Any advice for a young manga artist?!
Question: Any advice for a young manga artist!?
My friends and I are very big anime/manga fans!.I practically draw something new everyday(ok almost everyday) and I know what your gonna say but no I keep everything porportioned when I draw ^_^
Do you think I can possibly have a future with my art!?If your going to leave mean comments,please don't!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Do you think I can possibly have a future with my art!?If your going to leave mean comments,please don't!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Answers:
If you want to, you can!. You'll have a tough time, because Japanese is a hard language to learn, and the art feild in general is a tough, dog-eat-dog world, but I'm making it as a Sequential artist! (I don't do manga, but a professor's fiancee worked for Tokyopop!.)
Here's some advice:
1) Branch away from Anime for now!. Buy some anatomy books, learn about bone structure, muscle placement, and the way the human body works!. For now, just stick to making drawings as realistic as possible!. Draw all the time!. Go to places like parks or carry a small sketchbook around in your purse, and make gesture drawings of people in motion!. When you do go back to anime, you'll find that your drawings are much improved with your greater understanding of anatomy and the movement of the human body!.
2) Never turn down an oppurtunity to learn!. If someone offers you advice, take it! post your art online at places like conceptart!.com, and let the critiques roll in!. Don't shy away from harsh-sounding critiques, they may seem a bit hurtful, but people know what they're talking about and really do only want to help you improve!.
3) Take every art class you can find!. In every medium!. When you learn to use art as a kind of meditative process, it will help you express ideas on paper easily!. Before I settled on Sequential art, I took sculpture, creative writing, digital ink and paint, character design, oil painting, flower arranging, and figure dawing classes!. They all (except maybe the flower arranging, that was a dud,) help me now with my chosen career feild!.
4) Practice!. Draw all the time, all over everything!. Just don't quit!. Try to always have a sketchbook you're working in, that you can make whole colored peices out of if you wanted to!.
5) Be prepared!. The people you are trying to get to hire you will not usually be nice to you!. This is a tough, tough feild, and you have to have a thick skin to make it!.
Good luck~Www@Enter-QA@Com
Here's some advice:
1) Branch away from Anime for now!. Buy some anatomy books, learn about bone structure, muscle placement, and the way the human body works!. For now, just stick to making drawings as realistic as possible!. Draw all the time!. Go to places like parks or carry a small sketchbook around in your purse, and make gesture drawings of people in motion!. When you do go back to anime, you'll find that your drawings are much improved with your greater understanding of anatomy and the movement of the human body!.
2) Never turn down an oppurtunity to learn!. If someone offers you advice, take it! post your art online at places like conceptart!.com, and let the critiques roll in!. Don't shy away from harsh-sounding critiques, they may seem a bit hurtful, but people know what they're talking about and really do only want to help you improve!.
3) Take every art class you can find!. In every medium!. When you learn to use art as a kind of meditative process, it will help you express ideas on paper easily!. Before I settled on Sequential art, I took sculpture, creative writing, digital ink and paint, character design, oil painting, flower arranging, and figure dawing classes!. They all (except maybe the flower arranging, that was a dud,) help me now with my chosen career feild!.
4) Practice!. Draw all the time, all over everything!. Just don't quit!. Try to always have a sketchbook you're working in, that you can make whole colored peices out of if you wanted to!.
5) Be prepared!. The people you are trying to get to hire you will not usually be nice to you!. This is a tough, tough feild, and you have to have a thick skin to make it!.
Good luck~Www@Enter-QA@Com
You should summit your work and see what happens!.
Here is some helpful info:
http://www!.randomhouse!.com/about/faq/ind!.!.!.
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Here is some helpful info:
http://www!.randomhouse!.com/about/faq/ind!.!.!.
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