TipDeck.com » Cartoon Drawing http://tipdeck.com Home of the how to videos and instructions Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:04:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 How to Draw Ben 10http://tipdeck.com/how-to-draw-ben-10 http://tipdeck.com/how-to-draw-ben-10#comments Thu, 27 May 2010 02:02:05 +0000 Sofi http://tipdeck.com/?p=3771 How to Draw Ben 10Ben 10 is a popular cartoon superhero who has super powers. He can take the shape of ten different characters for different purposes as he fights with alien forces to save the work. Unlike other super heroes, Ben doesn’t wear a mask or a trademarked suit like Superman or Spiderman. He looks like an ordinary young man who I still in his adolescent period. He wants to lead a normal life but he has a crucial role to play as a superman. Drawing Ben 10 can prove to be a good activity for your little one who loves super heroes. Ben 10 has ten different characters to draw. But the basic image that Ben 10 holds maximum time is that of a young man. This young man looks trendy with his cargo trousers and tee-shirt.

If you want to draw Ben 10, you must see a number of pictures of Ben 10 before you start. It always helps to collect and keep a full size image of the character you want to draw. This way you can always refer to the picture you have chosen. Similarly, to draw Ben 10, you can keep a simple Ben 10 image to refer. A plain black and white photo or one that shows Ben 10 in a regular easy to draw posture would also help.

Items that you need;

  • Pencils
  • Erasers
  • Sharpeners
  • Drawing paper
  • Color sketch pens

Steps to draw

To draw Ben 10, observe the image you have chosen carefully. Ben 10 looks like an ordinary anime character. So use your drawing skills and try to draw Ben 10.

  • Let’s begin with Ben 10’s head. Draw a circle with the bottom of the circle not as even as the top part. Try to give the bottom a look of a hexagon while the top remains circular. Draw the hair in such a manner that it covers the forehead. Ben’s eyes need to be wide and oval in shape. Draw two oval shapes and erase the sides horizontally to look like the corners of the eyes. His nose is only a curved line. Even you can draw a slightly oblique line and curve one end to make his lips. Place his ears on the sides of the head like you do for any normal drawing.
  • Next, draw Ben’s body. Ben wear a simple striped tee-shirt. So draw a line for his shoulder and move it downwards a bit. His neck can be drawn at the bottom of the head with two simple lines that join with the shoulder line. Draw the tee-shirt with the short sleeves.
  • Draw Ben’s arms. His arms are thinner under the tee and are a bit muscular on the arms. He wears a gadget in one hand. The gadget looks like a bigger watch. It has a dial on top with a wide band that covers the complete wrist.
  • Draw Ben’s legs now. He wears loose cargo trousers with two pockets, one on each side.
  • Draw his sneakers. With two or three boxes in the front. The shoes would have a curvy line at the ankle to show the spikes in the shoes.

Remember that these are simple tips that can help you start a drawing, however if you wish to be a good painter, you need to practice hard for the same. Remember you may not do independent drawing as you begin but as you get a hang of it you can do well.

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]]> http://tipdeck.com/how-to-draw-ben-10/feed 0 How to Draw Manga Eyeshttp://tipdeck.com/how-to-draw-manga-eyes http://tipdeck.com/how-to-draw-manga-eyes#comments Tue, 11 May 2010 14:02:57 +0000 Sofi http://tipdeck.com/?p=3639 How to Draw Manga EyesEyes are the most difficult parts to draw in a Manga or anime face. As they are used along with the mouth to exhibit emotions and expressions, it takes some time to practice and get the desired eye shape and expression. Just with a pair of nicely drawn eyes, one can change the way their manga character looks. This is why you can find many manga artists paying attention to the eyes more than any other part. To help you draw manga eyes without much worries.

To begin with, you must observe a lot of manage characters are their face structures and eye shapes so that you have an image in your memory which is going to guide to draw a unique pair of manga eyes for your character. While you can also copy existing manga character, the ultimate goal of learning to draw manga characters is to draw your own unique character. For the purpose of this article, we can draw both a female and a male eye to understand how different they are and how one should go about drawing them.

