Huzzah! I figured out how to draw noses! You don't know how happy that makes me! The nose makes the picture, to me! Of course, there are pictures without noses that are still good...but I like noses.
I also now know how to draw eyelashes, again! If you haven't noticed I had forgotten for a while. I also now know how to draw coloured eyelashes better...it all has to do with strokes.
I noticed that the eyes I draw are more circular...that could be okay for girls, but not so much for guys. I need to make longer eyes, more oval shaped eyes.
The focal point of those pictures are the eyes...and kinda the lips. For the girl I started with the lips, for the guy I started with the head shape. You can kinda tell the difference between starting with the lips and starting with the head shape. The guy is more proportional.
There are some people who start with eyes or start even with hair, I can't do that because I have to know the basic shape of the head. I can start with lips because the mouth shows you the jaw line so I can draw the rest of the head...though it is harder.
Just now I was looking at head proportions and practicing draw heads and other facial features. I like learning~! I was going to work on some other things...but I don't know if I have time to attempt them...but I will.
I need to work on hands and feet.
Here's some of the things on my list to work on:
Colouring
Hands
Feet
Facial Structure
Composition
Clothing
Backgrounds
Anatomy
Perspective
Weapons
A lot of them are hard to work on. I'm going to read my perspective book for the hundredth time but this time I will work from it.
For anatomy I'm looking at scientific models because art models don't allow as much freedom and I can't really see how a lot of the stuff works...O.o; Y'know, with scientific models you can see how pressure can be applied and what certain parts of the body do. If they just stay there or can move. So if I want to do a grotesque picture I can! :D
Composition...I don't know how to practice it...I've never been very good when it comes to composition...so I don't know what to look for...O.o;
Clothing...I just need to figure out how to make different fabrics and how to do more airy picture without making the clothing look really wrinkly and thin...More flowy I mean...
I look at elaine-sensei (she changed her username, though) for reference:
It's amazing how she makes folds! *.*
But it's not just folding, I'm also trying do leathers and also designs. I always get weird designs that nobody could ever make in real life 'cause they're just not possible...so I need to work on that...'orz That or they're really boring and not catchy.
Colouring...*shakes head* Colouring's a b*tch...*shakes head* Sorry for the profanity, but really. Colouring...I always have the most trouble with it. Actually, I don't really know anybody who doesn't have trouble with it. I want to give my characters certain amount of depth, but if I just forget something little (which I often do) they turn out flat...'orz
Even though I like flat art...
Background are also a pain...to an extent. They're actually not that bad, but I never feel like putting any effort into it...>3> I should one day.
I've recently gotten interested in weapons~! There's so many and they're all so cool and actually very unique! *.* Mostly weapons that aren't guns, though...I don't like guns...but I really need to learn how to draw them. I should study that, too...I need a diagram of it inside and out.
Here's something I've learned...well...maybe this is just me. When you're trying to learn how to draw something it's best to know all the parts and their names. This way you don't forget something.
The human body is pretty easy, but I need to learn anatomy and muscles. Since I won't be taking an anatomy class in high school (unless I do senior year, but I doubt it), I'll have to teach myself on my own. But luckily my Spanish teacher is an anatomy teacher so I can have her help me on some~! XD
Anybody interested in a...I guess more of an analysis journal than a tutorial...but just things that I take notes on about anatomy etc. Usually I ignore them, but it would be careful analysis and observations about certain things to draw or just things that could help in manga stuffs.
Oh! Here's something I learned for people interested in writing manga/draw panels:
The VERY MAXIMUM amount of panels a person should have on one page is 16. I suggest going below that number to prevent clutter.
The most amount of panels per line (that would mean horizontally) is 4, and the most rows of panels (that would mean vertically) is 4. So it would be 4 by 4. But that doesn't mean every page should be 4 by 4 (this would give you 16...4 panels each row and there are 4 rows).
It is best to mix up these amounts to make it more interesting, but based on what's important. What is most important to the scene should be the biggest and what is just quick bits adding up to it should be smaller. Some pages only have 2 panels, some have more, it's really very random.
It is suggest to keep the amount of panels more at a 3 by 3 instead of 4 by 4
to prevent clutter, but the amount can exceed 3, but no more than 4.
Vertically long panels (tall panels, they read up to down instead of left to right, if this makes any sense) put together make fast paced action scenes that are sudden. It's good to make what happens in these panels, time wise, happen slowly, so when the reader reads it seems more dramatic and it goes by facter because reading from right to left on those thin panels is very quick.
But those kinds of panels can also be slow paced if there is a character in those kinds of panels then the reader will look at them from top to bottom slowly.
