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quaze6
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does anyone know where i can find a site where i can learn to draw anime?
Last edited by quaze6 on Sun Sep 12, 2004 7:30 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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darkhunter
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Change your subject to match what you're looking for.
Are you familar with forums? If not, you're suppose to put subject header that's related to what you're trying to ask or discuss about. |
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quaze6
Posts: 119 Location: youll never catch me!hahaha!! |
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there you go, my bad
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Nagisa
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Take some legitimate drawing courses and then try incorporating some characteristics of your favourite character/mechanical designers & manga artists into your work. Longest way around, but you'll produce better artwork in the long run. All these "how to draw anime" websites & self-help books aren't really all they're cracked up to be, unless of course you're wanting to draw something akin to the Teen Titans/Totally Spies/Megas XLR crop of shows.
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Patachu
Past ANN Contributor
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What Nagisa said ...
Forget "anime," start at http://www.saveloomis.org/ , and then when you can draw regular-looking people, maybe you can start adopting characteristics of anime into your drawing style -- if you're still into that kind of stuff by then. |
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quaze6
Posts: 119 Location: youll never catch me!hahaha!! |
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dude, ill always be into anime
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quaze6
Posts: 119 Location: youll never catch me!hahaha!! |
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thats a good idea and all, but im just looking for an anime drawing site
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Nagisa
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Listen to what Patachu is saying. Learning to draw the human figure as it is will help greatly in your ability to draw in general, as well as your ability to draw anime-style characters. The reason I haven't mentioned any anime drawing websites is because they're poor sources. They teach almost nil about human proportion, the style of drawing they teach is usually painfully generic (like I said, Totally Spies sorta stuff), and they're notorious for giving out just generally bad advice (i.e., "all male characters are super-ripped muscle-heads, even the petite bishounen"). |
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quaze6
Posts: 119 Location: youll never catch me!hahaha!! |
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yeah, i uess ill try that
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Animefreak08
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I never used those "How To Draw Manga" books, or any website or anything like that. I just basically watched cartoons, drew cartoonish figures, then I got into anime(Been drawing anime-ish characters since I was 8)and tried to imitate their style. I learned on my own. Oh and read lots of manga. You can read it then go back, look at their art style, the way they shade, color, ink and everything, then incorporate it into your style. Also if you plan on creating color pictures, then try Copic Markers, or a program along the lines of Photoshop. BLEACH fanart I did using copic markers to ink, then Photoshop to color.
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Nani?
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Nagisa is right in the sense of learning to draw well in general. I do use the how to draw series for culturally specific details as needed, backed up by a good chunk of research. For example, recently I did a lot of research on a Miko's costume a long with some good background info.
All the Best, Nani? |
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jsyxx
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God I wish I could draw manga style. But my drawing skills in general suck. Thats one thing I hope to improve one day.
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Torka
Posts: 74 Location: somewhere far far away |
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Some of those How to draw books are useful. They show specific things like how to use screen tones, pens and inks etc. They also teach special techniques to create effects and stuff. |
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Tony K.
 SubscriberModerator  Posts: 11445 Location: Frisco, TX |
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I've been pretty good at coloring, but I stink at drawing. A friend of mine in high school was into art and things like that, and she was curious to see me outlining what looked like a picture of DBZ.
I told her it was just a very light computer printout and that I was outlining it pencil to fool everyone into thinking I drew it myself, but I told everyone they were just printouts anyway. 
In any case, after she saw it, she took it from me and said she wanted to color it. So she took it and finished it during World History on the same day (I think that's what class it was). After that, I looked a the picture and liked it a lot, and thus decided to mimic my coloring style after her's for the rest of the pictures I would color the rest of high school (and life, I guess, but I haven't colored anything in a while). She's Vietnamese by the way (I think, or maybe Korean, she never told me  ). Anyway, I doubt being Asian had anything to do with it. 
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kainzero
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you should learn how to draw human first, then inject your own style into it until you like how it looks.
i can't draw for crap (mostly because i don't want to), but i'd think that's what most people do. if you look at manga, they always look different... or certain artists have definitive style. i'm pretty sure they didn't get it from looking at how to draw-type books. some of my friends do draw, and its cool seeing how they can vary their style, not just anime but anything in general. but i'm probably saying this because i'm a proponent of creativity and that's the best way to get it going. if you get those books, you can't help but think that everyone else who got those books would draw very similarly to you =X |
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