Things you need:

  • Some drawing paper
  • Pencils
  • Erasers
  • Colors

Steps to draw manga eyes (female):

  • Begin with drawing a longer and circular u shape.
  • This is the pupil of the eye which is always the most prominent feature in manga eyes.
  • The upper ends of the u shape would be a bit curved inwards.
  • Now draw the upper eye lid. The upper eye lid is loner towards the corner of the nose.
  • You can bend the corner downwards. It can be shaped like a small broken hook with a very small curve.
  • Draw the bottom eye lid. This would be shorter than the upper one and would just be a simple line curved a bit on one end. It can look like a walking stick kept length wise with the curve looking upwards.
  • Draw a smaller line for the curve of the eye which lies between the eyebrows and the eyelid.
  • Drawing the eyelids is very easy. Give light pencil strokes, curved a bit and moving outwards.
  • Inside the pupil, draw a small oval shape in one of the corner to make up for the light falling on the eye. As manga characters have shiny eyes, it has to be given importance. Now draw another smaller over in the middle and darken it with the pencil.

Steps to draw manga eyes (male):

  • Male eyes are relatively small than the female eyes. So make a smaller half circle for the pupil.
  • Draw the upper eyelid, which won’t be as curved as the female eye.
  • Similarly draw the lower eyelid which can appear as a simple curved line without much character so that it is almost invisible.
  • Draw two lines movie upwards just above the upper eye lid for the make expression or keen look.
  • Draw the curved oval shape inside the pupil to show the light mark.
  • No need to draw any eyelids for the male eyes.

Tips: You can try different expressions and different pupil colors to create or redesign manga characters. Remember that manga characters are different from other anime characters so they deserve different treatment. Keep few manga pictures with you to take guidance if you never tried drawing manga eyes before.

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]]> http://tipdeck.com/how-to-draw-manga-eyes/feed 1 How to Draw Cartoon Animalshttp://tipdeck.com/how-to-draw-cartoon-animals http://tipdeck.com/how-to-draw-cartoon-animals#comments Sat, 08 May 2010 02:01:58 +0000 Sofi http://tipdeck.com/?p=3609 How to Draw Cartoon AnimalsDrawing cartons animals can be both full of entertainment and fun loving. It can also help an individual to enhance or boost the creative talent in him. Depending on the style there are many interesting ways and approaches to draw a cartoon animal, which an individual can achieve in his creation. Fortunately, there are a few simple and easy rules that can make the process easier for any beginner. Humanizing the cartoon character and converting it into some basic shapes are the two major concepts that can help an individual to draw cartoon animals quite easily.

By learning, step by step, how to draw cartoons animals an individual can covert his passion even into a profession like any other cartoonist. At times, it can also be a source of recreation in refreshing his mind from any stress. But there are some features that holds good in drawing cartoon animals. These relevant points are described in brief under the following subheads: -

Applying some Basic Shapes

  • Every single animal while drawing in a cartoon format can be visualized and sketched down into simple shapes such as circles, rectangles, cylinders and ovals. Such an approach initially will make the entire process of drawing these in a simple and effective manner.
  • For the purpose of practicing, an individual can take a print out of some reference photos of animals for tracing the basic shapes on top of the image. In cartoon animals, the body can be represented in an oval structure while the limbs are usually stretched out in cylindrical shapes and finally a circle for drawing the head.
  • Cats have ears shaped like the alphabet “V” in an upside down pattern placing them at the top of the head. A small triangle on top of the face to denote the nose, while a W-shape for the mouth. Similarly, the ears of a monkey can be sketched in a C-shaped pattern placed on the sides of the head.
  • For a dog the head can be drawn as an inverted triangle followed by a circle overlapping the tip of the triangle. You can draw the ears of a dog using the U-shaped structure. An individual can trace small black lines horizontal in direction to denote the eyebrows of a cartoon animal. In the same way two small circles can be drawn to resemble the eyes while a cone to draw the nose for the subject.

