Wednesday, 1 December 2010

Anime

First things first, I have learnt how to draw Anime characters. They are not perfect or anything but it's a start. They are the best drawings I've done. I currently draw three type of people:
1. Anime Cat-Girls,
2. Male characters with wierd (Well, Anime style) hair,
3. Female characters with ponytails that look crazy.
As does the teacher, Moosh.
I do not know Moosh personally. I was on Newsgrounds the other day, found the tutorial and then decided to learn how to draw. It was fun.
My method of drawing is simple:
1. Decide the character. There are some differences between the three that need to be done quickly.
2. Decide the view, Head and shoulders, 85% of body or 45% of body. For size reason.
3. Draw the face lines. These have slight varience depending on character.
4. If it's a girl, choose hair style. If you want the hair to come in front of the shoulder then take that into account while drawing the neck/shoulders.
5. Make the fringe. Randomosity is key.
6. From the neck up, draw a spiked hair style for boys or a long flowing style for girls (Including cats.) Dont connect it with the fringe but make it come up to the height.
7. Randomly do the hair for guys. For girls I recommend a circluar style.
7a. For normal girls, draw headbands and go crazy with the ponytails. With cat girls, draw cat ears instead.
8. You now have the outline. Well done. Choose an expression.
9. Eyes. Hard to explain. Moosh explains it well in his tutorial but if you use the expression builder, you can create thousands of eyes. Either small and shart for males or big and bushy for females.
10. Nose. Draw a line from one of the eyes to around the cheek level and the make a < shape. (Or a > shape.) This is a nose. Easier than I expected.
11. Mouth. Line with smaller lines purtuding at 45 degree angles from the tips. Best tip. Add fangs for Cats.
12. For cats, draw a tail to one side. For more than head and shoulder, draw arms, body, big breasts Et cetera.
13. You're done. In theory. Clothing is important (Jeans and a T-Shirt) and if you can, colour. I can't colour so... I wont.

And that's Anime drawing. Hard to do at first, easy to do after a while and simply awesome when you add colour and a background. I'm done.

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