Why You Should Copy Anime:https://i.imgur.com/zNDsyF0.jpgNaoki Saito: https://youtu.be/8jsZGeaWkhE?si=6HZIvG9Bx3y9qoHs&t=12Hide Channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTY4AtphBe8PSqfXT4qfxwdbLgSK0XZ9vAnimeShijuku: https://twitter.com/animesijyuku/status/1717415459778347358Krenz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbKqIJcIUCw**Strive for quantity AND quality.**Anime Studying:>Copy anime references exactly and draw them from memory. Use illustrations, screenshots, anime figures, 3D models, etc.>Don’t copy recklessly. Use construction, color theory, and other fundamental concepts to rehearse a drawing process that you can later easily manipulate for original artwork.>Post all of your anime studies. Post even when you’re told not to. Create an art community that actually draws and improves together instead of just talking about it.>Number your attempts and link to your previous posts.>Critiquers should lead by example by posting their studies.General Anime Style Discussion:>Questions about achieving certain styles/techniques/compositions etc.>Drawing methods, study habits, resources, tutorials, tools, software, etc>Be specific and try to post a sample of your study attempts before asking for help.**Draw copies from good anime styled references to mindfully up our mileage, internalize appealing aesthetics, and learn from each other’s processes and knowledge.**Recommended Resources:https://pastebin.com/Yz2scAEc/mmg/ - Manga Making General:>>>/ic/mmgPrevious Thread:>>7999794
>>8048113Lets all try to stay in the containment thread this time.
It's nice to see the prebeg and beginners general is still active.
>>8048147The days of anime needing a containment thread are long over. Anime runs the board now.I think this thread still has a purpose though, since doing anime copies is such a common exercise
>>8048999i see you're studying gender swap, that's an important practice
what do I do if I can't decide on a model? I want someone who draws loli, but many I like don't seem to share their sketches or simplified drawing styles so it's incredibly difficult to study them as a supreme beginner.
Tried copying them using guidelines then did them by memory; it's so hard to get the anime head shape. I always think about trying to draw a real face silhouette;I tried human face -> anime and it was terrible.
>>8049176that method is too hard for a supreme beginner
>>8049325Also tried copying Okinawa's body but I still can't point what is wrong even though my copy looks like a broken ragdoll
>>8049328what should I do then? ive been drawing for four months or so.
>>8049338I personally copied a ton of taco1704's tuts during my first year. took some good mileage out of that
>>8049176Try all of them and filter them down based on personal compatibility (feels easier to draw in the style and understand what the artist is doing) and the style allowing you to create the media you want to create. You can always change it later too since you'll have more knowledge to base the decisions on, the EXP won't be lost. 4 months is enough to start if you've been copying some anime art already. If not then start copying an artist first (along with copying hide channel's croquis playlist).>>8049353Not Japanese art. Hopefully you didn't take anything fundamental out of it to base your drawing style on.
>>8049362>to base your drawing style onI think I did lol but making my drawings look like a jap did it is not my goal. so long as the art is appealing I don't care if it's from malaysia or taiwan or wherever elsebut regardless, his tutorials are mostly anatomy related so it's probably useful for anyone
>>8049375>making my drawings look like a jap did it is not my goalI thought this was the anime general?Also it's not about where it's from but the techniques used to create the art, it's just that legit full-on anime drawn by a non-Japanese person is still a pretty rare thing in the world (even if it gets slightly more common as you get geographically closer to Japan).
>>8049325>>8049330Try to understand the actual shape of the head, how it looks flat and in 3d. If you look at the flat shapes, theyre almost all the same, it makes it easier to replicate and draw from memory. You can do the same for the body
freehand doodled a cute foxgirl from imagination
Vagabond Study. i dont know what i was thinking last night, by starting and maybe even finishing to study/copy a whole volume or chapter of Vagabond, but after like 7 hours i couldnt even get the panel size right, let alone capture Takezos likeness (second to last panel) and now i got some thick callous on me thumb. it was an interesting endurance experiment though, i think i'll try focusing on non-painted, singled out pages in the future
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>>8050173sry my brain malfunctioned
am i retarded? how is this supposed to work
>>8050902youre misplacing the spine is my first instinct. like, the head/body align wrong and the body needs to be angled better the gravity is all wrong
>>8050902
am i retarded?
