds or scene composition. i'm assuming that like most kids who start drawing you haven't really done much of it. i'd say it's at least of equal importance in comics to being able to draw characters. there's also script writing; at my most cynical i think being able to tell a story is more important than being able to draw since there are plenty of successful mangastyle webcomic authors who can't draw worth shit (megatokyo for instance). It's K if your drawing manga it just means that ppls eyes should be 10x bigger than in reality and have wacky, androgynous hairstyles, everything else is irrelevant. | ||
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Peanutbuttah
Canada68 Posts
On November 18 2011 01:15 Snuggles wrote: Really dude? I even poured my heart in my post to give you advice =_= SO DISAPPOINTED! Anyways keep it up Peanutbuttah! I mean most people who enjoy drawing manga style characters typically dream about creating their own manga, its a longshot pipedream of a goal, but if you really feel fulfilled by drawing, don't stop no matter what you do =). Who knows maybe you might make it! I don't have the talent for it at all, but after a long history of self-practice my characters actually look pretty damn good and I have gotten quite good at accurately critiquing my work. It feels great when you know you've improved, just like in starcraft =). I sincerely love it when people start drawing and share their work. Thank you for sharing, I hope you'll post more. Thanks for that comment, it's really motivating and helping me improve (well, not really, but it's helping me keep my head up). Sure is one hell of a dream, but I need to make a name for myself first and I figured a place like TL where I can get good criticism on my drawings would be a good place to start. I think I'll start a deviantArt account sometime but I don't really know. Again, thanks for that uplifting post. On November 18 2011 01:40 ImDrizzt wrote: Do one where they bend over, maybe wearing a tight skirt, black perhaps, so you can see panties + outline of cameltoe (yay), that's one of my favorite I think. (You can choose if you want to add cat ears, whiskers, whatever, I don't care about that, anything goes). What is this... I don't even... Sorry, I just don't really wanna draw that kind of stuff. On November 18 2011 07:57 Adeny wrote: Akami means slight redness, blush. Akarumi / akarui means bright / cheerful. Pretty sure takeo doesn't mean husband/man. I don't have much else to add. Ahh, okay. Didn't know that, my Japanese isn't worth crap =(, no biggee. But thanks anyways! I'll change the OP a bit. On November 18 2011 08:40 rauk wrote: invest in getting a teacher. your drawings are rough and disproportionate and you'd probably benefit from someone who can consistently give you honest critique and push you to improve. it doesn't matter if they don't teach you "manga" style drawing since all art has the same basis in technique and you can always apply what you've learned in a different style. it's not impossible to reach professional quality (which seems to be your goal) being self taught, but it's going to be significantly harder trying to do so without a teacher. you've only shown us characters, so i don't know how good you are at drawing backgrounds or scene composition. i'm assuming that like most kids who start drawing you haven't really done much of it. i'd say it's at least of equal importance in comics to being able to draw characters. there's also script writing; at my most cynical i think being able to tell a story is more important than being able to draw since there are plenty of successful mangastyle webcomic authors who can't draw worth shit (megatokyo for instance). I can't really invest in a teacher/tutor, I don't really know of any, at least not in the city where I live, and I doubt someones going to come over to my city just to teach some kid how to draw. I really just don't know where I can get a decent tutor that's willing to help me and fine tune my drawing. The only person I can really say is my "tutor" would be Mark Crilley's videos on YouTube. His videos have helped me a lot so I'm kinda starting to branch off and do my own kind of stuff now. In my next blog post, I'll include a decent background (of course it won't be absolutely eye opening or anything.) I'll draw a full body rather than just a disembodied head floating in space. I'm also going to include a somewhat decent story on the next characters to develop my story creating skills a bit (Which isn't very much, but I figure I might as well develop my story skills now) This one's probably gonna take a while, I've never really done this type of thing before. Thanks so much for your input/criticism. | ||
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rauk
United States2228 Posts
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Peanutbuttah
Canada68 Posts
On November 18 2011 12:52 rauk wrote: unless you live in a reaaaaaally backwater area i'm sure there's an art studio in your area that you can find in the yellow pages or google, or even just the art department at your high school if you've got one. Ahh, k. Went to my art teacher at school, turns out he's offer to teach me stuff on body proportions and human anatomy and whatnot during lunch (He's a good guy xD ). Should be fun. I probably should've just asked around school first, Stupid me. On November 18 2011 08:01 Vestrel wrote: you're pretty good! I gave up trying to draw things a while ago. >.> keep it up! Thanks! The next drawing will be postponed a bit and will proably end up coming in a week-ish/2 weeks. (Probably next Friday at best). I have a huge physics project to do. (Go figure eh?) More constructive feedback, go go go! | ||
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ImDrizzt
Norway427 Posts
What is this... I don't even... Sorry, I just don't really wanna draw that kind of stuff. I think it might really help your drawing career, broaden your fanbase at the start. Then narrow it in on what you prefer once you've established a little. They say that eerie, uncomfortable, tinglingy feeling when thinking about it is awesome, that means awesome, that you're growing, expanding your repertoire. | ||
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Seratonin
Australia88 Posts
You're pretty patient (wow, two hours!) and you're really into details, but sometimes I reckon you should look at the bigger picture. There are some bits where their skeletal system doesn't quite... work, y'know? You don't have to practice realism exclusively. Even setting 20% of your physics lessons (xD) to drawing un-stylised images would make the improvement to your manga drawings ginormous. Keep it up, man. | ||
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Peanutbuttah
Canada68 Posts
So today, thought I'd go back to the basics of drawing after what rauk had posted and have started studying human anatomy a bit, as well as taking out a few books from the school library about anatomy (these books are totally NSFW, my god...) I've also watched a few of Mark Crilley's videos on human proportions so I can apply it to my next drawings. (Gotta love Mark Crilley!) I quickly drew up some eyes for you guys to criticize while I start working on my "human anatomy project with a background and a somewhat decent story" as I think I'm going to call it now (though I'm no Stephen King or anything, do don't expect anything mind blowing.) ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/rtkO7.jpg) Had to take the pic with my webcam cause scanner wasn't co-operating  Took like 20 minutes, wasn't too bad. Next drawing will probably be up next week. Definitely before November ends. Also updated OP. | ||
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