The General Anime Thread...

[C-ZETA]

Spoiler

C-ZETA will be heartbroken for sure.

You That's a prediction not a spoiler.

How does it feel now, ZETA?

It makes me wanna read it :3 Except it's clearly played for laughs so w/e

 

[Loliblade ver2]

No, it is a spoiler. Predicting how the ending will make you feel spoils the surprise, does it not?


You dummy.

 

[uMadson?]

No, it is a spoiler. Predicting how the ending will make you feel spoils the surprise, does it not?


You dummy.

I say let him think it's a prediction... he doesn't know what's to come anyway.

 

[C-ZETA]

Predicting how the ending will make you feel spoils the surprise, does it not?

Thing is, no one can tell if I will be surprised or not. You never know what I might think of anything.

 

[The Vanishing Boy]

-> Hey guys...doing this Pac-Man fight take a toll on my participation points here at TGAT.

One main thing you're doing differently with your drawing is that your line weight is the exact same throughout the entire drawing. I would use different line weights to make it more interesting.

=Pic=

^ entirely in ballpoint pen

To make the drawing pop out a lot more, I'd use ink for the lines, because black obviusly contrasts better with the white paper than a gray graphite. So draft the stuff lightly in pencil, then go over it with a pen afterwards. The outer line that separates the positive and negative space should be relatively the thickest line, and the details should be thinner. If you're passionate enough, I'd buy a few Copic Multiliner Pens (0.05, 0.1 and 0.3) to start off. I LOVE using those to draw the eyes....

The hair strands need more variety. In your drawings, I see that each of them are generally the same size and the same thickness which makes it too uniform. I have a tendency to make this mistake as well. What I do is lay down some longer lines which will show some strands pretruding further back closer to the scalp, then the shorter lines (usually connecting them) creating the hairline, and whenever I feel like it, I'll use single strokes to illustrate random single hairs.

One more thing you can improve on: Shading. It's inconsistent. Keep the shading in one direction. Notice in the drawing above I shaded everything mainly in that one diagonal angle? It creates a uniform look and looks less like a child's drawing. (no offence)

Lastly, I'm glad you're posting your work. Please post more in the future as I like to give feedback. 👍

Just something to add. I know I'm not experienced but this comes from observations on someone I used to be with ages before I pierced the heavens and entered TGAT... You remember RayadayaG? The guy who kept drawing semi-anime-style non-anime original characters?

TVB, if you're into digital art, do all of your outlining in a program like Illustrator or something. But of course, for best results, you're gonna need a tablet, but it would just leave you broke So yeah, pen is the way to go.

I don't see why you would need to use a tablet with Illustrator as it is all paths... If anything, Sketchbook Pro, Photoshop or SAI. Unlike Illustrator, You can get more natural looking strokes using the pressure sensitivity of the tablet with the other programs.

I wasn't really sure... Photoshop just went through my mind lol.

Tried Photoshop to outline my crap sketches but they seem unnatural, I really don't know how to get the most out of a mere mouse

Obviously it won't look natural... the best you can do with a mouse isn't by free hand; rather use paths...

For example, if you create a curved path, go to your brush and set the size which will determine the thickness of the "simulated pencil you're using", make the hardness 100%, open your brush settings palette, check off Shape Dynamics, and change the first drop box to pen pressure. You can play with the "minimum diameter" as well. Once you have that done, with the pen tool, right click on the canvas and hit stroke path, it'll ask you what tool you want to use, and obviously you il select the brush tool and make sure you check the Simulate Pressure. Hit Ok, Voila.

Here's a quick sample I whipped up:

In the first, I didn't use simulate pressure. You can see that the ends are all rounded and don't "fade" which doesn't look good at all.
In the 2nd I simulated pressure with 0% minimum diameter. What happens is that the thickness of the brush will be at 100% (meaning at whatever you set the brush size to be) at the center of each path, and it goes smaller as it moves closer to the edge of the path, and in this case to 0% thickness.
In the 3rd I set the minimum diameter to 30%, so the smallest the line will ever go is 30% of whatever brush size I picked.

The brush size was 2px for each sample, and you can see a huge difference in varying line weights.

BTW, Dragonuv, the bg color isn't correct, and her head's chopped off. Therefore it fails to meet 3.0 standards

No problem.

