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Turning your deformed sticks into works of art, one step at a time……
12 Sep 2008 @ 2:21 PM
The Manga Ninja is Here!
Welcome one and all to the Manga Ninja Homepage. My name is Brandon I have been studying Manga and Anime for about 3 years now and I have decided to create this website and fill it with my knowledge of all things Anime and Manga. Anyone can learn how to draw Manga, you just have to have the patience to do so. There are a lot of things involved in creating a Manga work of art, The Manga Ninja can teach you all of them! Patience is a very good example, if you do not have patience you will never be able to accomplish what you want.
It can be difficult and even frustrating at times, but you need to pull through, just take your time and have fun, that is what drawing is all about, relaxing yourself and having fun. Since Manga has pretty much an unlimited knowledge base, every time I get a new book, video, or cool info. I will work on putting it into one of the tutorials in here.
Soon you will be a Manga Master, and draw like the Pro’s. In later times I will teach you to create your own style of Manga so it makes your expierence drawing better. To make sure you stay up to date, subscribe to my RSS feed which can be found to the left.
If you are having trouble locating the page bar look under this post it is fixed in so you will always see it.
First of all I would like to say that I have nearly had 300 visitors to this website. Secondly the first 3 tutorials have now been finished ON PAPER now I have to touch up drawings and write the pages. So as I present they will be released on Christmas Day which for me is 47 days away.
A lot of instructional drawing videos encourage students to use this method when learning how to draw. But from what I can tell, most artists don't draw like this. That is, they don't keep their eyes on the subject without ever looking at their drawing. Moreover, the instructors even acknowledge that the drawing isn't going to look very good when using this method. So, given that, what's the point of this method? I mean, what are you suppose to learn from it?
The idea of contour drawing is to train your arm, not your hand, to capture the ESSENCE - the underlying structure - of your subject with a single line. The more you practice it, without looking at what you are drawing, the more your eye becomes connected to your hand - just like typing without looking at the keyboard. It strengthens two things: hand-eye coordination and freedom from drawing habits that lock you into a certain position when drawing or painting.
The largest effect of this exercise is to free your hand from the habits you form in normal drawing. It's like doing pull-ups to strengthen your muscles for more accurate drumming.
We almost always draw with our hand resting on the paper, using the wrist as a pivot. All the drawing comes from the wrist. In contour drawing - if you're doing it correctly - no part of the hand rests on the paper, only the pencil/pen, and your entire ARM is the drawing force. In this way, it trains your arm to follow the contours of the subject, not the hand, exercising you to the fullest extent.
Consider it an exercise, even if you don't "get it," it will help. When you begin to paint, you won't be able to rest your hand in wet paint. Only the brush will touch the canvas.
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06 Nov 2008 @ 6:53 PM
Drawing in 5 point perspectives.
There is one point perspective also called linear perspective. Your sight is fixed/focused one 1 point in the distance and all receding lines go to that point, two point perspective, fixed position and you have 2 vanishing points , one to the left on the horizon line and one to the right on the horizon line, and three point perspective, the same as two point but you have a third vanishing point above you, tall buildings appear to get smaller as they rise. Your teacher might be referring to using 4 or 5 vanishing points in a drawing. . Example- If you take a stack of books and lay them on a table , keeping them all parallel to one another and you would use 1 point perspective. If you move any of the books so the corner is closer to you, you will have 2 vanishing points for that book in addition to the single point for the rest of the book, if you move another book so it is not parallel to any of the other books, it will have another 2 vanishing points. That would be 5 vanishing points in your drawing. Get it? If you drew 5 books, all in different positions-none of them is parallel to any of the other ones you would have 10 vanishing points in your drawing. All parallel objects use the same vanishing points.
05 Nov 2008 @ 8:10 AM
How do people “draw” good pictures on things like Photoshop?
People draw pictures on Photoshop and things like that and they look like real photos, is this a trick? is there some kind of code or way you can add pictures on your wihiteboard? or are these people just really good artist/drawers
No
Some people are just naturally good at using a mouse to draw such as graphic designers. Others may use a tablet (a touch sensitive screen like an electronic version of paper).
-Brandon
05 Nov 2008 @ 8:10 AM
Do you ever Draw when your not even thinking about it?
Art sometimes, seems far away from our society. Do you remember your first drawing? Have you ever drawn even when you are already an adult? What kind of pictures do you like to draw? What’s the difference between an adult and a child learning to draw?
There is a small difference. When children learn to draw they usually have the time and state of mind to focus on what there doing. Whereas adults don’t always focus on what they are doing, this can cause them to get even more stressed than they might already be. Instead of letting there minds forget they let a million thoughts go around there head at the same time. Will I be able to finish my Project? What will I eat for Dinner? All those kinds of little question take them more and more off focus. So when you do draw make sure you forget all your troubles and let your mind run wild.
I have just about finished my new Forum but I need your help, I need you to post your Ideas and suggestions to keep it running so go there and tell me!
12 Oct 2008 @ 1:36 PM
How to Draw a Manga Fight Pose
In this video Mark Crilley creator of a new manga series called “Miki Falls” shows us how to draw 2 different fight poses with the main focus being a clenched fist.
In this video mark crilley creator of a new Manga series called “Miki falls” will show us how to draw a figure in motion with emphasis on clothing lines to create a 3-D effect.
I am putting up the clothing page but there are currently no pictures I hope to have them up in about a week or 2. Since there are really only 5 pictures I need to draw it should not take me long. The only other pictures I need to do are the many different fashions which will be constantly updated.
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In this video Mark Crilley creator of a new manga series called “Miki Falls” shows us how to draw 2 different fight poses with the main focus being a clenched fist.
In this video mark crilley creator of a new Manga series called “Miki falls” will show us how to draw a figure in motion with emphasis on clothing lines to create a 3-D effect.
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