Mathematical Approach

  • There are also some mathematical calculations and measurements that hold good while drawing cartoon animals. The concept can be more easily understood if one can relate a cartoon animal with the proportions of a human body.
  • The shoulders will be approximately twice the length of the head while the hands are generally as long as the measurement from the hairline to the bottom of the chin. Although, all of these measurements can be deformed and exaggerated to make the character appear funnier in a drawing paper and less realistic.

These are some of the essential features that an individual should observe while drawing cartoon animals. But the only way to master drawing these cartoon animals is by dedication and continuous practice with an interest.

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]]> http://tipdeck.com/how-to-draw-cartoon-animals/feed 0 How to Draw Batmanhttp://tipdeck.com/how-to-draw-batman http://tipdeck.com/how-to-draw-batman#comments Sat, 24 Apr 2010 08:01:07 +0000 Sofi http://tipdeck.com/?p=3480 How to Draw BatmanDrawing is an art which needs utmost creativity and also an innovative mind to make the sketch look more lively and appealing. Moreover, it is the amount of interest an individual devotes while putting his skills of bringing life from a sketch using colors and shades on a drawing paper. A lot of people show their insatiable curiosity in drawing some definite categories like scenery, landscapes and all that are related to nature and environment. While a few loves to bring up their creative talent, by drawing pictures of their favorite cartoon character or an animated structure. Almost everyone one of us is familiar with the amount of popularity and recognition a similar animated character called batman have achieved both in films and comic books.

But here are a few basic features which make the character of a batman so special that an artist wants to draw a sketch for his own collection. Such aspects that needs to be pursued and observed by an artist while drawing a sketch of the batman are described in brief under the following subheads: -

Posture and Stance

This is a very important aspect of any drawing especially when it is related to positions or movement of a bodily structure. This is because based on a posture you can frame your creative ideas before bringing those on a drawing paper. The stance and the way an animated character can appear holds good if decided before even tracing the outline of the subject. All the different positions and movements like running, bending, gliding for the character of a batman is countable while drawing a sketch on any of those postures.

Outer Appearance

There are some significant body features of a batman that makes this character get so acclamation and popularity. The muscular body with curvy biceps and limbs makes the whole character look manly and appealing. Above all the outfit especially the mask, the eye gear, the gliders, the high heeled boots, the long stretched gloves and the symbol of the flying bat on the chest adds more uniqueness to this animated and comic character. An artist or a budding talent should pay more attention and interest to draw specifically these features of a batman.

Filling of Colors

After the sketch or the outline of the batman is made maintaining the specifications and features described above, an individual can now go for adding colors to make it more realistic and appreciable. He can even refer any relevant website for the images of a batman and what sort of color code it bears. Instead any comic book on batman will have the desired result of his search. Usually dark blue, black, violet are the colors which into application for the outfit while red or orange are selected as the base color for the symbol of the flying bat. You can use either sketch pens or oil paints instead or crayons or water colors. This is because a more contrasting and bright look seems to be appearing through the use of these colors rather than the latter two. But make sure you do not cross the borders or the boundaries of the outline while coloring any part of this animated character.

All these aspects and features needs to be observed carefully while drawing the batman. Above all you should be enjoying while drawing a subject because it is art to seek joy and happiness out of creativity and not to be taken as a project to be accomplished within a time frame.

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]]> http://tipdeck.com/how-to-draw-batman/feed 0 How to Create Your Own Anime Characterhttp://tipdeck.com/how-to-create-your-own-anime-character http://tipdeck.com/how-to-create-your-own-anime-character#comments Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:01:30 +0000 Sofi http://tipdeck.com/?p=3401 How to Create Your Own Anime CharacterAnimation is a field of creativity which has grown up with wide spread popularity in a very short period of time as compared to other similar platforms where an individual can bring up his innovation to the maximum level. There lies no age factor when we see someone enjoying the anime character appear in their interest zone. Small kids are almost crazy about their favorite cartoon serials while the comic characters also have not lost its essence. Now-a-days even 3D animated movies have come up to raise the level of entertainment and amusement. All these features and aspects that lies in an anime character are just a glimpse to the amount of efforts laid down in create one. The entire process to make the slightest movement of a character in animation requires tiring creativity and real notable innovative talents. This is because an animation needs to be achieving the height of appreciation and admiration based on the amount of creative knack hidden inside before it is brought in the focus of the audience or the viewers.

