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Creation of Manga Characters

Bodies and archetypes I

A course by Andrea Jen , Comic Artist and Illustrator

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About the video: Bodies and archetypes I

Overview

“In this lesson you will see how I draw the prototypes of the female and male bodies from the front, profile and back. ”

In this video lesson Andrea Jen addresses the topic: Bodies and archetypes I, 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

“BODIES AND ARCHETYPES Now let's get to work. First I'm going to explain about archetypes. What are archetypes? They are the standards we have when it comes to drawing either a male figure or a female figure, and we can see that each has different heights. In the case of the female figure, we have a schoolgirl with a height of seven and a half heads. What do we mean by seven and a half heads? That starting from this first head, we repeat it another six and a half times down, OK? Whereas the boy is eight heads. This will allow us to draw the figure in proportion so that we can contrast the ph...”

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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".