Draw a manga comic
Mangas, the well-known comics from the Japanese comic tradition, have also established themselves on the European market for years. If you want to draw manga as well, you have to deal with the typical style of manga.
What you need:
- Drawing paper
- Pens (fineliners, art pens)
- Drawing ink
- paint brush
- Paint (acrylic, watercolor)
- PC or MAC
- Image editing program
Skillfully implementing the manga style - this is how you can proceed
- The traditional reading direction of the Japanese manga is from back to front and from right to left, which is exactly the opposite of the classic picture division of European comics. In view of the large number of Euromangas available, which work with the reading direction familiar in Europe, you do not necessarily have to adopt the traditional style.
- Construct your figures based on their Japanese models. Characters like Captain Future, Akira, and Chiriko, who can be found in anime classics since the 1980s know, have numerous forerunners in the manga comic and have numerous comic artists for their part influenced.
- Most manga characters appear very youthful. The characters' bodies are often very slim and have a stylized appearance. The large number of expressive eye designs that often work with various lights and are an important means of expression is particularly well-known.
A quick guide - how to draw a manga comic
You can your Manga-Draw comic both alone and as a team. In the album market, comics are often created in a team between a text author and an illustrator. As a beginner in particular, you should first try a little shorter stories that only fill a few pages so as not to overwhelm yourself right from the start.
- You first need a story that you want to tell. You should write this down and work it out. Once you are happy with your story it is time to come up with some characters to develop. This activity alone is very time-consuming, but the more often you have drawn your figures and the more clearly they are worked out, the faster you will be able to draw the figures.
- When designing your characters, pay attention explicitly to the eye area, especially in this area the Manga style offers different, characteristic variants.
- Facial features, mouths and facial expressions should not be too complex and filigree.
- Once your characters have been established, you can define the characters' dialogues.
- Make preliminary drawings with the help of which you can determine the division of the images (panels) on each page. Do not design the individual panels too uniformly, mangas are often characterized by dynamic designs. If possible, allow longer dialogues to be followed by a change of perspective or action-packed events.
- Test how to distribute the text in balloons and narrator comments on the pages.
- Create your final drawing with drawing ink, brushes or pens on paper or create it digitally with a graphics tablet and an image processing or drawing program. The latter method is already very common among numerous newer comic artists.
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