After last week’s fairly successful attempt after a 12 year hiatus from drawing, My son and I sat down for another round this week. He wanted to perfect his character from last week, so he continued with the first pose.
I moved on to a pose that was my nemesis when I drew realistic characters… the 3/4 face. BBbbrrrrrrr. Gives me the chills just thinking about it.
Not too shabby though. This style is really easy to draw in. (Okay, not completely easy, and my growling son would attest to… but certainly not hard if you have mastered how to make a pencil do what you command)
Anyway, here’s the 3/4 face pose (turned slightly to the side) Again, I’m pretty happy except for the stinking hair!
I will master you, Manga hair. Oh yes, I will!
Related articles
- Amarelo Manga on focus! (sylphshouse.wordpress.com)
- Mastering manga with Mark Crilley (halfmythoughts.wordpress.com)
- There’s a Sailor Moon in my Coffee! Photos and Tips From a Japanese Manga Latte Artist (en.rocketnews24.com)
- Latte artist creates manga-inspired caffeinated drinks (tokyotimes.com)
- Read Naruto 632 Manga – Naruto 632 Juubi (narutoxluffy.wordpress.com)
- Naruto 632 Manga Sasuke (narutowind.wordpress.com)
- Three expressive accessories to give your manga character from the book Drawing: Manga Learn the Art of Manga Step by Step (craftside.typepad.com)
Jennifer M Eaton 
Pingback: Learning to Draw Manga #8.5 – Walking Draft | Jennifer M Eaton
Pingback: Learning to draw Manga # 8: Chibi full body pose | Jennifer M Eaton
I think it’s awesome…hair and all. 🙂
Hair of any sort just drives me bonkers. So I understand that completely. Your drawing looks really good!
Thanks so much!
I like art when I was a kid but that was in another time. I like your sketch.
Thanks. It’s really relaxing, taking time to create with something other than a keyboard
Much better than I can do, unless you figure stick figures as works of art. 🙂
Every kind of art has its place. 🙂
yes, and mine is in the trash can or in the bottom of a litter box. LOL!! 🙂
No mastery over the pencil for me! My sister and I are musically oriented. It’s my brothers who could master the pencil, even if they didn’t make careers of it. 🙂
My son is considering “manga artist” as a career aspiration. Too bad there are probably as many artists out htere as there are novelists. 🙂 I’m not putting down his aspirations though. Ya never know.
What instruments do you play?
Piano and flute, although it’s been a few years since I played. But I suspect if I sat down with them for some practice, I could play decently again,