Any Manga Style Artists Out There?

[Trahia the Minstrel]

Thanks, @kathleenramm 😊

I taught myself to draw when I was little, it was my greatest passion before I got into writing. I watched a lot of YouTube tutorials by a guy called Mark Crilley to get me started, and then gradually practiced more and more, using how to draw books and stuff. I used reference pictures to create the Arslan image, obviously — and funny story, the guy in the bottom right, Narsus, was really hard to do cause I didn’t have a marker colour that matched his hair — so I had to use a neon yellow marker, then French and warm grey coloured pencils to tone down the intensity to a blonde😂.

I found the Heroic Legend of Arslan an enjoyable story — though I haven’t actually read it (the original novels are in full-on Japanese😂). I watched it as an anime — it has 1 and 1/2 seasons (it got cancelled in the middle of the second season, which was super disappointing, I’d just got invested.)

However, depending on your age and maturity level, I wouldn’t recommend it without warning you that it deals with some pretty gruesome violence, a female character who has an inappropriate outfit, a minstrel who’s an absolute flirt — like, a terrible flirt — and it has a bit of a sorcery thing going on in the bad guys side. Oh yeah, and it’s written from the perspective of the Persians, and the Crusaders are the bad guys, kinda. There’s also some swearing if you watch it in English — I don’t know what the Japanese subbing is like. So, the themes can be hard to deal with, depending on your age. I didn’t watch it till I turned 18 recently, and I enjoyed a lot once I got past everything mentioned above — the characters are great, the banter is funny, and the tactical brilliance of all the battles had me rubbing my hands in glee — but like I said, I’d probably say don’t watch it unless you know you can deal with mature themes.

It’s R13, but I’d recommend any Christian who watches it to be over 18, depending on what you’re used to watching. If you are mature enough, it’s quite interesting to see a story set in that era from a perspective other than medieval Europe — they kinda mixed ancient Persia with the crusader’s times.

Just so you know, the guy with the dark hair, Daryun, and Narsus, are my two favourite characters. They’re best friends, and are constantly ripping each other out. I love friend-banter relationships😂.

Hope that helps!😊

The end of a story, a beautiful picture; a feeling of longing yet hope~
That’s my wish to create.

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@jenwriter17

I know this thread hasn’t been posted on since nearly a year ago..

but imma answer anyway! XD

I love drawing manga style and for the last year or so, it was nearly all I did. I was completely obsessed lol. I find that drawing from manga references really helped me get my proportions down better, because of the simplified nature of the drawing. What kind of manga art do you make? like fan art or your own characters?

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