Lil' dude...

So I found this great book about sketching and how to get characters to look realistic (within manga style, that is) and proportioned. It's very very useful to learn how to draw the human figure in general then stylize it to look like a cool manga character. I'm becoming a huge fan of some of these How To Draw Manga kind of books, I wish I'd had them available a few years ago, they would've helped me a lot. Many of them are just a collection of artwork and they are not very helpful because they don't explain much about how the artist gets there but some of them (mostly written by japenese artist) takes drawing manga very seriously and give great advice.


Anyway, I looked at this book and started a new character from scratch using some of the techniques taught in there and came up with some cool stuff. Here's probably the best one I did today....

Big dude, inked

Here's the big dude I uploaded as a sketch last night only now it's inked. There are a few lines I don't like at all and I don't know what I'm doing with my tones but overall it's probably the best attempt I've done inking a sketch so far. Fooling with the settings in Masnga Studio, I think I'm very close to figure out what works best for my style of drawing and to achieve the style I'm going after.... like I said on a previous post, it's all about practice practice and practice.

More sketching....

It looks like I'm finally getting the habit of sitting down and sketch and practice a little bit everyday, which it's helping a lot when it comes to getting used to drawing with the Wacom tablet.

I also wrote the first chapter of this story I've been thinking about to submit to Tokyopop which helped me picture the characters I need for the story a little bit better. I sketched for a little bit and worked on two of the characters for the story. She's looking like she could be the main character while he's a secondary character that I'm not sure will have a big role after the first chapter... we'll see. Well, here they are...