Creation of Manga Characters
Bodies and archetypes II
A course by Andrea Jen, Comic Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Bodies and archetypes II
Overview
“Second part of the lesson.”
In this video lesson Andrea Jen addresses the topic: Bodies and archetypes II, 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
“Since we have the same guide. the same guide of seven and a half heads. I will now plant the same figure with identical proportions. but in profile. Therefore. let's We can draw with a ruler or freehand. Now. the task is to sketch each component in its corresponding profile view. ensuring accuracy and I begin by sketching the skull using a slightly elongated circular form. as the skull in profile tends somewhat more stretched out than from the front view. I drew this line as an axis. it's not necessarily the spine. It's an axis for... So I can draw the figure in its place. For the ears... I...”
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Course summary for: Creation of Manga Characters
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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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