Creation of Manga Characters
Movement
A course by Andrea Jen , Comic Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Movement
Overview
“In this lesson I will show you how to draw the characters in action, such as running or performing a special power and, also, we will see them in everyday postures such as reading a book, eating, and so on.”
In this video lesson Andrea Jen addresses the topic: Movement, 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
“MOVEMENT Now that we have learned to draw the expressions and their intensities, we are going to put the figure in motion. We have the character ready in a static position. So in this case we have the character standing, static on the axis. Now if we want to draw the character in action, often what is going to happen is that the character, the axis, will be moving. Therefore, for those who have no experience, what I recommend is that you use self-help books. They are books that contain different postures and in different views, at different angles. We have, for example, in this case, some f...”
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Course summary for: Creation of Manga Characters
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Adobe Photoshop -
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Character Design, Comic, Manga, Traditional illustration
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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