Some of the important information and factors as to how you can create you own animation arte described in brief under the following subheads: -

Creativity Oriented

An individual who is keen and interested in the field of animation has to be creative enough with an innovative mind. This is because animation requires lot of art and sketching of an image to be made initially on a two dimensional frame be it on a drawing paper even. You have to have the minimum talent to make a sketch or the outline of a character before the concept of animation is put into it. You need to inculcate your mind to think about the different postures that a creature or a character can make for performing a simple act. All these movements need to be sketched on a drawing paper and such a process requires distinguishable create talent. There are even some definite formats as to how a movement or a motion of a cartoon character takes places initially on a flat sheet of paper. The designers roll and flutter in a synchronize manner so that the entire stuff looks as if in a continuous moving process. So you need to be very perfect in your observation not to miss even the slightest and minute detail while drawing a character on a sheet of chart paper or tracing paper.

Software Based

There are many softwares and also graphics oriented application that help a designer to create animated character as and when desired. But such an individual should at times need to do a few programming and coding so that he can bring a necessary change in the motion of the structure if it is on the video format. Graphics serves a better and demanding platform for any animation to get life as because all human efforts can get a worth through the various options available in a software related to animation and programming of graphical codes. You can add colors and more effects to make the animated creation look more realistic and appealing using these softwares applications.

Pursuing with these information and factors an individual can now make full use of his creative mind and also apply his innovative knack in creating an animated design. After all it is always good to see a live picture of someone’s efforts laid down in designing and creating an anime character getting some recognition and grabbing appreciation.

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]]> http://tipdeck.com/how-to-create-your-own-anime-character/feed 1 How to Draw Chibihttp://tipdeck.com/how-to-draw-chibi http://tipdeck.com/how-to-draw-chibi#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 02:01:28 +0000 Sofi http://tipdeck.com/?p=3251 How to Draw ChibiThere are many popular Japanese cartoon characters which are popular among kids. Among the various anime characters, Chibi is a pretty popular one. In Japanese chibi means a small person with a big head. It also referred to Super Deformed or SD. But one can easily say that it is yet another colorful version of a manga character. So, when we go about drawing a Chibi character, we need to keep these peculiarities or characteristics in mind. As the chibi characters are basically small, they are treated as children or little persons. They have a certain appeal about them with their big shiny eyes and no nose, they look extremely cute.

To draw a chibi character, you can get your drawing kit ready and set about making your own chibi character. You may need to follow the pictures of some chibi characters before you set about making original and unique characters of your own. It’s a nice and creative pass time for kids to draw their favorite cartoon characters. So you can involve your little one and take his consultation in which is his favorite chibi character. Once you decide the character. Take a bigger image and look at it closely. You would need to follow the picture closely. But with the help of this article you can not only learn to draw a specific character but can also use it to draw different ones as the basics apply for most of the articles.

Steps to draw a chibi character

Look at the chibi character closely. You would notice that it has a big head which can be round or rectangular, a rectangular body, round eyes, bushy hair, rectangular hands and no nose.

  • To begin the painting, you can start with head. Draw a circle. You need to mark the center lines lightly with dashed lines. Now make space for the eyes.
  • Once you lightly keep the space for the eyes, start with a defined eye. The eyes are drawn with an oval shape with the bottom erased off with a slightly curvy line suggesting the eyelid. Draw the pupils and on one side of the pupil (lower right) draw two very small white circles for creating the shine. You can color the eye but leave these two circles as they are.
  • Draw the eyebrows on top of the eyes. It can be two slightly curvy lines placed exactly in the mid distance from the forehead and the eyes.
  • Draw the lips at the lower center of the face. You can draw a semi circle for the lower lip and a straight line for the upper lip.
  • For the hair, you can draw irregular lines that look like streaks of hear around the head. If you want any accessories on the head like a cap or a helmet, you can do that as well.
  • Now draw the body. Remember as the body is too short, there is no scope for the neck. Literally the character has no neck. So start the body directly after the face.
  • Draw a rectangular shape for the upper body.
  • Draw legs in the similar manner of two rectangular shapes attached to the body.
  • Similarly repeat the process for the hands and draw the thumb and the palm.

