haha, i'm back! away on holiday for 6 weeks is really nice!

Well advice for drawing anime?
hmm i think anime is a wierd way of drawing cause you basically take your regular human body drawing and just exaggerate the curves like alot. I noticed that with regular things like buildings, trees, birds flowers etc. manga artists pretty much draw them as realistically as possible and then render them with cell shading.

As i have just been to hong kong for like 6 weeks, i noticed the chinese actually take things a step further and cell shade as well as provide finer details on top of the regular lineart. like in a male figre, they will ink in details such as wrinkles, spots, individual muscle groups, veins and scars. I love chinese comic drawings more so than manga. I think you can easily fall in love with these types of pictures, which you cant really do with manga. HONG KONG RULES BWAHAHAHAHA!! oops sorry XD

Aaanyway, the really tip is to get a big collection of manga and start copying (not tracing) them, soon enough, you'll find shapes, and ways of making the drawings without having to look at references! practice pretty much pays off in whatever you do i guess hehe

Nice to see you are into bleach haha, i love it too, im a bit behind on it though, oh and you should watch naruto too, imo i think its better than bleach! hmm i think [link] has all the episodes but you gotta pay like $5 to access them, hmm i cant remeber any other websites for it, but if you want i can easily send ya like the first 180 episodes on DVD i already sent it to my friend in cyprus (she said it made her lose alot of sleep haha)

i gtg, need to finish retouching my graduation photos cause my mom has her eyes shut, and my brother looks like he wants to kill someone XD

OMG. Your family are awesome! I have seen a bit of naruto but it was a couple of ep's half way thru so it made no sense at all!!!!!!!!! I hate it when that happens! Anyway glad ur bak. I wish I could go to somewhere kool like Hong Kong, Always wanted to go there or Tokyo!

I think that's the best way to do it actually. I will go and buy a new sketchbook 2morrow after college and start drawing. I'll have to start from basics. The main problems I have are hands, feet, I don't like the way I draw hair and I have a hard thime getting characters into poses that don't look forced or stiff. Appart from that, I'm fine! Ha!

Well thanks for the tip I will get at it 2morro and hopefully soon I'll have a nice spiffing bit of Bleach fan art to show you all!

Wish me luck. Oh and about the naruto DVD's if ya dun mind doing that drop us a line! Thanks!

Luff ya loads dude ur ma lifeline!

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cool, well you know my email address. Hmm i'll just send you my mob number over msn then you can txt me or something so i know where to post the dvds.

As for drawing, i wish I had time to draw haha, im on a big job hunt spree till someone gives me a job!! Oh ya, one thing about job hnting is i found that ive spent like 4 years getting a degree in Product design and all the product design jobs i find ask for like 2+ years experience!! so how the hell am i supposed to get a product design job when i dont have any experience, nor can i get any experience cause they wont give me a chance in the first place aiie! yah!! <chinese like oh my godish