Ambrose's Art (Image Heavy, of course)

[Ambrose_Ring]

Here are some of the pictures that I've drawn lately--most of them are in a style that I use when drawing manga (a couple of them are characters from my manga idea for RSoM!). Most of them are sketches because I have a short attention span and usually give up on them before they're finished. :cool: I'm just so cool like that.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/dragondream08/Will.jpg

That's Will, the main character of the story that I'm brooding over. He can hear people's thoughts (which sounds really cheesy...*sigh*)

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/dragondream08/Creatureface--views.jpg

I don't know where the heck this thing came from. I was just practicing face views and I came up with this character.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/dragondream08/Felix.jpg

He's another character in my story! Name: Felix Freeze. I'm rather fond of that name, but it would be bizarre to have it.

And since you can only submit a limited number of pictures in one post, I shall divide this into two!

[Ambrose_Ring]

And here's the rest:

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/dragondream08/Throwingguy.jpg

I was trying to figure out how to do movement in this pic. (I was inspired after I'd watched a video of some guys doing Parkour.)

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/dragondream08/SogayGuy.jpg

...I couldn't help myself. T_T I have absolutely no self-control.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/dragondream08/DesignDance.jpg

I drew that originally for my commercial art class--we were supposed to make a poster for our school's prom, and this is what came out of my pen. I'm quite proud of the detail in the clothing, but quite a bit of it was lost in the scanning process.

Okay, I think that that's it for now! I'll probably be back later after I've taken the time to scan some more things! *waves and slinks off*

:D

P.S. I'm wondering: Do you think my style is really "manga" enough?

[scentedxsharkattack]

Your style is different and I like that. =)

Sometimes, it seems to me, someone will be really great at drawing, then they'll almost dumb down their drawings and try to copy someone else's style and that ruins it. Drawing manga is cool, but only when you're just taking the ideas and the style, not copying it and changing the way you draw naturally.

[scentedxsharkattack]

Of course that's only if you draw well. If you draw poorly, by all means try to change the way you draw naturally. =P

[Lin West]

I personally like your style, it's realistic and I like that. The only thing I notice is you tend to draw the eyes really close to the nose when you could bring them out further vertically.

you're definately manga enough. The only difference really between comics and manga is the bone/facial structure. You draw naturally people with asian features, so don't worry about it. :)

[theultimatedragoon17]

I like your style as well, particularly the character with the funny ears (??). She's pretty cute. Wait, that is a girl, right? 0_o

[sunny]

You draw naturally people with asian features, so don't worry about it. :)


so does drawing 'manga' mean drawing asian people?

to ambrose: i think your art is plenty 'manga'. there are many kinds of manga now, thanks to the popularity of tokyopop's american manga contest. your art is plenty 'american manga', thought some people may not think it 'japanese manga'

[kazuchiyo]

so does drawing 'manga' mean drawing asian people?

to ambrose: i think your art is plenty 'manga'. there are many kinds of manga now, thanks to the popularity of tokyopop's american manga contest. your art is plenty 'american manga', thought some people may not think it 'japanese manga'

Actually, once you get down to it, there are many, MANY kinds of Japanese Manga out there. It's just that due to what's popular over here in the US, things which do not meet the standard -big eyes, little nose and mouth- standard often don't come near making the cut for US release licensing.

[Ambrose_Ring]

I like your style as well, particularly the character with the funny ears (??). She's pretty cute. Wait, that is a girl, right? 0_o

I never bothered to give that character a sex, but I think it does look more feminine, so I'll just say that it's a girl.

And to Lin West, the reason why I draw the eyes close to the nose is because it would probably bug the heck out of me if I didn't--because it's more realistic if they're closer. And since the first thing that I started striving to draw when I was an ickle kiddy was realism, (it wasn't any kind of comics or comic book styles) that's what I'm most apt to have filter through in my art...At least, unless someone tells me that that assumption is wrong, and people's eyes aren't actually that close together.

Thank you, everyone who commented! ;)

[Ambrose_Ring]

And here's a short two-page comic-like thing that I did a couple months ago one day when I was really bored. I did the entire thing by hand--inking, shading/toning, and the text (which is why it looks so crappy). If I cared enough I'd go in and retype the text and try to fix the speech bubbles, but...I'm too lazy. X_X Have fun trying to read it.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/dragondream08/vampirecomicphase1.jpg

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/dragondream08/Vampirecomicphase2.jpg

Yikes, massive shonen-ai-ish hints. (And, yeah, the second page is kinda crooked because it scanned in that way...nyah.)