>>8050955blog?
>>8050956@snssouci
>>8050956i dont have one>>8050960not me
>>8050960This guy is too good to be posting in this general
is the discord worth joining? last time I tried nobody let me in for like half a day and I just left. I figured its as dead as here
>>8050966the mods are not very active and they're beg, but the regular posters are all int or higher
>>8050968if there are a lot of ints then maybe Ill try to join again
>>8050966all the people worth a damn stopped posting like a year ago
>>8050978what discord
its in the pastebin
>>8050962looks like regular faux anime doe.
As a thesis I'm not sure copying anime is the way to go. Anime is drawn by people who did extensive life drawings and study. if you copy anime instead of real life then the art will just degenerate.
>>8050996pyw
>>8050996the general is about copying anime to understand it proportionally/ stylistically ,nobody said that you should neglect real life studies
>>8050997sure..
>>8050999how can you understand it by copying it? That's just a line by line copy approach. its really easy to fall into the trap of becoming a human copy machine. the better approach would be to take the design/drawing/style and redraw the same thing from a different angle and ideally different pose.
>>8051009Did you even read the description >Don’t copy recklessly. Use construction, color theory, and other fundamental concepts to rehearse a drawing process that you can later easily manipulate for original artworkIm not even disagreeing, just doing a 1:1 line by line copy is probably not very beneficial you need to do it in a way that you can replicate out of your head, but that is what is recomended here anyway
am i retarded? i picked imamura because there's a hundred copycats but i have no idea what i should be even doing. i'm not learning anything from simply copying, should i be breaking his art down into simpler shapes? how should i do it? i'm too autistic to guess by myself
>>8051021Imamura has an intuitive sense of 3d space, which is only gainable from mastery of life drawing so drawing from 3d (life drawing) is the best approach
am i retarded?>>8051037this is the anime study general
i fucked up Oko a little but eh
>>8050996both. just mix up your studies and work towards your goal. some basic understanding of anatomy should exist so you know what the simplifed lines represent or what you've drawn. granted, life drawing and realism will give you a better observation skill, due to its complexity, but it also takes a lot longer to get right.
>>8050902>>8050955>>8051021>>8051045imamura is good but why are you copying his pedo stuff? are you a pedo?
>>8051069>imamura is good>complains about loli'sretard
>>8051021>>8051045can you post the original drawings?
>>8051073imamura is good at drawing mommies
>>8051069>>8051076his children have the most simple shapes, his grown women are just longer children with boobs anyway>>8051075you can find them on his sadpanda gallery
>>8051021>should I be braking his art down into simple shapesyes, try to get the torso broken down into the most simple single shape you can
>>8051099>women are just longer children with boobstrue
>>8051105can you help me work it out? i can use two rectangles this way but i have no idea how i would replicate them in different angles for my own art later own, or how i could adapt the proportions to imamura's other more stylized stuff
>>8051114I do something like this, basically like a floursack but sometimes I go even flatter with the shape
>>8051136this is very useful, thank you very much. can you show me how you tackle more dynamic poses or other body types?
>>8051141this was really quickly done without ref, hopefully it helps
>>8051185Blog?
Been drawing for a while, but I want to start drawing anime because it's fun and I'm a fucking weeb.
>>8051203blog? Good stuff
>>8051207That's not mine, I only do trad because I'm too dumb to do digital.
Ive never seen this thread so active before
I hate posting on the /asg/ discord because it's filled with a bunch of attention hogging troons.I'll ask for advice here: what is the ideal studying vs drawing from imagination ratio?
