Drawing in Tezuka style?

[tailz]

Anyone know how to imitate his drawing style? I have seen a few doujinshi artists and deviants draw in retro and Tezuka manga style.

So, I'm wondering how to do it cause I really enjoy the style, and it looks more simple to draw than modern style. I already drew a ton of pictures of Black Jack and Pinoko and am practicing how to draw them in Tezuka style. Anyone familiar drawing retro anime and manga style? I'm currently trying to draw it, but it doesn't exactly come out right.

[Earthshine]

The best thing to do when you're trying to pick up a new style is to keep practicing, even if at first your drawings don't come out exactly as you want them to or very far from what you want. You need to keep it up.

Some of the older drawing styles for anime are more difficult than modern anime, the lines are more varied and curve a lot. A lot of people claim that it's 'more simple' because it looks more cartoonish than some modern anime. A lot of modern anime can be said to be more simple when it comes to style (not animation) due to simple fact that lines are more rigid and universal.

Retro anime however has a very wide range of lines and faces and a whole different set of proportions, so when put side by side drawing a more 'retro' style is more difficult than a more 'modern' style.

But this shouldn't deter anyone from drawing it!

The key is to be mindful of proportions and where things go (the eyes in proportion to the nose and mouth based on age and assumed gender). There is also eye shape to consider.

The best thing to do is just do some copy-cat drawings (this is not tracing) by looking at a manga panel or an anime screen shot and drawing what you see. Do that over and over again and then try drawing it on your own without looking at something. By doing copy-cat drawings you will train your mind and hand-eye coordination to follow a new type of drawing style, you'll be familiarized with Tezuka's drawing style.

Tezuka loved to exaggerate body proportions (such as noses! ) and he had fun with their shapes; rounded and bulbous, hooked and pointy etc. So you can have fun with just being creative and exaggerating body parts and faces.

There are also How to Draw Manga books out there that feature Atom, Tetsuwan Penguin bought one for $.99, that could be of great help.

Hope this all helps, I could upload a better tutorial but I really don't feel like drawing now.

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

I would pick up one of the manga / anime drawing books that Tezuka studios published. I just bought myself the "Let's Draw Manga - Astro Boy" book on Amazon used for under $5. There is also a Kimba book in the same series. Lots of good ideas in there to help you get started.

[Windswept Cloak]

I can imitate his style fairly enough, though I prefer to use my own style when drawing mangas and doujinshis, BUT when there are scenes in which somebody draws, their drawings are usually in Tezuka style, like a scene in which Mikuko Kazama (formerly Yuuki. I changed her name) did a drawing of Atomu for instance. The "real Atomu" is in my style but the "picture Atomu" is in Tezuka's style.

[tailz]

Well, I did a copy cat drawing of Pinoko once, but since I didn't have a picture of it, I drew it from my mind and it's not exact. (I also looked at some Pinoko and Black Jack pics I had on my mp3 player once, and when I drew them, they turned out pretty good! Yup, my mp3 screen and player is tiny so it was a bit difficult to draw it big, but I got through it.)

And no need to worry! I'm not tracer! (In fact, I can't even remember the last time I traced. 5th grade, was it?)

[tailz]

Here's one that I drew during school when I was bored today. I tried to make it look similar to a Tezuka-ish kind of style. What do you think? (I'm still trying to make it look better, though.) I might also give Sharaku and Wato a shot at trying to draw them look Tezuka-ish. XD



EDIT: Woes. I just noticed some of the sketches look faded. Don't know how that happend.

[Dante69]

I tried to draw Atomu once. The first, and last time I will ever try to do that. My creative side does not fall under art.

[tailz]

Oh, don't worry about it! I'm not too good at drawing Astro myself either! (He looks easy, but is actually very hard to draw. I can only draw characters like these from Black Jack. Maybe cause they are humans and not a robot? I'm not too good at drawing robots. )

[Earthshine]

I'm sure if you keep at it you will improve.

[tailz]

Haven't seen the rest of my drawings have ya? Well, I just posted some new ones there, but some aren't very appropiate for ABO believe it or not, so I hid them by covering them up with Spoiler tags. (Yes, I am a pervert when it comes to Black Jack. As a matter of fact, I just looked up some pretty hot Black Jack doujinshi on Pivix today. Yep, Black Jack x Kiriko was the only ones they had. They were sexy... XD!)

Anyways, my drawings are on Some of tailz's drawings. I post most of my art and stuff there.