How long will it take to learn how to draw anime anatomy?
It depends on what age u started at. A way to help further the process though is by taking 30 min out the day to sketch nothing but body poses, torso's, or action poses. These should help you with that. Try practicing these everyday for 30min.
What is the best way to learn character designing?
I would suggest few steps. Practice sketching people around you, and not in the perfect sense, but anything that you eye capture. Quick sketches of movements, gestures, body parts, clothes folding, etc…Research and enjoy other artists’ characters. I do that on a daily basis (you can find lots of these on pinterest and behance). This will inspire you and teach you other styles and techniques.Practice techniques until you find your own voice or something you’re comfortable with.Watch lots of tutorials on the subjects that you want to strengthen yourself. Anatomy for example, clothes design, etc.Know how to think and structure any design. Characters consist of several factors. Putting the style aside, a character first has to have an appeal (a charisma so the audience would care about or relate to, even if the character is evil), but note that cuteness and appeal are two different things. A character has a shape, weight, volume etc… A character has a personality, means he acts in a unique way, walks and talks in his/her own way (so even if it is a character drawn and not animated, you have to imagine how it act and it helps you to know how it would stand in a pose or so). Since the character has its personality or whatever, and live in a certain area and era, it has to have a consistent clothing that fits the story or the time or the place (sci-fi or fantasy or historic etc). But his outfit is also a reflection of the character, is it punk, hero, knight, detective, teenager, etc…?I would suggest also that you start copying other artists. This is important and no it’s not cheating. It will help you develop a sense of understanding. Some people love manga, some love noir comics, some love disney style, and it’s not something wrong to try different styles not just the ones you like. But of course, the style that you feel comfortable with, you can practice more on it. After copying, try to invent or draw from imagination what you learned. Or draw a different pose or perspective to an already existing character.Here’s another trick, all artists steal. Richard Williams admitted that he made Roger bunny like a collage of other characters (bugs bunny, goofy, mickey mouse, etc…). It is a great way too if you want to start creating a character. Just look at the other artists’ creations, and you can see that every character has something from another character.Those are the things that I thought about for now :)Let me know what happens.
I am trying to learn manga drawing, is there a good tutorial or website to learn anatomy and body proportions?
Here are some:AnatoRef tumblr blog: provides reference for all sort of stuff, from humans to creatures to cars, etc.markcrilley youtube channel: a really fun guy, he explains the stuff clearly and also teaches some basics like crosshatching and shading. He used to make more anime/manga related content, but his current videos still help a lot in drawing.Sycra youtube channel: might not be as fun and interesting as Mark Crilley, but he explains everything very deeply. Other than drawing videos, he also makes videos on how to stay inspired, character design process, etc. Recently, he started doing some art critiques (I think you can pay for critique) and watching them helps a lot in noticing your own mistakes.There are some good tutorials by Tracy, creator of the webcomic Lackadaisy:Lackadaisy ConstructionPosesLackadaisy ExpressionsYou can find lots of tutorials from different artists in Pinterest.Remember, as Mark Crilley usually says, there is no correct way of drawing manga. There are so many styles you can try or create, and people draw the way they are most comfortable.
How can I learn to draw from different angles and perspectives?
Howdy!Update 04/07/2018 -Greetings!I’m opening up a new FB group for people learning how to draw cartoons. I have free online courses coming through the pipeline, teaching a systematic, step by step process on drawing effectively.Where: https://www.facebook.com/groups/freeonlinecartooningcourse/Who is it for: Beginners & all agesWhat you are referring to is rotating your character.The technique that is needed, uses shapes to enable you to turn your character around. It’s a matter of converting your 2D drawing into a 3D object/shape.So for your head, I just don’t see a flat oval, I see a 3D sphere shaped as an oval.Here is an example from one of the workshops I run: take note of the guide lines on each face.It’s not straight, it’s curved! (2D vs 3D)Note: Mcleay Workshops is an old domain, I wouldn’t bother going there, my new website is at the bottom of this post!Watch Me Draw Big Hero Six and How I Use Shapes to Draw in 3DSome printables:here is another similar post I did today:Rob Mcleay's answer to How can I draw faces/people better?Cool, talk soon!Rob:)Who am I?I create cartooning projects to inspire and motivate new artists, check them out here.Or otherwise hit me up at my FB page Rob's World