CG Manga Illustration in a Nutshell - Complete Bundle

We have talked about basic techniques of Painter. If you have practiced with doodling, drawing and copying, you should be quite familiar with how Painter works. Although there are many illustration software, but their basic functions are the same. More important is your drawing and observation skills.

Let's do some basic exercise to improve your eye-hand coordination and digital tablet skills.

When learning drawing, most beginners may encounter this problem: "Why can't I draw things real?" The key is to use your eyes to draw. To observe in a real way. Although drawing ‘real‘ is never the most important point of art, observing is the most important basic ability.

We will talk about drawing chibi characters in the coming lessons. When learning draw-ing chibi characters, we can also master some basic CG techniques. Drawing chibi characters is simple and interesting, while useful in all sorts of situations.

In the previous lesson we talked about ‘draw what you see instead of the symbol in your mind' , but this time we will try the opposite: refine new symbols by ourselves.

In this session, you will learn the complete process of drawing a chibi character. Each lecture in this session covers a main stage in the illustration process.

To draw characters well, we have to know how human body looks like, and how to ob-serve it. In this section we will talk about the basic: proportion.

It's a difficult topic and you may not remember everything by watching the video once. Try to remember them by practice. The same for later lessons.

We learned to draw body proportion in the previous lesson. Let's make them move this time!

Now we know how to add actions to body frames, the next step is to draw the body based on these frames. We have two lessons for this:

Part-1 focuses on correct body curves, which make your work realistic and believable. Some knowledge about muscles helps you draw body curves better.

Practice is always the most efficient way to learn. Lots of examples included in this part for you reference.

All sorts of characters may be needed in our works. We will talk about how to draw faces, and use facial features to build character personality.

Emotion expressions in Manga works are interesting. It’s our topic this time. It’s not diffcult but you have to observe the expressions carefully.

I think anyone who wants to learn Manga drawing would be interested in this subject.