What is the best way to learn drawing anime?

How do I improve drawing anime/manga faster?

• I don't exactly need a tutorial 'cos I know how to draw it already and I think I'm starting to develop my own style. Thing is, I was always drawing small since I was little. Anyways I do constantly practice day by day, whether it's a doodle, or a big drawing I make on a sketch pad, but I've also been wondering how others my age seem to improve faster. There are probably times I don't draw 'cos it isn't my only hobby but isn't that true for all? Anyways, my proportions and anatomy sucks bad XD Anime is supposed to be realistic and I know that it's not all that right with proportion but the experts of course studied that first >< Oh, and I am also having a hard time with the hands and feet as well as folds in clothes (unless I'm overestimating the way people do folds of their clothes and that I'm actually doing enough of it, just, not 'correctly'.) I guess different poses and angles are also what I need to improve on, and basically, I still need to know how to express a drawing in that it's in its own 3D environment that is expressed at 2D. That one's hard eh? Perhaps to be good at drawing anime, I should look at other forms and styles of art and maybe learn something from all those different types and perspectives? Any resources you might like to share would be very much appreciated ^___^ Thanks!

• Answer:

  Ha ha, Don't worry about it! What I seem to notice that for drawing, once you reach that certain level your drawing gets REALLY better faster. You say you are starting to develop your own style right? Well, based on that, I say you're on the right track. What I would recommend is that you might want to buddy up with someone your level of drawing or better. One problem that most artists have is by the time that they look over their work for any mistakes that their eyes are so used to the drawing that they don't see the mistakes until later. Another way to fix this is to turn the paper and look at the drawing backward.(you might have to hold it toward the light to even see it) It's still the same drawing but since you turn it backward, you "trick" your eye into seeing it as a completely different drawing, so OMG the mistakes starts popping out. You might want to take an art class to get better as well. Now art class has a reputation that it's for people who can't draw but that is not true. Art class is there to help you get better faster! Imagine all the time you would save, This will save you from some common pitfall that most artist make. Now Most art teachers can't help you draw anime persay, but they can help you with anatomy proportion, prespective, background, coloring all the other things that you need. Of course, there are bad art teacher so be careful. Here's some help on anatomy, hands spread out (like a high five) always is as big as your face. (but in anime they sometime make it bigger for empathsis.) as for fingers, your thumb is not in the same row as your other 4 fingers, So when drawing it, it starts about a "inch" down from the main row. (commonsense I know, please don't be annoyed with me! I just notice that most beginners draw the thumbs next to the index.) As for drawing at different angles, I don't really know, I mean I know how I do it, I visuallize the person and draw it, but I don't know how to explain it. beside just eyeballed it. http://www.howtodrawmanga.com/ helps a lot of people. I heard it through a friend and looked it over. the hand tutorial and the cloth tutorial are pretty helpful.