Sk8ninja's Art Thread

[SK8ninja]

Alright, I decided to start an art thread, since i just got new art supplies. Here is a pic I did ages ago, my first proper attempt at a manga. Feel free to leave comments.

[Steff]

At 12/27/08 03:16 PM, SK8ninja wrote:

:Feel free to leave comments.
This...is bad.
I'm sorry, but goddamnt, it doesn't looks right.
It's not anime at all! It looks like it... in the bad way...

Sorry, but you got to work on your drawings.

[cryptkeeper5]

At 12/27/08 04:13 PM, Asalraalaikum wrote:

At 12/27/08 03:16 PM, SK8ninja wrote:

Sorry, but you got to work on your drawings.

I can't agree more, this is really bad. Theres a number of fairly good tutorials on how to draw manga on the net, theyre easy enough to find. google it.

[InnerChild721]

Your's is alright, but mine was made in Paint so the lines were even.

[UMREE]

At 12/28/08 04:35 AM, InnerChild721 wrote: Your's is alright, but mine was made in Paint so the lines were even.

i wouldnt exactly call this a very good example or a good enough reason to post it.

[HarraH]

No offense but terrible.

[SK8ninja]

Everyone be-ith a critic.

[SK8ninja]

At 12/27/08 06:52 PM, cryptkeeper5 wrote:

At 12/27/08 04:13 PM, Asalraalaikum wrote:

At 12/27/08 03:16 PM, SK8ninja wrote:

Sorry, but you got to work on your drawings.

I can't agree more, this is really bad. Theres a number of fairly good tutorials on how to draw manga on the net, theyre easy enough to find. google it.

i printed a whole book of tutorials from manga-tutorials.com and followed it step by step. You think i just presumed it was right?

And i don't get you guys, how does it NOT look like a manga? What defines manga...
IT's A MANGA, ok!!

[UMREE]

At 12/28/08 04:32 PM, SK8ninja wrote: i printed a whole book of tutorials from manga-tutorials.com and followed it step by step. You think i just presumed it was right?

so by your logic its right because you have a book?

look man i can take a book and follow steps too but that doesnt necessarily mean that the steps i took were executed correctly by me.

[krumpingkatie]

Most manga artists already have extensive knowledge and experiance of drawing human anatomy. You cant just jusp right into drawing anime looking shit, you have to actually have some drawing skills first and know about human anatomy and shading/lighting effects. Its not the best way to start drawing people either, because it messes up all your interpritations of scale on a human face and body. And female chest for that matter ¬_¬

MANGA BOOBS ARE MASSIVE.

[Shreddy]

At 12/28/08 04:28 PM, SK8ninja wrote: Everyone be-ith a critic.

you asked for comments (also known as critique) so yes everyone is a critic.

if you didnt suck so much at drawing you might get some positive feedback, you obviously have a very very very limited grasp of how to draw faces and a very limited artistic capability

so either get better or stop whining

[gOdiZ]

wow.. work more on your drawings, try to draw someone/something a character, naruto for example.

[Shreddy]

At 12/28/08 06:18 PM, gOdiZ wrote: try to draw someone/something a character, naruto for example.

erm... NO.

if hes going to get better on drawing he needs to start from the basics and not try to recreate shit animie

[GlassBomb]

Awful, awful stuff, I mean, ow. I mean, I hate regular manga because it's mostly the same uninspired template shit, with four hair styles and slight variations, but, this is BAD.

LIKE.
BAD...

REALLY BAD.

[HarraH]

At 12/28/08 05:04 PM, krumpingkatie wrote: Its not the best way to start drawing people either, because it messes up all your interpritations of scale on a human face and body.

Exactly.

[gOdiZ]

At 12/28/08 06:21 PM, Shreddy wrote:

At 12/28/08 06:18 PM, gOdiZ wrote: try to draw someone/something a character, naruto for example.

erm... NO.

if hes going to get better on drawing he needs to start from the basics and not try to recreate shit animie

dude i was giving an example dont be a dickhead

[UMREE]

At 12/28/08 06:18 PM, gOdiZ wrote: wow.. work more on your drawings, try to draw someone/something a character, naruto for example.

this is a good idea and so is anatomy practice, sourced images are nice.

[Shreddy]

At 12/28/08 07:11 PM, gOdiZ wrote: dude i was giving an example dont be a dickhead

sorry for being a prick man, but it just irritates me that people seem to draw nothing but manga and never grasp proper anatomy

[Recycled]

At 12/29/08 05:57 AM, Shreddy wrote:

At 12/28/08 07:11 PM, gOdiZ wrote: dude i was giving an example dont be a dickhead

sorry for being a prick man, but it just irritates me that people seem to draw nothing but manga and never grasp proper anatomy

I hate anime,i wish i could draw proper anatomy!on paper i like to draw realistic and stuff but on computers i do mostly cartoon seeing has only have a mouse...i dont got money,cause im only 13 and my mom aint givin me money for a tablet.hopefully i will get a camera for my birthday in JULY
anyways now that you know my life story....i know were your coming from on this...and everyone is a prick sometimes!even jesus....(uh-oh,religion....RUN!)

