Manga-style Portraits in Watercolor
The Torso, Arms, and Hands
A course by Andrea Jen , Comic Artist and Illustrator
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About the video: The Torso, Arms, and Hands
Overview
“During this lesson, I will explain how to draw the torso, arms and hands in a dynamic position. I'll also show you in detail how to foreshorten the hands to create dynamism and depth. ”
In this video lesson Andrea Jen addresses the topic: The Torso, Arms, and Hands, which is part of the Domestika online course: Manga-style Portraits in Watercolor. Learn the basics of drawing portraits in this Japanese comic style and how to color them using the watercolor technique.
Partial transcription of the video
“The torso, arms and hands Now that I have the head, I'm going to continue with the torso. I had already made these stick figures that I had mentioned to you, but maybe the position is not so precise. So what I did was draw different studies of the same posture and rotate them. In turn I tried to see how he had put his hand in the photo and in what position would the brush be in this case. But of the three figures, The one I liked the most turns out to be this, the first one, although the third would also have been good. I like the first one better because you can see just the front and mayb...”
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Course summary for: Manga-style Portraits in Watercolor
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Character Design, Comic, Manga, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Andrea Jen
A course by Andrea Jen
Andrea Jen is an Argentinian manga creator and illustrator born in 1987. From a very young age she has been a fan of Japanese drawings, which led her to become a manga author.
In 2015 she published his first work: El Delirio de Ani, a 184-page manga, through the Ivrea Argentina publishing house. In 2016, she won the Silent Manga Audition contest with his Smiling Blossom comic and traveled to Fukushima (Japan) to promote the manga among children in the area.
Her most recent work consists of a series of watercolor illustrations for his illustrated book, from free illustrations to characters from his manga "El caminante de los sueños".
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