🎨 Step by Step: 🎀 ✨ 🌸 "How do I draw in Manga & Anime Style?, here I show you the complete process!" 🌸 ✨ 🎀 / 💞 🎁 Gift for Friends from the ‘Engránate’ Server 🎁 💞

@tesmoforia · 2018-05-20 23:16 · slothicorn

_✨ Gift for Friends from the ‘Engránate’ Team ✨_

➕

**Creative Process:**

_"How do I draw in Manga & Anime Style?"_

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• Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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Early this month, I had the chance to participate in the "Lluvia de Votos" (Votes Rain) Dynamic organized every week by the Engránate Team , while I was at the activity I dearly noticed that the project has changed a lot since I knew about it 3 months ago, approximately during the first day of January of the current year.

I discovered then that the forum was super active, the General Chat was moving a lot as well (nothing closer to the calm, silent and lonely even, room that I remembered, with perhaps one or two users that would interact); noticing this change filled with a lot of motivation.

That day, after the activity, that ended past-midnight, I thought how pretty a character holding their logo would be (that from far, I have always looked at is a Smiling Gear).

So, why not to try making them a gift with said idea?.

_"If it turns out pretty, maybe I can gift it to them....", I thought._

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[ The anecdote continues at the end of this little postcard process, I won’t bore you with a long talking!, let’s go directly to the party right now (/ouo)/ ]

🎨 PRELIMINARY SKETCH 🎨

(When it’s already 2am but you know that you won’t fall asleep until 4am, cause you are half Lunari)

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When I’m going to draw, I always start by sketching a draft of the whole composition, with all the main elements I want it to have; it’s never clear to me how the final result is going to turn at the end, not all my sketches end in something pretty or harmonious, and so they are disposed of, but some as this one, get the right shapes and are “tuned up” slowly.

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• "All my drawings start this way, with light guide lines, that are reworked many times" - Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• "For example, the first thing I define is the angle of the face, the expression, and hair of the character " - Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• "When I like the face and main forms, I continue by defining the silhouettes, and adding more elements, in this case clothing and gears’ parts" - Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• "THE MASKED TOOL!" - Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• "More gears so there’s better balance on the lower-right part." - Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• "We add very kawaii desu nee faces :3c" - Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• "We have already defined all our elements, character, clothing, and company" - Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• "This part is one of my favorites when I illustrate, when we can see the guide lines that were needed to accomplish the character forms" - Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• "When I draw for myself, I usually let the drawing on this stage, cause i’m fan of sketches, but as this is a gift that we are going to color, it is necessary to define it now" - Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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🎨 CLEAN AND DEFINED SKETCH 🎨

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At this step, we are going to erase all those "extra lines" that we used in order to fin the "prettiest form", and we are going to keep those that we are going to be redefined with ink. We are going to use an erase carefully, and erase from inside out, removing the excess of "guides".

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• Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• "It is worth to give some last strokes with the mechanical pencil" - Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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🎨 STARTING TO DEFINE 🎨

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It’s Ink Time!

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• Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• "With a stylograph n°1, we are going to start with the hair " - Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• "Why starting with the hair?, in my case, what I draw with most dynamism is the hair, if I start inking another part, and I leave the hair for later, if I want to add some more locks or change their directions, or add a little more of volume, it would be impossible since the lines would interfere and would be trespassed between each other." - Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• "In this case, if I wished to ink the brooch first, the lines of the hair would have been interrupted, and reduced to not cross the others, minimizing how fluent and free the strokes are." - Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• "Do you notice how part of the brooch stays hidden behind the hair?" - Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• "Finished Clothing!" - Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• "Defined Gears!" - Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• "Precious and Happy Little Things" - Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

gears (1).png (https://steemitimages.com/DQmVg48wWW8gBN2a7Wf2iex8S8KMhVKkwcon3RDuk38G2pm/gears%20(1).png)

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• Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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🎨 CLEANING THE DRAWING, AND DETAILS 🎨

(Preparing it for Watercolors)

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This is the moment of the truth: Now we need to erase all the guide lines used, and leave only the line art we have done with inks. Lines that should be redefined many times, they came hide many errors or lack of esthetic on what comes to proportions, and those things are only visible when we clean the paper from all the pencil and graphite lines we have used...

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• "Engránate Girl, totally defined" - Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• "CTRL+Z doesn’t exist here" - Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• "I’M SCARED MOM" - Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with a Lumix/Panasonic DMC-FH2.

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• Drawing/Photo by @tesmoforia, with

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