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Hey, there everybody, it's Mark Crilley.
I'm back with another how-to-draw video.
Today we are going to be learning how to draw a manga bad guy.
And just to give you a little heads-up I'm testing out a new equipment today,
using a microphone, an actual separated microphone for the first time.
Hopefully that'll improve the audio,
and help me deal some audio issues that I have been having.
And you can see I'm testing out a new technic here
with a printing out piece of paper from my computer
that has a dark pattern, a sort of a grey scale dark pattern on it
and also this little word balloon here "¤É¤³ÐÐ¤¯¤ó¤À?",
which was the bad guy is going to be saying:
"Where you going?"
Take sound of sort of added menacing feeling,
but first of all, let's go ahead and put on some basic guidelines,
so that we can get on to the real drawing.
All right, well, we've got enough the basic guidelines in place.
I want to start moving on to some of the details of the face.
Let's refocus the camera get closer in on the eyes.
All right, so we are going to start working on the eyes here.
I guess the first thing I should do is do the irises,
and the key thing here..., I'm trying to create the sort of sinister look
and achieving that for me,
it means getting the irises well underneath the upper eyelids
...to the point where the pupils are kind of half covered.
And this is going to help us make him...,
you know, he is going to be smiling while wearing..., hah, wearing...,
he is wearing these angry looking eyebrows,
wearing them like clothes, man.
Anyway, this line here is going to be the fold of the upper eyelid.
I'm giving him this sort of heavy eyelid,
so that means creating a fairly wide space between the line of the upper eyelash,
I guess you could call this one, this fold of the upper eyelid.
Then I'm going to do the same thing over here.
And now it's time to start drawing these eyebrows that I was talking about.
Now one thing I need to just sort of caution with this,
I mean the very idea of doing a video called "How to draw a manga bad guy"
is maybe going to leave me open to criticism,
because, of course, there is so many different ways of drawing a manga bad guy.
And maybe I have to be creative the title of this one.
Really, I looked at a number of different manga bad guy type characters
and came up with at least some principles
that I could apply to this one of my own creation that
I am sort of coming up with today.
Now notice how this eyebrow here is sort of curving.
And generally eyebrows of manga character are not very thick,
certainly not hairy bushy type eyebrows,
but for this guy, I think it's going to add to his look of menace.
I've given him a sort of Jack Nicholson,
you know, it's sort of getting thicker and wider
as they reach this upper edge,
almost having that little horns or something.
Eyebrows horns, you do have creative way of discribing things,
don't you Crilley.
Anyway, so we get this..., the curve
and the way I'm doing it anyway,
the sort of peaks that's coming up of the edge,
getting a little bit of a hook down here.
as it reaches the middle of the nose, or the bridge of the nose.
And I'm going to add just a couple of lines here,
that's just sort of indicate this space between the eyes and the eyebrows.
All of this I'm going to be inking later on.
So you can treat all of this just sort of penciled preliminary lines.
I want to give him this sort of bags under his eyes.
It's going to add to that sort of sinister look.
And maybe now it's time to move on to, adding a little more detail to the nose.
So I'm going to put a couple of lines here.
Generally the nose in manga character is not delineated very much.
You don't call a lot of attention to it,
sometimes it's a little more than just a dot.
But in the case, of some of these bad guy characters,
very often they will, put a shadow underneath of it, like this one.
You know, you could have two lines here, you could have a second line.
I kind of prefer to just one line for the bridge of the nose.
Now it's time to move on to the mouth.
And as you can see, I've made it sort of lopsided,
like he is smiling but one side of his smile, is raised higher than the other,
and that creates the fact of a sneer,
which of course it's not limited to manga, you see,
you know, sneering villains are throughout history of probably anything,
you know, plays, movies, what have you.
but notice these lines that I'm putting,
this sort of smile lines that I'm putting around the edges.
Now I think we were all taught as kids,
maybe to put these smiles lines on the smiles,
but manga character generally do not draw them,
and when you put these lines onto a character,
it really cause attention to the wrinkles
and makes them look kind of villainous,
so I will watch out for that if it's not your attention to have,
you know, a bad guy character,
I wouldn't put these lines for the smile of your average, you know, manga protagonist.
Now I am going to start building up the cheek bones,
give this guy some very sharp delineated cheek bones,
again something that is generally not drawn on most...,
and do you see how and angular all of this is,
this is..., these are all to me, sort of hallmarks of the way
of villain might be drawn in some manga, of course not all manga,
this is not THE way, this is just A way, of doing it.
Giving him..., outlining the lower lip,
pretty unorthodox for manga characters,
...there are some varieties where you can indicate the lower lip.
But to make..., when I see these wide thoroughly outlined lips,
I feel like I'm definitely looking at some sort of bad guy character.
Now I am going to do...,
let's go ahead and do the hair.
And I think in this case I should just do it in time lapse.
Sorry I got to save time somewhere.
So I'm going to go ahead and do the hair in time lapse.
All right, so you can see I went ahead and did the ears as well,
you know, I don't think the ears of a bad guy,
really are drawn any differently from those of a good guy.
Let me..., I could be wrong, I often am, let me know ,
if you have evidence to the contra on that one.
But what I want to do now is pull back, refocus,
so that we can draw the neck and the shoulders.
Ok, so what I'm going to do now is do a little bit like I did before,
get some basic guidelines down in the step by step way,
so that we can move on to the final lines.
All right, so I've got the basic guidelines of the shoulders here,
and I'm going to do a few more things here in terms of the face.
