The Art of Manga: Drawing Unique Characters
Posing and Moving Your Character 2
A course by Natalia Batista , Manga Artist and illustrator
About the video: Posing and Moving Your Character 2
Overview
“A body’s limbs and parts are all jointed in a way that makes them bend a certain way. We will see examples of how our bodies move while walking, jumping and running. I know it can sometimes be hard to know what pose is natural or not, and that is why I think you should take a look at your own body and movements.”
In this video lesson Natalia Batista addresses the topic: Posing and Moving Your Character 2, 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 Let's look at some examples of basic movements. This is an example of how the character moves when it's walking. Remember the legs. Like I said before, this is behind the other leg. This leg is behind this. By moving the legs step by step, almost like an animation, you learn which leg is in front and which is in the back. Also, where the weight of the character's body is. This one, the weight is on this leg, because this is standing, and this one is in the air. We don't have any weight put on this leg. In this position, this leg is still the one that keeps m...”
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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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