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So, I've volunteered my services to do a collaboration with
. The idea is that I will create a brief black and white manga style comic for a clever short story she has created. However, I have been panicked due to my own self doubt in my abilities.
After a couple nights of hyperventilating and trying to find exit strategies, I finally pulled myself together and decided to begin working. Yes, yes, I know this looks nothing like something you would see in an anime or manga, but there is a method to my madness.
An art teacher once told me you had to first learn how to draw something correctly before you can break the laws of nature. Long story short: I am much more familiar with drawing manga female characters, but the three (living) characters in the short story are all dudes.
So, I'm familiarizing myself with the male figure. I started with the face since it is the most comfortable feature for me to draw. From here I'll draw some arms, legs, torso, you know, the body? Here in a few days when I've become more comfortable with male figures, I'll be moving on to the fun part.... Character sheets!!
Note: For those interested in a great resource for learning to draw the human body, I highly suggest "Anatomy for the Artist" by Sarah Simblet. It teaches the bone and muscles structure, as most anatomy books do, but it is full of amazing reference material in color and black and white!! This is the first picture I have drawn out of it and I will be doing more soon
Supplies: Charcoal on Sketch Pad
Time: 1 to 2 hours
So, I've volunteered my services to do a collaboration with
. The idea is that I will create a brief black and white manga style comic for a clever short story she has created. However, I have been panicked due to my own self doubt in my abilities. After a couple nights of hyperventilating and trying to find exit strategies, I finally pulled myself together and decided to begin working. Yes, yes, I know this looks nothing like something you would see in an anime or manga, but there is a method to my madness.
An art teacher once told me you had to first learn how to draw something correctly before you can break the laws of nature. Long story short: I am much more familiar with drawing manga female characters, but the three (living) characters in the short story are all dudes.
So, I'm familiarizing myself with the male figure. I started with the face since it is the most comfortable feature for me to draw. From here I'll draw some arms, legs, torso, you know, the body? Here in a few days when I've become more comfortable with male figures, I'll be moving on to the fun part.... Character sheets!!
Note: For those interested in a great resource for learning to draw the human body, I highly suggest "Anatomy for the Artist" by Sarah Simblet. It teaches the bone and muscles structure, as most anatomy books do, but it is full of amazing reference material in color and black and white!! This is the first picture I have drawn out of it and I will be doing more soon
Supplies: Charcoal on Sketch Pad
Time: 1 to 2 hours
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Oooh, page 48, right? (I have the book by my pc - It is FANTASTIC ...but I don't use it as often as I should!)
This is a great study You've created a very emotional portrait from the reference which is obviously perfect for story-telling, although also for the sake of story-telling I would watch out for where your areas of high contrast are - the reader's eyes will be drawn to them and at the moment the area to the side of his mouth is distracting because of that - but overall the portrait is very accurate and so true to the reference that I was able to easily find it in the book
This is a great study
You've created a very emotional portrait from the reference which is obviously perfect for story-telling, although also for the sake of story-telling I would watch out for where your areas of high contrast are - the reader's eyes will be drawn to them and at the moment the area to the side of his mouth is distracting because of that - but overall the portrait is very accurate and so true to the reference that I was able to easily find it in the book