super chibi cheat sheet

HOW TO DRAW CHIBI :
OTAKON 2008
w 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
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 Resources
Youtube.com
Deviantart.com (TONS of awesome tutorials)
polykarbon.com
http://www.chocolatepixels.com/chibi.htm
http://chibiland.windy-goddess.net/howtodraw.html
http://www.mangarevolution.com/tutorial_display.
php?tutorial_id=93
howtodrawmanga.com
References
(Poses, Inspiration, etc)
http://characterdesigns.com/
Tsubasa-no-kami.deviantart.com (under “chibis that rock”
& “splendid tutorials” collections)
Minitokyo & Anime Paper for scans
Look up resin figure websites/BJD (ball jointed dolls)
Ask your friends to sit or hop or whatnot for you
Materials to Use
Traditional
Pencils, erasers
Pen (ballpoint, gel, micron sakura, Copic
multiliners, or dip pen & ink) for inking
Acrylic, Watercolor, Copic/Prismacolor markers
Colored Pencil/ Watercolor pencil
Collage, 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 DRAW
IRL
Paper
Sidewalk
Your notebook
Paper/notbook/joirnal
Your hand
The back of someone’s t-shirt
Study breaks, on folders
In notebooks, on shoes
Online
Pchats
Nikos Paintchat
iScribble
Oekaki Boards
Ochiba.net
Tegaki-e
Oekaki Central
http://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.net
MangaBullet
Deviantart
SheezyArt
howtodrawmanga.com
mangarevolution.com
Cgsociety.org
conceptart.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
still have
questions?
hit up
tsubasa-no-kami
.deviantart.com