I am wondering if anyone uses the drawing tools such as brazier tool etc. in CorelDraw to create Manga Art. I have Corel x3 on my laptop under Vista and I have played around with it a little, but I have a new PC running Windows7 and apparently x3 won't work so I will have to buy x4 full version since my x3 CD was broken. I hate the steep price, but if it is a viable way to go for drawing Manga I guess I will swallow very hard and do it. A lot of money for a hobby tho;(
I am not all that good at taking a pencil and drawing, but when I can draw a line in Corel and then adjust it, I do ok...
Any information would be helpful....thank you
There is an animated comedy series that runs on, I believe, The Comedy Channel, that is called "South Park". The characters are created in CorelDRAW and then exported to another software application, for the animation portion of the creation.
I use the bezier tool, along with a few other tools, to create drawings. I am not into anime creation, but the CorelDRAW tools I use would be the same that any person would use to create anime drawings.
To see what some of the possibilities are, with CorelDRAW, look over the Galleries section of this web site, it may give you some ideas, also. And as you progress, you will probably end u with questions on technique. There are plenty of people, on this forum, that would be glad to help you learn more about Corel's CGS.
Thank you so much:) I have messed with it a little, and looked high and low for perhaps a tutorial where someone actually did it with Corel where they talked you through it. I have seen some tutorials where they did a time lapsed drawing with unknown program, but you can't really tell what or how they are doing it and it is more frustrating than helpful:)
I have managed to make some incredible looking eyes, but I bet my method would cause people that know what they are doing to laugh themselves silly, but there just isn't anything I can find.....
I have looked in the gallery, but I haven't found much in the way of Manga so far but I have seen some portraits that are absolutely incredible. Amazing...what talent is on board here!
I found a tutorial for adobe illustrator and it seems that program is more like paint than draw. Am I mistaken or??? They generally make sketches that they turn into vector art. I am trying to make it vector from the start, which is apparently very wierd:)
Hanna
Just a quick point, but I draw a weekly comic called "Disclosure" which although isnt Manga, it is produced solely in Draw using a Wacom and Artistic Media. I do use Bitmap textures and some effects but the main body of the comic is vector based.
If you want to take a look, my site address is in my signature below. (I dont sell anything from my site and all work on there is produced using Corel X4)
Great job!! Wow that cartoon is a lot of work! I never looked at a cartoon that way before. And in the case of this cartoon, I had to go back to figure out why I came away from it craving mars bars. I haven't had one of those in years:)
My biggest challenge trying to do Manga in Draw is the hair. Hair is both in front and behind the object or at least needs to appear to be behind it. Trying to "draw" it so it looks natural is a challenge because you have to make a closed object in order to apply color to it. I haven't managed to come up with anything even close to descent yet. It is frustrating me half to death;/
Hanna548 said: Great job!! Wow that cartoon is a lot of work! I never looked at a cartoon that way before. And in the case of this cartoon, I had to go back to figure out why I came away from it craving mars bars. I haven't had one of those in years:) My biggest challenge trying to do Manga in Draw is the hair. Hair is both in front and behind the object or at least needs to appear to be behind it. Trying to "draw" it so it looks natural is a challenge because you have to make a closed object in order to apply color to it. I haven't managed to come up with anything even close to descent yet. It is frustrating me half to death;/
lol thanks, Mars Bars ROCK :)
I rarely use closed paths on the line art/outline part of my drawing, I just use another layer to put the color where I need to under the "ink"
Do you see this? 00..........that is my eyeballs crossing. HUH? WHAT did you say??? LOL