Anime and Manga

This three-part video talks about manga coloring. If you have Adobe Photoshop and you love manga comics… and you love to draw… watch to see how to create colored anime or manga skin in Photoshop. Watch all three parts for the complete instructions, showing you which brushes to ...more

This tutorial shows you an easy way to create anime or manga style eyes in Adobe Illustrator 5. Even if you're not into anime, following this tutorial will nevertheless show you how to master several of the basic tools in Adobe Creative Suite 5.

This is a quick tutorial which nevertheless will teach you how how to properly draw the body of an anime or manga style girl. Break everything down into geometric shapes and then make small alterations to your shapes for your figures and drawings.

In this tutorial, we learn how to draw a female anime or manga school girl. Start out by drawing the outline of the character, then drawing in the details along the middle and the body of the character. Use circles inside the body to create a references as to where the body jo ...more

Learning to sketch can be a frustrating process for even the most experienced artist. In this easy to follow guide, you will learn to draw your favorite anime or manga character to express that annoyed feeling you get from having to erase! The artist makes sketching and shadin ...more

This video focuses on drawing the hands of anime girls. It also covers foreshortening, and how to accurately depict hands when using this technique. Use this technique when you want to emphasize your character's hands, such as when she gets into a fight.

This instructional video will teach how to sketch and draw the male body (a man's torso or upper body, chest, abs, rib cage, and shoulders) for character design, comics, manga, anime and video game concept art. Learn step by step how to draw from a simplified torso and upper b ...more

This video goes back to basics, using regular pencil, pen and colored pencils to create a manga female figure. He begins by drawing basic lines and shapes of the torso with pencil, then adding legs, arms and marking the joints. He adds detail to the body and fills in the shape ...more

"Miki Falls" manga creator Mark Crilley presents a tutorial on how to draw manga or anime hair. The first character's hair is drawn entirely in real time, with continuous spoken explanation. Drawing hair is one of the most important components of anime and manga figure drawing ...more

"Miki Falls" manga creator Mark Crilley presents a tutorial on drawing a girl in the manga or anime style, this time focusing on shading techniques. Watch this video to learn how to shade a drawing of an anime or manga girl.

Watch this video to learn how to draw backgrounds for anime and manga. "Miki Falls" manga creator Mark Crilley presents a tutorial on how to draw and color backgrounds for a manga-style illustration. The emphasis is on using color and linework to create the illusion of depth.

"Miki Falls" manga creator Mark Crilley presents a tutorial on drawing clothes, with special emphasis on wrinkles. Learning how to draw clothes for manga characters is an important detail that should not be overlooked. Watch this video to learn how to draw anime and manga clot ...more

Trying to perfect your manga anime drawn characters? Getting down the muscle curvatures and details like hair and eyes can be difficult. Learn how to draw anime or manga hair with help from Drawing Now. Search WonderHowTo for more videos from Drawing Now to learn how to draw a ...more

This video tutorial will teach you how to draw the character Death the kid from the anime and manga series Soul Eater. It features detailed narrated instructions to ease the process of drawing this complicated and particularly well-colored picture. Visit idrawgirls for more i ...more

"Miki Falls" manga creator Mark Crilley presents part one of a tutorial on how to draw an "angry young man" in the manga style. Part 1 of 2 - How to Draw an anime/manga style angry young man. Part 2 of 2 - How to Draw an anime/manga style angry young man.

'Miki Falls' manga creator Mark Crilley presents the first half of his 'How to Color' video. The focus of this segment is demonstrating the application of watercolors. Part 1 of 2 - How to Color an anime/manga illustration. Part 2 of 2 - How to Color an anime/manga illustration.

In this two part video, Mark Crilley shows his approach to using watercolors and how to use ink and colored pencils to finish things up. Part 1 of 2 - How to Color and ink anime/manga illustrations. Part 2 of 2 - How to Color and ink anime/manga illustrations.

