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Wanna know how to draw yourself as a manga girl/boy? Open your eyes, your feelings, and your mind, then follow the steps.
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Use a camera to take a high resolution picture showing only your face. Make sure the picture is good because you'll need it later. You'll need it because it'll be your key to what you are trying to draw. -
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Gather your supplies. You will need a clean piece of paper, a sharpened pencil (not a mechanical one), a big eraser, and a felt tip pen. Also, don't forget to keep the photo by your side while you are drawing. -
Draw an oval in pencil. It should be standing up (not sideways) and be about the size of the head in your picture. -
Lightly sketch guidelines for the eyes. The space between the eyes should be about two times the size of the eyes. -
Create a curved line over the top guideline, then a curved line under the bottom one. -
Draw a slanted line for the nose. -
Make a line for the mouth. -
Try to draw hair. Use close together lines not chunky blocks of color. Hair should have a little sway to it; try to make your hairstyle like that. -
Draw two curved lines for the neck. -
Create the eyes. Draw a large circle in between the two curved lines on both the eyes and draw two shines in them (just two circles: one large, one small). -
Trace over every line with the felt pen. Then, after the ink dries, erase everything so it is all cleaned up and looks nice. Compare your photo to your drawing. It should look very similar.
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QuestionWhy did you not finish the mouth?Community AnswerIn anime, usually, the characters don't have detailed or completed mouths. The thing that makes manga special is that they put most of the details in the eyes, not the rest of the characteristics.
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QuestionDo I have to use a felt pen?Community AnswerNo, you should make sure the picture is how you would want it to permanently look if you were to, though. Using pen usually makes it stand out and look better; however, it can also make the image seem more unrealistic, because you don't see people in real life with black outlines.
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QuestionHow do I make the hair?Community AnswerThere are lots of helpful online tutorials on how to do this. It also helps to just look in the mirror at your hair. See how some of it is in sections? And there there are stray hairs. Also make sure your hair isn't just lines -- it should look naturual and normal hair has volume, too.
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- Insert extra detail, concentrating on bringing out your personality.Thanks
- Vibrant colors for your character can be generated using prismacolor markers!Thanks
- Learn about color by visiting YouTube and looking through some videos. Find out about shading and texture as it relates to color and to black and white while you are on YouTube.Thanks
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