Nao Yazawa - Drawing and Painting Anime and Manga Faces: Step-By-Step Techniques for Creating Authentic Characters and Expressions

Step-by-Step Techniques for Creating Authentic Characters & Expressions

NAO YAZAWA

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ISBN: 978-1-63159-962-0

Digital edition published in 2021

eISBN: 978-1-63159-963-7

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Yazawa, Nao, author.

Drawing and painting anime & manga faces : step-by-step techniques for creating authentic characters and expressions / Nao Yazawa.

LCCN 2020056747 | ISBN 9781631599620 (paperback)

1. Face in art--Juvenile literature. 2. Facial expression in art--Juvenile literature. 3. Comic books, strips, etc.--Japan--Technique--Juvenile literature.

LCC NC1764.8.F33 Y39 2021 | DDC 704.9/42--dc23

Cover Design: Mattie Wells

Page Layout: Sporto

Illustration: Nao Yazawa

Welcome, anime and manga fans! If youve always wanted to create your own manga characters, this book is for you.

Once youve drawn all the characters and their Chibis, I hope you use what youve learned to create your own characters and to tell your own exciting stories!

Atari: Rough sketches or guidelines to set the rough position, shapes, and balance of the composition. This includes characters, backgrounds, effect lines, and handwriting.

Pen-ire/Pen Inking: To go over the pencil drawing in ink.

Beta/Beta Inking: Solid black with brush pens or pens.

Iri: The starting point of the stroke on Pen-ire or Beta. This is only for brush pens and dip pens. Dont use this technique with carbon fiber pens or markers.

Nuki: The end point of the stroke on Pen-ire or Beta. Draw it by pulling the tension away from the tip of the pen to make it look like its disappearing normally.

Teri-Beta/Tsuya-Beta: An effect to make the part look shiny as if light shines on it by adjusting the Nuki and Iri. This technique is mainly used for black hair.

Howaito (White): To erase wrong lines, ink smudges with white ink or correction fluid. Its used for lights and highlights.

Kakeami: Pen hatching; to express half tones with pens.

Kakimoji (SFX): Onomatopoeia designed by hand drawing. Its an important factor in manga to describe the atmosphere and situations as well as the sounds.

Fukidashi: Conversation/word bubble. There are several sizes or shapes depending on the volume of the voice or the way its said.

Manpu: Symbols or icons that help express emotions in manga such as sweat beads or lines.

Kouka-Sen: Lines to show effects. There are several types:

Tone/Screen Tone: Screen tones are a sheet of adhesive paper with different patterns. You can cut it with knife after applying. The surface can be scraped off with a knife and has different effects. Gray tones are called Ami and patterns, such as a checkered pattern, are called Gara.

Due to printing costs and speed, manga manuscripts are generally black and white in Japan. Artists use tones with small dots to express gray areas in place of gray ink and pencils. Currently, technological advances allow the use of gray, but traditionally the color is expressed in tones.

Front View

Basic Atari for Faces