"Miki Falls" manga creator Mark Crilley presents a tutorial on drawing a manga character doing a karate kick. The focus is on drawing a clenched fist and the feet in two different positions. See another type of fight pose in the follow up video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ...more

In this tutorial, we learn how to draw different types of anime/manga hair. Different types of hair can completely change the look of a character. For example, if you are going to draw hair on a girl manga character, you will want to make it curly and long. Use long lines with ...more

In this video we learn how to draw manga/anime clothes and folds. Start out by drawing the collar of the clothing up and around the neck. As you draw down, make sure you add in a bump for the elbows in a long sleeve shirt. Then, draw in the cuffs for the shirt and add in lines ...more

This video shows how to create a crazy anime manga hairstyle. The wax styling product "Renati" is used. It gives your hair very strong hold, a little wet-look shine, and it is very good for giving definition. Put a small amount of the product on the palm of your hand. Rub your ...more

"Miki Falls" manga creator Mark Crilley demonstrates his drawing techniques by filming as he shades part of an actual final page from the 3rd book in his manga series, "Miki Falls: Autumn"

"Miki Falls" manga creator Mark Crilley presents a real time tutorial showing how to draw a seated girl, taking his drawing from the rough sketch stage to finished inking. [correction: The Micron Pigma pen is mistakenly said to be available in comic book stores; it is in fact ...more

"Miki Falls" manga creator Mark Crilley presents a tutorial with spoken explanation on how to draw his character, Miki.

"Miki Falls" manga creator Mark Crilley presents a tutorial on drawing three different facial expressions, showing the transition from surprise to anger.

"Miki Falls" creator Mark Crilley presents another drawing demo, this time with an emphasis on rendering clothing and using lines to suggest a three-dimensional surface.

This video illustrate us how to draw a manga animated angel. Here are the following steps: Step 1:First of all take a sheet of paper and pencil and start drawing the character. Step 2: Now draw a oval representing the face of manga and then draw two circles within the face r ...more

Trying to perfect the manga anime body of a drawn character? Getting the muscle curvatures and details down can be difficult. Learn how to draw a manga anime body figure with help from Drawing Now. Search WonderHowTo for more videos from Drawing Now to learn how to draw a vari ...more

Mark Crilley, creator of the manga anime series "Miki Falls," shows how to sketch hands for characters. Hands can be complicated to sketch, but follow along with this cartoon and comic drawing tutorial and learn how to render hands in no time!

Manga is a popular form of comics and print cartoons that dates as far back as the 1945 U.S. occupation of Japan. This video tutorial shows how to draw a basic anime manga boy using a marker. Start with the eyes making sure to include white circles to imply glossy pupils. Next ...more

Ever thought it was hard or impossible to draw the manga characters with emotions? Minicustom, a very skilled manga sketcher, will take you through all the steps to create your dream manga character using modern sketching techniques to create authentic professional looking man ...more

In this tutorial, we learn how to draw a manga girl. He uses a Photoshop-like program on the computer to generate this character. He starts off the picture by starting off with a basic shape for the body and face. He uses light sketching, before using more thick lines to creat ...more

Draw your favorite anime characters! This how-to video shows the steps of rendering a sketch of Sailor Moon. There are no audio instructions, but the process is detailed very closely in a visual guide. Watch this video drawing tutorial and learn how to make a manga anime Sailo ...more

Draw your favorite anime characters! This how-to video shows the steps of rendering a sketch of Eternal Sailor Moon. There are no audio instructions, but the process is detailed very closely in a visual guide. Watch this video drawing tutorial and learn how to make a manga ani ...more

Draw your favorite anime characters! This how-to video shows the steps of rendering a sketch of Sailor Venus and Jupiter. There are no audio instructions, but the process is detailed very closely in a visual guide. Watch this video drawing tutorial and learn how to make a mang ...more

Draw your favorite anime characters! This how-to video shows the steps of rendering a sketch of Sailor Uranus and Mamoru. There are no audio instructions, but the process is detailed very closely in a visual guide. Watch this video drawing tutorial and learn how to make a mang ...more

Draw your favorite anime characters! This how-to video shows the steps of rendering a sketch of Mamoru and Chibi Moon. There are no audio instructions, but the process is detailed very closely in a visual guide. Watch this video drawing tutorial and learn how to make a manga a ...more

Draw your favorite anime characters! This how-to video shows the steps of rendering a sketch of Sailor Pluto and Saturn. There are no audio instructions, but the process is detailed very closely in a visual guide. Watch this video drawing tutorial and learn how to make a manga ...more

Draw your favorite anime characters! This how-to video shows the steps of rendering a sketch of Sailor Neptune or Saturn. There are no audio instructions, but the process is detailed very closely in a visual guide. Watch this video drawing tutorial and learn how to make a mang ...more

Draw your favorite anime characters! This how-to video shows the steps of rendering a sketch of Sailor Moon. There are no audio instructions, but the process is detailed very closely in a visual guide. Watch this video drawing tutorial and learn how to make a manga anime Sailo ...more

