Forum - View topicINTEREST: Wacom & Manga University Team Create 'How to Draw Manga' Instructional Video Series
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Lemonchest
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Now I could be wrong, but I think the drew a face?
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_Cyphon_
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TEACH ME, SENSEI! T^T
Oh wait, that's what she's doing. |
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reanimator
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Having watched several Wacom manga demo videos via ANN, this is the impression I get:
"With Wacom, you could draw like certain manga artist with ease". |
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Mr. Oshawott
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These tutorials will go very far in helping out aspiring doujinshi artists.
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smokeyjoey8
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I haven't watched it yet, but I imagine it's fairly similar to this:
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Mr. Oshawott
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^
Step 2 seems to match the owl's expressionless look. 
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manga_university
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Something the article doesn't mention is that Mosoko Miyatsuki is the pen name of the Saori Takarai, who has authored several English-language books under her given name, including "Manga Moods," "Manga Moods Too," and "Manga Sisters."
Takarai-sensei also recently appeared in an NHK television profile of her and her artwork. We will be releasing several more videos from this series in the coming weeks. |
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Hameyadea
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Good tutorial. Digipens & pads are great tools when allow to make adjustments relatively easy compared to the traditional pen/cil & paper, and save the need to buy resources (inks, pencils, papers).
One can also work in the backwards order 
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Mizuki-Takashima
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If Graphic-sha were doing a series of youtube videos I would be ecstatic, but manga university isn't bad! (I'm just glad it's not Chris Hart doing it. I swear he has a monopoly on How 2 Draw books by now)
Truth be told I actually had no idea Manga University was still around. I remember when they used to have a pretend school online for free, you got assigned homework and everything! It was fun! I can't remember why I didn't get very far though. I think I had trouble getting my homework checked? idk. Anyway I'll shut up and check out the video now |
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leafy sea dragon
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I'm not sure how effective this would be, but it reminds me of those "How to Draw Anime" and "How to Draw Manga" books that used to flood bookstores and comic book shops in the late 90's.
Man, they annoyed me a lot. Not only were most of them not that good (and not just Chris Hart stuff), they were perpetuating the idea that "anime/manga" is one concrete style. (Not to mention most of the authors, especially if they were western, wrote these books as if they were one concrete style.) Anyone who drew in public a lot would be inevitably asked, "Can you draw anime-style?" Whenever anyone asked me that, I'd follow with, "Which anime?" This would, most of the time, either confuse the speaker or end the conversation outright.
Well, Christopher Hart is genuinely good at doing traditional American comic book artwork (you know, with the superheroes and all that). It seems to be what he was trained for. Unfortunately, he constantly takes jobs for artwork he has no business drawing, but the publishers don't know any better and it becomes the blind leading the blind (and with the aspiring artists being another group of the blind). Another problem is that his how-to-draw books on American comics are some of his less popular ones, despite being pretty good (they open with some basics on figure drawing, for instance, which his other ones lack). Considering how terrible some of the Hart books were, I'm sure he was just phoning it in most of the time, knowing he'd get just as much money doing that than if he took the time to try to draw it just right. And they sold well (especially the "anime"/"manga" ones), leading me to believe that the readers didn't even know they were bad. |
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Mizuki-Takashima
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Oh gosh, that always bugged me too. I mean, on one hand, I wanted my artwork to have an "authentic" manga look to them, but I also knew that drawing anime/manga is more about "technique" than it is about "style" (because as you said, anime/manga isn't all just one style)
Yeah I get that impression from him as well. However, nowadays whenever I walk into a store (usually hobby lobby or even the manga section of some bookstores) every single How 2 Draw book is done by him. It's also kind of sad because usually the cover is drawn by someone else, spoiler[(someone with more talent)] but most of the inside of the book is just his hastily thrown together drawings. Even his Superhero type of books don't even look all that good, everything he does looks pretty half-baked and yet he's also supposed to be some authority on the subject? I know most how 2 draw books aren't great for most budding artists, but at least the graphic-sha books tried to explain that there isn't just one set-in-stone style and even had artists from the industry sharing their tips and such. |
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leafy sea dragon
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From what I've seen, how-to-draw books have diminished in popularity. Not only am I seeing fewer of them being published and fewer of them in brick-and-mortar stores, but the local used bookstores I've visited recently have a lot of them (and, not coincidentially, lots of how-to-draw-anime/manga books in particular).
Chris Hart gets a lot of commissions to make how-to-draw books simply because he's willing to do them. The artwork inside is shoddy, but really, neither his publishers nor the people the books are aimed at know any better. I know when I was younger and more naïve, artwork that I would now consider good but flawed I considered amazing and breathtaking. I'm surprised I don't see more artists making these books, considering they don't seem that difficult to put together. I saw a "How to Draw Nintendo" recently that used artwork from Super Smash Bros. Brawl and had its artist pretty much trace the CGI artwork, then break it down into geometric shapes and action lines and rearrange them into a step-by-step order. It won't let you learn how to draw anything but those very specific images, but it seems like a decent amount of money for not a lot of work. |
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manga_university
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Just wanted to clarify that Manga University was Graphic-sha's partner in the publication of several of the English-language edition "How to Draw Manga" books. Also, Mosoko Miyatsuki (the artist featured in the new videos) has done work for Graphic-sha. 
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