Anime Drawing Contest Now Open!!!!

For the details, click here: Contest Details

No participation fee!!!

There will be two winners:

1. One From the Beginner artists (those who have drawn anime or manga for 6 months or less)

2. One From the Experienced artists (those who have drawn anime or manga for 7 months or more)!!!!

The winners will be feature on our social media accounts, along with their art and a picture if desire!!!!
All participating artists are welcome to leave a link to their website, facebook and/or any social media link along with their competing drawing!!!

This is a great chance to expose your work, network with other artists, win drawing supplies, and why not??? Challenge yourself with a new drawing!!!!

Theme: New Year’s resolution!!!!

So, so excited!!!!

Ganbatte!!!! ^o^

10 Tips on becoming a better manga artist

Become a Better Manga Artist is the next step you should take after you master the manga drawing basics…
Click below to read them ^o^

http://themangakainyou.com/become-better-manga-artist/

A Lucky Cat Charm Contest ^o^

 

Visit   to participate:  http://themangakainyou.com/maneki-neko-color-meanings/

1. Enjoy our Maneki Neko Color Meaning Article

2. Post a comment in the article comment section

3. And wait until the winner is announced next Friday!!!! I promise you will like your prize :3

 

After writing a post about the different meanings of the Lucky Cat (Maneki Neko)
I thought it had be cool to hold a contest and give one lucky winner their own Lucky Cat!!

http://themangakainyou.com/maneki-neko-color-meanings/

How do you know you are done sketching?

Someone sent me an email today asking: when is it that you know you are done sketching your character?

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To answer this question I go back into what poetry has taught me. And yes, i have many poems under my arm. \(^o^)/ one published by Collage, the literary magazine of New Jersey Brookdale Community College in 2012!!!! I don’t send my poems around, but that year  i submitted two and one of them got published.  ^o^

Like with poetry, drawing should come from within… There is something your character is representing about you. It could be a character representing your love for horror movies or your hatred for war! What the character is representing is up to you.

And then you draw, you scribble lines here and there. You let your instinct take the pencil and you let it draw. You don’t argue. The face comes to be, he body, the clothes. It doesn’t have to be in that order. Sketches doesn’t need to be an ordered production of creation. It’s a sketch. Anything is valid. Anything until your pencil stops moving because something has got your attention. Something about the character’s eye or the way the character’s mouth is twitched is suddenly holding you hostage.

When this happens, the story of the character starts to spring out of the page. You instinctively know who you are dealing with, at least at the superficial level. You gave your character a part of you to represent and that’s probably the least you know because between that representation and who the character becomes to be is such a stretched mile that the only thing you can do is try to put the pieces together.

And this is exactly where you know you can stop sketching. Because now, your job is to start drawing her or him again, this time in a different pose or scenario or with different people doing different things.

You might change the character’s appearance has you go. That’s part of the editing process. Nothing uncommon. Totally normal if you decide that her hair might be better longer and such….

Other people might have a different way into discovering how is it that they know when they are done sketching and i think you should, by all means, dive and explore, too. This is how i know when to stop sketching and i hope you guys found this post at least slightly helpful. Hopefully really helpful ^o^

Thank you 😀

Bring back the challenge!!! \(^o^)/

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Someone asked me today if i only draw digitally. I started off drawing manually before i was given a wacon tablet as a birthday gift and every since then i have stopped drawing without it.

But, you know what? For as sweet as it feels to draw with a tablet, i am going to bring the challenge back!!!

i am so going to go out of my comfort zone and will make a post of a hand-drawn drawing.

I am bringing back the challenge. \(^o^)/ How are you going to challenge yourself today?

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Inspirational street designs

I came across this piece of wall panting while strolling around trenton.

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sometimes we need to find, in reality, inspiration for our abstract world ^o^

The website theme headers were just not right…. so I created my own \(◕‿◕✿)/

If you ask me, it took literally less than eight hours to make.
Since then, I have been inspired to take more and more control of the outlook of my blog. It just gives me a sense of relief to know that not everything about how my blog looks are in the hands of the tech team.

Here is how I did mine:

http://themangakainyou.com/creating-manga-banner/

Let’s take some control back of our blogs 😉

〜(^∇^〜）♪(┌・。・)┌

How to become a manga artists (mangaka)

One day, after reading your favorite manga, you start to wonder if you too can draw your own manga. So, you turn to the internet to learn how to draw manga and you end up (hopefully) here.
So, what does it take to draw manga? Who can draw manga? Anyone? If so, can anyone become a manga artist? A mangaka?
Can you get paid for your drawings? How much? has anyone really made a living (if not, a decent amount of money) to draw manga?
I really hope this is the first article you come across when you research manga for beginners because I myself have read lots of articles, have follow the manga phenomena for about three years (and counting) now, and, even though I don’t claim to be a manga expert, I do claim to have learn something a long the way that can hopefully help you too ^_^

• Can anyone become a manga artist?
  The answer is yes. According to Jaime, Here is her blog you can. The only thing you have to do is draw a manga and take it to publishers. I should also tell you that Jaime traveled to Japan herself and, in her quest to become a manga artist, she managed to get behind the scenes on what being a manga artist is like and all!!! Her blog/website is enjoyably delicious to read. So check her out, too!!
• Is it really that easy?
  Well, you should know that the major blooming audience of manga is in Japan. So, learning Japanese might be one of the things you should really seriously think about. As far as I know, Japan was the first country to produce Manga-style drawings. And the way it’s publish and drawn vary from Western techniques.
  In the United States, for example, comics are drawn right to left. In Japan, manga is drawn from left to right. This is just one of the many details you should know.
• Can you get paid for drawing manga?
  Absolutely! Once you learn how to draw manga, and once it’s written in Japanese, then of course you will be paid if it gets published!! What I recommend, is that you draw a couple of volumes before hand. This will give you a good head start. Because by the time they (the publishers) pressure you for your second manga volume, you can be secretly working on volume ten since you already drew the second one. You meet your deadline and you keep progressing with your story and everyone is happy !! ^_^
• What’s a volume?
  If you have the chance, please visit your near major bookstore. Here is an example of the volumes for Skip Beat!!
  Basically a manga volume is a book of at least forty-something drawn pages chronicling the story of your character. Other popular Mangas at the moment are Naruto, Kaichou-Wa Maid Sama and Vampire Knight.
• Has anyone made a living out of drawing manga?
  Yes. The manga artists of the mangas above have made money. Lots of it. But I suggest you don’t get too much into “what’s the most” anyone has made drawing manga” because, like with anything, there are people who have made millions, to people who have barely made any money.
  If you are serious about becoming a manga artist, then give it your all!!! There is no dream you should give up just because the odds are against you. Japan has native artist that will give you a heck of competition. But, if you play your cards right, the fact that you are a foreigner might be to your advantage.
  I do think is important to learn the Japanese culture and language. I also think is important you find a manga you love and start studying it.
  Why do you love this particular manga?
  How does the manga artist drew the scenes? Did the artist include a lot of background details? Was it all abstract?
  How are the bodies drawn in this manga? Is there a lot of romance? Too much romance? None?
  How colorful is the manga? Is it black and white? Did the artist use a lot of screen tones?
  What are screen tones? and how many different screen tones there are?These are questions to keep in mind. I advice you to print this page and start writing down the answers. I am literally a click away if you have any questions.
  You can also like my Facebook Page  to receive instant notice when I make a new post.
  Follow TheMangakaInYou in Twitter where I also post new drawing tips.
• And why have I research so much about becoming a manga artist?
  Because I also want to become one. And hopefully, when I get my first manga publish, this website will help others achieve their dreams.
  Feel free to post any other blog you have found interesting!!! Can’t wait to hear from you soon \(^o^)/By
  Naomi HusbandHappy drawing ^o^