Draw your favorite anime characters! This how-to video shows the steps of rendering a sketch of Sailor Moon. There are no audio instructions, but the process is detailed very closely in a visual guide. Watch this video drawing tutorial and learn how to make a manga anime Sailo ...more

In this video, we learn how to draw a manga or anime girl on the computer. Start off by drawing the torso, with the arm coming out. Have her leaning on the pillow on an incline, then draw her legs. Continue to draw up the body, making the head and hair, then the other arm. Dra ...more

Eyes can be used for a variety of expressions, especially in manga or anime where they tend to be very large and round. This tutorial shows you a way to quickly and easily draw one hundred eyes for your manga or anime characters.

Drawing manga allows much more detail than anime, especially in the areas of the eyes, flesh tones and hair. Learn to draw manga with more detail than anime with tips from a professional illustrator in this free instructional video on drawing. Manga drawing is fun, so get star ...more

This video explains how to draw manga or anime noses. Draw a shaded triangle. The straight on nose is usually nothing more than a shadow. Decide where the light source is coming from and draw a black triangle on the half of the face that would be in shadow. In the example, the ...more

Getting started drawing anime and manga characters? Drawing anime eyes can sometimes be difficult, so why not use a video to assist you? In this drawing tutorial, learn how to draw a male anime eye.

This is a great tutorial on drawing manga hair. Pay attention to the tips and tricks at the beginning, especially about the lack of detail in the hair in order to fit in with the anime and manga style. Part 1 of 2 - How to Draw simple and beautiful manga hair. Part 2 of 2 - H ...more

A scary vampire is just what the artist ordered. In this video tutorial, learn how to draw a scary manga female vampire. See how to do the sketch illustration, step-by-step, strictly for anime and manga comics. This quick and easy video will have you drawing eerie female vamps ...more

Learn how to draw a headshot of Sakura from the anime and manga Naruto in 10 steps. Work at your own pace. Draw Sakura from the anime Naruto in 10 steps. Click through to watch this video on drawingnow.com

Learn how to draw a headshot of Neji from the anime and manga Naruto in 10 steps. Work at your own pace. Draw Neji the anime character. Click through to watch this video on drawingnow.com

"Miki Falls" manga creator Mark Crilley presents a tutorial with tips on how to render a male body in proper proportion to the head. Learn how to sketch for anime or manga by watching this video drawing tutorial.

This is a video tutorial made to help out all those cosplayers on how to look more masculine using make up. This was originally made to help out guys who are pretty new to make up, but need to learn it for photo or cosplay purposes, and for girls who are trying to crossplay a ...more

This is a video tutorial made to help out all those cosplayers on how to achieve that flawless photoshopped looking skin by just using makeup. This was originally made to help out guys who are pretty new to makeup, but need to learn it for photo or cosplay purposes. So find yo ...more

Check out this video tutorial on styling a wig for cosplay. Your anime or manga costume is incomplete until you have the right wig, so watch this how-to to get the tips of the art of wig making for cosplay outfits.

TheTribalButterfly guides you through the ins and outs of finding the perfect pattern for your cosplay anime and manga costumes! This video tutorial will tell you what to look for, and what it can do for you! This is very important for your cosplay outfit design.

See how easy it is to make your very own Naruto shoes for cosplay! They're cheap, easy to make, and fun! Anime and manga, all the way! This video tutorial will show you just how easy it is to cosplay. You were afraid before because you thought it would cost a lot of money, bu ...more

You like Death Note I see, otherwise you wouldn't be here right now. Anime and manga doesn't get any better. Check out this video tutorial to see how to make your very own L Lawliet costume for cosplay! You'll go step-by-step to get to that perfect cospaly art. Get the jeans ...more

If your into anime and manga, and even cosplay, then you probably have tons of homemade wigs laying around. Check out this step-by-step video tutorial on how to make a wig stand for them all! This is totally easy and inexpensive! So, cosplay in style, or at least keep all of ...more

Learm to draw Gaara from the anime and manga Naruto in 10 steps. Work at your own pace. Draw Gaara from Naruto. Click through to watch this video on drawingnow.com

Learn how to draw a headshot of Hinata from the anime and manga Naruto in 10 steps. Work at your own pace. Draw Hinata from Naruto. Click through to watch this video on drawingnow.com