After you checked off simulate pressure for the first time, you won't need to do the same thing in the future. In other words, any other paths you want stroked won't need to be done through right click>stroke path>OK. Instead, while the path is on-screen, switch to your brush tool and hit enter on your keyboard. You can hit enter more than once to apply multiple overlapping strokes for a harder line.

Consequentially, you can use this kind of stroking technique for erasers, dodge/burn, smudge, blur, etc.

Thanks for the tip AOS-, should come in handy.

I knew I had to simulate pressure...

I hope VB absorbed that feedback I gave him earlier, or else I would have wasted a good 5 minutes of my time lecturing for no reason.

AOS- -> Don't worry, I've your posts word-for-word.

-> The main thing here is I've adapted using ball-point pen as my primary free hand instrument ever since grade school. And when I'm talking about ball-point pen, its not one of those art pens like what most artists use. I use a regular writing pen as I use in school.

-> I also tend to struggle with pencils too. Just because back in the day, I was *somewhat* impatient. I tend to demand more contrast at the 1st stroke...

-> My hand weight is on the heavy-side thats the reason my line weights are somewhat similar:

-> For me to apply traditional methods in drawing (pencil first & pen after), I need further tutoring. Unfortunately, I'm having a hard time finding someone here in Vegas.

-> I did practice single-line strokes on some of my works (haven't uploaded it yet). This one was made in 3:15 min in pencil:

-> I was seriously considering Copic toys, but they're too expensive. Same goes with a tablet.

uMadson -> I wish I could operate the programs that you mentioned above. But unfortunately, I'm too busy/afraid on using it. Infact, I haven't used my CS5 and it collecting dust.

-> Was there a photoshop that specifically for manga artist? I thought there was such a thing...

Hmmm, Clannad...

*Googles*

What kind of man do you think I am!? No mechs? No cars? No guns? How can anyone watch this!?

Actually I've watched quite a bit of Ouran at one time in my life so this should be no problem at all... Don't tell anyone though. If they ask, I like NGE.

^ Precise storyline, excellent plot, and impact-wrenching visuals. Thats why I like Clannad very much. 👍

^ Ooohhhh, do I sense a Hentai scene!?....nah! I only do ecchi!

-Todays AEAD-

 

[Loliblade ver2]

^ Ooohhhh, do I sense a Hentai scene!?....nah! I only do ecchi!

It's definitely hentai... Mecha hentai!

 

[uMadson?]

uMadson -> I wish I could operate the programs that you mentioned above. But unfortunately, I'm too busy/afraid on using it. Infact, I haven't used my CS5 and it's collecting dust.

Afraid to use it? Don't let the millions of buttons scare you, there are tutorials everywhere in the internetz, and heck even you can just ask AOS-sama

Busy to use it? I know that feel bro.

 

[AOS-]

I don't even use 80% of the things in photoshop cs4 anyway...

You don't need fancy pens, either. I use ballpoint pens a lot as well...the only thing it can't do versus ink pens is super super sharp and fine lines. I would recommend ballpoints to start off with first, because you can work slow since the ink doesn't bleed and you have more easier control with faded strokes.

You don't need to find someone to tutor you IRL... no one taught me how to draw manga IRL....Subscribe to Mark Crilley on Youtube as he posts a LOT of useful "tutorials". The drawing style I use is actually that of design sketching for Industrial Design stuff....I first picked it up from this since I was crazy about drawing cars and car design, and then I mixed some of that with the stuff I learned in my 2nd and 3rd year drawing classes this semester.


OAWF:

Aside from the boobjob she received, this has some good detail, though the hair's a little strange.

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[uMadson?]

I know that wasn't directed to me too but thanks for reminding me to watch the his videos after subscribing to Mark way back...

EDIT: TGAT's Steam Group is up!

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/gtp_tgat

It needs admins though, because I can't just run it by my own self. Invitations sent to salanos and dice1998, and if you have a Steam account, please add me as a friend there if you want to be added to the group. My profile's in my sig.

EDIT 2: Steam is down atm... grrr.

 

[AOS-]

I find it significantly easier to pick up on illustration styles (manga in this case), if you spend a good amount of time just drawing other drawings, since you don't need to visualize a thing when it's right there in front of you. If you can commit to doing one drawing per day (or like 2 per week) for 1-2 months, and THEN try to make up something of you ow, you should begin to see some improvement.

 

[uMadson?]

