Just to give you an idea to begin
with, manga is Japanese comics or
comic books in Japan. There are
different types of manga that suits whatever group of age you belong. It is highly popular and acknowledged by
countless fans because of its involvedness with the lives of the readers. Many readers enjoy manga because they can
relate to the characters and the plot of the story itself. They experience unique and exceptional pieces
or tales that can only be seen in manga.
It doesn’t matter if you’re
already an adult or a kid. If you feel
like you want to learn how to draw manga, you may want to search for good
foundations. Check out books or guides
to help you learn easier. Having guides
will give you vast ideas in learning how to draw manga. You can even create your own unique style in
drawing. And in the manga world, being unique, rare, different or peculiar, is
very much NORMAL!
Here are some tips to help you
start with learning how to draw manga:
Be familiar with manga. Start familiarizing by reading manga that were already published
in the market, or already out in the internet.
If you surf the internet, there are websites that have free viewings of
manga that has been scanned and translated.
There are also doujinshi manga,
or the fan made graphic novels, that you can also check out. Many fan made artworks can give you great
ideas and techniques in creating your own.
You can also watch anime. All of
the most popular manga series were adapted and became an animated series. They were animated for those audiences who
prefer watching anime than reading manga.
Gather the drawing tools
and try drawing. Before getting a book or a how-to-guidelines for drawing manga,
try to gather the drawing tools first and start drawing. Just get the basic drawing tools so that it
would not be hard for you to find them.
The basic drawing tools are a pencil, a ballpoint pen, an eraser
and a small sketch pad or any drawing paper will do. Try to draw some characters from the manga
that you read or the anime that you saw.
Since you will be drawing for the first time, don’t fall apart if you
can’t copy the character yet. Drawing
manga needs effort and patience to get to the top so do not ever lose the will
of wanting to learn how to draw manga.
Get a How-To Guidelines for drawing manga. Buy a
good book that would help you in learning drawing manga skills. How-to-guidelines for drawing manga are,
naturally, easy to understand. They are
meant, by the authors, to be made easy for the readers to understand and learn
quickly. There are step-by-step tutoring
and they even have pictures while the drawing is being made.
Do not cheat while reading.
Others only read the first part, and goes, directly, to the last
instruction. You have to read each step
so that you won’t miss any secrets techniques or tips that the author might
give.
Practice drawing EVERYDAY! For starters, you can try drawing your favorite manga or anime
characters. That way, it would give you
inspiration to finish the drawing happily because you will see your favorite
character drawn by your own hand. Again,
you can use your favorite character as a starting point. ONLY as starting point.
I suggest you draw a different pose and just use the character as
a concept. But it doesn’t really matter if you copy the exact pose of the
character or not. What’s important is
that you were able to learn the technique that other artists used while making
their manga character.
Make sure that you practice everyday! Everyday doesn’t mean that you have to work
overtime. Give at least an hour a day
until you get used to drawing each day.
Eventually, it will harmonize itself to your schedule and will become
one of your daily routine. Also, slowly,
try creating your own unique style of manga.
Give it a try every once in a while.
Be imaginative and creative in making your own original character and
manga. It will come a time that you
wouldn’t need to use your favorite character as a model because you have
already created your own. And nothing
beats practice if you really want to become a better manga artist.
Enjoy and have fun! All the tips that I have given you earlier would never be
essential if you do not get the last one.
The most important part of learning how to draw manga is to enjoy
drawing. If you do not have the pleasure
and the willingness to learn it at the beginning, you wouldn’t be learning
anything at all. Not unless you are a
super robotic humanoid or a cyborg that can just store the skill into your
memory of your cyber brain. But we’re
all humans here. We have feelings, so
just enjoy it. “That’s the secret
weapon!” Aside from practice, that is!
Sad but true, most people think that drawing is unwise and
useless. All you have to do is to NOT
LISTEN! Although, there are many
criticisms, do not let that get into your mind.
Take it as a motivation instead.
Keep on running towards your dreams.
You know you can do it!