[Tyleete]

AHA!!!!!!!! I LOVE that comic piece!! Truly!!!!
LOVE IT!!

Anyhow, as manga goes? It kinda seems off again on again in your art?
For the most part, you're looking at large eyes, small mouths. And Lots of angles. I used to draw comic styled (American) only. But when I started for the first time, drawing manga pics, I realized that it's all straight lines and angles.
And no, drawing Asian people is not drawing manga. In all truth? From what some artists have told me, Asian manga artists started off with a fascination with Americans. Their larger eyes and such. So being able to draw someone who's Asian definitely doesn't qualify as manga. If that was the case, I'd be even worse at it.;)

Oh! Ok, so like I said, some of it definitely looks more manga styled than others. My favorite (aside from that great comic) is the first drawing. Of Will. I think you've Great talent! Thanks for sharing it with us, and I hope you show us more.

[Ambrose_Ring]

Thank you, Tyleete! :)

Here are two others that I did. (And ZOMG! One of them's actually colored!)

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/dragondream08/Freckledboy.jpg

He was a character that I created for a different story. He's the baker's apprentice in his town. (Pointy shoulders!)

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/dragondream08/GreenGuy.jpg

And that was me messing with my Copic markers--which are now running out of ink... =( I started wimping out as I got lower in his torso until I finally just left it blank.

That's it for now.

[Tyleete]

Good show! I know the feeling of chickening out. I nearly gave up on that one jacket I did of the swordsman/anime one. I could never seem to get the bottom right. And you're braver than I too! I have never done color, unless it was a jean jacket or wall mural.
Speaking of which, have you ever done those? Wall murals?
I did two walls of Disneys' Tarzan for my son when he was five. And now? I'm feeling the need to decorate some more walls!!:D
Either do the kids' playroom, or computer room with Inuyasha and or Rebirth. Maybe I'll do MY playroom (computer room) as Rebirth, and the their toyroom in Inuyasha. I don't know! Just wondering if you've done any of that. Or done jackets either? Those are actually fun. And I don't like coloring, but painting those are nice

[Ashton_Anchors]

<<;;;>>

Are there any more pages to that vampire one? *hopes are up high*

I like your stuff ^^ *thinking about putting own stuff up**Hits self for thinking that because she doesn't have any manga online*

[Tyleete]

which vampire one are you referring to?

[Ashton_Anchors]

The one in the last post of the first page ^^;;

[Parfait]

Damn there's some good artists here. o_o! I love the manga pages you did. The details and shading and everything are amazing. Your art is very original, I love this stuff!

[Darci-San]

P.S. I'm wondering: Do you think my style is really "manga" enough?

I think your a very talented artist.. but to be honest the art style isn't very manga at all... but it's still very beautiful style but i wouldn't call it manga

I hope i dont' offend you >_<!!!! i still think it's very pretty!

[Ambrose_Ring]

I think your a very talented artist.. but to be honest the art style isn't very manga at all... but it's still very beautiful style but i wouldn't call it manga

I hope i dont' offend you >_<!!!! i still think it's very pretty!

Well, if you like it, then I'm happy. I don't particularly strive to have an incredibly genuine manga style because--truth be told--most manga styles have at least one little thing that bugs the heck out of me (proportion-wise, usually).

And if I tried to mimic those manga styles--you'd probably be able to tell. But, then again, I don't like marvel or DC styles either. *sigh*

Well, I'm still gonna try at RSoM, anyway. :p

Are there any more pages to that vampire one? *hopes are up high*

Actually, no. But I'm thinking of finishing a twenty-page little online comic that includes those two pages in it--it all depends on whether I ever get around to it or not. I might actually try starting today, in all the boredom known as a snowed-in Spring Break.

[Anasatcia]

I really like your story.

[tomselleck69]

the style seems like it wants to resemble (or be) manga, but without making the compromises that a more manga-ish style demands (ie. lack of realistic anatomy, eyes/mouth stuff, etc.) unfortunately this tension makes it visibly awkward. if i were you, i would stop pursuing manga aesthetic all together and get more into realism, but i am not you and i know that that is not something most people would want to hear. more practical advice would be to try to compromise a little more.

also with respect to several of the character pictures, try making the nose shorter or spacing the eyes farther apart.