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Any tips to start drawing?
| Try ColorsLive for Nintendo Switch, if you have a Switch. It features drawing missions and basic drawing tools to get you started. Afterwards try posting your art to ColorsLive gallery to have your artwork viewed by other people that have the app and have it critiqued by other users through comments, likes, and favourites. Basically like youtube but for artists. You have your own user channel, description, username and channel thumbnail.
| Practice makes perfect. So just remember to practice frequently. It may take a few year to get a style/"get good" though with time and practice I am sure you can cultivate your skills and become an excellent mangaka! Even if you do it as a hobby just keeping up with it will be important.
| Use reference as much as possible. Even when you eventually feel comfortable drawing something, it'll almost always be better with reference
Also, don't get discouraged if a specific medium doesn't work for you or parts of your work process. That can be as broad as digital vs traditional art, but also the type of pencil you use. Find what works for you and you'll notice it gets a lot easier
| Just get into the practice of consistently drawing everday and start trying to understand the drawings of artists you like. If you understand how they achieve their good results you can copy their good techniques into you own art.
| Keep something on you to doodle with whenever the inspiration strikes you. Practice using references you see physically, preferably. Experiment with you medium and tools to see what suits you best, if you can afford it.
| Yeah what these gurls are saying works!
The more stuff you draw, the more of a style you'll develop. Eventually you'll be drawing masterpieces that you still aren't happy with.
A true artist is rarely happy with their creations.
| Mark Crilley's youtube channel (and books possibly)
| >>790942 meh, true artists can be happy with their creations. They will see what's wrong with the art but it still can please them
| Yes, pencil graphite or a stylus are some of tips you can use for drawing.
| I think it's as long as you create something you consider art then you are an artist. Whether or not you're satisfied with it doesn't matter
| I think >>694eae has a point though. A true artist are never satisfied, and by definition no one is a true artist because we still stop making art to have a life. Instead become a chill artist who make jokes about smoking crack while having never interacted with a drug dealer like everyone on the internet.
| I don't want to participate in polemics
| I found that having A baseline is better than just winging it. Buying a "How to draw manga" book served me greatly (you may find a decent one for less than 5$ on some book fairs), however everyone travels a different path and and everything is hypothetical until you try it, find out what works for you.
| Same here. I bought a manga book that was shitty in retrospect but it got me started.
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| I have an idea for a manga but problem is that I ain't a good drawer and wanna practice, I don't care how long it takes. Any tips? Links, tutorials, I'll accept anything.