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Been a good while since I actually sat down and drew something, so here's what I did to get back into the groove of it. I wouldn't really say I improved, but at least I didn't regress that much.
Abyssal Yoma
A year into my amateur non-career of drawing manga, I have at least improved, but I am still far from the level I want to be at. If you want to stick around and watch my growth, you're welcome to. If not, I hope you'll hear of my manga at some point in the future and be impressed by it, because I'm trying to stake my personal legacy on the few works I have planned!
Genre
- Horror
- Mystery
- Seinen
- Psychological
- Slice Of Life
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Future goals
Create something liked enough to sustain a career in this.
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Favorite animation
Princess Mononoke, Akira, Shiki, and Hunter x Hunter.
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Favorite artwork
Claymore, Dorohedoro, and Deadman Wonderland.
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21 pages left to sketch!!!! I am drawing very slowly- even though I'm working on it every day my rate is like 1 panel/2 hours, which is a drastic difference from other oneshots I've done. Sorry about that. I don't know why it's like this. But I hope it'll be worth it!
Here's a drawing I did so that I could take a break and have fun!
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ウインドブレーカーガール (WINDBREAKER GIRL)
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Veritia
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Veritia
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Skin Tutorial
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Basically, I was so annoyed at how bad the skin was on the previous one, that I decided to make a semi-tutorial for both me and others to use. I'm really pleased with the monochrome linework version, as that only took about 45 min to draw, which is significantly faster than before. I'm mainly posting the in-progress version, because I want feedback on the color palette so far. The detailing part is key, so that's going to take a whole other session, or maybe even two, we'll see. Thanks for reading!
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Camillia 18.01.19
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*Second pic is the ref image I used!* I'm calling it good on this drawing, there's always another one to practice on. Overall I'm pretty happy with this as a first step, but the most obvious point of improvement I can see is getting good at drawing skin the way Hayashida does. Which even when I have a work of hers up for reference is quite difficult. The monochrome parts look fine for now, but my eye and technique for color still has a long way to go. I have an idea for another drawing I want to do to challenge myself, and it involves a fan art of Makoto from Blazblue, so that might be next.
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This is a practice drawing I'm working on, with a reference image from some Harajuku fashion. It's done done yet, but I thought some of you might like to see the progress as before. I'll post the ref image I'm using on the finished version for comparison. Hope to get it done soon.
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中国的味道呀ww
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ランカ
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Shinji... Not great hahaha but I just wanted to give an update- I'm almost half way done with the sketches now! It's been a lot of fun drawing it and I'll give it my all to the end! ^w^
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*The pictures posted are not mine and serve as reference only! They belong to their creator Q Hayashida, with all rights reserved.* After a month or two of floundering around thinking about what art style I ultimately want to aim for, I've made a decision. I don't want to go for the photo-realistic, glossy, or cutesy type stuff that is the most prevalent. While it does looks nice, it's not what inspires me. I forgot that I already had my answer long ago and was just ignoring it. I'm going to make a personal commitment to try to have an art style similar to Q Hayashida, whose work is featured below. This is the kind of stuff I look at and really feel a sense of awe, and it's no stretch to say that if I hadn't come across her work, I probably wouldn't have made the leap to try to become a mangaka. Is it going to be extremely hard? Absolutely. Her art is almost unimaginable for me. I'm not quite sure where to even begin, so I may ask you all for advice or tips if needed.
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So, all things considered I kind of think it's a bit underwhelming, but maybe that's just because I can visualize way way better than I can draw. Anyway, the wait was mostly because of getting slightly distracted with trying to design a crucial bit of (complicated) attire for my manga, and I might go more into that later. Thanks for keeping up with this small project of a drawing and as always feedback is appreciated. I'm thinking of doing some more large and detailed drawings, but we'll see where that goes.
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WIP of adding in Earth-chan, or at least my version of her. I'm not going for an exact one-to-one drawing, but I am trying to make it close. Saved the hardest part for last, since how I draw the face is going to be important for tying the scene together. Feel free to let me know how it looks so far.
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Eli Nico and Kaylah Mili in outfits they'll be wearing in the oneshot! I think it's so fun to design and draw clothes (though these aren't original designs- more like pieced together outfits of pre-existing fashion) and I put a loooot of time and thought into each character's style and clothes so I hope you enjoy it!
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So, I think this background is pretty much done. I'm not entirely sold on how I did the water, the cage light and cables look acceptable I think, and I just did the grassy hill with a low opacity canvas brush. Let me know if anything looks like it needs to be improved, because after all, this is my first time doing a background and I could use any feedback. Next step is to actually draw Earth-chan on another layer, and I'm not sure how long it'll be until that gets done. I might put up a rough posed sketch of her to get feedback before fine-tuning it.
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I finally colored an illustration of Shinji, as promised! I loved doing this, and I'm so so SO impressed by all the digital artists, I love all the different styles and ways of coloring. This is a beginner attempt but I'm glad because last time I tried coloring digitally I cried it was so frustrating. So it's good I was able to finish this and have fun with it!
Enjoy Shinji~ I love this kid
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I'd like a trained eye to look at the perspective lines and make sure they look good before I do much more. The curved lines on the ceiling were a little tricky, but I think I got them almost right. Did some more detailing on the breaker box, and started doing the hundreds of tiles with the same kind of look as the concrete blocks. I'm also curious if you can spot the symbolism I worked into the tiles, as I'm wanting to put a few "subtle" things in and that's one of them. Thanks for taking the time to look at it.
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Kaylah WIP
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Shinji and Eli
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Eli Nico
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Nass, I took your advice and make it much curvier, with the help of some reference images. I think it turned out pretty well as far as the body goes. Obviously I need about 500 more hours of practice drawing shoes, because wow are they annoying to draw. I'm going to be modifying this base outfit with some accessories and a holster, stuff like that. Took about 3.5 hrs to draw, and I'm wondering how long it would take other people to do, just of of curiosity for benchmark purposes. And like I said, I was originally thinking of making characters much more slim, but I think if I can reproduce this or better, I'll stick with this style of drawing bodies.
