Tim Mason - How to Draw Manga: Complete Step-by-Step Guide With Illustrations on How to to Draw Faces, Bodies, and Manga Accessories From Scratch For Children and Adults

How To Draw Manga

Complete Step-by-Step Guide With Illustrations on How to to Draw Faces, Bodies, and Manga Accessories From Scratch

For Children and Adults

Tim Mason

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The term manga is a Japanese term which, literally translated, means mock image. In Japan, manga is the expression of all drawings that are made in the form of comic books.

The first person to insert the term manga, to talk about his own artistic production, was the famous artist Hokusai, who lived between 1760 and 1849.

It is since the 1950s that manga has become one of the key sectors for Japan's publishing economy.

In the manga comics currently on the market, you will find a diverse variety of genres and characters. Indeed, you will find adventure stories, stories based on historical events, romantic stories, comedies, science fiction stories, fantasy stories, detective stories, and horror stories.

Usually manga are drawn and then printed in black and white, but there is no shortage of color manga as well.

The manga industry is a constantly evolving field, and over time, a variety of techniques and styles have emerged in order to be able to make both stories and characters more enjoyable and interesting for readers.

In terms of style, manga style, compared to other types of comics, has definite characteristics. In fact, manga characters are recognizable by peculiar physical traits, such as overly large eyes or very fancy hair and hairstyles, or by the narrative style that is much more attentive to the expressiveness of the characters.

If you want to take this path, as in all art forms, to learn how to professionally draw manga, you should first learn the basics. Only after learning the basics, and getting lots and lots of practice, then you could become a real expert in manga-style illustrations.

In this guide, you will be shown all the methods, step by step, to learn how to draw a manga character, starting with the basics to later build the complete character.

In addition, you will be given various examples of how to render facial expressions and how to draw a complete character, both male and female.

The materials you necessarily need to draw your own manga characters

To draw a manga character correctly, you will not need a lot of materials or special materials that are out of anyone's reach.

However, you must possess the tools that are indispensable both to take the first steps and to complete your work.

The following will list what these materials are that you absolutely cannot do without.

Paper: the first tool, which seems to be obvious is paper. Without a sheet of paper on which to draw, you will not be able to make any characters at all. However, the sheets of paper you will have to use are not the usual sheets you find in notebooks, which therefore may contain lines or squares. The paper you are going to use must be completely white.

You will need the blank sheets of paper for both the initial sketches and the final drawing.

The advice is to use white drawing paper, and avoid printer paper since this type of paper, as far as drawing is concerned, turns out to be of very poor quality.

If you intend to finish your drawing using color or ink, the advice is to buy a paper suitable for this type of art, carefully avoiding paper that is too thin and smooth or not very porous. This is because color and ink are not absorbed by this type of paper, and you will end up staining, and consequently ruining, your drawing.

P encils. Another somewhat obvious tool is definitely the pencil. In general you will need two types of pencils. One you will need for sketching and drafting your drawing, the other for finishing your drawing. As for sketching, the advice is to use an H-type pencil, because this type of pencil has a harder lead and will therefore leave a lighter mark on the paper that will then be easy to erase.

For actual drawing, however, you should use type B pencils.

As for shading, hatching or shading, however, the advice is to use a B2-type pencil.

Eraser. Another obvious tool, but just as important as the pencil. The eraser is not only used to erase mistakes, but will be an indispensable tool especially when you are going to blur and shade your character.

For this reason, it is essential that you take great care of the erasers you use for manga drawing, keeping them clean at all times.

The pencil holder. Mines follow the same basic principles and thus the same classification as pencils. Usually the ones most commonly used for this type of art are type B mines.