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Yuki H.
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posted 17-02-2004 05:34 PM     Profile for Yuki H.   Author's Homepage   Email Yuki H.     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I wonder how did you get started on drawing Manga because i remember in six grade I found a videogame called evil zone and when I played it i liked it when i looked inside the little booklet I saw anime versions of the characters and I started to draw them and used some of their techniques on my own personal characters and I sometimes use it even now!

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kyoto
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posted 20-02-2004 06:19 PM     Profile for kyoto   Email kyoto     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
whats up Hikaroshi I got started when I was probably your age yeah that means i'm a fossil lol. I had a friend who had a unique style of drawing and I tryied her style after a while I said to myself why should I try I don't think she really liked me as a friend after I was out of that school I became better doing things my own way.

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Tri_kento
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posted 20-02-2004 06:57 PM     Profile for Tri_kento   Author's Homepage   Email Tri_kento     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Well this is really kinda of a funny story. It was grade5 so that would make me aaa...i think that i would be 11. Anyways my art teacher said i was one of her best sudents and i could probly have a great future in art if i practices lots so i did and i drew some really neat gecko pic(little lizard :P)
any ways that afternoon i got introuble for acting out in class so i had to stay in the hall way >_< well i did not like this so i brought my scetch book with me a pencil and i took my friends PoJo magazine witch this month it was based on Dragon Ball Z so i looked throughe and found this pic of trunks and i started drawing and it turned out really cool and thats how it all started a Detention set my on the way of Manga/Anime drawing [wow this is a long story sry :P] ^_^!

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Bomu
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posted 24-02-2004 11:13 AM     Profile for Bomu   Author's Homepage   Email Bomu     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I started like most people- copying pictures outta magazines. Later finding out what I was drawing was anime/ manga. I suppose since the age of about 10, the style has influenced my work. I'm 21 now so I'd like to think the whole manga thing is here with me to stay

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JBinc84
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posted 26-02-2004 10:18 PM     Profile for JBinc84   Author's Homepage   Email JBinc84     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
As a kid, I was forever drawing pictures from my fave video games, which included at various times the likes of Megaman, Link, Mario and others. Later on, I did a lot of drawing based on my Warhammer armies... I didn't really get into drawing anime until I got Final Fantasy VII, which really turned my life around I suppose because it got me back into video games in a big way as well as comics and anime.

Nowadays, I prefer not to worry so much about reproducing an anime style in my work - I just concentrate on making my work look as cool as possible

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Angelo
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posted 27-02-2004 05:58 PM     Profile for Angelo   Author's Homepage   Email Angelo     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Drawing started off properly for me when I was about 16 - a friend of mine showed me www.howtodrawmanga.com. From there, it was just a matter of finding Polykarbon, and eventually buying the books. Oh yeah, and FF7 was another inspiration .

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<Erock>
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posted 02-07-2004 03:08 AM       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I started when I was real young, I used to draw mostly yoshi like snakes and lizards. I could draw good but it was not a realistic style. Then in 2000 I played the best video game ever, Capcom vs SNK!! I said to my self I want to make a video game as cool as that. So I started making my own characters and well I couldn't draw people so I started drawing the human body. After about 4 years later I'm a happy man and I will be drawing forever! HULK SMASH!
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Zankouken
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posted 03-07-2004 12:41 AM     Profile for Zankouken   Author's Homepage   Email Zankouken     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I started when Street Fighter 2 (warriors dreams) first came out on the snes. I kept drawing Ryu because he was my favourite character (was? he still is!). I never took art in school though I cant stand painting. Up until about a year ago all I did was tiny doodles on some a5 paper I robbed from school after visiting sites like this I have started to take it more seriously.

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AnimePin0yFan
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posted 15-07-2004 04:18 AM     Profile for AnimePin0yFan   Email AnimePin0yFan     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Well this might sound freeky. I started wen I saw dbz. Yeh duh most people have. But this was different. I started making my own kind of manga. It looked great until i had to make the body. So i wanted to learn. I bought some books. But msot were like yu-gi-oh. Which I hate xp. Now I want to learn krefta's style and i have. im leanring actually.

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Cloud
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posted 19-12-2004 06:31 PM     Profile for Cloud   Author's Homepage   Email Cloud     Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
This is an amazing story. I think I'm pretty much the world's best ten year old anime-artist. I JUST STARTED DRAWING THIS YEAR! I wish I could show you guys some of my pics, and if your really desperate send me a secret message and tell me to show them 2 u. For proof, I have entered many art contests and won. even competing against proffesionals. cool, huh?
use photoshop 7.0. it's the best for manga. you don't want too new-and-expensive software, but you also don't want something too old. I have learned this from many art trades. but it's not the software, it's the user.

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Cloud
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posted 19-12-2004 06:33 PM     Profile for Cloud   Author's Homepage   Email Cloud     Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
still keepin it up!

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