I find it significantly easier to pick up on illustration styles (manga in this case), if you spend a good amount of time just drawing other drawings, since you don't need to visualize a thing when it's right there in front of you. If you can commit to doing one drawing per day (or like 2 per week) for 1-2 months, and THEN try to make up something of you ow, you should begin to see some improvement.

I see. My style would a bit different, it would be something semi-anime like what Raya did but I'll be picking up tips too from Mark Crilley. I just draw when I feel like I want to, lol, but thanks for the tip.

 

[AOS-]

Perhaps you could change your mindset to "Hey that looks cool... I want to do it too!"

 

[uMadson?]

Perhaps you could change your mindset to "Hey that looks cool... I want to do it too!"

That's what was on my mindset when I used to be with Raya last summer... I just couldn't because of the same alibis.

 

[ranhammerR34]

OAWF:

Aside from the boobjob she received, this has some good detail, though the hair's a little strange. (Didn't she have huge ones in the first place?)

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IT'S BEAUTIFUL! Senhime!!! --- MoeHammer

 

[Loliblade ver2]

I clicked the link for episode 15 of Bakemonogatari and then I realized that I didn't want it to end

 

[DK]

"Yoko-san, hostiles in the perimeter! Give me some cover fire! Dai-Gurren, this is Lagann 1, requesting immediate assistance, over"
"Gurren 1's pinned down by target and Gurren 2's busy defending the-"
"Baka, I'm pinned down too, I need assistance right now!"
"ANDRE-SAN, CONTACT AT 11 O' CLOCK!"
"CAN'T GET A SHOT, HE'S OUT OF MY LINE OF SIGH-*gets shot by missile*"
"MAN DOWN, REPEAT, WE GOT A MAN DOWN!"

I got too much of SSoHPKC MW3 lol. Would be epic if the Dai-Gurren spoke like the military.

I always had Asuka down as more of a Gears of War player. Saying that she plays MW3 gives her too little credit.

 

[Loliblade ver2]

I really really enjoyed Bakemonogatari, so I'm pretty excited for Nisemonogatari.

Guess it's time to move onto Haruhi now.

EDIT: I may find something else. Don't really feel like watching a ridiculous comedy currently.

 

[AOS-]

Ridiculous Comedy? It's straight up moe.

 

[Loliblade ver2]

Ewwwww.. pure moe..

 

[Dravonic]

Ridiculous Comedy? It's straight up moe.

That explains why I didn't like it

 

[AOS-]

Except Kyon is cool...I like him more than Tomoya at times..





That just reminded me of a skit Dave Chapelle did...

So going on my watch list.

 

[Dravonic]

DLing Madoka. May start watching it today. Between Skyrim, L.A. Noire and finishing TTGL it's not exactly a priority :3

 

[Loliblade ver2]

You shooould. It's great.

 

[AOS-]

Didn't she have huge ones in the first place? --- MoeHammer

They weren't THAT big.

 

[ranhammerR34]

They weren't THAT big.

Actually they where quite big. --- Randy

 

[DK]

I thought for a second that might be Keiichi Tsuchiya's ID cameo that would be featured in that video.
"Keiichi Tsuchiya?"
"A guy who would kick Vettel's arse on the touge."
"Touge?"
"It's like the Nordschleife, only with oncoming traffic and more Japanese cars."

 

[nk4e]

I thought for a second that might be Keiichi Tsuchiya's ID cameo that would be featured in that video.
"Keiichi Tsuchiya?"
"A guy who would kick Vettel's arse on the touge."
"Touge?"
"It's like the Nordschleife, only with oncoming traffic and more Japanese cars."

 

[Dravonic]

Just finished TTGL. I really can't tell why, but I loved this silly anime. It wasn't until the end that I realized it though. I guess it's the message it portrays. I can see why it's a favorite for so many people, it certainly is one of mine.

Spoiler

Nia's ending reminds me of Final Fantasy X.

Can't understand why Simon and Yoko feel this need to abandon everything and live alone in remote places. Made the ending sadder than it had to be.

EDIT: Just saw Madoka 1. At first I was like "too much moe ", then I was like "lolwut ", now I'm like "moe is back "

 

[Lain]

So has anyone tried to see if my game works on their computer?

 

[Cano]

EDIT: Just saw Madoka 1. At first I was like "too much moe ", then I was like "lolwut ", now I'm like "moe is back "

Patience dude. Look, I may be the single most anti-moe guy in this thread (ask around), and even I will tell you that the show is extraordinary. Wait until episode three and see everything crumble.