Draw Gothic Manga Both Sweet and Elegant
This style is very expressive and based around body language and thoughts rather than speech,which makes it a good beginning style.
Steps
- Start by choosing a character style. Teens are the most popular, then comes children and adults.
- Draw a thumbnail sketches of different poses for your character until you like the look of one.
- Sketch in the face and hair. Don't make it too detailed - leave that for the end
- Once you have the basic sketch down, start detailing the face and clothes. Try drawing the eyes to capture their personality or emotions. Use heavy dark make-up for the face. A few piercings won't hurt. Because the hair normally falls in front of the shoulder for girls, do that later.
- Sketch in the hair, but don't draw each strand, draw clumps of strands that thin toward the ends. Try giving her a "different" hairstyle, one that sticks out. Give her black hair with wild colours in various places. (When the hair is in a ponytail the hair gets fatter at the end, but don't forget the fly-aways!)
- Understand that some themes that cannot be missing if you want the manga to be considered gothic are cats, crosses, the moon, keyholes and keys, veils, and others.
Tips
- The gothic manga paintings most usually portray dark angels,wild horses,lonely mermaids,sad fairies,cats in the moon,Goth-dressed princesses,and others.
- keep trying, everyone can draw, but those that take more time and practice are the ones that excel in it
- Use dark colors(purple,dark red,grey).
- If you get stuck or frustrated, take a break. Go have a snack, or watch some TV before coming back to your drawing. You'll be able to draw better when your mind isn't clogged up with frustration.
- take your time, your 1st drawing probably won't come out as good as your second or third
- use lead pencils or wooden ones, but make sure your pencil is always sharp and you always have an eraser around
Warnings
- Make sure you don't rub your hand on the picture unless you want the edge to smudge.
- Make sure lines flow and don't make them too sharp.
- When sketching, you want it to be light, so when you get to coloring and/or outlining, the rough drawing won't show from underneath.
Things You'll Need
- pencils
- erasers
- paper
- sharpener
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