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Creation of Manga Characters

Influences

A course by Andrea Jen , Comic Artist and Illustrator

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About the video: Influences

Overview

“In this lesson I will show you what my first influences were as an illustrator and what are the current ones as a manga creator. ”

In this video lesson Andrea Jen addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creation of Manga Characters. Learn to design and illustrate Japanese comic characters from the idea to its technical sheet.

Partial transcription of the video

“INFLUENCES Now that you know me a little better, I'm going to tell you what my influences are. The most important was always "Sailor Moon," because of those big eyes of the protagonist, and the illustrations were very colorful and visually attractive. The next work that I want to show you is "Cardcaptor Sakura," by CLAMP. They are a group of four author girls that each performs a function, either as a screenwriter, illustrator, crosshatching artist, or the person in charge of doing the shading. In this case, what I liked about them is the way they illustrate. They use alcohol-based markers,...”

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Course summary for: Creation of Manga Characters

Level: Beginner
99% positive reviews (1611)
56543 students
4 units
18 lessons (2h 36m)
14 downloads

Category
Illustration
Software
Adobe Photoshop
Areas
Character Design, Comic, Manga, Traditional illustration

Andrea Jen

A course by Andrea Jen

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Comic Artist and Illustrator

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".