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lady-leliel β Dont Make My Mistakes Tutorial
Published: 2011-05-04 07:36:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 15422; Favourites: 664; Downloads: 315
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Part twoUm. I know I'm not good enough to make a proper tutorial, but hopefully this'll stop you making the errors I did!!
Mkay, I am definitely NOT saying that drawing in an anime or cartoon style is wrong. I love artists like *elsevilla . However, if you are serious about drawing, you should not pick up a How to Draw Manga book straight away and learn from that. It's important to know how anatomy works BEFORE you start drawing in a non-realistic manner, or when you draw a person they won't look right. I know in anime the characters are very stylised, but the designers and animators would have studied human anatomy thoroughly before they would have been allowed anywhere NEAR the studio. Practice makes perfect and all those cliches
Oh, and if you actually find this helpful, I'm so glad!
Remember, this is just the way I draw, and it works for me. You need to know basic anatomy before you distort it! This tutorial-like thingy is full of suggestions, not rules.
You can see my progression here.
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We'll keep practice.Β
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With the blushing; doesn't real blushing actually make the entire face red not just the cheeks? So it would kinda be more realistic to make the entire face go redder instead of just the cheeks?
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that's true!! blood rushes mostly to the cheeks (and ears) though, and when women wear 'blush' make-up it's usually just on the cheeks so I kept it to that XD An entirely red face in a drawing might be kinda cute, though..
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I always though that the nose that point upwards in the second example might belong to a pig species, despite that I also did that mistake XD.
Some manga artists (even professionals) draw piggy noses.
I just hate the side mouth.
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hahahahahaha, yes! it does look a bit piggy XDDD i think some manga styles it can work but for people just learning to draw, they should practice realistic first
the side mouth is pretty funny to see >_<
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Ten years?!
Yikes. It took me about 3-4 years. I can't imagine taking that long to improve...
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ahahaha, we can't all be as good as you!! improvement is always happening so i guess really you do it your whole artistic life
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I seem to have a talent for drawing, where I got it from though, god only knows. I try not to brag though. People don't like braggers.
Yep. That is true. Even know, I'm improving.
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Profiles. Noses. How.
These two kill me every time. I don't go over-the-top on the big eyes or non-existent chins, and I'm getting better with the big foreheads. But the nose. I just can't.
This is gonna keep me going for a while. Thank you.
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hahaha yeah it's tough. i also want to draw more variety with noses instead of my generic perfect triangle shape XD
let's keep practising!! no problem
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I see myself there, somewhere in the middle. I'm stuck on profiles and noses but I'm trying refrences(multiple) and tutorials. This one can really help me over time. Still, good job! You've had a lot of progress!
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Hehe, it's good that you can find what you personally want to improve on! Yeah, I haven't drawn much recently, I'm gonna get rusty!! D:
Thank you >3<
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UM just about all of this is just preference. Drawing stylised is perfectly okay :T
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definitely. this is aimed at total beginners who need to practice the basics before trying to stylise their work. see the description for a bit more explanation
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...*loses it at final before and after before pic*
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hahahaha yes, that before pic is really something >_<
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amazing tutorial! gives even helpless people like me hope! XD
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thank you!! ahahaha oh please XDDD
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Thank you so much for this tutorial!!! XD I will try my best to learn from it
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Aww no problem!! Well, maybe not learn but hopefully not make my mistakes!! XDDD
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Lol XD Hopefully! ^^
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Omg you just taught me how to draw profiles correctly!! Just wanna thank you for taking the time to make this and sharing your tips with everyone. There could have been a thousand other things you could be doing but you chose to share some of the things that you learned with other so they can improve too. It makes me really happy when artists do that and one of the reasons why I love a community like DA so much~
Sorry for the long and sappy comment, just wanted you to know how I felt...
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Ahahaha really?! That's wonderful!! Well when I made that I think I was on a gap year between high school and college so I had plenty of time 
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I took this seriously until the last picture. But I learned.
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No, just the before picture at the bottom related to the song I was listening too.
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Ohhh, okay, now it makes sense.
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Hmm I have a feeling that this is more of a "how to draw perfect anime girls and boys" .. Which is ofc nothing bad.
But you can give an OC big eyes or a thin neck or maybe huge ears and a big whippy nose.
It's all about symmetry and proportions that are in balance with eachother. If you look at the movie "up" for an example, that old man is far far faaar away from the 'normal' proportions, yet everybody recognizes him as an old man with proper anatomy.. It's all about can you make it work/look good or not? I love how you point out that you need guidelines, because you DO need them for every style, wherever it's manga or disney, realism etc.. But if you got the guidelines right, you can make everything like you want it!
Anyway, I understood that this is a tutorial for the manga style, which doesn't have much room for creativity when it comes to body/face proportions (No that's not an insult to all the manga fans out there! xD Just a simple fact, nothing wrong with it, it's not a bad art style!). In manga there are way more 'standards' that all the characters have, so you did a good job on this tutorial, congrats!
P.S. Excuse me for my English, it's not my mother tongue xD
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Ah, no- this is for people with little or no experience with drawing who straight away reach for the 'How to Draw Manga' books and learn from them instead of a proper source. I did that and I really regret it because for years I had an awful manga-ish style and I don't want others to make my mistake
Your English is a lot better than a lot of people who speak it as a first language, so well done XD
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Yeah, but this is for beginners who rush straight into manga styles and as a result don't get their anatomy right! I think you should learn this before attempting style. Because I reaaally regret it
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Well, you could have referred this where to start to draw instead, since you just told everyone that anime style drawing is wrong, since logically there's no really right or wrong in drawing.
You should have also encouraged people to start with realism before heading on to anime style instead
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Oh no, there are lots of artists with a manga style that's I love (check out *elsevilla as an example) but if someone who has just started drawing from 'How to Draw Manga' tries to draw a person they won't look accurate. If that person looks at lots of photos of real bodies and practices drawing realistic faces first, they'll get better a lot faster, and THEN they will develop their own style, manga, cartoon or realistic.
Your second paragraph sums up what I am trying to do XDDD
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Your tutorial for me says otherwise
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Yeeeeah, I've had quite a few longish comments saying similar things, maybe I should update the description a bit >_<
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Well, if you read your tutorial carefully, you'll see what I mean. If your native language is not English, then I think we see the problem.
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Oh yes, I do see your point. I'm just not that great with explaining >_< I've updated the description so I hope that sounds better..
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That's good, hope things go better.
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might be good to list that this is for more realistic art
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Hmm, kind of.. People still say my style is 'anime' XD
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I'm laughing at some because I went thru most XP
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