Horizontally long panels (wide-shot panels) are good for slower action, like kabooming and stuff (kabooming is my word for stuff blowing up...'orz). By slower action I mean stuff that you want the reader to see clearly and slower, but this doesn't mean the action isn't face.
For instance, if somebody were punching a character it would be good to put it in a horizontal pattern. Since the reader reads from right to left they can quickly notice the action. It also focuses on the character being punched.
But if it were the character being shot by a bullet and the bullet is in it's path to the character (as the punch is in it's path to the character) it will seem as if the bullet has stopped, even with speed lines.
Maybe with those examples you guys can understand what I mean. Usually in cartoons or something when they do the 'BAM!' and 'KABOOM!' and they kinda freeze the frame and shake it, those are the kinds that are good for horizontal stuff. But you wouldn't do that for shooting, it just makes it seem shorter.
Wide shots and Vertical long shots are mostly used for action manga, while more boxier panels are used for shoujo manga and the like. It just depends on the atmosphere and also the mangaka's style.
In my opinion I think action manga would be more fun to write than shoujo just because of this. Sometimes it's more fun to read.
...I wanna do an action manga now...XD
Oh! And about that character popping out thing...I dunno when is the right time to do that...I guess when you want the focus to be on that character or something...O.o; It's like kanji...you know there's a reason and something that tells you when to use it, but you don't know when or why...'orz
By 'back to work' in the title I meant that I'm done with relaxing to the point where I'm bored, now it's time for me to work on praciticing all this stuff and to work on the stuff I've had in my to-do list.
Since I'm going 'back to work' that also means more anime watching and manga reading...hehe...XD Work for me means worth while treats at the end! >;D
Oh! I started watching Tiger&Bunny yesterday. It's really good and it DOES feel like an American cartoon...but if only American cartoons were like that...>3> It kinda reminds me of Teen Titans in a way...It's very funny.
I love how Barnaby (sp?...Seriously...I call him Mr.Bunny, I don't care about his real name) 'Bunny'! It just reminds me of Takeru from SuG for some reason...Taiga to Bani...>:D I love the sound of bunny in...umm...what do you call Japanese english? It's not jinglish that I'm looking for...is it?
I also watched Toward the Terra...which I thought would be AWESOME, but it's ANNOYING! TT^TT I love Soldier Blue's design, though. He's GORGEOUS:
It kinda looks like oldie manga. I LOVE the look of oldie manga~! Their eyes are always sooo pretty and sparkly and their noses and so cute~! X3
And fdsfnugndignkjsaldmk!! If only legend of the galactic heroes wasn't such...well...a stereotypical old anime:
Look how gorgeous that art is~! *melts* Too pretty...TT^TT I wish I could...get through an episode...There's almost no animation, the voice acting isn't very good, and the music puts me off soooo bad...TT^TT It's oldie kids show star trek-y sounding...uggg...And they keep saying 'ware ware'...I wonder what that means...*looks it up* Oh...'we'...Well...I guess that makes sense...That's what I thought...but still...stop saying 'we'! Say some 'boku' or something...
I also watched some more steins;gate today. So now I'm up to episode 6...
Oh! My mom bought me some ballpoint pens so now I don't have to keep using my art pens to write (seriously...I was...it was torture...TT^TT). Why do I need pens? 'cause pens are better than pencils when it comes to writing!
Well...I hold my pencil in the wrong place and I don't put too much pressure on the paper so it's usually pretty light...and it bothers me when teachers ask me to rewrite things when I can CLEARLY see it...stop being so blind teachers...*shakes fist* So my handwriting is unreadable, without the help of pens! Still unreadable 'cause I basically cross out all my words with the ink dragging to each letter...buuut...at least it's dark~! :D
Actually my friend gave me some good advice about notes. I lost a whole 2 pages of my Japanese notes because I wrote them in pencil, and the same thing happened to her with her Spanish. So she now writes her notes in pen.
I'll be taking language notes tomorrow~!
Oh! I've been noticing I've been able to understand Japanese a lot more than usually. Sometimes when...something goes wrong with the video I'm watching with the anime I'm watching...certain parts usually black out and it's often the subtitles, I can still understand what they're saying even without the subtitles. Sure I didn't know for sure what 'wareware' means...but most of the anime I've watched say 'boku' or 'watashi'. And I actually kinda DID know what 'wareware' meant...I just didn't believe that it was 'we' 'cause I just guessed that it was from how they were using it in Legend of the Galactic Heroes.
'kay 'kay~! Goodnight, buenas noches, oyasumi nasai...ermm...I don't know goodnight in any other languages...or do I?
大家晚安! :D
