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How to draw Manga, 3 different faces guys

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How to draw Manga man face 3 different ways . This tutorial I will show you how to draw 3 different face of guys. Here is a drawing tutorial for Manga guys faces. And now I am going to explain how I drew it step by step. This one easy to follow with simple video drawing and step by step images along with. This should be quick, easy to follow Manga tutorial. Here is a finish Manga faces drawing, 3 guy faces. Below is a video demo showing you how to draw Manga face. Below are step by step images of how to draw Manga face 1, simple and typical Manga hero guy. Let's begin. 1) I start with an circle shape drawing (but imagine it's a sphere) then add the additional line below that makes it an oval. On this one I am going to draw a front view. face shot. 2) I drew a horizontal line across the face.  The line should split the 1st circle shape in half.  Then I drew a vertical line to split the face in half. 3) I then draw another horizontal line below the previ...

how to draw realistic Manga style face

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How to draw realistic  Manga  face . Learn how to draw Manga, Anime, and comics. Drawing and sketching Manga anime technique for manga, cartoon and comics. This one is along the line of many Mangakas that lean toward realism. Manga doesn't just have the typical BIG EYEs and cute face. There are ten hundreds of different styles. In US, the distributors ONLY bring what they think you guys will buy, and YOU BUY. If you want to know just Google クライング フリーマン or Crying Freeman, コブラ or Cobra, 鴉天狗カブト or Tengu Kabuto, or Hyper realistic along the line of several Final Fantasy and many more. Here is a final image from video demo. Below is a video demo of how to draw Manga realistic style face. 1) I usually start with an egg shape drawing, very old school and traditional and it quick for me. On this one I am going to angle it a bit so the face will be 3/4 instead of the frontal shot. Always attach the neck and a bit of shoulder with the head when doing face, it gives you...

Draw Manga hair 4 different ways for male characters

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Draw Manga man hair 4 different ways and styles male or guy. A basic Manga drawing instruction of Manga or Anime hair style. I begin with rough geometry sketch to finish pencil drawing and shading. You can watch the video tutorial demo with narration on drawing hair for Manga and below are step by step images education how to supplement for the art lesson. Here is a front view Manga face drawing that I already have so that I will just focus on hair drawing lesson. First style is going to be long spikes typical hair style. It has typical Manga hair for boy character. And now I am going to explain how I drew it step by step. It will be easy and simple to follow. Another quick and easy tutorial! Here is a video tutorial How to draw Manga Hair for male 4 different ways. More guy hair style tutorials for Manga Hair style 1 Long spiky hair style Hair style 2 Short spiky hair style Hair style 3 Front bang hair style Hair style 4 Sloppy hair style Here are all 4 hair st...

7 tips for sketchbook drawing

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7 tips for sketchbook drawing .  Personally, I have two main sketchbooks one is 9x12 and 14x17. As an artist you need a sketchbook because it keeps you organize. And yes, you can draw on regular white copy paper, but it's hard to keep them all together in order in folder. With sketchbook, I always put the date on the first page drawn, then the last page. And I wrote "From Month/Year to Month/Year on the cover. The reason I did that because I will know the exact period of time I spend on one sketchbook. Moreover, if I need to compare two sketchbooks, I can to see if there is any improvement in my skill level. There are 7 main reasons I use my sketchbook mostly for. 1) To get some quick concept idea down like thumbnails and comps. 2) To practice drawing, rendering, and shading skill and see my progression. 3) I use it in life drawing session weekly 4) Sometimes I go outside to do some landscape or environmental study 5) To work out on some preliminary composi...

Zombie speed painting demo

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Zombie digital painting tutorial with video demo, here is another video and step by step digital painting tutorial instruction. I had no idea that Zombies are so much fun to draw and paint until recently. You pretty much can add or subtract what you prefer from basic human anatomy to fit your liking. Personally, I like Zombies' version from 28 days later. But recently, I have to admit that the slow moving ghouls are a lot more appealing as I envision them more. Romero's Zombies rule! But before Romero's Zombies was inspired by The 1954 publication of Richard Matheson's "I Am Legend." It is the story of a future Los Angeles, overrun with undead bloodsucking beings. Notable as influential on the zombie genre is the portrayal of a worldwide apocalypse due to the infestation, in addition to the initial conception of vampirism as a disease (a scenario comparable to recent zombie media such as Resident Evil). Anyway, like art, certain subject has ap...

