Cover Moodboard and Drawing Practice

Moodboard and Practice for Major Project

Hello Guys,

I have worked on developing my drawing skills this weekend by practicing human proprotions and anatomy and studying the effects of animation from a book called 'Elemental Magic' by Josef Gilland Forwarded by Michel Gagne.  

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Josef, G. (2009) Elemental Magic The Classical Art of Hand Drawn Special Effects Animation: Focal Press.

Firstly, I have benefited from this book since I have learned the effects that I drew here from the book itself which is helpful for my manga since I will be drawing powers and fighting effects.  I was surprised by how this book is composed since it was easy to read and easy to follow.  So no time was wasted on trying to figure out how to learn from the book because it was simple.

Moodbaord of Manga Cover Pages:

I have a huge collection of manga in my room and these are all manga comics that I own.  I have read many manga in my life so I managed to create my own style of manga as you can see in the character design post when you scroll down because I used to imitate these cover pages to practice drawing but unfortunately the drawings are at my home country.  This moodboard will help me a lot because it shows how normally manga cover pages are made so I can take these as references and  make my own cover page for my own manga

Human Proportions Study:

Since I lack the practice of human proportions and normally a person can't draw characters unless he or she have knowledge in human proportions; as you can see in the picture above I studied the Human body  which includes the front, back and side view of the human body.  I think that I learned from this since now I know how the body works and this will make it easier for me to draw my characters in the weeks coming whether it's in the manga or the character design process.