...Now I want a waffle...TT^TT
'nyways...here's another gaia rant for ya.
I'm tired of people on picture post telling other people to 'look at realism' or 'stop drawing anime and draw realism' stop advertising freaking realism! And these are the kinds of people who DO NOT AT ALL DRAW MANGA...
Also...why do people keep calling MANGA anime? Anime...which obviously comes from animation is...ANIMATION...not a drawing. Now, drawings can be animated...I guess that could make them anime...but...no...let's not get into this.
Anyways, from what I was talking about above. The people who say that usually draw ugly (no offense, but I really hate the cartoony american realism...it's icky) elf drawings or whatever...Stop trying to make people like you.
Now, something that seem similar that they SHOULD be saying is that they should look at LIFE not go into realism. I was reading a how to draw manga book one time and they had something about asking what kind of tips such and such artist would give to people trying to improve in their art. They said something about how they should stop and look and life and learn how to draw from it. That doesn't mean draw realism. If you look at life, the curves of the face, etc, then you can get better and better and manga.
That's what I did. Now, I can also do realism...but that doesn't mean I learned from realism. I actually learned how to do realism from manga.
I wish people would stop sticking manga with certain properties. That they all have crazy hair that are coloured weird colours, have crazy anatomy (some do, but they do follow the anatomy laws anyways. Just because their neck is tiny and their head is pretty big, doesn't mean they're not proportional. Their limbs and etc. are correctly proportional to something so they at least look like a human being...), big eyes, big mouths (which makes no sense 'cause...well...has any person who says that anime characters have big mouths actually watched ANY ANIME? Mostly they have REALLY REALLY tiny mouths and only make big mouths because...it makes the appropriate expression...I feel like I'm making those expressions sometimes, but then I look in the mirror and it's really boring and not very expressive...O.o;), that they all look the same.
And here's some quotes from wikipedia (I don't care what you think about it, I think it's VERY reliable):
'Body proportions emulated in anime come from proportions of the human body. The height of the head is considered by the artist as the base unit of proportion. Head heights can vary as long as the remainder of the body remains proportional. Most anime characters are about seven to eight heads tall, and extreme heights are set around nine heads tall'
'Super-deformed characters feature a non-proportionally small body compared to the head'
'Tezuka found that large eyes style allowed his characters to show emotions distinctly'
'However, not all anime have large eyes. For example, some of the work of Hayao Miyazaki and Toshiro Kawamoto are known for having realistically proportioned eyes, as well as realistic hair colors on their characters.'
'While different titles and different artists have their own artistic styles, many stylistic elements have become so common that people[who?] describe them as definitive of anime in general. However, this does not mean that all modern anime share one strict, common art-style. Many anime have a very different art style from what would commonly be called "anime style", yet fans still use the word "anime" to refer to these titles. Generally, the most common form of anime drawings include "exaggerated physical features such as large eyes, big hair and elongated limbs... and dramatically shaped speech bubbles, speed lines and onomatopoeic, exclamatory typography."'
I also heard Kanon Wakeshima talking about drawings she has gotten from fans. She noticed that Japanese fans always had really cute drawings, while western fans always had really realistic drawings.
Y'know what, I want cute drawings...TT^TT I don't understand by people would look on on manga...I mean, I personally believe that realism is a piece of cake, but manga is the hard stuff. It could take you liike 5 years to probably master realism, but probably 12 to master manga...or something...maybe less...I dunno...It's all because manga has to do with exaggeration and style, it's hard to get a style when you draw mostly realism.
And that's the end of my rant.
Also, I'd like to apologize to anybody on here that I may have given a somewhat rude comment to or may have hurt somebody's feelings by saying something. I'm very sorry for doing so, and I was acting on impulse and didn't really think about what I said. I have been acting strangely lately...I don't know what it is...but I've been having more and more regrets that I have had in the past.
Maybe it's manga/TV/cat problems...since we cancelled the plan on our living room TV (the main source of my TV watching, we still have 2 other TVs, though), and I don't think I an get on mangafox 'cause it keeps giving me viruses...>3> It's withdrawal...TT^TT
However, my brother has just told me a site to read Berserk (at least I think he did) so I'll see if I can read that there...at least...>3> And then once Christmas is over I can start buying stuff! >:D
