How To CHIBI ReCComended ReadIng(try half.com, amazon.com, your local bookstore, deleter.com, animenation.com robert’s anime corner store, or otakon’s dealer room)

How to Draw Manga: Sketching Manga Style: #2 Logical Proportions

MANGA MOODS: 40 Faces + 80 Phrases by Saori Takarai

Manga Mania: Chibi and Furry Characters: How to Draw the Adorable Mini-characters

Japanese Comickers/ Comickers Magazine

onlIne TuToRIal ResouRCesYoutube.comDeviantart.com (TONS of awesome tutorials)polykarbon.comhttp://www.chocolatepixels.com/chibi.htmhttp://chibiland.windy-goddess.net/howtodraw.htmlhttp://www.mangarevolution.com/tutorial_display. php?tutorial_id=93howtodrawmanga.com

RefeRenCes(Poses, Inspiration, etc)http://characterdesigns.com/Tsubasa-no-kami.deviantart.com (under “chibis that rock” & “splendid tutorials” collections)Minitokyo & Anime Paper for scansLook up resin figure websites/BJD (ball jointed dolls) Ask your friends to sit or hop or whatnot for you

maTeRIals To useTRadITIonal

Pencils, erasersPen (ballpoint, gel, micron sakura, Copic multiliners, or dip pen & ink) for inkingAcrylic, Watercolor, Copic/Prismacolor markersColored Pencil/ Watercolor pencilCollage, Chalk, Sharpies

dIgITal (PRogRams)Open Canvas (w/ tablet)SAI (w/ tablet)Adobe Photoshop (w/ tablet or mouse)Adobe Illustrator (w/ tablet or mouse)Adobe Flash (w/ tablet or mouse)Corel painter (w/ tablet)Microsoft Paint (w/ tablet or mouse)

wHeRe 2 go 2 dRawIRl

PaperSidewalkYour notebookPaper/notbook/joirnalYour handThe back of someone’s t-shirtStudy breaks, on folders In notebooks, on shoes

onlInePCHaTs

Nikos PaintchatiScribble

oekakI BoaRdsOchiba.netTegaki-eOekaki Centralhttp://www.oekakiart.com/http://www.iscribble.net/http://oekaki.poisoncage.com/http://www.pikaflash.com/oekaki/http://pallid.unixdaemons.com/Oekaki/http://e-kaki.net/

aRT CommunITIes (many have good forums and online tutorials)

Ochiaba.netMangaBulletDeviantartSheezyArthowtodrawmanga.commangarevolution.comCgsociety.orgconceptart.org

CHIBI-dRawIng aRTIsTs (there are TONS more out there, these my top 5 at this very small moment in time)- Koge Donbo- Takeuchi Naoko- Kagami Yoshimizu- Kouhaku Kuroboshi- CLAMP

HOW TO DRAW CHIBI : oTakon 2008w i t h T s u b a s a – n o -k a m i o f s i n g e d C a t s t u d i o s

super chibi cheat sheet

still havequestions?

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