Now your Chibi character is ready for coloring.

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]]> http://tipdeck.com/how-to-draw-chibi/feed 0 How to Draw Dragon Ball Zhttp://tipdeck.com/how-to-draw-dragon-ball-z http://tipdeck.com/how-to-draw-dragon-ball-z#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:03:25 +0000 Sofi http://tipdeck.com/?p=3053 How to Draw Dragon Ball ZDragon Ball is an animated comics/manga series in Japan. Akira Toriyama was the first to illustrate and write these comics series. Its creation has been now crossed a decade and a half, but still the popularity of Dragon Ball Z (anime character) have not faded. People of all ages show an interest to read the series of it. It is not only most appreciated and admired comics in Japan but also in North America. Around 150 million volumes were sold till 2007. The readers of this comic series lifted its popularity to such a height that now it stands in 12th rank around the world in the category of the best anime character ever produced in the 2006 survey.

To create a character from Dragon Ball Z on a chart paper is very interesting cause of it popularity. You can give a new look to your bedroom even where small kids love to unravel their budding creativity. Following are some relatively easy but very cool steps to draw a charter from the series of Dragon Ball Z: -

  • Before you even start to even trace the outline select which type of outlook you desire among the various characters of Dragon Ball Z. but the effect that holds in the animated pictures with its look might not always appear the same when done on just a plain paper. Still the colors hold the exotic flavor while used in filling the characters you prefer to draw.
  • Make a choice of your favorite character and pick a posture before you create the outline or the frame for your drawing. This is to be done so that you get a clear idea of how to bring your creativity in the sheet or the chart paper.
  • How to Draw Dragon Ball ZAfter you are done with the selection process, start to bring life to your creation. Normally we all prefer to begin with the hairs or the head. Make your own design that suits to you. But keep in mind that most of the animated characters of Dragon Ball Z have relatively bulbous, round or puffy shapes. To add this feature in the face of the character you picked, make a circle with comparatively bulging round eyes. This will enable you to easily grab with the features that you see in the structure of a face drawn on in the comic strips.
  • Initially start making the eyes, nose or even the lips and the ears on a lighter shade. So that if you need to make changes finally, you can wipe it with an eraser without leaving any marks.
  • Keep on sketching till you feel to make it come alive with patience and curiosity. You can draw till the waistline and start adding colors to give more effects and look to your sketch.
  • You can use sketch pens instead of crayons or oil paints because anime characters do have a sharp edge look when we see it on a comic strip. The outer line or the frame has prominent slim and thin edges for giving an appealing look.

Materials used: -

  • Pencil
  • Chart paper
  • Eraser
  • Colors

This way you can easily create a Dragon Ball Z character that suits you the best on a drawing paper. Start slowly and you can give real cool looks at the end of the sketch with your desired colors and paints.

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]]> http://tipdeck.com/how-to-draw-dragon-ball-z/feed 0 How to Draw Winnie the Poohhttp://tipdeck.com/how-to-draw-winnie-the-pooh http://tipdeck.com/how-to-draw-winnie-the-pooh#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:00:09 +0000 Sofi http://tipdeck.com/?p=2997 How to Draw Winnie the PoohThe fascinating world of cartoons has always been a theme of interest for kids.
Disney’s cartoon characters are very much popular among the cartoon fans. Among the ones that are loved around the globe are Micky Mouse, Goofy, Donald Duck, and a lot of such entertaining character. Among the late entrants from Disney, who came with a not so notorious or hilarious character is Winnie the Pooh. It is very adorable and as it is a very friendly helpful bears, it’s a favorite with many kids. It is almost everywhere these days due to it popularity. Be it television channels, magazines, or the internet, Winnie the Pooh is pretty much available. It looks good with its sweet smiley type face and huge soft looking tummy.