One is to give him a kind of, this is just a personal preference here,
give him a little hipster-ish looking goatee,
of course now I have alienated,
anyone who watches my videos who happens to have a hipster-ish goatee,
"What you're saying? Man! You're saying we're all villains, we're all bad guys?"
"just because of our facial hair?"
I may well lose some subscribers on this one, and my apologies.
But I want to do here is add a little shadow underneath the chain,
this is not necessarily particular to bad guys only,
but something that I see in lots of manga,
is sort of some shadow cast by the jaw against the neck.
And this might be a nice place for you to practice your crosshatching.
We get a bunch of lines go in this direction
and then you might add a sort of second layer of lines down here.
Of course all of this will be much clear when we get to the inking part,
which in itself it's kind of unusual, right?
I hardly ever do inking in these videos,
but I thought today I was going to try to do,
almost like a mockup actual manga panel,
that's why I try to do these dots,
and see I can make something that looks like the real deal when it comes to manga.
So these..., again, these lines that are related to the musculature of the neck,
not going to get too carried away with all that.
But I thought I will talk a little bit about clothes here,
although it's not so much the subject of this video,
but I feel like I'm always hearing from people who want tips on drawing clothing.
I find that when I'm drawing wrinkles of clothing,
it's composed of lines like this,
sort of hooking lines like that,
and those two things together, maybe the main things
that I'm using for creating the effect of wrinkles in the clothing.
Let me show you one thing over here,
see if I can just sort of do this on the fly.
And that is to create..., I'm always doing this as a technic,
I'm going to erase a little here,
so it's to create a..., what would you call that,
protuberance, here on the edge of the, you know,
breaking out the contour of his jack or whatever this is.
And once you get that there,
what I will do is I'll make a second line that comes up
and does not quite connect to either of those two lines.
And that's a little technic the I use for
a suggesting as..., a little bit over done maybe here.
but giving the feeling of there being some kind of wrinkle there.
Basically I think we've got everything in place
and I can start to move on to the inking stage.
I feel like he could probably use a little more, a few more strands of hair.
So I'm just going to go ahead and do that.
Let me know what's your thought of this video,
this idea trying to do something that looks like actual printed manga.
This is not the way that I actually do.
You know, a lot of my work that's done for my books, it's done in the computer.
And I suppose someday I could do one of these videos,
that is somehow screen capturing or whatever,
and you see this the cursor moving around doing things,
but I don't want to lose the human touch,
of my horrible ugly looking hands drawing the pictures,
I like the feeling that I'm talking to you guys and connecting with you guys,
you somehow have a sense of me really being here, using...,
you know not everybody has, access to expensive computer programs,
art programs and so forth.
Anyway, let me think, let me think...,
let me know what you think about this video.
And I'm going to go ahead and move onto the inking stage.
And I'm going to do most of it in time lapse,
but maybe stop periodically to give you some tips.
Ok, so I did all that in time lapse unfortunately,
maybe I can do a separate video that would be more focusd on inking,
but my main piece of advice for you is when you inking the hair,
make sure that you are doing that with really quick, confident strokes of the pen.
If you really slow down, you're going to end up with these sort of wobbly lines,
that really don't have that graceful look that most manga people want the hair to have.
What I'm going to do now is also very unusual,
I'm using a kind of brush pen,
because I feel like this is,
this illustration looks kind of unfinish to me,
it has what I call a coloring book like quality,
as of it's waiting to, you know, be finished with color.
And so I'm brushing in some black,
you know maybe this guy's wearing like a leather jacket or something here.
And unfortunately it may mean that
I'm sort of obliterating some of my earlier ink lines.
But I do it just as an experiment, you know,
the last thing I want to do, here on youtube
is to be accused some kind of doing the same thing over and over again,
that's a kind of fear of mine that I'll fall into a rut,
and people'll say, you know, Crilley, every time when we watch one of your videos,
I feel like it's the the same old thing,
So I'm doing my best to come up with a new method to teach,
new styles of art to do here.
So I'm not a big expert on using brush pen like this,
I don't know if you can see that
as I fumble with some of these lines to get them look the way I want them to.
I know a lot of people swear by them
and are able to do amazing things.
Me, I'm more used to using an actual brush with water color
and I'm not so much, I don't know why...,
with water color you can sort of build it toward you finished line,
where as with ink as always, you know,
ink is there, and I want you lay it down,
there is no erasering it, you can sort of correct things with white paint,
almost like a white-out, correction fluid type of deal,
But you know especially..., well one of the reasons
I thought I would teach you guys how to do this on the printed out sheet of paper
rather than on a video screen,
is I thought you might be able to use it for creating
one of a kind regional works of art,
that you could give to your friend or something like that,
and they would know that, you know,
apart from the dots and maybe text or whatever you did the by the way of the computer,
that is really one of the kind, never to be reproduced by anyone else.
In any case, I think we are reaching the end of this,
I may do a few little touch of..., in time lapse.
But otherwise, I believe we are at the end of this process,
and I can just come back, maybe to wind the video down.
All right, well, there's my video on how-to-draw a manga bad guy.
Let me know what you thought about it,
especially the whole technic of trying to
create authentic looking final panel of inked manga art.
But for now let me go ahead and thank anyone
who has supported me by getting my books,
you are the life blood of my family for real.
We've got Brody's Ghost, we've got Miki Falls,
and we've got my how to draw book Mastering Manga.
But maybe that's all the time I have for today,
I will go ahead and lay down the pencil.
Thank you so much for watching this video,
I hope you found it useful
and I will be back with another one,
real soon.