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Creation of Manga Characters

Face Expressions I

A course by Andrea Jen , Comic Artist and Illustrator

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About the video: Face Expressions I

Overview

“In this lesson I will show you how to draw the six basic emotions and their intensities. It is essential to know this in order to draw a manga: joy, fury, sadness, surprise / fear, hate and anxiety. ”

In this video lesson Andrea Jen addresses the topic: Face Expressions 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

“FACE EXPRESSIONS Now that we have worked on heads and on the head of my character, I'm going to start talking about expressions. This is a grid of the six faces of emotions. The six basic emotions that apply in a manga are those of joy, fury, sadness, surprise and fear, hatred, and anxiety. On this grid I'm going to draw each of the emotions and then I'm going to work on each of the intensities. Why are intensities important? Because it is necessary to build up a climax that comes, for example, from least to greatest, in such a way that it is gradual in each of the panels we want to illustr...”

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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".