It is not difficult to draw Winnie the Pooh and it can be the theme of any party you organize for you kids. You can even engage your kid in drawing invitation cards with lots of different postures of Winnie the Pooh and make it interesting for them as well. It would be a most creative time utilization for them. You must make sure that you get some simple images of Pooh and help your kid learn the simple drawings before taking up more complicated images. You must make a tour to the local store and get your drawing kit ready. Get some pencils, erasers, sharpeners, color sketches, glitters etc. and most importantly an image that you want to copy. For the purpose of this article, we have taken a simple pooh image and here is a step-to-step guide for your drawings.

  • First of all, observe Winnie the Pooh closely. Divide it into the main parts that you need to draw. You can divide it into head, body, hands and feet in a broader way. If you want you can even draw a skeleton to guide your drawing.
  • Drawing the face first is a good way to start as Winnie’s body is relatively simple. Draw an oval shape for the face. The face has a typical nose that is perturbed out of the face and ears that are small and placed on the head. Now, draw two small circular shapes for the ears. While one ear is placed in a half circle as it stays on one side of the face, the other ear is bigger and the lower part of the circle is merged into the head.
  • How to Draw Winnie the PoohDraw the nose with a semi circular manner that is placed a way little out of the oval shape you drew for the face. It has a small triangular shape for the tip. Note that the curve of the nose is made for the lips. So, draw the lower curved of the nose to a bit longer to create Winnie’s lips.
  • The body of Winnie comes next. It is a typical one with a larger tummy with thinner arms and legs. So draw another oval shape for the tummy.
  • Add the arms with two curved arm shapes without any fingers in them. Just make a fist and leave it.
  • Add the legs with circular feet.
  • Winnie usually wears a t-shirt. While you can draw with thinner collars.
  • Now color the drawing that you have done. Usually Winnie’s body is in yellow and he wears a red t-shirt.

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]]> http://tipdeck.com/how-to-draw-winnie-the-pooh/feed 0 How to Draw Manga Faceshttp://tipdeck.com/how-to-draw-manga-faces http://tipdeck.com/how-to-draw-manga-faces#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:01:29 +0000 Sofi http://tipdeck.com/?p=2908 Drawing is an interesting art where limitation is nothing. If you have a creative mind, you can give wings to a man and draw an angel. So when this art is so very creative, it no doubts requires a bit of your skill to draw. If you can draw your imagination in a piece of paper, you can get the desired result. But for this you may need to take some lessons, practice as much as you can and then reach your target. Though drawings differ from genre to genre and style to style depending on a person’s way of expressing himself on the canvas, the basic features remain the same. Even though modern expressionist paintings are a way ahead in the world of drawings, simple cartoons have their own charm. Many popular comic strips have come ahead with such typical drawings that they have remained in the viewer’s mind now. One of such characters is Manga characters. They are very much human and unlike the Disney cartoon character.How to Draw Manga Faces

Manga characters are very much popular in Japan. So it carries the typical style and drawing features of Japanese art. You can learn drawing Manga characters by following some simple steps. First of all, it really helps to take an image and start copying it rather than drawing from the imagination when you are new to drawing. Once you know the basic features and master drawing normal postures, you can then take up more difficult ones and draw straight from your imagination.

