Sunday, May 11, 2014

The power of animation

Welcome back, Crystalheartreader05 here, showing on how to draw. Have any of you somehow wondered of how does the animated movies animate there characters?  Did you know, before when there wasn't any 3D animation, the animators had to draw every movement of the character and put it in each frame of the animation. There are few people who still do so, because they don't take professional classes and become animators. But when you learn by your own it makes things, in my opinion, more fun than repeating or even paying for classes. An example I can find now is Christopher Niosi, creator of the series TOME(Terrain of Magical Expertise).

link to first episode: http://chrisniosi.com/tome/episodes/e01-youve-gotta-virus/

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Eagle eye

Hello there my fellow readers Crystalheartreader05 here, showing people a new perspective of art. In this post I will kind of go back to basics that for me is essential to a drawing a character. It's one of the organs of you're face and need in order to view a perspective. The answer is the eyes of a character, there are various ways on how to do so with various styles. In order to draw one follow the steps shown:
1) draw the face with the hair and the whole body.
2) in the face draw two horizontal lines to which every size that suits you.
3) inside the two lines, draw two ovals or circles separate from one another.
4) Then do any type of design: realistic or anime like.

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Copying yourself

Hello there my fellow readers, Crystalheartreader05 here, showing you the ways of art and probably comic styled art. When you create a character, don't you want to make it original and yours? That idea comes from you're head instead of taking credit of something that doesn't belong to you, this is what I call originality. This is a very important element when you become an artist an create a story arc of you're own.  On an important note, a character you create and cherish in the lives you live in is an exact copy of oneself.

Monday, March 17, 2014

Don't lose you're head!

Welcome back my fellow readers from here and beyond, Crystalheartreader05 here, teaching you the ways of drawing. Now, let's go back to basics, the thing you need to know and draw is about how to draw one essential part of the body I have never mentioned in all my blog. It's a part that started the five senses and is on top of the neck, the head. basically you make a circle depending in what the drawing is (portrait, chibi,etc) and draw a horizontal and vertical line that stops at the tip of the chin and the sides of the face. Just in case you make two lines in each of the sides of the horizontal lines; to make the portion of the eyes. Then you draw the hair., eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth and neck under the chin. There you have it, a full-fledged face, remember to use your own type of style. To get an idea of your style, read mangas or comics and mix it with things that you create. That way you won't be coping and have an original idea; that's all for today! See you in the next entry.
-Sayonara! (^w^/)

Thursday, March 13, 2014

The joke is on you!

Hey there my fellow readers, long time no see! Crystaheartreader05 here, telling you more on how to draw anime and a few comic styles. "The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."
-H. P. Lovecraft he may not be a famous manga or comic artist except that he was a famous writer with a weird twist. To me this phrase talks about how in comics are more like the reality we should have today; "why" you ask because the society today is more cruel and gloomy than in the eighties through the nineties. Even since then people have forgotten humanities morals and values and throw it to the ground, because those people think that it's unaffected but it's the opposite. We need to try to show those errors so those people understand what their doing is increasing the violence, death and depression rate.

Sunday, February 23, 2014

body figure

Welcome back my fellow readers, this is Crystalheartreader05 educating people who wish to know how to draw. One essential thing you need to know how to do is the body of a female and male character. The reason? if you start to draw the head and keep on going from there, the drawing won't come as you visualize it. For the woman's body, draw two triangles with the tips on top of on another, then try to make the figure by following the triangles and make sure it ends up like an hourglass. For the male body, instead or triangles, you use rectangles but when you make the waist and hips use three triangles like the bottom part of the triforce of legend of zelda.

Saturday, February 1, 2014

Mini me

Welcome back my fellow viewers on the internet and across the nation, this is Crystalheartreader05; helping out on people who would like to begin drawing anime or comic styled characters. What comes up to your mind when mentioned the word "Chibi"? It's a Japanese word which means: small or diminutive in a nice and cute way in Japanese comic art. Today I will show how I draw Chibis, it will show a little bad but will show. The process will be written down below:


  1. draw the circle for the head, stick figure lines for the arms and legs and a small circle for the hips.
  2. Then draw ovals around the stick lines of the legs and arms and a cone shape for the chest.
  3. Draw the eyes, hair,eyebrows, ears. Add a triangle at the bottom of the face circle for the chin.
  4. Finally, draw the clohtes and shoes of the character and erase the lines that show underneath.
And Now you're finished!