The Art of Manga: Drawing Unique Characters
Posing and Moving Your Character 1
A course by Natalia Batista , Manga Artist and illustrator
About the video: Posing and Moving Your Character 1
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you how to pose your character and move its body around in a natural way. Many artists use digital models, photo references or poseable figurines for this, but I prefer to teach you how to do the poses all on your own. In this way, you will be freer to create art from your mind, not just from what your eyes can see.”
In this video lesson Natalia Batista addresses the topic: Posing and Moving Your Character 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
“Posing and Moving Your Character This is the final step for creating a character and giving it life. I will show you how to pose in different ways. Especially, the basic poses, and how to use those poses in a very simple but still interesting illustration. Let's start with foreshortening. Foreshortening is when a body part is moving towards the camera or pointing towards the camera. This is very hard to do because when we draw on paper, we're using 2D, just lines on a paper. Being able to draw something 3D out of the paper is complicated. I'm going to tell you how you should think and how t...”
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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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