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Learn to draw Japanese Animation

Japanese Animation or Anime is one of the most beloved kinds of cartoons in the world. These are essentially cartoons that are based on Japanese Manga, or comic books that have been brought to life by being animated. If you want to learn drawing Japanese animation, here are things you should know.

They are based On Manga

One thing you should remember when drawing Japanese animation is that they are based Manga. Thus, the drawing style would rather be almost the same, only they moving for the animated version. Here are some things you should take note in the development of this style of cartoons.

Characters Wild Hairstyles have

If you observe characters in this kind of genre, you'll see that they usually have wild hair. Most often, the characters Men have long hair. In fact, there are some shows that sometimes men are mistaken to be women because of their long hair. Their hair colors are also Wild too. You can see pink and green haired characters. The style of their hair can be very extreme also. Often times, their hair would erect and off in various directions.

When drawing hair, all you have to do is draw them into clumps that can present his locks of hair. For women characters, ponytails, headbands, pigtails and loose hairstyles are common. For men who have long hair, loose drop the hair is also fashionable and ponytails. Bangs are also in both sexes.

General Male

Most characters men is muscle. Many of them are represented to be warriors of some sort. Many of them are also lean and tall. It is normal for you to see blue or even pink color of the male hair. However, this does not mean they really are gay.

General Man

Most female characters are shown to have thin bodies and long legs. These features are also highlighted by the type of clothes that women wear. More often, they wear clothing that shows off her long legs, especially if the setting of the story is on schedule modern. The breasts are also common. Women also have sharper chins and snub noses.

Little People?

Do not be surprised if you can see characters that look like little people. They are called "Chibi". These are basically distorted versions of characters. Although the proportion is the rule when developing, Chibis are intended to have a distorted proportion. This is done to achieve the factor A 'cute'. This type of design is generally applied to children as characters. They have large heads, small bodies, large eyes and no nose.

For villains wicked the characters are generally designed to be more realistic. There is more shading to make their faces more frightening and lines are used More Crooked than smooth and straight. You can usually find them in the form of the mafia or gangs. Great bosses are not usually visible. Body parts such as hands, feet or mouth of a smoker of tobacco used images whenever the big boss is based.

Cute vs. Macho

For cute Anime's the drawings are often simplistic with huge eyes and a lot of hearts and touches of pink. However, for the macho type of Anime characters have more information and are provided to be more realistic.

About the Author

Nupur Das, an ardent writer is a Masters in English.She has many short stories to her credit and now given her attention to article writing.Please visit my blog http://learning-drawing.blogspot.com for more drawing Tips.

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