The Art of Manga: Drawing Unique Characters
Basic Body Proportions 1
A course by Natalia Batista , Manga Artist and illustrator
About the video: Basic Body Proportions 1
Overview
“In this lesson, I will go through the basic anatomy of a manga character and show you how to draw it with simple shapes and lines. Drawing a human body might seem complicated, but after learning the basic rules and remembering them, the rest is just practice.”
In this video lesson Natalia Batista addresses the topic: Basic Body Proportions 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: The Art of Manga: Drawing Unique Characters. Learn how to create a manga character from scratch and reach your visual storytelling potential by exploring original drawing techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we'll talk about how to draw the manga body. It's very similar to a realistic body. And it might feel like it's overwhelming to learn all the proportions of a body. but I really recommend you to just follow along and you can see how easy it is to learn the proportions as we go along. I will try to explain it as easy as possible. To learn the body proportions anatomy, It's a whole... knowledge in itself. So I recommend you also to do a lot of practicing of anatomy study and corpene. Maybe even go to classes for that. Manga is really based in reality, even though the character...”
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Course summary for: The Art of Manga: Drawing Unique Characters
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Character Design, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Manga, Pencil Drawing
Natalia Batista
A course by Natalia Batista
Natalia Batista is a Swedish manga artist and illustrator with over 15 years of experience. Her passion for the Japanese art started as a child watching Sailor Moon with her sister. Soon, she joined a local manga club, and after graduating from high school, she attended a comic art school. While working for a Swedish magazine as a comic artist, she illustrated the comic Lova, about a young girl who wanted to be a singer in a band.
Since then, she has illustrated and published a number of manga pieces that are centered on female characters who are fighting for their rights. She is the artist and storyteller behind Sword Princess Amaltea and Mjau!, which have been published and printed throughout Europe and the United States. Natalia has also been featured in the German magazine Tokyopop for her comic Ein Lied für Elise.
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