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Fly... by °Phill 2 months 1 week ago

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This wallpaper captures the urban essence that proliferated the art of Ghost in the Shell in every incarnation of the series. Phill does an amazing job of capturing a moment of surrealism.

While there are a few, stray building angles and shadows, you find that your eye forgives the minor details and instead focuses on the overall scene that is larger than life, with lights trailing off into infinity.

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`Omnidevil 13 minutes ago
I want to give Bern some papers. to burn

~Youngster 14 minutes ago
Lolz @ Crimson

~CrimsonCyanide 22 minutes ago
Oh! BURRN!

`Bernouli 58 minutes ago
Yup, deal with it.

~3dmc 1 hour ago
Stupid wallpaper scans cost paper

`Bernouli 1 hour 6 minutes ago
Karinka, no.

~amerie1994 1 hour 8 minutes ago
You'll Be The Prince and I'll be the Princess, baby just say yes

~IloveKarinka 1 hour 13 minutes ago
Are people allowed to give other people papers?

`Omnidevil 1 hour 42 minutes ago
Bleh, next update on journal will include aforementioned sisters playing with feces. (not)

~Youngster 1 hour 44 minutes ago
^_^

First Drawings

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°srose
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1 year 6 months ago
Those drawings are cute^-^

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~TertiusViducius
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1 year 6 months ago
Well at least your starting. If you have the drive to continue practicing you'll get far. I hope you have that because I love seing artistic skill develop... It is an art in itself.

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~Adelaide
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...stylish...
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1 year 6 months ago
If they are really your first, you say - amateur drawings - I can't say they're bad! Don't be so though to yourself!
You must just learn the proportions of manga character and observe your surrounding closely. For example: draw your hand by watching at it. It's the first step that you must take.
I can add here some tutorials to help if you want.

I've been drawing since 2004y with about 8-months break. Mine works were hundred times worse at the beginning. I don't have any "How to draw manga" books, but I know some nice tutorials from Deviantart. I'm not a prof, but I'm happy from what can I draw now.
For example - Hollow from "Bleach" after the information that my friend gave me about "it". I didn't watch the anime or read manga. My scanner ate original colors xD

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~Sinata
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1 year 6 months ago
Cute pictures. XD However, you should pay a little more attention to proportion. That's the one thing that you have to be good at in order to draw well. I'm not great myself, but I definitely know it helps.

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~luminaireterrial
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1 year 6 months ago
They're great! You're a lot better than me when i first started drawing anime. Keep up the Good work! I know that you'll get better at it.

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~Raith206
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1 year 6 months ago
This is your first time drawing so don’t be so hard on your self you need to practice over and over again to get characters just rite. So don’t put your self down. Even if you have a How to Draw Manga book that is not going to make you a Van Gogh in one night. So just make more drawings, the more you make the better you will become. And there not that bad for a first time.

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~kawaiishoujo
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erm yeah so what..
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1 year 6 months ago
No I don't have the book..lol..T_________T
It's a free online tutorial..
if I have the book,maybe it'll teach me further..
the free one is kinda limited but anyway practice makes perfect..

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~-Alisha-
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Well aren't we all just dandy?
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1 year 6 months ago
I learned to draw from howtodrawmanga and this is what i got.Not that satisfied but want fedbacks.

How To Draw Manga books are alright, but I would suggest learning how to draw the basic anatomy, (ball and stick, then fill in with boxes, to muscles) before you jump into that. Usually those books cut out a lot of how your suppost to draw a human figure. Once you get some of the anatomy down, drawing anime/manga becomes a lot easier.

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~kawaiishoujo
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erm yeah so what..
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1 year 6 months ago
No it's not a book T-T
online tutorial..so the free one is limited..
they also sell the books which include figure drawings and such but I don't wanna buy it

!Snotna
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1 year 6 months ago
I think that you draw very nice..but you must improve your skills!! ..becouse we need good drawers...if we like to see good anime..good characters.. and good drawers earns a lot of money ^^

~Figtree
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1 year 6 months ago
Hehe, cute. Yea it's easy to tell you're starting out, your art has the usual form issues and whatnot of an early artist, but really that just improves with time if you practice hard and don't give up. As long as you enjoy drawing, the rest will all come together in time. Good effort, I hope to see some more. :)

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~Raith206
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1 year 6 months ago
OK sorry, Strike what I said.

This is your first time drawing so don’t be so hard on your self you need to practice over and over again to get characters just rite. So don’t put your self down. Even if you have a How to Draw Manga book that is not going to make you a Van Gogh in one night. So just make more drawings, the more you make the better you will become. And there not that bad for a first time.

I saw the (How to Draw) and jump the gun just because that is the name of anime and manga drawing books.

So every one stop, it an on line site with the information.

~Rez6xx
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1 year 6 months ago
You are going to the top but give it a little more effort
and DONT draw at 2am

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~HaMsTeYr
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umm... hi? =P
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1 year 6 months ago
Long post since forever again, but here are my comments. Yeah, there's plenty of books with the title "How to Draw Manga". I tend to be a very harsh critic, but for now, i'll say that you've probably started off on a good foot compared to what i did when i started.

Based on the few suggestions, yes, i find it actually important to examine your own body and sometimes use it as a reference into what you want to get. Its usually what i do, from as simple as the outline look or the perspective and angle sort of thing :)

Personal preference for me as well, but i find that sausage drawings don't help me one bit. I tend to do rectangles, as they give me more depth in how everything is angled and such. Not sure how well it'll work for you though.

Another big tip? i think you'd want to refer to anime art for tips and stuff like that. I usually look back at anime fanbooks, art books and such and examining how little bits of detail change can alter the overall look of the image.

:) i've probably written quite abit, but yeah, if you were to post new pictures of your drawings on, i'd definitely take a look at them :D I emphasize less on praise but on constructive help though :P