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So you've come to learn the ways of the force, eh? Well, you've come to the right place!

From here you can access the pages of tutorials divided by series. Before you go on to learning how to draw your fave bishounen or girl in skimpy sailor fuku, here are a few things I found helpful while learning to draw anime:

  • Practice, practice, PRACTICE!!! Don't get impatient and throw your pencil across the room (like I did... ^_^;;). Keep at it! You'll improve with every little doodle.

  • Do original drawings once you're comfortable with your capabilities. People like original, fresh artwork more than copies of those same old pics that are floating around the five zillion image galleries.

  • Trace! I might get flamed for saying this, but...if you're having trouble figuring out how something kinda "comes together" or how a certain part of a drawing is constructed, I have nothing against tracing IF YOU DO IT FOR PRACTICE PURPOSES. Tracing pics I nabbed from the net helped me immensely. There's nothing like going over the lines of a character over and over again to get a feel for how the drawing process flows. Think of it like that pink and blue lined paper you used in first grade to learn to write. Once you learned how the letters were formed, you could write them without using references, on anything you wanted to. Same difference here, ne?

  • Develop your own style. I go over the general style of each anime, but that doesn't mean it's canon! That is to say, your drawing of Sailormoon does not have to look exactly like the Sailormoon on TV. Develop your own style. Play around with random ideas. It's the new ideas and artwork that catch people's eye, the ones that make them say, "Now why didn't I think of that? That's so cool!!!"


|| Sailormoon || Miyazaki || CLAMP || Samurai Troopers/Ronin Warriors ||

|| Dragonball || Gundam Wing ||