Description

Manga is a highly regarded art form inJapan.Manga artists are highly respected not only for their skillbutalso for their imagination and creativity.

To draw manga, one would have to study the characteristicsofmanga images. Most people who wants to learn how to draw mangaareusually attracted to some characters in a manga series.Withoutknowing it, they're not only attracted to the physical formof themanga character, they're also drawn to the personality ofthecharacter.

Manga pictures are not hard to draw once you understand itsbasiccharacteristics. And here they are.

Firstly, manga characters are adorable looking. This cutenessisdefined by extremely large eyes, an almond shaped face, and averysmall mouth. In fact, the faces of manga characters can lookverysimilar, and they're differentiated mostly by their elaboratehair,dressing and accessories.

The manga face is made up of very basic shapes. So there'sverylittle I can recommend here except to practice, practice,practice.If you can master drawing one manga face well, you'll beable todraw other manga faces as well.

The key here is to be able to capture the elaborate hair. Itsnotuncommon to see manga characters with long hair. Many finelines arerequired to draw a fine head of hair, so do pick a sharpdrawingtool for this purpose.

The dressing and accessories of a manga character is astatementof who the character is. So do not ignore these finedetails.Spiritual characters often have "floating" pieces of clotharoundthem (e.g. cloak, scarf, etc).

Warriors almost always carry some kind of fancy weapon suchasswords, spears, and so on. These weapons, together withtheclothing, make-up the entire manga character.

Knowing this, the next time you draw a manga character,payspecial attention to the hair, clothing and weapons ofthecharacter.