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Creation of Manga Characters

What are we going to do?

A course by Andrea Jen , Comic Artist and Illustrator

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99% positive reviews (1.6K)

56,549 students

Audio: Spanish, English

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About the video: What are we going to do?

Overview

“In this lesson I am going to tell you the step by step of the project that we are going to carry out throughout the course. You will create the concept and aesthetic design of the character, the basic expressions and their intensities, the representation of the postures in motion and, finally, its technical sheet. ”

In this video lesson Andrea Jen addresses the topic: What are we going to do?, 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

“WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO What are we going to do in this course? In this course I am going to tell you how to create a manga character. First I am going to explain how manga originated, a brief introduction. Then I will explain the importance of the characters in manga, and finally I am going to explain how to create them. Later I will explain what materials we are going to use and how to work with them. I am going to explain how to create the female and male archetypes in their different views. And, in turn, I will explain how to build the heads, the faces, from the front, in profile and th...”

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Course summary for: Creation of Manga Characters

Level: Beginner
99% positive reviews (1612)
56549 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".