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Question: Can someone teach me to draw my friends as anime characters!?
can anyone draw people!? like real people as Anime characters!? I want to draw some of my classmates as anime characters but i can't!. can someone do it for me or teach me!? I'll prefer to be taught!.!. ha ha!.!. I'll give the credit to whoever you are!. thanks!.!. if you can help me, email me or IM!. thanks!


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I am currently attending Art college, and while you're not going to learn how to expertly draw anime over the course of a single Yahoo answers session, I can at least give you some pointers

1: You have to know the rules before you break them!. Specifically, knowing how to draw real people, and then learning the liberties that anime takes, can help you tremendously!. For learning this, I would recommend the book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain"!. They do make a workbook edition, and it doesn't take very long to do the exercises, but you will see a great improvement in your abilty to draw!.

2: Learn the why's of anime!. Early Japanese manga writers didn't just fall out of bed one morning and think "you know, I'm gonna draw these people differently today!" they had a reason for it!. They go with the big eyes because the eyes are the greatest indicators of emotion on the human face!. Picture a person's personality, then try to to express that personality through facial expressions!. Someone with a furled brow ("angry eyes") but with a sly smile might be seen as headstrong, cocky, confident!. "Sad eyes" with a smile could make someone seem thoughtful, and caring!. Hair is exaggerated for the same reason!. Wild characters have wild hair, while characters who are more reserved have simpler hair styles!. That is also why the mouth and the nose are drawn simplistically, because the anime artist wants to draw the person's attention to the eyes and the hair of their characters!. That's where the big eyes and the wacky hair of anime comes from!. When drawing your friends try to imagine the kind of person that they are, and then how you can exaggerate their hair and eyes to make their personalities more noticeable!.

3: Strongly consider learning to use computer graphics programs like Adobe Photoshop!. I've seen really mediocre drawings made to look fantastic simply by making them digital!.

If you have any more questions, I would be delighted to answer them for you!. Feel free to shoot me a Private MessageWww@QuestionHome@Com

Having others drawing for you won't do any good!.!.!.But how many days to you have until the drawings have to be done!?

First of all, start with some simple doodles, then start working on the proportions!. It is not a very good idea to jump right into drawing animes before having to have learned to draw a person's face realistically!.

So!.!.my suggestion is have a couple of portrait pictures in front of you, practice drawing them!. When you get a sense of the distance between the eyes, the nose, the ears where the mouth should be, the neck line, the hair, forehead etc, you're ready to go!.

But it all will take time!.!.!.I've been drawing ever since I can't remember!.!.!.(since 3rd grade I think, I'm in 12th grade now), especially animes and manga, but yeah, I still feel like I need more practice!. Those I used to think were really well drawn!.!.!.don't look good to me 1-2 years after!.

So it all will take time, but eventually, you will be good at it :)Www@QuestionHome@Com

OK
I can teach you!.!.!.!.
but how is the character of your friend!?
thanxWww@QuestionHome@Com