New Beginnings.

[hello8bit]

Hello everyone! My name is Hyun-Ae, a young(16) and aspiring artist. I work mainly in the fields of cartooning and "anime/manga" styles. I realize this is pretty highly frowned upon in this community, but I joined in hopes of learning many techniques and doing concepts to further improve my art in multiple fields.

Although it is easy for me to stay in my comfort zone, I am looking forward to trying my best at new things and really making my art the best it can be! So please don't be afraid to critique anything I post, for I encourage it.

If anyone wants to let me know the best way to start off, then please do tell. I'm up for anything to further improve my mediocre skill. Nice to meet everyone in advance. :>

[Nezumi Works]

First of all, welcome to CA!

Now as far as anime/manga goes, it's not so much frowned upon here since a lot of folks are actually fans. The problem is it's not a good thing for a beginner to draw because they can learn a lot of bad habits. Anime and manga use a lot of shortcuts, and the artists can get away with it because they know real anatomy, real perspective, real proportions and all that so they can understand what they're doing when they use those shortcuts. But most anime/manga fanartists don't know all that, and just try to imitate the end product.

What people at CA want is for artists to learn that necessary foundation stuff.

That said, what you should do is start up a sketchbook here to keep track of your progress, and then take a look around online for the works of Andrew Loomis and do the exercises he lays out. I personally recommend Glenn Vilppu as well, and if you can afford a book here and there I'd recommend The Vilppu Drawing Manual (http://www.amazon.com/Vilppu-Drawing-Manual-Glenn/dp/1892053039). There's an overview of the information in it here (http://www.awn.com/category/columns/vilppu?page=2)(start from the last one and work forward from there) so you'll know what it's about, but it's much better to have the actual book in your hands.

[kurad]

First of all, welcome to CA!

Now as far as anime/manga goes, it's not so much frowned upon here since a lot of folks are actually fans. The problem is it's not a good thing for a beginner to draw because they can learn a lot of bad habits. Anime and manga use a lot of shortcuts, and the artists can get away with it because they know real anatomy, real perspective, real proportions and all that so they can understand what they're doing when they use those shortcuts. But most anime/manga fanartists don't know all that, and just try to imitate the end product.

What people at CA want is for artists to learn that necessary foundation stuff.

That said, what you should do is start up a sketchbook here to keep track of your progress, and then take a look around online for the works of Andrew Loomis and do the exercises he lays out. I personally recommend Glenn Vilppu as well, and if you can afford a book here and there I'd recommend The Vilppu Drawing Manual (http://www.amazon.com/Vilppu-Drawing-Manual-Glenn/dp/1892053039). There's an overview of the information in it here (http://www.awn.com/category/columns/vilppu?page=2)(start from the last one and work forward from there) so you'll know what it's about, but it's much better to have the actual book in your hands.

hi im also new here!:mod: