Hi!! This Time With My Own Pic

Rant time!

Wow. Thinking back to this, this picture was pretty bad-drawn. Seriously. The wood on the bow looks like it's made of sponge. And, the folds look extremely unrealistic. The dress looks like a crystal on Dragonfable. (Yes, I used to play that.) And, the colors are bad.

Yeah, I won't really blame myself for the color, because the colored pencils I was using at that time was cheap, and cheap usually = bad. The colors were very dry and the colors didn't come out as easily as they should have.

First thing on my wishlist for art supplies: Prismacolor colored pencils. Those are amazing. They have very thick color...But I think colored pencils aren't meant to be used to color manga. I've seen on videos on Youtube that you can color manga with watercolor pencils. I think the maker's username was sophiechan or something. The manga that user draws is amazing.

Anyway, the whole point of this post was just to show you my starting manga. Even this, I drew months ago. It was at least a semester and a couple weeks ago, since I uploaded this on my school HTML website. Which is still there, but is pretty bad. Visit my friend Alice's school website. Hers is really cool.

Back to the point!!! So yeah. I think I've been drawing manga since at least early February of last year, which makes my manga drawing history about a little more than a year. Most likely is goes even more further back. The only reason of how I know this is because back then I used to draw my manga on scrap paper and on the last pages of my writing notebooks and stuff like that, so most of it's gone, but the ones I could find through moving (literally) was dated from way back there. So I've been drawing for a bit over a year, and hope to continue drawing.

But I think people improve the most after a year, and improvement also depends on how frequently people draw. Like Xepher said, he gets addicted to drawing manga, and so do I. for the past couple days, I haven't been getting a whole ton of internet, meaning I spent practically 80% of my time drawing manga, curled up on my wheely chair. I'm serious. For the first two weeks of summer, I was either moving heavy stuff or drawing. Ask Hamy if you don't believe me. That was literally all I was doing. Drawing. I was either moving, sleeping, enjoying the park right next to my new place, or drawing. And even in the park I was drawing.

But that was actually pretty good for me, since I improved a LOT. For example, my girls' hair has improved (by a lot), I can draw boys (somewhat, which is a lot better), and every part of my manga is getting so much better. But that doesn't mean I'm as good as Xepher or anything like that. I suck at paneling. And speed lines. And practically everything essential about that. (Another shout-out to ya and ur manga, Xepher!)

This post seems to be getting off topic all the time, so I'll go a little more off topic.
Guess what?
I'm getting a student! It's a friend of ours, especially Hamy's.
He's asking me to teach him manga, and I consented, but I'm not sure what I can teach him.

So...if there's any suggestions, just slide it in the (suggestion) comment box!

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