The Art of Manga: Drawing Unique Characters

X Creation of a Manga Character

“Welcome to the "Final Project" section and thank you so much for taking this course with me. I hope that you enjoyed all our classes as much as I did! I am now going to show you how to share each step of your final project with the whole community. First of all, design the face and hair of your manga character. Draw it as a portrait on the top right corner of the character sheet, using the green leads and the mechanical pen.

On the bottom right corner of the sheet, draw 4 different facial expressions that your manga character does, depicting extreme emotions such as fear, happiness or anger. Try to draw the heads in different positions and angles. Now, design your manga character's body shape and clothing. Draw a full body standing pose of your character on the left side of the character sheet. Now, ink everything with steel nibs. If you are not comfortable with using steel nibs, you can use other pens. Share your finished character sheet! To conclude this project, write down information about your manga character's personality and share all the details with the community! ... And you are done! I am so excited to see your final result and read about your character's traits! I’ll be sure to let you know my thoughts when I can, though please remember that I’m often busy with ongoing projects. Don't forget to comment on other people's work on the forum and give constructive feedback to help them improve. I hope you have enjoyed this course, and that you have learned a lot from it! And good luck with all your future manga characters too! ”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final Project Hello, congrats on finishing this course. Thank you for joining me through all the lessons. I hope it gave you some inspiration on creating your own characters. You will finish the course by making the final project, You'll make a manga character sheet and write down information about your own. Here are my main tips before you do so. Always keep your main influences close by. For example, a pile of books that you like, or in a folder on your computer. You can also put them on your wall, above your workstation. Influences are important to create your manga characters with depth...”

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Course summary for: The Art of Manga: Drawing Unique Characters

• Level: Beginner
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• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Character Design, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Manga, Pencil Drawing