are there any tutorials for learning to draw characters?

[sasha2cool]

hello i love to draw but im not a very good digital artist, lately my character drawings come out tilted.
are there any tutorials on how to draw visual novel characters better?

i know i didnt explain this very well, i guess all i can do is try harder

[indoneko]

To prevent tilted image, flip your canvas as often when you're drawing.


Btw, what's the main difference between how to draw VN characters and how to draw manga/anime characters?

[sasha2cool]

To prevent tilted image, flip your canvas as often when you're drawing.


Btw, what's the main difference between how to draw VN characters and how to draw manga/anime characters?

um.... have no clue... i dont even know how to draw a manga/anime character or at least not very well

thank you by the way

[Mammon]

I think that looking this up on YouTube will be a lot faster than asking it around here. You'll get some advice and good links, but with YouTube and other big sites everything you want is just a few clicks away.

[Drew]

lately my character drawings come out tilted.
are there any tutorials on how to draw visual novel characters better?

If you're drawing digitally mark out a grid in a lower layer and draw against it, then you have a frame of reference to stop the characters leaning over, if that's what you mean by 'tilted'.

If you mark the grid out against key levels on the body then it can help with proportions and serve as a reference when drawing different sized characters.

You can do the same on paper, if it's just for practice then it doesn't matter if the grid shows through.

I'd agree with Indoneko, mirroring/flipping an image back and forth when working on it will always reveal a multitude of sins, it's definitely good a practice. When working on paper do the same by using a mirror or holding the paper up to the light and looking from the back (if it's thin enough).

If you're looking for basic anatomy practice I'd recommend:
https://www.youtube.com/user/ProkoTV/videos
He seems to be doing a lot of caricature stuff currently, but his older videos cover some good ground on the basics.

i know i didnt explain this very well, i guess all i can do is try harder

True, it can be difficult to see a way forward when starting out.

Though probably more important than just trying harder is trying 'faster'. If you find big things early in a drawing are throwing your work out just practice a lot quickly up to that stage. Once you have that down you can go back to trying to develop more finished images.

Hope that helps.

[xavimat]

There are two sticky threads with lots and lots of answers to that question ("sticky" means that there are always the first threads visible in the subforum).
viewtopic.php?f=46&t=14980#p195266
viewtopic.php?f=46&t=24440

Good work!

[Fuseblower]

Ah, yes, the dreaded tilt. It's because your vertical is somewhat tilted while your horizontals are really horizontal. It gives a "skewed look" and is not really obvious unless you flip it as Indoneko wrote. If you draw on paper then just hold it against the light backwards so you see your drawing through the paper.

This tilting happens a lot (even with good artists) and it destroys depth and perspective. On paper I like to put down a couple of verticals as guidelines. In a drawing program you can just use the grid, as mentioned.

As for tutorials, I'd recommend Mark Crilley. It's really good stuff for beginners and his videos are a joy to watch.

[Attlebridge]

I also have the tilting problem when I draw with my (actual) paper on an angle.

If you have Photoshop or an art program with similar functions, you can skew the image back into place with the Transform>Distort function, then adjust the corner points and horizontal/vertical skew until it's all even and level.

I begin all my digital art with pencil sketches, then scan them into my image editing software. I adjust the pencil sketch with rotation, skew, etc. until I'm satisfied with it. Then I move on to inking either digital or traditional, depending on how simple or complex the image is. (I find it's much easier to do complex and highly detailed inking by hand, because I have more control over the real pen)