Manga: Part 1

Hey peeps! As promised, this is the Part 1 of Manga style drawing.

1.Center Lines

The basic of drawing faces is to first draw the center lines.The center lines acts as a guideline when drawing the position of nose, eyes, ears and etc. We can either start drawing faces with a circle and draw a + cross inside it and start shaping face. The vertical line could be an alignment of the chin with the bottom of the nose.

Why is the center lines important?

- It balance the position of eyes, nose & etc

-It balance the the mood of a character (vertical & horizontal center line)

*The position of lips, eyes, or nose itself could resembles different moods of our character. For example, the position of lips at the center of vertical line would give the illusion of soft and normal mood. When we try switching the lips to the the right, the normal mood would change to  a smirking face.

2.Jawbones

The image above shows the step to draw jawbones.

Image 1: Basically known as a jawline.

Notice the differences between image 2 & 3? The key to draw a nice jaw is to draw the neckline inside of the jaw. When we draw the neck outside of the jaw, the neck will look rather thick.

3.Chinline

Do not mistake the chin line with jawline as it might look slightly the same. The chin line is a connection of throat and neck, while the jawline is a line which connected to the ears.

4.Eyes

There are many ways to draw manga style eyes.  Even the manga’s pros said that they’d spend time on researching how to make an appealing eyes. This is one of the way how we can draw manga style eyes.

Thus, eyes expression play an important role as to express the emotion of a character.

5.Eyelids

The differences of eyelids type would shows the differences between characters. These are the two types of eyelids:

6. Shutting Eyes

When we draw the process of shutting eyes, we can see the changing eyes wrinkles  before it shut completely. It depends on the eyelids anyway, if the character has a single eyelids, then the upper eyes wrinkle might not be needed like the image above. But if the character has a double eyelids, then the example as shown as image above is how the shutting eyes process goes.

So it’s the end of part 1. Please be noted that I’m referring to my all time fav book, How To Draw Manga when i do this tutorial. Till then, I’ll see you very soon for the Part 2 tutorial. Have a good day

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