Photoshop tutorial using multiply mode

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Photoshop painting tutorial multiply mode .   Photoshop tutorial for digital painting using Multiply mode. Photoshop tips for digital painter #003 using multiply mode. What is multiply mode? Here is the definition of multiply mode according to Adobe, “Looks at the color information in each channel and multiplies the base color by the blend color. The result color is always a darker color. Multiplying any color with black produces black. Multiplying any color with white leaves the color unchanged. When you’re painting with a color other than black or white, successive strokes with a painting tool produce progressively darker colors. The effect is similar to drawing on the image with multiple magic markers.” Multiplying two layers basically means that the top layer will darken the bottom layer. Black in the top layer is opaque. Pure white is completely transparent, showing the below layer as is. When I first start painting digitally using photoshop, multiply mode is th...

How to draw Ibuki from Street fighter

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How to draw Ibuki from street fighters.   Watch video of how to draw Manga, Anime, and comics.  Drawing and sketching anime technique for manga, cartoon and comics. Learn to draw with tips from a professional concept artist and illustrator. About Ibuki from Street Fighter. She first appeared in Street Fighter III. Ibuki lives in a village composed entirely of Shinobi. She has been trained from childhood, but resents her lot in life. The other ninja in Ibuki's clan include Sanjou, Enjou, Genda, Raion, and Homura Yuuta. Ibuki also has a pet tanuki named Don, and her best friend and sparring partner is Sarai Kurosawa. In Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, Ibuki shares a special pre-fight intro with Makoto, showing that the two consider each other as special rivals of sorts. She is sent by her clan to procure documents from Gill's organization. These documents concerns the "G-File" project, which was responsible for creating Necro and Twelve. In Ibuki's ending,...

How can digital artist make a living

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How to make money with digital art .  I got this question in my e-mail a lot.  So I will try to answer you with this post. From my experience, many of us are working as professional 2d concept artists, 3d production artists for video games, industrial design for products and all kind of films, Lord of the ring trilogy, Starwar Trilogy, Avartar, etc. It can be full-time, contract, freelance depending on the terms you have with the company you work for. There are probably more things you can do being a digital artists but mostly working with clients.  And a lot of you ask me if the pay is good?  Well, it varies.  It is a different eras than your parents, artists do make very decent salary nowadays.  If you are really good, you can get pay almost as good as a dentist or a mid level surgeon.  It is all up to you.  But those are a few of the bunch cream of the crops.  Most of them just get pay as much as regular white collar workers.  ;...

Drawing horror comics panel step by step

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How to draw horror comics panel .  Painting comics panel step by step.  Today sketch is one of the panels from the horror comics I am working on.  Now I am on page 4.  In the beginning, I start of with speedie style, then somehow I end up spending too much time on just one panel.  I did that for four to five panels, and that was not the plan I had in mind because it was taking way to long to finish one.  This one take me about four to six hours to finish because I keep going back and forth.  Also the rendering is a bit too polish than what I had in mind. So the next panel would be something of a more sketchy and I am stylizing all the characters.  I think there is a reason for stylizing a character.  Wednesday and Thursday I only finish two and a half panels.  Friday, I finished more than 5 panels in one day.  Big different in time spend and it is more spontaneous and fun. First, it is easier and faster to draw than realisti...

Photoshop tips #002 using overlay mode part 2

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Photoshop painting tutorial overlay mode part 2 . Using color with overlay blending mode for your digital painting. In part 1, I explained how to use overlay mode with gray-scale or black and white range ( Photoshop tip 001 using overlay mode ), now we are going discuss the use of colors. To me, overlay mode is extremely useful tool to create color scheme once you have your value established in your digital painting. If you’ve read my blog and watched my video tutorials for a while, you will know that I usually work in monochromatic (and/or gray-scale) first in most of my digital paintings. Like many professional digital artists and painters, you begin with drawing, establish shapes, create light and shadow (value), apply color paint, then figure out edges. Similar process also applies in oil painting. Only occasionally I start of with colors right away. Other than establishing color scheme, overlay mode also very useful when you try to add more colors (hues) to your pa...