More manga style heads today. I grabbed the first book I had on hand to read through and practice from, and it turned out to be "Girl to Grrrl Manga" by Colleen Doran. Colleen is nice. I've met her a couple of times, and I like the book. It's not the most in-depth book on manga, but it does go over shoujo manga styles of characters pretty well, and I like the way she describes the techniques. The heads, as you can see, are basic circle and triangle shapes, with the details just sketched in. I'll probably do just heads for a couple days until I'm comfortable laying out the basic shapes.
What am I using to draw? I'm probably going to do most of this digitally, so I've decided to mainly use Ambient Design's Art Rage 2.5. It's a nice little natural media program. It's got all the basic tools - pencil, eraser, oil paint, marker/pen, pastel, etc. The big bonus though is that I can rotate the canvas on the fly. Makes it easier to draw in my opinion. Plus I can flip the image to see if I've got it all cock-eyed and slanting too much in one direction, which as you can see, I do.
I need to fiddle a bit more with the settings though. Art Rage doesn't handle small detail as well as I'd like, unless I use a really big canvas. So I probably won't draw multiple heads on one sheet again, like I did this time. I couldn't really get into the eyes and noses like I wanted. Maybe it's better that these details are sketchy. This is hardly supposed to be a finished product. But in any case, I can't do four heads in one sitting anyway. I only get 30 minutes a day at most to draw, and I can't really do four heads in that amount of time right now.
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