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Azwan - Takeshi
20th March 1992.
A 21-year old body with a mind far beyond comprehension.
History:
-Qifa Primary Sch
-Bukit View Secondary Sch
-Ngee Ann Polytechnic
-Specialist Cadet Sch 15/13
I'm a:
-Shinobi
-Anime Otaku
-Photographer
-Traceur
-Audio-visual Freelance
-Instrumentalist
-Artist
-Skater
-Biker
Things I love:
-Anime
-Photography
-Speed Biking
-Music
-Elsa (elec guit)
-Belle (acoustic guit)
-Dust (semi-acoustic guit)
-Skating (land/ice)
-Badminton / Tennis
-Drawing
-Parkour
-My cat
-Siti Nurhidayah Binte Osman <3
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I don't dare to kill even an ant.
p.s Kill animals and I'll hunt you down.
I may be quiet most of the time.
But if you're willing to talk, I may talk for kilometers. =P
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
WANT TO DRAW ANIME?
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Hey guys, the man is back!
Well, I'm not really in the Hari Raya mood.
I'm not really sure why.
Anyways, this post benefits my friend Aishah!
Hello Aishah! heh =P
Heh, and it's for anyone interested in drawing anime too.
I'm just gonna give a few tips and advise on how to draw nice posters.
**take note, I'm not professional either, I paint, I don't draw.
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Well most of us, if not everyone, starts off not knowing the basics of drawing anime right.
And hey, it's not like you can't learn!
Perhaps many of you started drawing like me.
You close your eyes, think of what you wanna draw, and then you just scribble with a pencil.
Like this:
..drawing crap like this, or maybe not knowing exactly what to draw:
..like this.
Fret not!
In my case, I start from step to step basis.
I work out one part by one part.
I divided my anime drawing practicals into several parts:
-eyes
-face
-hair
-shadows and outlines
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Firstly is the eyes part.
Practice drawing different kinds of eyes.
Not sure how to start drawing eyes?
Don't worry, there's always Google!
Google stuff like 'male anime eyes' or 'female anime eyes' and samples like these should pop up.
Female eyes
Male eyes
More technical variety
Putting into practice
It's good to save these samples so that you can refer to them and improvise as to what you want to use on your anime character.
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Alright next up is the face.
Face shapes are important in giving out the true nature of the stance and posture of the character.
It displays the angle at which the character is standing too.
Here are some examples:
In this step, don't concentrate on the hair too much.
You'll lose the purpose of the practical.
The main thing here is to pick up ways to emphasize on the jaw and cheeks.
Along this way, work out the ways of drawing nose and mouths too.
This would be an added bonus.
As you practice on, you'll learn how to associate mouth shapes with facial expressions.
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Here comes the hair part.
Hair is the pat which requires technical design.
The hair should accentuate the face shape of the character.
Remember this: anime hair is subtle and delicate, yet visually interpretive.
An example of a hair index
There's another step to this.
You may want to..
..draw the skeleton first, plan the viewing angle and the details on the hair. And add the hair on to..
..your final drawing afterwards, so that there is not much distortion due to eraser marks and unwanted details.
That's basically it for the hair.
If all put together till now, I would slowly piece bit by bit:
Piece in sketches of eyes, jaws, face shape, and hair.
Bad drawing is okay in this steps.
Look, I drew bad too.
Practice is key.
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Last tip from me is the shadows and outlines.
This is the usually tricky part to making our character more 'real-life' looking.
Drawing without shadow profile - it looks flat and bland.
whereas:
Drawing with shadow profile - accentuates her figure and contours, as well as create a visual appreciation o detail.
The key to producing shadows and stuff is to first think of the light source.
Where is it coming from?
How bright is it?
And how will the light affect the amount of detail?
Imagine it from a real-life physics point of view.
If the light source is coming from the top, any detail that is covered by the character would require extra shading and so forth.
That's the basis.
It requires training, and lots of watching anime and reading manga heh =P
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These are some of the few tips I use to draw too.
Well mine isn't really that good anyways.
I used to draw using this method while still in Secondary school.
Sketching and stuff.
It didn't really work.
Now I try the conventional methods:
Edward and Orihime side by side FTW
A more complicated and time-consuming one would be like:
..this Gundam Seed drawing over here.
You can also try transforming human into anime.
Like as in the case of this Gabalnara photo, I tried..
..and I got this.
Not really nice, but it's a sketch.
Oh well, I guess that's it for my tip.
I'm still a student too, and still learning, so if there are any more pointers and stuff, do share it on my CBox or Formspring.
Seeya!
=D
Az1
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