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Tips and Tricks: Mecha Basics
How to Draw Manga! Mecha Basics Introduction
Mecha are a large part of modern and historic anime. Often artists exclude and ignore this aspect deeming it too hard or complicated, but really it can be quite fun. This article contains some basics and offers more in depth tutorials to assist with learning about this aspect of anime drawing.
Shape and Form
Often mecha simply consist of various static shapes at any given point in time, the most common shapes are rectangular, triangular and circular. Mastering the perspective and way these three main shapes are formed will make drawing mecha a lot easier.
Quite a lot of mecha are bipedal, variati
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Tips and Tricks: Action Scene Basics
How to Draw Manga! Tips and Tricks: Action Scene Basics Introduction
Action scenes are a key part of any manga, whether they be a placid shoujo to a shounen mecha showdown. Action scenes are a dynamic action driven panel showing a fight or action against an inanimate object, or a passionate realisation. All of these follow a similar formula to create the action sequence.Setting the Scene
When creating an action scene first consider the what action is being performed and how the two objects/subjects are interacting, i.e. show the force of the movement. For a person, it they are being hit, they will reaction in accordance to the force applied.A
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Tips and Tricks: Mecha Basics by Khallandra, journal
Tips and Tricks: Mecha Basics
How to Draw Manga! Mecha Basics Introduction
Mecha are a large part of modern and historic anime. Often artists exclude and ignore this aspect deeming it too hard or complicated, but really it can be quite fun. This article contains some basics and offers more in depth tutorials to assist with learning about this aspect of anime drawing.
Shape and Form
Often mecha simply consist of various static shapes at any given point in time, the most common shapes are rectangular, triangular and circular. Mastering the perspective and way these three main shapes are formed will make drawing mecha a lot easier.
Quite a lot of mecha are bipedal, variati
Tips and Tricks: Action Scene Basics by Khallandra, journal
Tips and Tricks: Action Scene Basics
How to Draw Manga! Tips and Tricks: Action Scene Basics Introduction
Action scenes are a key part of any manga, whether they be a placid shoujo to a shounen mecha showdown. Action scenes are a dynamic action driven panel showing a fight or action against an inanimate object, or a passionate realisation. All of these follow a similar formula to create the action sequence.Setting the Scene
When creating an action scene first consider the what action is being performed and how the two objects/subjects are interacting, i.e. show the force of the movement. For a person, it they are being hit, they will reaction in accordance to the force applied.A
Tips and Tricks: Pen and Ink Techniques Article by Khallandra, journal
Tips and Tricks: Pen and Ink Techniques Article
How to Draw Manga! Tips and Tricks Pen Techniques Introduction
A key part of traditional manga is the art of using pens and ink. There are so many variations and many things to try that can make a manga panel pop without even needing screentones. Whether the artist prefers technical pens or a nib and ink there are many variations and techniques to try. This article aims to cover some of the basics to start with.
Some Basic Pen Types
There are two main types of pens, muti-liners/technical pens and nibs in a holder. Multi-liners come in graduated sizes depending on your needs, from a super fine 0.03mm up to 1.0mm, then Brush types as well. Nib
How to Draw Manga! Feet Introduction
Like hands, feet are an important part of drawing a full body of any character. Whether the feet are in shoes or just free the basic shape of a foot can vary for any given person. The anatomy of the foot is the same, but the shape, width and length varies. Even toe length can be variable of each foot!
See Tips and Tricks: Hands
Basics
Feet, like hands are also are made up of segments, muscles and skin over the bones. Feet have a basic blockish shape that is then used to form the circle model of the shapes a little more. This is shown the in the following example, using these basic shapes help define the a
PE: Comparing Copics and Watercolours by Khallandra, journal
PE: Comparing Copics and Watercolours
Traditional Art
Introduction
When starting out in traditional media it can be a little intimidating to decide upon what medium to start or try working with. After seeing what some amazing artists can do with these traditional tools, it may be difficult to choose which one to try out. This article endeavours to cover two such mediums, Copics (an alcohol based marker) and watercolours (a water based paint), starting to compare them for the newcomer.
Costs and Initial Set up
The initial cost of any traditional medium can be expensive as several things need to be purchased at the same time. There are often cheaper alternatives to the paints and
How to Draw Manga! Hands Introduction
Hands are a very important part of drawing any character, often in cartoons the hands are caricatured, but in anime and manga this is often not the case (except in chibi form). Understanding the anatomy of the hand can assist all animanga artists. Hand proportions are also important, lest the artwork suffer from tiny or huge 'yaoi hands'.
See also: Tips and Tricks: Feet
Basics
Hands are made up of segments, muscles and skin over the bones. Often block forms are used to get the basic shape as shown here:
Hand Tutorial by MasterSS (https://www.deviantart.com/masterss)
Some very basic size proportions: middle finger length is the same distan
Tips and Tricks: School Uniforms Part 2 by Khallandra, journal
Tips and Tricks: School Uniforms Part 2
How to Draw Manga! School Uniforms Introduction
A common theme in manga and anime is the school setting. Often the school uniforms are what the character wears all of the time (even when half way across the world, looking at you Jotaro). School uniforms often take a similar style, but variations can be a key design aspect of the character.
This is the second in the series, detailing Boy's School Uniforms.
Boy's Uniforms
Male school uniforms typically take the form of a shirt, optional tie and pants or shorts. They wear Gakuran jackets, jumpers, vests or blazers in the colder months and generally short or sports socks with their loafers or
Personal Projects and Small Collaboration Ideas by Khallandra, journal
Personal Projects and Small Collaboration Ideas
Community Week
Introduction
Art block and the lack ideas is a very common thing for an artist, there are many ideas and ways to help over come art block such as this fantastic article PE: Your Worst Enemy.
This article will be listing some ideas to start your own personal project and ideas for small collaborations.
Personal Projects
What is a Personal Project?
A personal project is something undertaken by an individual to achieve a goal. A series of art pieces (visual or written) that are part of a theme or goal can tell a story. (Example: PE: Telling Stories with your Art). Equally a series of artworks or a theme can do the same.
Some comm
Tips and Tricks: School Uniforms Part 1 by Khallandra, journal
Tips and Tricks: School Uniforms Part 1
How to Draw Manga! School Uniforms Introduction
A common theme in manga and anime is the school setting. Often the school uniforms are what the character wears all of the time (even when half way across the world, looking at you Jotaro). School uniforms often take a similar style, but variations can be a key design aspect of the character. This is Part 1 in this series, Girls uniforms.
Girls Uniforms
Female school uniforms typically take the form of a blouse and skirt, with socks or leggings. They can wear jumpers, vests, or a blazer in the colder months. Variations on this general theme can take a number of different approaches.
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Engaging Members in a Smaller Group by Khallandra, journal
Engaging Members in a Smaller Group
Community Week
Introduction
The Groups system has made it very easy for members of fandoms and mediums to come together, and whilst members are what makes a group work, sometimes smaller groups seem to lack the attention that the larger ones get. A small group can be just as fun and rewarding to be a member of as a large group.
This article has a couple of ideas for how to keep up interest in a smaller, more niche group. Some ideas may also be useful for medium to larger groups.
Folders
Making the group easy to navigate and understand can be done with thoughtful use of folders. In most groups the folder types are governed by the group conten