[-[sargent]-]

hi guys,
i wanna get the hang of drwing anime style, any good tips and tricks out there? and does any one know any anime drawing tutorial sites
thanks

[6adecimal]

Hi Michael,

If you're looking for some great hints on drawing manga / anime style, check out this page:
www.polykarbon.com by Patrick Shettlesworth

Greetings,

[KeLLuSioN]

Julie Dillon also has a pretty nice tutorial site- http://www.jdillon.net
Hope it helps.

[geoman2k]

bleh... i say screw anime... if ya wanna be a really good artist, find your own style- otherwise you're just another face in the TenchiDragonBallTriGundamWingMuyo Z crowd...
well thats just my 2 cents :P

[ June 10, 2001: Message edited by: geoman2k ]

[Ysg]

I'd suggest not to get into drawing anime because the Japanese do it better and non-japanese anime is a passing fad (why else would 'flavor of the week' Image comics publish it?)
Most anime artist in Japan have a great deal of technical drawing skills, like drafting and what-not. The current crop of non-japanese anime drawings just don't look right because there isn't that meticulous attention to detail that they have in the far east.

Let anime influence you (we can't help to be influenced by what we like, right?) but don't let it become your main style.

[Briareos]

Its a solid style, so stop dissing it. Its way better then american comics.

If you want to learn the style, study the masters. My favorite artist is Masamune Shirow. Go check out the Shirow galleries at www.intron-x.net.

Like YSG said tho, use the style to learn from. Trying to draw pure manga style is really hard, americans tend to draw it way to cartoony. Don't know what to say really, I love it, I cant really draw it, but I have learned allot from reading and studying it. They do alot of things right where american comics just screw it up.

Geoman2k: you are listing mainstream american versions of some popular anime. I to have a distaste for these. But real true good manga art is really super cool. Go to your comic store and pick up a copy of Masamune Shirow's Ghost In The Shell. (PS even if u thought the movie sucked, the movie doesnt do the manga justice).

Another example related to YSGs point: White people trying to master martial arts... hehe mostly really pathetic, jerky, and unrefined. Its something programed into asian culture, we cant just simply master something it took years for them to develop. Anime is new, but same idea.

[geoman2k]

quote

Quote:

Geoman2k: you are listing mainstream american versions of some popular anime. I to have a distaste for these. But real true good manga art is really super cool. Go to your comic store and pick up a copy of Masamune Shirow's Ghost In The Shell. (PS even if u thought the movie sucked, the movie doesnt do the manga justice).

I've seen the ghost in the shell movie, and I've read some of the manga(Ghost in the Shell is one of my favorite movies of all time, and the manga is awesome). I've also seen a lot of the Japanesse non-american anime. I'm not denying that there is a lot of excellent anime art in Japan- there is. Its just that 99.999% of the time, when someone says "I wanna draw anime", its because they watched some episodes of Dragon Ball Z and thought it was cool. I just think that if this dude spends his time trying to find his own style, instead of copying Gundamn Wing, he'll turn out a much better artist.
I think there are just way too many people who see an anime show on Toonami, draw a picture of Goku or whatever, then think that they are on the road to being a comic book artist- when they really aren't going anywhere. The anime fad in America with fade once something replaces Pokemon, then all these Americans that have spent all thier tiem trying to draw up to the par of Trigun will be screwed over: In America, no one will be interested in the style, and in Japan there will be about 1000000 artists who are just as good, and then some.

Get my drift?

[Brain]

http://www.mutoanime.com/

[Lunatique]

I grew up drawing nothing but anime and manga, and that was all I watched and read for a long time. But, while I did that, I also trained myself to draw realistic portraits, sci-fi/fantasy illustrations, and dabbled in american/european comics. I have to tell you, if you concentrated on just that style, you will be limiting yourself as an artist.

One of the best advice I've gotten was, "If you can just draw/paint well, you can pretty much pull off any style."

I tell ya, that is very true. There is no mystery in drawing ANY style. Every artistic style is grounded in the most basic artistic training. You have to know the real deal before you can start exaggerating things.

[wayfinder]

restrictions


do whatever you want! don't let anyone tell you what style to draw (especially not me!)