Lots of people are good at drawing manga because they have their own style of drawing, right? Because you can't draw something that you don't understand. Aren't I correct? And each person's style is unique

If you're looking for how to draw certain parts of the body go to:
http://www.howtodrawmanga.com/

Sporkleey wrote:

I'll just go ahead and say that I looked at your drawings, and you an amazing artist. :]

When I draw reference-less anime, and this is just how I do it, I tend to start with a body first. And then work on the face, starting with the eyes. The eyes are usually what makes the drawing most powerful, getting them down will influence any anime drawing. :]

Also, develop your own personal style. It helps a lot to use tutorials on proportions-but make your own way of drawing the eyes, mouth and nose.

I really hope I'm not breaking any RMD rules by posting this, but a manga artist on youtube makes really informative videos on drawing anime:

http://www.youtube.com/user/markcrilley#g/u

I hope this helped, I probably just rambled on. Haha. Good luck!

OMG I LOVE HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

n8oz wrote:

Sporkleey wrote:

I'll just go ahead and say that I looked at your drawings, and you an amazing artist. :]

When I draw reference-less anime, and this is just how I do it, I tend to start with a body first. And then work on the face, starting with the eyes. The eyes are usually what makes the drawing most powerful, getting them down will influence any anime drawing. :]

Also, develop your own personal style. It helps a lot to use tutorials on proportions-but make your own way of drawing the eyes, mouth and nose.

I really hope I'm not breaking any RMD rules by posting this, but a manga artist on youtube makes really informative videos on drawing anime:

http://www.youtube.com/user/markcrilley#g/u

I hope this helped, I probably just rambled on. Haha. Good luck!

OMG I LOVE HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Haha, yup. Me too. :] I really want to read his manga, Miki Falls.

And I absolutely love your second drawing, it's so intense.
For the first one, I would just clean your lines up a bit-but they're both really good. :]

Thanks you guys I will keep putting drawings up, So you guys can help me

(Oh and thanks furbuluver101 I appreciate it )

for ref based fan arts, u should know how wide, long the anime things should be, or after it'll turn too skinny or to short, or the eyes to far apart or something. And how big something compares to another in the actual thing and on ur draw. But it takes practice, u can try looking at ur draws a while after, when I do that, I usually sees what I lack. XD
For original pictures, u can let ur imagination out! XD but still make sure nothing's out of place~ XD
shadows and high light's make a draw more 3D, even a extremely simple lineart can be made to a awesum draw by amazing colours, don't be afraid to make colours different for shadows and stuff, u can try hard or soft shadows, from ur draws, ur using the soft ones, but ur shadows in some draws are not very, eerr...what's word for it..."confident" I guess, sometimes not cuz ur unconfident, but the effectiveness and solidness of the colours, maybe it's cuz of the flash tool, or maybe that's just ur style, cuz I tend to make my shadows solid, unless my ref's not. . The shadows should be where in real life should be, it helps to know which way and where it goes when ur not using refs.
But most of all it takes PRACTICE! XD ur already pretty good, so keep on drawing! XD

Last edited by xqwmm (22 Dec, 2010 9:06 pm)

Try draw manga WITHOUT refs, I know that I used to draw plain manga people with their hands behind their backs with no expression whatsoever, but then I tried arms and I'm now improving.. just keep practicing .

well actually, when you're starting out, the only you CAN do is just practice. because there is lots of room for improvement in everything.

but don't just blindly practice, look at lots of good anime art and by good, I mean AMAZING, BRILLIANT, AWESOMETASTIC arts.

pick some role models for yourself and work from there cuz once you get used to looking how things are supposed to be drawn, your own flaws become obvious to you.

and then, you only need to draw them right by practicing. Just remember to pay lots of attention and draw out of your comfort zone, but don't overwhelm yourself by drawing overly complicated stuff that is too far out of your reach.

if you're interested, my role models are:
http://kaze-hime.deviantart.com/
http://udonnodu.deviantart.com/
http://lasaro.deviantart.com/

and there's plenty of other amazing artists that I look up to.

Last edited by tenmuki (27 Dec, 2010 5:02 pm)

   Max & Fang Ponyo

These r all newer

Last edited by n8oz (27 Dec, 2010 6:36 pm)

Not bad, not bad.