There are so many different types of hair styles and textures to consider when designing your Manga characters. Although some will be trickier to draw than others, it really is a matter of identifying the overall shape and groupings (or clumps) of hair and using the right lines to show off the texture. Here are [...]
About Sonia Leong
Sonia Leong is a professional illustrator specialising in Anime and Manga. She first rose to fame with the 2005 Tokyopop Rising Stars of Manga (UK & Ireland) competition. Since then her popular Manga Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (SelfMadeHero) has had numerous global editions.Her work appears in DOMO: The Manga (Tokyopop), Comic Book Tattoo (Image) and the I, Hero series (Hachettes). She has worked for Walker, Barrington Stoke, Ilex and Quarto amongst many other publishers on various children's books and instructional art books. She's geekily proud of her art being part of the set of British TV sitcom, The I.T. Crowd (Channel 4). She is the company secretary of Sweatdrop Studios. She loves clothes, singing, food and weaponry! For more about Sonia, visit her website, http://fyredrake.net/Author Archive | Sonia Leong
Manga Hair Basics
Hair can be a tricky subject for many artists to get right in any art form, but Manga often interprets it in a very stylish, clean manner… which can also highlight any mistake you make! It’s not all that difficult if you follow three basic rules whenever you start drawing hair. The number one rule [...]
Manga facial features
Welcome to the latest installment of Manga drawing tutorials! So, we’ve dealt with drawing the overall head and face from different angles and styling their most emphasised feature, the eyes. The other features of the face don’t tend to receive as much attention, but they are important nevertheless to giving your characters expression and individuality. [...]
Using Wacom Graphics Tablets for Manga Illustration
Before continuing with Manga drawing tutorials, we’re going to take a little interlude by looking at how to digitise your drawings with Wacom graphics tablets. Wacom have provided Letraset with one of their graphics tablets to be given away as a competition prize, so keep your eyes peeled on the blog! Although I am a [...]
Adding style to Manga / Anime Eyes
You may know the basics about drawing Manga eyes, but how do you give them a bit more style, character and individuality so that they suit the person they belong to? This tutorial will give you a few examples of how you can customise your eyes. The first thing you can alter is the overall [...]
Drawing basic Manga / Anime Eyes
This is a tutorial about drawing Manga eyes from the very basics! They are often a striking feature of Manga and can be as complicated or as simple as you’d like. Let’s start off by defining the overall frame and shape of the eye. Draw the top eyelash line, followed by the bottom lash line, [...]
Drawing a Face looking Up
Continuing the series on drawing Manga characters, this tutorial is about drawing faces looking up. It uses the same guidelines for the front and other views, but adding a 3D effect to the curve of the browline. As parts of the face are closer to you and others are further away, perspective changes their shape, [...]
Drawing a Face looking Down
Continuing the series on drawing Manga characters, this tutorial is about drawing faces looking down. Using the same, simple set of guidelines as before, it is primarily a matter of applying 3D principles to shape the browline. But you must consider how perspective affects the shape of some of the features, and the distances between [...]
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