My art process on Manga Studio 4x

Remember this girly? 

Well, I'm going to show you how I inked and colored her in Manga Studios, with a layout and 12 panels so you can see how I did it.

The first panel is a clean page with the line art; from there I proceeded to splash on the color, not really caring where it landed as long as it was in the general area. On the fifth panel, I had all the color 'blobs' in place, but everything was extremely messy. In the sixth panel I erased extra color outside the lines with the eraser tool, easily done since I kept the skin, dress, hair and other main pasts on different layers. For the rest I added darker colors and blended the lights and darks together to give it a smoother look.

A few bits of advice:

Always keep your inking layer separate from your coloring layers; In Manga studios 4x, they have a nifty little thing called layer folders, which will keep you from mistakenly coloring on the ink layer.
Different paper colors will change the look of the colors on top. 
Blender tools are time savers!
Remember your light source( I kinda forgot mine)
Have at it and have fun. :)
That's a bit about how I use Manga Studio's coloring function.

 ... The beginning and the end...

Drawing Manga Children: Little girl

 

 

The charts skip a little, but I couldn't scan everything, sorry! have fun following along. :)

How to draw Manga Kids

So we all have that Manga how-to-draw book that only teaches how to draw super-unrealistic beautiful teens, right? But what about age differences or ethnicity? I don't. You?
I think Mark Crilley does an A+ job of trying to show different ages in his Mastering Manga books, and I've held a few other books that demonstrate how to draw the appropriate proportions.

I DIDN'T DRAW THIS. Special thanks to whoever did. ;)
This is my example of an adorable manga kid, with child like proportions. I don't draw children that much either, but here are a few of the ones I have:

Children can be difficult to draw. As I was drawing the first, a manga girl with glasses, I had a little trouble trying to make her look as young as I wanted.













Here are a few points I think are important when drawing manga children:


1. Their heads need to be at LEAST as big as their hips or shoulders.
2. They don't need as much space between their hair and head; their heads are already to big.
3. Keep it simple, their hair, eyes, clothes- everything. I've come across the odd idiot or two who actually drew their kid with muscle definition. THEY DON'T HAVE MUSCLES TO DEFINE.
4. Children stay at least a little chubby until somewhere around the age eleven.
5. Big eyes. their ears, unlike adults and teens, should match their top to the eye's top and the ear lobe to the nose. REMEMBER: keep it simple.
6. hips and shoulders are the same width. At young ages, boys' and girls' bodies have little difference.

So, keep it simple, keep it round, keep it proportionate and keep it cute. ;) I'll see if I can do a step by step tutorial for manga kids later. I hope my hand writing is legible... lol.

Age differences

So I like drawing people around my age; Young adults, older teens, and I don't hesitate to make them larger-than-life attractive. But when all I do is practice drawing that age group, then, in the end, that's all I can do.

Here are two pencil manga drawings I did with children: a young elementary student and a toddler in his mothers arms.

I need to practice drawing different ages so when the time comes to draw them I won't just be drawing miniature teens! The first picture is for Lion. I will ship it. To the end.

Manga Studios: What I'm working on now

I'm still a newbie with digital art, but he are a few of my unfinished projects I started in Manga studios recently:

They're all unfinished Manga Studio projects, but I always like looking at where I began the picture to the finished piece. 1st is an astronaut falling into the atmosphere of Ganymede, 2nd is a girl at no name cafe, the 3rd and 4th are actually the same character with changed designs, and the 5th is my line art for a book cover I made a while back.