Rush Hamden, illustrator, graphic novelist, children's book author, art teacher, teaches a course in how to draw Anime/Manga style kids! This is a simple, lighthearted and educational class with clearly defined principles and easy to follow steps. He presents tips, hints, and specialized techniques with enthusiasm and genuine love for drawing and teaching.

Did you have a dream or vision of creating a specific Anime/Manga character, but your drawings aren't looking like what you intended? You've come to the right place. Rush will share with you very specific, repeatable measurements that will help you create multiple characters with small but profound differences in appearance.

Rush has taught hundreds of live classes in drawing, shading, shadows, forms, painting, penciling, inking, coloring and many more subjects. He brings his real world experience of teaching in-person weekly classes to hundreds of students in school classrooms. He knows what works and what doesn't, what's doable and what's difficult. Please join him on this journey beginning the process of penciling, inking and coloring Anime/Manga-style teenage characters.

It's perfect for beginning students seeking a challenge as well as intermediate ones!

This class is a prelude to: Anime/Manga "Teen Males" Character Creation Workshop with Rush Hamden - Draw, Ink and Color It's recommended but not necessary that students take this introductory class before starting the Teen class.

Things you'll learn in this class include:

What differentiates Anime and Manga characters from other genres?
What are the right facial proportions?
How do you create and shade Anime hairstyles?
How much freedom do you have in creating characters?
How do you apply shading?
What pencils, markers and colors can you use?

This class is a guided journey through Rush's character creation process — showing you the specific stages of the process and what follows what. The goal of this class is to help you come up with more consistent and convincing Anime/Manga characters, and add that style of drawing to your repertoire.

For this class you'll need:

Pencil.
Paper.
Plastic cup (or something to a circle).
Ruler.
Eraser.

Rush's extended supply checklist (Not necessary):

Canson 140 lb. watercolor paper.
Pentel P209 0.9mm and P205 0.5mm mechanical pencils.
Artist's T-square
Sakura Pigma Micron markers, 02, 05, 08.
Sakura Pigma Graphic 1.
Sakura Pigma Brush.
Higgins black ink.
Pentel Aquash medium tip watercolor brush.
Basic watercolor pan set.

Rush shares with you a fun and easygoing project that is doable on a very small budget! A pencil, a ruler, a marker, and some watercolors; simple tools creating beautiful images. You will create two Anime/Manga male characters. In an upcoming class, Rush will also share how to create Anime/Manga style female characters. Stay tuned!

Carolyn S

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