What is the best way to color my anime/manga drawings?
It depends if you want to do it by hand or not. But if you want to use a computer, you can scan it and colour it in photoshop, Open Canvas or paint tool sai. You can get free trials of all of them, i personally use Open canvas. But if you want to colour by hand, you can use copic markers For a more anime style to against manga colouring, use the computer, you can also use screen tones, for a proper manga effect on the computer
I need tips on how to get better at drawing manga/anime!?
http://www.mangarevolution.com/ http://www.mangarevolution.com/ http://www.mangatutorials.com/ http://www.polykarbon.com/ http://www.howtodrawmanga.com/ http://www.mangapunk.com/tutorials/ http://www.bakaneko.com/ these sites are great to start off… these are some of the steps i think is the way to start (copy and pasted from one of my past answers to a similar quesiton)... 1. try it yourself: find an anime/manga that you enjoy and try drawing it be sure to chose an author/artist that uses a style that you are comfortable with (start out with a simple manga that doesn't have much inking) 2. learn some techniques: look at the websites fellow answerers have given you, try to learn some new techniques... i personally have a special way i like to draw, but i never hurts to learn new ways 3. practice the basics: try drawing a simple human (animals are kinda hard depending what style you are using) don't try to do your fav anime character just yet 4. piece it together: try drawing you fav animated characters... use sone of the new technique you've learned or just keep trying the author/artist's style 5. practice: i don't have to say much more here after you have figured out how you like to draw, add color, backrounds, additional characters, and much more! good luck and i hope i've helped lol ^_~ a book i find is the best so far if you wanna get serious about drawing manga: “Draw your own Manga” by Haruno Nagatomo also recommended by Tokyo Animation College
What are the stages of drawing manga?
Often in manga you have a single creator doing the writing and drawing, but I've seen writer/artist teams where the writer starts off by sketching a storyboard out with dialog written in, then the artist takes that to start on the actual pages for publisher submission.Some go to cafes or restaurants that open late for the storyboarding phase(Bakuman- by Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata)Another thing to consider is meetings with editors if you have a publisher. They give suggestions on what your audience is looking for, current trends. Most manga creators I've read about have jokes on how they always try to ignore their editor and do their own thing, or thank their editor for calling them at 3am the day before their work is due to have long conversations on how to make their work better. Following the storyboard, you sketch in the panels for the page (paneling is an oft overlooked skill in the sequential arts), and do the preliminary sketches. After those are done you ink it in, usually with a pen but I've seen some artists use a Chinese-style brush too. Takehiko Inoue (Slam Dunk, Vagabond) inks with a Chinese brush, genius level skillMangaka (that is, a manga artist) often have assistants that help them along, doing things like inking in panels, applying screen tones or filling in black spaces. Some are hired because of their specialization like being really good at drawing cityscapes. a video showing how screen tones are applied, nowadays many artists just add them digitallySome artists also scan in their drawings to ink in and do touch ups digitally. You can usually tell as their work feels more like it's super-imposed on a 3D backgrounnd or the shading is done in a very mechanical feeling gradient (Gantz is a prime example).Of course when all your work is done with analog tools and real ink there's always the chance of hours and hours of hard work ruined at the last stroke:Read right-to leftBeing a Manga creator is hard work ('Burning Pen' by Kazuhiko Shimamoto)
What pencil is good for drawing before inking?
If you are talking about doing a line drawing and then filling it in with ink, the following should help you: Graphite Pencils come in the following pencil grades: 9B 8B 7B 6B 5B 4B 3B 2B B HB F H 2H 3H 4H 5H 6H 7H 8H 9H Reading left to right (9B to 9H), the color range goes from dark to light. 9B is the darkest color (black), HB is the middle color (medium grey), 9H is the lightest color (light grey). Reading left to right (9B to 9H), also shows how soft or hard the graphite is. 9B is the softest and it smudges very easily, HB is in the middle, 9H is the hardest which doesn't smudge at all. If your ink artwork is in black and white, you can use a graphite pencil grade that is to your liking. If your ink artwork is in color, you can use Prismacolor Col-Erase Pencils. These are erasable colored pencils that is good for colored layouts. The Col-Erase pencils come in a variety of colors including black and grey which you can also use for ink artwork done in black and white. Buy pencils at Michael's, Hobby Lobby, any local art supply store, or online at Dick Blick website.
