I recently swiched from www.deviantart.com to here, and I’m looking for anime artists, which could give me some tipps and hints!
For Example: the best way to do clean and soft lineart, cell or soft shading? burn tool or brightness??? All those questions… :rolleyes: What sofware do you use? where do you start and finish and how to find a matching bg for a pic… 
dies from all those unanswered questions 
There are so many “How to” manga/anime books published, and also tutorials online. I’m sure if you just googled, you’ll find a lot of them.
Here, I did it for you. Took me 5 seconds. 
They should just change deviantART to deviantANIME and be done with it. Or deviantINUYASHA. Cuz like omg it’s so kawaii lol. No offense to the many great artists on that site.
I don’t know if you’ve seen Norli’s work on DA, but if not she’s got some decent tutorials for lineart and coloring.
http://norli.deviantart.com/gallery/
I havent done to much anime but have dabbled once or twice. If you are new to it and would like to post your work for a contest I recommend the link below. Even if you dont win you can see a lot of fan work, and through forums can ask questions.
http://www.washu.net/html/anime_fan_art.html
Technique is one thing. Once you get down what you are after take some time and play around. Find your look and style. It doesnt happen over night so dont get frustrated if it takes awhile.
Work towards something fresh that speaks to you. Art is often part of ones identity and after you have done it for a long time and get your self technically strong you need to put a little of your self into it.
Enjoy the journey.
if you wanna see some phenomenal work on deviantart, go to wen-b’s site.
Forgot the site syntax, or i’d have linked it myself
Do you mean Wen-M? He’s a great anime artist, not cell-shade tho’, I think that may be what he’s after because anime-series uses it.
I myself used to do anime too, but I wasen’t good at it.
I don’t wanna make a new thread. forgive me if this is an old topic. but this is important to me.
I do not consider myself a good enough artist, but I do practice frantically everyday to become a better manga/anime artist. I currently study Maya in college and Im getting good with it. but my heart seems to belong on being an manga/anime style illustrator better.
So I got a question, if u dont mind.
I live in near Toronto, Canada.
Is there a place in the world for this style in this industry, except japan? Its been bothering me alot since.
Everytime I hold a pencil it makes me think if its really gonna help me in the future.
Some of my sample works.
http://www.tht.net/~rabanal/
Thank you for your time.
Back about 15 years ago, it was a different world. But anime/manga has pretty much infiltrated mainstream culture and I don’t see why you can’t find jobs working in that style. I grew up drawing anime/manga, but when I went pro, I had to shift my style because, well, that was 1991 and people weren’t too friendly towards that style back then. But if you look at my concept design stuff, you can still see a heavy anime/manga influence.
I know lots of artists working in that style as concept artist, illustrator, comic book artist…etc. Shouldn’t be a problem at all.
You should really learn your basics before getting carried away with anime/manga stuff. You have to learn how things really look before you can learn how to effectively distort and stylize them. Every single anime/manga training school in Japan train students in the traditional stuff–they make you draw still life, plaster sculptures, portraits, figure drawing, traditional painting…etc. You can’t be a good artist unless you have a solid foundation. People who only learned by copying anime/manga artworks can be spotted from a mile away–they lack the proper foundation, and they will never be as good as the respected anime/manga artists, because those guys all have strong foundation in tradititional training.
People are still not too hot on Anime style here in the states. I went to portfolio review a month ago and heard people talking about how the Anime style was not very well received especially when people are trying to get a job in America for animation. However take this with a huge grain of salt as I am no expert this is just what I heard. don’t know why people would be down on anime because toons on Cartoon network and such are almost all anime. Including the Animefication of American concepts like Teen Titans and The Batman. I think what is better is just being able to draw different styles well. being someone who is just studying illustration and art now this is kinda the feeling I get. Be flexible.
Thank you very much, With this. I can set my mind straight and go on with my life.
I will practice the foundation as mentioned and improvise.
(I bought your D’Artise: Master Class, it was a great book! Thank you.)
My understanding from reading what people in the industry have been saying is that most traditional animation studios don’t really care so much if you can draw cartoons well. They are more interested in seeing life drawing and if you can capture that sense of life in drawing. I don’t think they target anime specifically…
Part of the reason (or so I’ve surmised) why anime/manga styled artwork is, uh, not so well received by some arty people is because in the recent craze of things like pokemon, digimon etc, it’s spawned a whole load of wannabes who are not particularly good but try to go down the academic art route insisting upon their cloned anime-esque style. To put it mildly. Or so my art teacher says. =D
Anyway, I fervently back Lunatique’s advice. Traditional foundations = good. You can only bend the rules once you’ve learned what they are.
Actually there are a decent number of anime artists who frequent these forums, not alot, but a few. You’ll find styles and techniques may vary (I’m a celshade guy myself) but for the most part people are willing to help whenever they can. Welcome aboard:) Here are a couple links to get you started:
http://www.celshader.com/ (3d tips and industry news)
http://www.polykarbon.com/ (2d tutorials and fanart)
http://www.darkskills.celshadeartists.com (2d / 3d celshaded artwork)
Backgrounds for celshaded and anime artwork
thanks for the stuff.
I have my own style. somewhat something I picked up somewhere I cant remember where. I sometimes teaches how to do my style to my friends and collegues.
my site contains most of my works.
www.tht.net/~rabanal (most of my current stuff)
http://limiter.deviantart.com/ (quite old, but still counts)
I assume by “illustrator” you mean 2D. I only ask because this guy did a 3D hentai : http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=124611&highlight=hentai
You could take these two passions (manga and Maya) and create something fairly unique. BTW, the work on your site is pretty good. I like how you fill up a picture frame – you vary the perspective from one picture to another.
