Crash course in drawing manga?

Oberon

10-26-2003, 06:49 PM

I’m wanting to draw a manga comic style story board (not very detailed, just a comic outlining the plot of a five minute video) for my media coursework, but I havn’t the first clue on how to draw manga. Does anyone know any sites, books or even videos (that I’ll be able to get to the UK) on "manga drawing for begginers"… Or somthing along those lines ^^; ?

Tokiko

10-31-2003, 02:42 PM

Your greatest weapons are always your creativity and your talent, and being stubborn can’t be wrong either.

I do not know of any books explaining how to do anime storyboards, but there are lots explaining How to Draw Manga…
the real comics, I mean.
Can you already draw manga characters, or are you an absolute beginner?

Sephiroth Masamune

10-31-2003, 11:41 PM

You might want to search on amazon.co.uk i found some how to draw manga stuff there, where in the UK? if you’re anywhere near glasgow try in forbidden planet or Borders bookstore, i got some from there.

I need to do a storyboard for a video for Uni for next week…

Riana

10-31-2003, 11:43 PM

Odd…I’m from the UK (I do media too XD) and there are these books that are based on such things.

I believe it would be the ‘How To Draw Manga’ series?

Ask at your local import shops such as ‘Another World’ and ‘Gamestation’. I find one everytime I walk in, trust me. Even if they don’t have any copies they will order them for you.
Oh and if all else fails you may try ebay or amazon. ^^;

Good luck on your search. 🙂

KREAYSHAWN

11-01-2003, 02:54 PM

There are loads of books in that series, though… But I guess you’d only need the first one if you just want it as a once-off or whatever… I saw them in Forbidden Planet, too….

crazy joe

11-01-2003, 09:05 PM

There’s an amazing website for tutorials on all the different parts of manga. It is:

www.howtodrawmanga.com

I hope this helps you, and good luck!

Oberon

11-02-2003, 11:57 AM

Wow, thanks for the advice guys! A big thanks to you Joe, that site is awesome.