How to draw manga vol 1

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Vo/.1 Sketching to Plan

Plan Using the Frog in the Can This brand-new volume offers a brand-new «sketching to plan» tin can crammed full of the fundamentals of manga sketching as well as suggestions and ideas to help the reader improve. This book is a condensed can of artwork, jampacked with a wide range of styles, ranging from realistic renditions to stylized «abstracted » and «exaggerated» renditions. Now that is Sketching Manga-Style!

HOW TO DRAW MANGA: Sketching Manga-Style Vol. 1 Sketching to Plan by Hikaru Hayashi, Takehiko Matsumoto, Kazuaki Morita Copyright © 2005 Hikaru Hayashi, Takehiko Matsumoto, Kazuaki Morita Copyright © 2005 Graphic-sha Publishing Co., Ltd. This book was first designed and published in 2005 by Graphic-sha Publishing Co., Ltd. This English edition was first designed and published in 2007 by Graphic-sha Publishing Co., ltd. 1-14-17 Kudan-kita, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0073, Japan. Cover Art: Original Cover Design: Layout and Text: Editor: English Edition Layout: English Translation: Publishing coordinator: Project management:

Kazuaki Morita Hammerz Co., Ltd. Takehiko Matsumoto, Kazuaki Morita, and Hikaru Hayashi (Go Office) Motofumi Nakanishi (Graphic-sha Publishing Co., ltd.) Shinichi lshioka Lingua franca, Inc. (http://www.lingua-franca.co.jp) Michiko Yasu (Graphic-sha Publishing Co., Ltd.) Kumiko Sakamoto (Graphic-sha Publishing Co., Ltd.)

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

First printing: February 2007

ISBN: 978-4-7661-1709-7 Printed and bound in China by Everbest Printing Co., ltd.

Differences between Standard

A Look at the Manga Sketch Frontline Part 1. 8

A Look at the Manga Sketch Frontline Part 2. 16

Drawing a Standing Pose Using

These are the techniques that allow the artist to make fiction seem real. (Matsumoto) The essence of manga and anime is portraying something totally fictitious or fantastic to make it seem real. (Morita) Excerpts from a Tete-a-Tete Interview

Conventional sketching techniques lead toward realism as a style. Manga and anime do not employ «realism» per se, but rather are worlds of «realistic» versus «stylized» artwork. The realistic styles differ from reality. Rather than observing the actual object and sketching it, in order to render the subject realistically, the artist must devise a way of drawing it to make it look convincing. This is what we describe in the book as «super manga sketching.»

Artwork and Production: Production Assistant: Production Support: Cover Artwork: Cover Design: Layout and Text: Text Support: Photography: Editor: Support:

Takehiko Matsumoto and Kazuaki Morita Takumi Takahashi and Haruki Takahashi Rio Yagizawa Kazuaki Morita Hammerz Co., Ltd. Takehiko Matsumoto, Kazuaki Morita, and Hikaru Hayashi (Go Office) Hiroaki Yano Yasuo lmai Motofumi Nakanishi (Graphic-sha) Logistics Inc., Seiji Kishi, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Rghters, TV Tokyo Corporation, Himeya Soft, Inc., M no Violet, Kodansha Ltd., Enterbrain, Inc.

Sketching While Planning

Manga artists do occasionally use photograph or figure models as reference while sketching manga-style. However, the artist’s task when working in a manga or anime context is essentially to produce a large volume of high-quality artwork within a limited time. Consequently, manga sketching is a technique where the artist produces artwork in an environment that does not consistently allow him or her to use a sample or reference when drawing. This technique was achieved through the artist devising his or her artwork while using logic and experience. It is possible that the origins of manga sketching may be traced to children ‘s drawings. However, that manga sketching entails incorporating a variety of experiences as well as basic artwork techniques such as the head-to-body ratio make it a true art form, rendering comparisons to «children’s drawings» inappropriate. Let us now take a look at actual manga sketching, where an artist gives birth to something out of nothing.

Differences between Standard Sketching and Manga Sketching The sketchbook contains a wide variety of sketches: character studies, doodles, sketches of scenes from TV or movies, studies drawn using pictures from photography collections as reference, etc. Samples from a Professional Manga Artist’s Sketchbook

Character Design Studies: The artist congeals the character’s personality, actions and behavior, and overall look by sketching the character in a variety of poses.

How to Draw Manga Head

Introduction: How to Draw Manga Head

Manga is japanese for comic. So what i will be teaching you to do is how to draw manga head this is a very popular style with many artists and has been here since the late 80s

Hopefully this experience will help along your journey in drawing

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Step 1: How to Draw Manga Head Right Angle

Step 2: Step:1

1. (a) Draw a circle in the middle of your page.

(b) Draw a line down the left of the circle inside the circle you’ve just drawn This will make what artists call guidelines which indicate where eyes and chin go.

Step 3:

3. (a) now draw a curved line to attach left side of the v

This curved line will show the angle of which the character’s head is pointing

Step 4:

3. (a) now draw a curved line to attach left side of the v

This curved line will show the angle of which the character’s head is pointing

Step 5:

4. (a) now draw a line down the right side of the v about an inch

(b) then draw a smaller line down the left side of the v

(c) Now draw another v connecting the 2 lines

Step 6:

5.(a) to draw the ear draw ½ of an oval on the right side of the circle in the middle of the circle

(b) and sketch a oddly shaped w in the middle of the oval

Step 7:

6.(a) draw a line with very small triangle in the middle beside the small oval

(b) draw a small circle underneath the line with a triangle attached to the bottom of it (c) then put a dot in the middle of the small circle (d) now in the very middle of the circle draw a sideways v for the nose

Step 8:

7.(a) now you erase all of the access lines and the line that connects the first v

(b) also erase the line that goes down the middle of the circle (c)you are also supposed to erase the guidelines (from the first step you drew)

Step 9:

8. Now you can draw the hair (there are many types of hair but what we want you to drawn is wavy spiky hair that takes place of the top part of the big circle)

Step 10:

9.(a) draw a rectangular or triangular shape at the lower part of the first v and below the nose

(b) then inside that shape draw a line (c) half way in that line draw upside down v

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2 Comments

Great tutorial! If you could make another one where it shows how to draw a female characters head that would be great. With your article I managed to draw a perfect male character, but for a female I had to use another article. Maybe this will help some other beginner like me 🙂