Over the past few articles, we’ve been talking about how hair moves along with a character, and under the influence of all different elements like wind and water. Let’s continue the lesson today! Today we’ll be focusing mostly on how the hair looks when a character is touching or moving it. Make sure you check
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Hair is a huge part of anime, and is used as an expressive device to show both movement and emotion in a character. Having the hair move in the right way will not only help make your work believable and immersive, it will also help tell your story to the audience! So let’s take a
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Today we’re going to be looking at a very important aspect of hair illustration. That is, how does the hair react to the way a character’s body is moving? This is actually a super important part of drawing hair, and can totally change the atmosphere of a scene! Let’s take a look at some different
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In anime, you’ll probably have noticed that there are countless different ways to draw the nose. Many anime noses look very simple, so you might think that this is an area you can skip in your studies – “just a simple dot or line around the middle of the face is fine, right??” But no,
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We talked about how different hair styles affect a character’s image, but did you know hair colour is another tool we can use to change how a character appears. Let’s talk about how all different hair colours are used in anime! This should help you when choosing the hair colour for your characters! We’ll use
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The other day we talked all about different hair style for women, and how they change a character’s image. Today let’s finish off the lesson by looking at men’s hair styles! It can be more difficult to bring out individuality in male characters, so we want to use hair to our advantage, so that each
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Have you ever seen an anime or manga that really makes your stomach rumble? In English we talk about really delicious-looking food as “food porn”, and anime and manga are really good at delivering this! In fact, they even have a word for it in Japanese! “Meshi-tero” comes from the word “meshi” for food, and
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We’ve talked before about how a character’s hairstyle can change how they are viewed by the audience. Even characters with the exact same face and features can come across as very different when you change up their hairstyle. So today, let’s take a look at a whole variety of hairstyles on the same character, and
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From sweat drops flying up from characters, to lightning striking all around, anime and manga are full of emotive symbols to make scenes more dramatic and entertaining! You may have seen many of these marks, but would you know exactly when and where to use them in your own work? Let’s go through more of
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This article uses reference images from our friend Sarah at AdorkaStock. Read more about her awesome work in our article here! Here at Anime Art Magazine, and over at our school, Anime Art Academy, our teachers are always telling students of the importance of using reference images to draw their poses. But how exactly should
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