I always see tutorials on how to draw manga, but I want to draw comics like american artists. Are there any good tutorials out there on that?
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I always see tutorials on how to draw manga, but I want to draw comics like american artists. Are there any good tutorials out there on that?
Simply put, no. Up until the sixties there were all kinds of tutorials around (and there are still tutorials on the Web) but what happened was up until the sixties, in essence there was an American Comics style, exemplified by people like Ray Bailey, Milton Caniff, and William Overgaard who Roy Litchenstein stole from.
In the sixties and seventies peoples' tastes for what they looked at changed and while there was some emphasis on drawing before there was a lot more on Academic Drawing after. By the nineteen eighties artists like Dave Cockrum Mike Ploog (who did a lot of video game design starting with Dungeons and Dragons) and Joe Staton weren't getting a lot of work. Adam Kubert, whose Dad is a great cartoonist, has done a lot of books in an academic drawing style which actually has little to do with what his father has over the years, and is much busier to look at and more difficult to read.
If you want to draw American style you should know about the academic drawing tradition. Therefore here are two sites put together by Professor Ralph Larmann of Evansville University:
http://studiochalkboard.evansville.edu
http://drawinglab.evansville.edu
In addition, Elfwood.com's Fantasy Art Resource Project (elfwood is a swedish site incidently) has a lot of great tutorials about techniques anatomy and so forth for drawing. They are focused on Fantasy Illustration, however, these tutorials can be applied to everything.
http://www.elfwood.com/farp
They even touch on cartooning but your best source is still How to Draw Comcics the Marvel way.
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