>>8051225what do you mean by drawing from imagination? If you mean just making your own original pieces then I guess Id say 50/50 maybe
>>8051230uncompleted and completed pieces yes.
although I guess it depends, when youre starting out its probably better to weight studying higher a bit. As long as you dont just fall into the study trap where youre not actually making anything then its probably fine
>>8050966No, it's full of people like this
>skill shamingFuck you cocky /int/ niggers. You'll get your just desserts soon.
my ygger... 48 hours for that?
>>8051265I like it though. I think it's cute and earnestly conveys the joy of when it was drawn. It has sovl.
>>8051265how you are so dumb
>>8051105>most simple single shape>le simple shapesIf you can't sense that this is goyslop then you are simply not going to make it.
>>8051282being against drawing with shape just proves that youre a permabeg
>all these accusations and no drawingsIs /ic/ society just built on being a mean spirited pile of shit?
unironically yes
>>8051283I'm against oversimplyfing everything to le simple shapes and not being able to do anything else actually required for anime art, which inevitably applies to everyone who pushes that goyslop.
>>8051286post a drawing you made for every buzzword you typed if you want to be taken seriously
>>8051284just vile minority with no life refreshing index all day
>>8051286you think its slop because you prob dont really get it. Its the first step, you can apply construction or whatever you want a shape
just to get another drawing inbetween the arguments, despite not being satisfied with these. i should do more quicker ones going for accuracy alone.
>>8051288This behavior is prevalent in the discord too. I can't find a single place where I can improve in peace. It's either troons, or toxic narcissists who draw well but not perfect but still act high and mighty over those who are just beginning or learn slower.
>>8051294sounds like a you problem
>>8051294Boo hoo.
>>8051297>>8051336>zero real argumentI'm right. You're wrong.
I think the thing that trips me up the most as someone whose experimenting with anime style after drawing cartoons mainly is the facial proportion/ eye sizeSo far every time I sketch a face I need to adjust the eyes down more before it looks "right"I've only been at it for less than a week though so it's just a matter of building that eye for it
>>8049413thanks I tried it and I'm still testing. I found an artist I like and will probably use him as a reference for other copies.
>>8051510the main struggle is going to be unlearning all the bad drawing technique caused by cartoons' obsession about simplified shapes and learning to actually draw full quality anime shapes.doesn't help that even those that attempt anime in the west are infected by this mind virus so if you don't know JP or aren't just extremely based and redpilled it's hard to leave the bubble.
>>8051382you made him too young
Is figure practice a meme? This Korean artist has really dynamic figure studies, but all of his drawings look stiff as a board.
I couldnt stop laughing at how bad my study came out. Love csm early part 2/ part 1 art style. Going to have to try this again lol
>>8051773you must be new to drawing, but dynamic drawing is actually really hard to do right without reference. artist needs to practice drawing dynamic mannequins without reference, which he doesn't do. he hopes to absorb it through osmosis, but trust me (cause i've done it) it's a really slow process. there are just so many decisions you need to make, like what pose and which angle, in what environment, for what purpose. even if you could draw anything, you still need to decide and settle.
>>8051773no hes just a moron who grinds figures like a mindless zombie and never learns how to apply it to his actual art
>>8051778wtf literally me
>>8051770i guess its the eye size. yesterday was an off day
>>8051773Not every figure drawing needs to be super-dynamic. But if you feel you have this problem in your own work, it is likely because you are not starting with a strong gesture.As others have noted, the only way to prove you understand figure drawing is to do so without reference. This is not being anti-reference. There are just things you are not forced to consider when you use them.There are many video examples here of starting with a pose before building out the structure.https://warosu.org/ic/thread/7908039
the body is entirely a copy of maeda taison squatting but i had fun with it
>>8048113How much detail am I supposed to draw in the final version
>>8052243None, because you are not supposed to do chinacore copes in the first place.
>>8050960anti-prayercacas…aint no way we're this obsessed
>>8052243It's fine how you're doing it just fill in all the black areas in the final, so it reads better
>>8052148Peak
>>8051284There has literally never been a time where it wasn’t like this
Fucking dumbass mods
>>8051069I'm not pedro wtf.
how does one do this
i die (and also changed my bg color from the weird dark purple for once)