Steps to draw a Manga face:

  • First of all as it is a prerequisite to collect some drawing material before you set about drawing, you may like to make a visit to your local stores. Get yourself some rough drawing sheets, light and dark pencils, erasers, color sketches and optionally you need sharpeners and a pair of scissors.
  • Remember that the face is the most important part of a Manga character. It would really help if you can get various types of these faces before you start your drawing. You can distinguish the easy ones to the difficult ones and you can then start to draw it.
  • In expressions, the Manga faces have much similarity to the human faces. In other words they give realistic expressions.
  • To begin with, you can take up a simple face and then learn to draw expressions. For the purpose of this article, you can draw a smiling Manga face so that it is easy for you.
  • Look at the face you choose carefully and divide the major features into 4 different categories. The major features in a face are , eye, nose, mouth and the hair and ear.
  • The face is somewhat oval or circular in shape with the eyes taking the predominant focus.
  • How to Draw Manga FacesTo make the eyes, you can check out the various ways you can draw. The Manga faces have relatively bigger and more oval and round eyes than normal human beings. You can draw a similar looking eye. Complete the eye with the characteristic eyelids and eye brows. Remember that the girl Manga eyes would have longer eyelids and more shapely eyebrows.
  • The Manga nose is most of the time a simple curved line of two or three dots placed in the middle of the face. The nose is kept shorter and less focused.
  • Similarly the Manga mouth is smaller and is only focused when to show and expression. Otherwise it is not given much importance.
  • You can draw hair in an irregular fashion as often the Manga characters even the girl Manga faces do not have any specific style of drawing hair. You can just make sure that you try to cover the forehead and the head with stroke of your pencil to make the shape of hair.

Manga faces are typical yet pretty easy to draw. So, get going!

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]]> http://tipdeck.com/how-to-draw-manga-faces/feed 1 How to Draw a Superherohttp://tipdeck.com/how-to-draw-a-superhero http://tipdeck.com/how-to-draw-a-superhero#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:01:35 +0000 Sofi http://tipdeck.com/?p=2865 Many of us think that drawing a superhero might be very difficult. But the fact is quite contradictory in nature. You can draw a superhero of your dreams very easily and simply. The basic thing which you need to have in mind while drawing a superhero is an idea of the human form. This will help you in drawing a superhero further. This human form only needs to be exaggerated a bit in order to create a superhero. After having drawn it, you can proceed towards giving it a snazzy outfit that can help in finishing the look of your dream superhero. In this article we shall know about the method of drawing a superhero by following some easy and simple steps given below:

  • How to Draw a SuperheroBefore you begin actually drawing your superhero you shall have to imagine how it would look like. You shall have to decide on how the powers of your superhero would look when they are actually drawn on paper. You can try and get imaginative here as much as you can. Every little boy has some whimsical fantasy about an exclusive superhero in his dreams. This is your chance to covert your dream into a tangible form. However you have to practice and draw out several sketches before starting to draw the superhero of your dreams. Make sure that you are confident of the shape and form of your superhero before you start drawing it.
  • Now you have to decide on the costumes of your superhero. You can either choose to outfit him with tight fitting spandex or with loose robes. It is entirely dependent on your imagination and level of creativity as to what kind of costumes will make your superhero look realistic and heroic. Even if you choose to outfit your superhero with loose robes, you still have to draw a certain amount of muscle mass in the body of the superhero. For the purpose of expressing muscles from under the clothing, you can draw ball like forms which are cut in half. Another very important aspect while deciding on the costumes of your superhero is to think about the mask. A mask is a crucial inclusion in the outfit of any superhero. However you should take care that the mask which you are drawing should not cover the entire face of your superhero. You can either design such a mask which covers only the eyes or may be the hood of your superhero’s costume is long enough to cover the head and eyes of your superhero. However the mask should be drawn in such a manner that it curves along the curve of the face of the superhero.
  • How to Draw a SuperheroYou shall have to remember that superheroes are always drawn in such a manner that they have arms, legs and torso which are longer than the usual. Therefore you should take care to incorporate this aspect of their form while you are drawing any superhero. While normal human beings are drawn as six head lengths tall, superheroes should be seven head lengths tall. Incase you are drawing a comic style superhero; you should taker care to minimize the facial features to simple shapes and lines. In a drawing of a comic superhero, you should give more emphasis on mask, costume and body language.
  • Practice and you shall perfect the art of drawing your imaginary superhero in a realistic manner.

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