Ahhh, I'm thirteen years old, and I've been drawing for quite some time and most admire my illustrations at this age, but time has caught up to me and in some time my drawings will be considered mediocre. I'm a huge fan of anime and I want to bring my style up to that type of professional level, my drawings are inconsistent and there are a lot of misshaped, unbalanced portions, I want some sort of style that will allow me to be able to draw the same thing over and over again. Could someone hook me up with some web tutorials on drawing good anime-influenced characters or recommend a book or something like that, I really enjoy drawing in my spare time, but there is a lot of room for improvement, my style isn't what I want it to be right now.
2007-03-13 06:34:01 · 4 answers · asked by sebwitha3 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Drawing & Illustration
If you go to Barnes&Noble or Borders, go to the art section and you will find 50 books on drawing cartoons/comics/anime.
They're all based on the same thing: Guidelines.
If your drawings are disproportionate, you're probably drawing the characters "clean" right off the bat, with no sketching of the body construction beforehand.
Draw an oval for the head. Lightly.
Draw a longer oval for the body. Lightly.
And then rough in where the features will be. This is the "skeleton" of your character. The "skeleton" should always have the same proportions. This will keep your characters looking consistent. If you just draw them starting with one eye and moving on to the next specific feature, it will be almost impossible to stay true to the last drawing of the same person. Once you have finished your guideline (skeleton) THEN draw the details and erase the pencil marks after you've inked it.
2007-03-13 09:55:02 · answer #1 · answered by D L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow, you have an amazing vocabulary and sentence structure for a person your age.
And you have already set a goal, that's good.
I did my first cartoons when I was a junior in high school.
A good way to develop a 'body' style is to pick a character that you've drawn and like. Then, take tracing paper and a pencil, put the tracing paper over your drawing and draw an outline around the character's body parts - head, torso, upper arms, lower arms, hands, feet, tails or any other features.
That gives you the proportions of the character's body.
Using the same proportions and 'balloon shapes' make balloons of every conceivable position that character would use - running, walking, jumping, dancing, whatever.
Save them or improve them. What they give you is the 'movement' shapes of your character.
make line/balloon drawings of scenes, characters, etc before you make detailed drawings. That gives you the overall picture into which you put you artwork.
Spend hours, days and weeks developing characters, scenes and related things - work - work - work, it isn't done overnight.
Practice is what you need, then develop the easier things.
2007-03-17 13:29:59 · answer #2 · answered by ha_mer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
anime isnt very professional in my piont of view
im a cartoonist, and ive mixed some anime into my art, but u can barely tell
each person has a different style!
a good website for all types of art is listed below
2007-03-13 17:25:43 · answer #3 · answered by Sir. ChatsAlot 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Apart from searching for a new style,
I think you should study foundations first,
such as human figure, perspective, dimension and etc...
Without a strong base,
any style could be fragile.
2007-03-14 10:27:42 · answer #4 · answered by Soo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