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Hi, I'm Jay French at jayfrenchstudios.com, and I'm going to show you how to draw manga.
Here, to show how to draw manga and the difference between that and anime, we're going to start
with this illustration. It's already been begun. The biggest difference in manga is
that because it's not animated, you can get more detailed. Now one of the most interesting
things, especially in mangas, is that a lot of things can be highly detailed. Most especially
eyes. And other certain details. Whereas some details will still be a little minimal. Most
commonly, you'll still almost see no details to the mouth. But you'll get very detailed
eyes like this. You'll see almost no details to the nose. There's a little bit more realism
to mangas than there is in anime in general. And you'll get some good shading that you
won't see in anime, and it's usually done in the color stage, this wouldn't actually
be a black ink line, this would be just a darker area of flesh shading. Hair also gets
a lot more detail in anime, mostly with the highlights, what you'll often see to give
it that air of realism, are actually two layers of highlighting. No matter what color you're
starting with, you'll have one layer here that is a little lighter, but then you'll
have a field that is actually white. And each of which are bordered, each side of which
is bordered by the medium color. Of course this is easiest in black but it's done even
in blonde. You'll have a lighter yellow here, and you'll usually have some reference to
it on the opposite side of the light source, usually without the white, just with the lighter
color. So look for more details, more shading, and details can be in the strangest places,
like I say, but other areas are still left simplified, hands are usually still not detailed
whereas weird details like the zipper on a jacket will be shown. And that's your basic
differences between manga style and anime style. And that's basically how you draw a
manga.