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I have been drawing anime and manga art for years already and went through a transformation from a traditional artist to becoming a digital artist.
Through this guide (aimed at ones wanting to draw using digital tools), I will share my take on how to draw anime art, I hope you enjoy it!
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Before we dive deep into creating anime and manga art, you have to choose whether you want to create anime art using traditional or digital mediums.
When I first started drawing anime art, I used a series of pencils, mostly HB or 2B, to create the line art.
For inking, I used Sakura Pigma Micron Ink pens with varied thicknesses of 005, 05, and 01. This enabled me to draw a 0.20 mm line width among other line widths. Sakura creates one of the best pens for drawing accurate line art.
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As for the paper, I used a Copic alcohol marker pad by Transotype. I used this paper for its superb marker usage quality. If you are using Copic markers with basic A4 paper, it will more than likely bleed over your lines, and you cannot keep the markers’ colors pure and bright.
For coloring, I used Copic markers, as they are the best in the class for anime art. Copic markers give you pure colors with zero compromises.
And by using these markers with the correct paper, you can produce extremely accurate and beautiful-looking anime drawings. If you are into traditional mediums and would like to get the best materials for that type of drawing, check my article about the best materials for anime artists.
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Even though I started my artistic journey by using traditional tools, I soon felt slightly limited by them. That’s when I found digital art, and digital drawing tablets, and the art world opened up to me in a whole new way.
If you are just starting out and want to get into the digital art world, a good place to start is to know that you need the following equipment to draw digitally:
Now that iPad Pro, among other tablets, enables you to draw anime art at a professional level, you might not even need a fully-fledged computer anymore. But you still need art software.
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The most important aspect of choosing any hardware, whether it be a tablet, desktop pc, or laptop, is that you need a lot of RAM memory. You also need a good processor and a display that has rich colors.
RAM memory is different from HDD, SSD, or such memory. Ram memory (random-access memory) is a form of computer memory that can be read and changed in any order, typically used to store working data and machine code.
32GB of RAM memory is the best to go for to draw crisp, high-resolution anime drawings. 64GB is the next best to go, as more is better when it comes to RAM.
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More allocated memory for your art software, more speed to your drawing process. But do bear in mind that increasing memory allocation to art software also affects the responsiveness of other software (when used at the same time).
Thankfully we live in an era where SSD drives exist, and the speed of write/read operations has increased massively. SSD drives have enabled faster access times, loading times, writing times, and whatnot.
I am using an SSD drive for the scratch disk but also as a working disk. This enables fast saving times, and faster file processing, among other benefits.
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The main benefit is that you can start drawing and progressing through the image faster. The save operations and drawing experience are smooth and uninterrupted.
I also have a lot of artwork saved from different sites, like DeviantArt, Pixiv, Artstation, Behance, and so on, which also reside on the SSD.
I want things to be done fast, or at least the information should be acquired as fast as possible. Also, consider the space you might need for your artwork and work-in-progress files.
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I’ve seen that my artworks roughly take 2Gb-4Gb of storage space from the hard drive (and that is for one artwork/folder). And to counter that storage need, I’ve acquired two 5TB Lacie Rugged USB-C external hard drives.
You do not need a powerful processor to draw efficiently. However, when and if you want to do other tasks, like zipping files or video editing, it would be best if you had a powerful processor.
I prefer Intel-branded processors. Whether you are building a PC, or buying a laptop, try to gather information about the performance of the processor.
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If you are building a small desktop pc, do also take into account the TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the processor, as bigger and more powerful processors will quickly heat up your pc, which is never a good thing, and it brings fan noise to irritative levels.
A display is probably one of the most important things you need. You have to have good color accuracy or color gamut, as some call it. Meaning that the display actually shows the colors as you intended. Reds are shown as reds and not as magenta, for example.
Look for a display with 99%+ Adobe RGB or 99%+ sRGB. This is somewhat of a base standard to be expected from a display for professional drawing. So aim for color accuracy over 4K and other things. Color is the thing that matters.
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Currently, you can get 10K displays, but it seems like 4K or 5K is the standard for displays. 4K (3, 840 by 2, 160 pixels) resolution has four times the pixels found in a 1080P monitor. Wide-Quad HD (WQHD) displays have a pixel ratio of 2, 560 by 1, 440 pixels, also known as 1440p.
What is also important is the I/O (input/output) connections the display offers. For you to get everything out of your monitor, make sure it has DisplayPort 1.2 or greater. Also, HDMI should at least be at version 1.4, but yet again, the bigger the version number, the better.
Whether you go for a tablet, desktop pc, or laptop does not matter in the end. What matters is the fact of whether you like to draw with a big screen or like to draw on the go.
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While speed isn’t everything you should care about, I’ve found it extremely pleasant when I can get to drawing pretty instantly and don’t have to wait for the files to load or layers to show up.
So when you choose your hardware, remember whether you want it to be portable (laptop, tablet) or whether you want to dedicate a place in your room for drawing (desktop pc).
A drawing tablet is a tablet that enables you to draw digitally using a stylus. Drawing tablets are separate hardware that you connect to your computer. However, iPad Pro and Microsoft Surface Book 3 also enable you to draw on the screen, so it’s not a must to have a separate drawing tablet.
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When I first started drawing digitally, I chose a tablet that didn’t have a display/ drawing screen (graphics tablet). My choice for the time was Wacom Bamboo. I drew with it a bit until I noticed that I didn’t like the feel of the disconnection of the hand and eye.
Drawing tablet with a screen enables you to draw directly to the screen. So the drawing experience is very close to if you would use paper and pencil.
After experiencing a lot of frustrating drawing moments with the Wacom Bamboo, I bought myself a new drawing tablet, Wacom Cintiq 12WX. It was a game-changer for me and the next ten or so years.
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In 2020, I bought a new drawing tablet, and this time I decided to buy the best you can buy in the market. Wacom Cintiq 24 Pro. I can only say that this drawing tablet has given me the best drawing experience ever.
While the tablet I bought is one of the most expensive drawing tablets on the market, it is also the best. And when you get the best, you know that hardware is not the bottleneck in your creative process.
So when buying a drawing tablet, think about the space you have on your desk, calculate your budget, and think about the way you would like to draw and work.
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A stylus is a pen that works with digital screens. However, almost every tablet in the market has a dedicated pen to it, which means that you can’t just buy a stylus and use it with every screen out there.
But when you buy a tablet, you get a pen with it, so no worries there. iPad Pro has a dedicated stylus for it, and for example, using a Huion stylus with Wacom tablets is not possible.
Art software is the last piece of the tools you need to draw anime art. Art software is software just like any other software you use, but it just enables you to draw with it.
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There are free art software and paid ones. And if you are serious about art, you
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