manga?

Question:whats an effective way to learn how to draw anime/manga, as i really want to learn how to draw in them styles, ino its not an easy job and i will have to be patient. but iam really interested in this sort of stuff,
so if you have ny information then please tell me,
thanks =]

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: whats an effective way to learn how to draw anime/manga, as i really want to learn how to draw in them styles, ino its not an easy job and i will have to be patient. but iam really interested in this sort of stuff,
so if you have ny information then please tell me,
thanks =]

I know this is a small answer but
i used how to draw manga books and i recommend:
sweatdrop studio "Draw Manga" book and "How To Draw Manga" by Graphics SHA.
My sister is a natural maybe u r to!

dont start with anime or manga. its a bad way to adapt to other peoples styles and you want learn anything in the long run.

start with real life drawing like drawing people, learning how to draw the human body, and landscapes

i know its temting to draw anime style straight away but you will be better than everyone else if you learnto draw porperly first then you will adapt your own style when you have mastered how to draw humans properly.

i hate seeing pic that people draw because they only draw anime but they want to become good. they dont get alot better over the yr's

remeber use circles and shapes to have as guide lines, thats what i missed in my 1st few years of trying to draw!

hope i helped.

p.s i love anime hehehe

You're kind of asking two different questions between asking how to animate and how to draw. In either case, beginning with trying to emulate ANY exaggerated 'style' will only be of detriment to your learning how to draw. I'll try to present the case with something analogous. If you were to buy a car from someone to find out its been gutted and that the frame had fractures, or you were to rent a decent looking apartment to find out later it was dilapidated in some way, you'd be justifiably angry. The same thing is going to happen if you decide to draw in a Japanese style before learning how to actually draw. You'd be shooting yourself in the foot so to speak.

You need to start by learning how to draw the human figure and simple objects while pushing yourself to do so realistically. Any great animator starts with basic foundations. Starting with Japanese styles through animation or manga can make it harder because they work on both mediums with extreme efficiency at the price of consistent quality. Manga is most often gray-scale, and Japanese animation (even in Miyazaki, Madhouse, and production I.G. features!) cuts as many corners as possible by using fewer drawings within each second. (Compare, for example, the fight scene in end of evangelion against the Eva Series to the ending conflict in Disney's Tarzan: EoE might have used a new drawing between every 2-4 frames, while Tarzan would use a new drawing every single frame and sometimes every two frames.) Even worse, by trying to completely emulate a style, you've lost out on the chance to show your own personal inflections that you could have brought to drawing, but left caged inside an AT field, a dragon of heaven barrier, or in the cold shell of a tachikoma or gundam.

I suggest you start by taking life drawing classes if possible, or if you are too tightly budgeted, freeze frame a human figure in an interesting pose. Here is an excellent series of short instructional videos you can use in the place of real tutoring, since I'm no great draftsman myself:

http://youtube.com/profile_videos?p=r&us...
(start from the earliest video and practice it's application RELIGIOUSLY!)

Moreover, NEVER get discouraged, NEVER take the easiest way out and NEVER EVER lose your sense of diligence. I like to show this example of an aspiring artist to other aspiring artists who started with little knowledge or 'talent' with drawing and painting, and his progress over about 4 years:

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthr...
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthr...

'Talent' isn't born, it is made. Doctors don't write prescriptions without years of studying to, neither do lawyers. Neither should artists. Don't skip steps or cut corners, do what you need to do instead of what you would like to do. Through your conflict you will become more. Hard work made Ed a state alchemist at the age of 12, and it will make you a better artist.

p.s. Buy or rent Mushi-shi and 5 centimeters per second if you haven't! Beautiful.

in layman's term:

you must have a great sense of depth and angle.

the drawing should not just be good looking. it must have something on it that the bold eyes can't see (depth)

obviously, it has to be proportional. or else, it'd look bad. well, unless if that's your style.. to make it looks abnormal (angle)