How To Draw Manga And Anime: Walkthrough 4

Hello, long time no see. I apologize for not updating for a long while, I just got back from an injured thumb. I'll be doing updates again several times a week. Anyway, here's another walkthrough for you guys.

This is the finished product, you can view the walkthrough here.

You can download the images and the ORA file for MyPaint here: http://www.fileserve.com/file/YAJYR6B

Pencil: Free 2D Animation Software

I'm sorry for not updating the last few days, I got busy at home and I'm planning to start posting video games information and gameplay videos, mostly indie games because my computer probably won't be able to run the most of the latest pc games.

Anyway enough of that, it's time to introduce to you a great software I found a while back, it's called Pencil.

If you want to learn how to draw anime, then at some point in time you might want to learn how to animate your drawings. This is the perfect application to get your hands on. Pencil is a free 2d animation software. It's very bare bone and perfect for beginners. The user interface is very easy to use and everything you need to animate is already laid out.

How To Draw Manga and Anime: Walkthrough 3

Here I am again with another walkthrough on how to draw manga and anime. I've been looking all over the web for different manga and anime tutorials and I'm always surprised by just how many ways there are of drawing manga and anime. Just when I'm thinking I've seen them all I'll find a unique style I'm not aware of. I advise you too keep looking for more tutorials and more references to help you, keep absorbing all the things you learn and improve your skills.

This is the finished product, it's just a rough work but I prefer rough looking artworks like these. As you can see, I didn't even clean up the line art. I lack the patience to create full colored renders majority of the time. Check out how made this using NekoPaint.

Pixia and Phierha: Free Drawing Software

Here are two free software perfect for drawing manga and anime. They are called Pixia and Phierha, both are free and both are feature rich. Check them out.

Paint.NET Free Photo Editing Software

Here's another free software for you guys to try your hands on. It's called Paint.NET and it's a free photo editing software similar to something like Gimp or Photoshop.

Sketching Heads Using NekoPaint #2

Another video walkthrough of me rough sketching using nekopaint. This time it's a speed paint, at about 1.5x the normal speed. Hope you guys find it useful.

Sketching Heads Using NekoPaint

Another video of me sketching anime heads, this time using NekoPaint. The symmetry tool is perfect for sketching when you're trying out different ideas and during character creation. Again all in real time. I hope you guys learn something from it.

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Gintama 1-Page Fanart

Gintama is one of my most favorite manga of all time. If you haven't seen it, go a check it out. There's also an anime adoptation which is probably the funniest anime you'll ever come across. This is just a short 1-page starring my two favorite characters from the series.

If you know who these characters are, I'm sure you'll understand the situation lol.

Video Walkthrough: Sketching Heads Using MyPaint

This is just me sketching some basic head shapes. These are just a few ways of sketching manga and anime heads and I'll be posting a lot of these kinds of videos. The beauty with drawing manga and anime is there's an infinite amount of ways to do it, but that's also what makes it hard to make tutorials for it. What you see on manga and anime tutorials shouldn't be the basis of how you draw. Rather, use what you learn to further improve your own style.

Video quality is still bad since I'm still learning how to edit videos. I'll be doing video sketches like this for different areas like the hair, face, body, arms, legs etc.

Video Walkthrough Using NekoPaint, First try

I finally tried making a video walkthrough, it's harder than I thought. There's this added pressure when you're actually recording.

Anyway, this is the finished product made using NekoPaint. Be warned that this is my first time making a video walkthrough. I had no idea what I was doing and I was slow, the video is about 12 minutes long. Check it out.

NekoPaint Drawing Software

When it comes to drawing, I always try different applications and find new ones I haven't. I came across an interesting little software called NekoPaint, it's a Japanese product that's perfect for drawing manga and anime. Here's a short overview.

How To Draw Manga and Anime: Walkthrough 2

Hello, it's me again. This time we'll try out a different style.

This is the finished product. I used MyPaint, check out my review page to find out more. I had an easier time with this one than on my first walkthrough. Check it out.

Suggestion Time!

I'm thinking of making video walkthroughs and tutorials. I already have CamStudio, but I'll need a video editing software, do you guys have any suggestions? It'd be nice if it's cheap, free ones will be even better. Anything except windows movie maker, even if just for simple editing.

It'll be a while though before I actually make one. Right now I'm just focusing on writing walkthroughs all the while learning from watching other people's works. I made another sketch, just to make it worth the while. Check it out.

Sketch: Beach Girl and Free Cookies

Whenever I watch the jdorama Beach Boys, it always makes me want to go to the beach. If you haven't watched it, I highly recommend you do. Mind you that it's a pretty old series but it's definitely one of the best jdorama shows I've watched. Now you might ask, what does it have to do with drawing manga. The answer is, the beach!!! I made a simple rough sketch of an anime girl carrying a beach ball. When I started it, I didn't really have any kind of setting in mind. If you just keep on drawing and sketching, sometimes an idea will pop up. This is just a rough sketch, I have no idea if I'll finish it or just leave it like that. I have tons of artwork saved on my computer and 99% of those are sketches.

 

Update: One more just for fun.

How To Draw Manga and Anime: Walkthrough 1

I labeled this as a walkthrough because I can't really call it a tutorial. We'll get to the manga tutorials on future posts, but right now I'll just walk you through my design process as I drew a simple character design. Like I mentioned before, we'll start with the very basic. This walkthrough is for beginners only but everyone is welcome to check it out. Hopefully after viewing this, you can be on your way to learning how to draw manga.

On this walkthrough, I used a free drawing software called MyPaint. If you want to find out more about this application, check out my reviews. This is the finished product. Find out how I made it.

Sample Work

Here are some of my early work, they are fairly simple each taking about an hour or so to finish. The applications I used are MyPaint for sketching and initial outline, and GIMP for coloring.  If you're not familiar with Mypaint, please check out my review. On future posts, I'll walk you through my process and show you how to draw something like these. If you work hard enough, you can definitely make something even better. I'm a beginner just like you so let's learn together.

Welcome

Welcome to Game Manga Beat and thank you for visiting. On this blog, I will post beginner tutorials on how to draw manga and anime as I learn them. You see, I too want to learn how to draw and as I learn new techniques, I'll post step by step tutorials and walk you through my process. I can't guarantee that you'll learn from me, but I feel that sometimes it's easier to learn from a fellow beginner than from a professional. Like how sometimes you would understand a lesson better by asking a fellow student rather than from a teacher. We'll start from the very basic and work our way up. I'll also use different drawing software at different times and hopefully you'll find your favorite.

I'll post news and reviews about computer games and hardware that interests me. I'll also show you video clips that I watch online. Do check out my blog from time to time to see updates. Thank you.