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By making use of manga references, Cris de Lara shows you how to fuse Japanese comic drawing with fantasy themes. Beautiful female fantasy characters are a pleasure to create and look at. I want to create a pinup, a beauty who resembles Frazetta’s or Vallejo’s women and environments, but with a twist. I’ll be using comics and manga references to create a young, strong and beautiful girl in a magical environment. I guess I could divide this tutorial into two simple stages: first, the character concept, and secondly, the background design. Dealing with the character concept first, I consider the anatomy – the sensual, sexy shape – and her clothing. I want to emphasise things such as skin tones and muscles, concentrating on rendering, lighting and shadows. For the background, I’m thinking about something easy to draw, or that could be done with painting work. I’m going to have a magical and intense light source, such as a dimensional gateway, using effects, lights and shadows, and a good colour palette. This choice helps to give valour to my character without drawing these elements in the scenario. Initial concepts My initial concern is to create something that shows a young, strong female character – a woman with strength, and also a slight sensuality, located within a magical environment. So I decide to create a kind of female warrior with an attractive physical structure, using manga and comics references. I like the sensuality we find in comics’ female characters, as well as the energy from manga. I start drawing the warrior’s sketches on letter paper, then use the light table to improve it. Inking and scanning After defining her physical structure, the next step is to create my character’s costume. I search the internet and look in books for female warrior images to provide me with some ideas for the clothes. Adding colour I work with Photoshop and Painter to colourise and paint. I think about how I want my final image to look – its colours, effects and elements. Shadows and lighting After creating the entire image with flat colours, I need to think about shadows and lighting, in the same way I thought about the character anatomy in the drawing processes. Skin tone This is the start of my favourite part of a colour work – creating the volumes, shades and lighting for the skin tone and muscles.
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