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.