[InsertFunnyUserName]

How about everyone who's calling the OP a terrible drawer actually shut the fuck up and give him some help? Jesus. You all drew like that at one point.

Okay, my first advice for you is not to start with anime until you have the proportions of a real person down because drawing anime and having it look good is a lot harder than it seems. If you really want to learn anime, try getting a picture of a professional anime style character, either by buying a manga book or printing a picture off the internet, and reference it when you're drawing. Draw that character and without tracing, try to get it as close as possible.

Now, on to proportions. The face is far too wide. In both real life and in anime, faces are much thinner. Also, you've drawn the ears sticking out and they're drawn like you're looking at them from the side. When you look at a real person, you only see a small part of the ear.

The eyes are also too big. I know anime eyes are supposed to be big, but the eyes in your drawing are big in a way that they're disproportionately big in comparison to the size of the head.

Another thing is that the top of the hair at the part almost comes down below the hairline. Even in anime, either the hair lies flat and there's no issue, or when you have the hair sticking up like that, what you see isn't the scalp, it's the other side of the hair. Before drawing, you should sketch out lightly where the hairline and the top of the hair are going to be about and then add on from there making sure not to disturb those lines.

There are a few other change that I made, but they're too small for me to single out.

Don't give up on it, though. Everyone starts out rough and then gets better.

[killcore]

it's not manga and here i give you one raison: the eyes there not manga!
these are manga eyes!

[Shinryudan]

Just noticed that OP's pic looks like a tree with a face, the neck being the stump and the hair being the leaves. Just need some texture, lol.

[killcore]

i think you should make the head a little smaller and the ears smaller and make the eyes as my other reply.

[InsertFunnyUserName]

At 12/29/08 02:58 PM, killcore wrote: it's not manga and here i give you one raison: the eyes there not manga!
these are manga eyes!

It depends on the artist, actually. Technically, the OP's eyes are manga style, they're just not your manga style.

[UMREE]

does anyone else think that the drawing contains too much forehead and not enough hair up front?

[Erasmus]

At 12/29/08 02:49 PM, InsertFunnyUserName wrote: How about everyone who's calling the OP a terrible drawer actually shut the fuck up and give him some help? Jesus. You all drew like that at one point.

No I didn't. I've been drawing for aslong as I remember and I know for a fact I've never done shitime (see what I did there?).

And that picture you did wasn't too good either, although your advice was pretty helpful.

I'm not going to give any advice to the OP because everything I could see has already been covered, I just wanted to tell you my life story lolololololololololololololololol

[InsertFunnyUserName]

At 12/29/08 05:30 PM, PieLover61 wrote:

At 12/29/08 02:49 PM, InsertFunnyUserName wrote: How about everyone who's calling the OP a terrible drawer actually shut the fuck up and give him some help? Jesus. You all drew like that at one point.

No I didn't. I've been drawing for aslong as I remember and I know for a fact I've never done shitime (see what I did there?).

So you were born drawing fantastic art?

I don't think so.

And that picture you did wasn't too good either, although your advice was pretty helpful.

That's because I did it in five minutes to give as a guide to what I was saying. And it's easier to sketch something on a white canvas than correct something that is out of proportion without completely recreating it.

My point in that paragraph was that if you don't have anything to say besides "this is terrible" with no constructive help to the OP, then you shouldn't even post.

[ngmastah]

This is why I left the Art forum.

[SK8ninja]

I have a couple of things to say before i post my next picture.

1. Thank you InsertFunnyUserName and others who helped, rather than "This is terrible", "You suck ass" and that kinda shit.

2. Fuck everyone else.

3. Why does everyone keep calling me OP?

4. My next pic is supposed to be Dragonball STYLE so i dont want any Fuck, what the fuck that looks nothing like Gohan or Its that supposed to be fuckin' vegeta? you gotta be shittin me!

5. This next one is just to test out my new greyscale art markers.

6. No, i don't want to draw realistic. My way is manga. The only things i wanna do realistically are scenery and animals and shit.

7. I know you guys are gonna say "why didn't you take our advice for this one?" but sorry, i wasn't on newgrounds before i drew it.

[Shinryudan]

I still think it looks like a tree OP, because it looks like grass at the bottom of the neck.
Im not much into drawing manga but if you really are insistent on drawing it i think you should draw some pictures that already exist, to give you a better feel of the genre your working with.
For example try drawing goku as best you can, including all his muscle detailing. For hair i would recommend something like naruto, because it seems to have soft and natural aproach ( in terms of manga ) to hair.
Hope it helps.