The Art of Manga: Drawing Unique Characters
Fashion Design 1
A course by Natalia Batista , Manga Artist and illustrator
About the video: Fashion Design 1
Overview
“In this lesson, I teach you how to clothe your manga character. I go through some of the basic principles of drawing fabric and folds around body parts. By adding small details, you can draw clothes that people are familiar with, like a pair of jeans, a t-shirt, a hoodie, a pleated skirt, etc., and make them unique.”
In this video lesson Natalia Batista addresses the topic: Fashion Design 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, I will show you how to clothe your character. Doing character clothing is all about First of all, learning how to draw clothing and fabrics, but also about how to create a good design for your character that fits the personality and the lifestyle of the character. I will also talk about how to add details to make the clothing interesting and unique, and how to not add too many details so it would be hard for you to draw them. But first, let's start with just learning how fabric works and how the flow of fabrics and creases of the fabric is drawn. I will start by creating som...”
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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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