Is Manga hand drawn or computer generated?
Both. A lot of artists actually use both hand drawing methods and computer methods. They do a sketch, maybe hand ink it (or not), then scan it and do the refining and color work on the computer. There are still artists who do it all by hand (and I have a lot of admiration for them!) but I'd say the majority use a combination.
What are some tips for comics drawing?
I big one is to learn human anatomy, even if it's not superheroes you want to be able to draw characters from all angles. Also learn the basics of fundamentals. With this you can experiment with having really high or really low angles to portray part of a characters personality for example if your looking up a a character from below this shows this character is powerful and intimidatingAnd from above is the opposite, innocence and trustSo practice interesting ways to convey a situation. Studying composition can be good for this aswell. Movies are great examples on ways you can do this.Comics are alot of pictures so you should practice drawing fast and drawing alot of small pictures rather than one big illustration.Super hero comics began as a story board which would just be a scribble and a story, then comic artists would flesh out the pictures in pencil, then place block colours then add the bold black lines, which also work as a shadow. So it's a three step process but it's fast, simple and too the point so maybe keep that in mind. These days most comic artists work digitally but it would still be a similar process. Just as long as your still putting your heart and soul into it even though it's a fast process, you can create amazing things.
What's the best way to scan a drawing?
A2A This depends on the effect you want to create. Do you want the scan to be a realistic representation of your pencil drawing? Or, do you want the digital version to be cleaned and further processed in tools such as Photoshop (to add color maybe)?I have at home an Brother MFC-J6510DW scanner, printer, fax machine that I use to scan in all my material. Normally, I’m always inking my drawings before scanning them. Lets try it out, in pencil.Here is a drawing of a cat in color RGB mode scanned at 600 dpi. You clearly see it was created in pencil.Here is the same drawing scanned in Grey mode 600 dpi. Not much difference. The penciling doesn’t contain any color information. Both the grey and color modes show the darker and ligther spots in the the drawing: there is variation in tone.Here is the same drawing scanned in Black&White at 1200 dpi. This is what I usally use for inked drawings. Only black and white information is needed. None of the pixels contain any tone variation. Everything is black or white.If you only create line art (like I do) then it doesn’t matter very much if you scan in RGB, Greyscale or Black&White. But, when your drawing contains a lot of tonal variation and the paper isn’t very white, then I would advise you to scan your drawings in color mode. The resolution should be at least 300 dpi, but preferably 600dpi or better.
Should I outline a drawing by scanning my sketch, then stroke the paths (dots) I make, or should I directly draw over my sketch in the software?
A2A It depends on what you want to do. Personally I love to ink a drawing by hand. First in pencil I make a sketch and then I use a brush and ink to create a black and white drawing. This drawing can be scanned in and further processed on the computer (e.g. to add color).You can also make a pencil sketch on paper, scan it into a vector tool like Adobe Illustrator and use a computer brush to ink your drawing.Or, you can skip the paper part completely and do everything on your computer in tools like Photoshop, Manga Studio, etc.Every method has other results. I like my inking methods because it fits better my style of drawing. The lines I can create with a brush on paper are very authentic to me. A brush painting created on a computer looks too ‘clean’ , ‘mechanic’ to me. Also an original drawing on paper is a valuable piece of art that can be sold seperately from the finished computer drawing.
How do I color my scanned drawing without Photoshop?
I would like to color my manga drawing that I scanned onto the computer. My coloring skills are non-existent (sad, I know), but the main thing is that the drawing will be a PART of the printed cover of my project, so it won't looks as smooth if I color it by hand. No, Paint does NOT work. Sheesh. I do not really care to pay for Photoshop, so help please?