Ehurvaks said:apoostrophe said:
I recommend studying drawing from life. Go take some life drawing classes online or in person. Tons of them are for free on youtube, etc.
Learn to draw realistically before you turn to style! That's the secret to art. Once you learn to draw the human form correctly then you can go and exaggerate the form and make changes. Jumping straight into a manga style right away might cause you some issues.
Umm, drawing body anatomy is the same regardless if it's realistic style or manga style. No issues would be caused if he jumped straight into a manga style since once body anatomy drawing is mastered, you will only be left with how to master learning to draw realistic faces if you absolutely need to draw realism faces. As for me, I am only interested in manga faces, as I can only fap to manga Moe art faces and not realism faces, so I do things out of necessity and my own preferences/needs. The only way I'd be drawing realistic faces in the future is if someone paid me a huge sum of money to draw it for them LOL. Body anatomy is the same in both styles, so the only difference are the eyes, minimalistic nose and lips, and head proportion in manga style. For example, I used a ruler to measure and found anime girls full body for teens are around 6 heads of proportion measured from the end of the first head or chin then going below to the feet. 6 heads proportion. An exception to that rule would be loli characters or younger kids below 10, which are 4 or 5 heads proportion if I am not mistaken ?
Logically, the limbs must also be drawn with equal measurements with the joints at the center and if I am not mistaken, the hands must end somewhere below the waist near the groin area for both arms as how real life limbs should be otherwise the arms would be too short or too long and unproportionally unbalanced for the body. Shoulder length for both sides also needs to be the same, so when drawing we must keep a ruler always ready by our side. I draw the body anatomy like how it should be, but I never draw the eyes, lips and nose realistically but only manga style, and still they look cute enough. Drawing good and sexy facial expressions is also very important, as we can know how sexy and arousing a female character can look when they show an euphoric pleasure-filled expression when they climax in a H-manga.
But to make them do other complex sexual poses or positions, we all need to master drawing full body anatomy and perspective, especially if you want to draw 2 or more characters interacting with each other. By the way, I will only draw the face in Moe style as I only find cute Moe art better for visual novels. Also, drawing clothes and hairstyle well is also important. To get better at drawing, it's good to first copy H-mangaka’s style first before you develop your own style.
As for the backgrounds in a H-manga or Visual Novel, if you only want to draw characters/people and lazy or uninterested to draw backgrounds, you can always hire an assistant to draw the backgrounds for you if you have the money to afford so. AFAIK in most VN projects, even for Western VN developers, they divide the art team into character illustrator and background illustrator, so if you have the funds, you could divide the artwork into such 2 people doing 2 different tasks, as I know background drawing is going to be tedious for people only interested in drawing anime wahmen and tiddies.... lmao..
Lastly, for tips and knowledge on how to learn to draw female body anatomy well, go to Youtuber Mikeymegamega's channel and watch his vids..... I am currently learning from his videos, and found drawing female bodies to be a bit much easier than before. I need to practice more by actually drawing, so to draw even better, I have to continue to draw more and more until I get better. Experience gaining is important. Since I am a male, I can't just go look at a mirror of my naked body for reference nor do I have a GF now to ask for her help to become my model, so his videos for drawing the female anatomy are very helpful so that I can one day make great and sexy fappable Hentai illustrations.