The Art of Manga: Drawing Unique Characters
Drawing Your Character’s Hands
A course by Natalia Batista , Manga Artist and illustrator
About the video: Drawing Your Character’s Hands
Overview
“It's time to take a closer look at one specific body part that is essential to be able to draw dynamic and engaging poses and artwork: the hands. I will teach you the basic proportions and parts of a hand and how to pose the hands.”
In this video lesson Natalia Batista addresses the topic: Drawing Your Character’s Hands, 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
“Drawing Your Character's Hands Now we'll focus on one of the body parts that is essential to composing a good picture. This body part is also one of the trickier ones to make. The hands. Good thing is that you have hands so you can use your own as reference. Hands can be very expressive. For example, when a character shows expressions, feelings or emotions, picks up or holds things. That's why it's essential for an artist to learn how to draw hands. It's also tricky to draw hand because we have two hands and we see them daily, every time we do things, so we know what hands look like. I reco...”
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Course summary for: The Art of Manga: Drawing Unique Characters
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Category
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Areas
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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