Hello Everybody, I wanted to share my son Tyler’s Anime drawings he did last night with everybody here. He is 13 years old and I think he has real talent.Opinions are most welcome,but be kind Please.Copy and Paste in Browser http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f65/tyboy4u/Anime-Tyler.jpg http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f65/tyboy4u/Anime1Tyler.jpg
I’d say he’s on his way. Way to encourage his talent. I had a friend that sketched anime like that when we were 13. He ended up going off to New York to apprentice with this portrait painter. It was a really elite thing. He accepts five at a time so it is definite credit to my friend. My friend wasn’t as good as your son at that age. I think your son has potential.[tup]
he sure does! love to draw myself (nothing i want to share though) when i was 13, didn’t have half the talent… but, i sure would have loved someone to point certain things out. As an artist (imho…) you have to continuously be hard on youreself, to see what you can improve (this goes at ANY age, so also at 13…) so im gonna give you and ure son a link, DONT SEE IT AS CRITISM!! see it as a few handy pointers towards your son. I can see the same “mistakes” in his drawings as i used to do wrong myself.
Take youre time with youre son to study this:
http://www.sierravista.wuhsd.k12.ca.us/basicart/faces.htm
it helped me a lot! allthough the lesson is not about anime figures, the basics are the same (proportions, shadowing etc.) just immagine what youre sons drawings look like when he studied these pages.
Like my own parents, encourage him to keep on drawing! practice makes perfect! Buy him a few decent comics once in a while (if he doesn’t do so himself). i never followed a serie of comincs, but have a load of them just for the artwork. Also, buy him a $5,- wooden "artist doll"which you can set how you want to (you know what i mean right? the ones which help you with proportions). Also, buyh him a dummy (that’s a blank paged drawing book, with hard covers, and real drawing paper.) experience learns that sketchblocks fall apart after some time, and the dummy he can take anywhere with him in his bagpack.
Again, thnx for sharing youre the pics, they look great!
Keep encouraging youre son to keep it up, and let them pics commin!
sponder.
I think he’s well on his way. I remember struggling with faces and the layout (the link to the Sierra Vista website is a GREAT tutorial!) of human dimensions, so I was much more comfortable with still life.
Definitely encourage his work, and steer him towards some of the better resin and PVC figures available from HLJ, Rainbowten and card andcomic shops!
Thanks for sharing
The only thing I can draw is attention to myself. Absolutely encourage his talent! There are plenty of books out there on cartoon and anime drawing. My son is interested in super hero cartooning and gets them from the library.
yup, it’s a nice tutorial, which shows you, that when you keep certain rules in your head, ANYBOBDY can draw (besides attention 
) decent pics.
it’s just a matter of practice practice practice… The biggest “mistake” i see young artists make, is that they grab one piece of paper, and then think and try: “i’m going to make my best drawing ever!” and then spend hours on one drawing. doesn’t work that way! (ok, for some really mega talented people ,it may…) but if you want your son to be consistent in his drawings, make him do a figure, just rough sketch, grab new paper, do same figure again, this up to 10 times, just between every sketch, look at it, what can i do better next time, what should be there next time, what should i leave away next time? etc. this way of working has a few BIG advantages: it makes you LOOK at what you did (everybody see’s but only a few know how to look, there’s a big difference there!) also, it is a property of a good artist to copy a drawing on top of youre head. the better the copy (with improvements) the further an artist is.
i didn’t come up with this way of working, learned it on school / from other artists / learned the hard way… Also, Rembrandt (the famous dutch painter) is celebrating his 400th aniversary, and they made a very nice detailed docu. about him, and guess what: Rembrandt did exactly the same! only on another scale though, for one painting (he has loads of famous ones) he did thousands (!!!) of sketches. thats thousands of sketches for just a few figures.
talking about jalous-making talent: nice detail was, that rembrandt used exactly 7 lines just for one face, with those 7 lines he got EVERY emotion he wanted: someone very angry, scared, happy, emotion-less, sad, etc. with just 7 lines per face. thats damn impossible! really it is: i tried it right after the docu for 2 hours… (try it your self…it’s good for a laugh…also, look back on tutorial, all those rules, just 7 lines, uhuh! ) best thing was, that when you compared ALL his sketches (for that one painting) to the actual painting, you could easely reconize the faces in the sketches were exactly the same as on the painting. really amazing. makes you think about the quality of artwork created by artists now-adays…
again your son has talent, but as everybody else, he needs some guidelines. Make him LOOK at his drawings, evaluate, do it again, and again, and again… in the long run, he will develope what we call an artists eye. this means he won’t be looking anymore, but he will SEE (again, BIG difference there!).
once he has “the eye” it will be much easier for him do draw real people, and well, any other object really… first from foto, later after years of practice, in real life as well (nothing more difficult as drawing faces from real life!)
just keep on encouriging him to constanly improve himself, keep on checking your work with the examples in the tutorial, he should be fine! the talent is there, it’s just a matter of shaping that talent! and since your son is only 13, it will be easier to shape it now, then in 5 years or so. (kids allways pick up stuff faster than adults…)
As long he has fun drawing, go for it!
and oh yeah: make sure he doesn’t only concentrate on comics or manga, if you can do real life, all comic / manga stuff will be sooo easy… while he’s still young, developing skills will be easier for him, and only concentrating on one aspect of drawing does not help…
Huh?.. That was way too long for me… he he he
Quite simply… He draws like most kids his age… Lets not get too excited here…
Chris
yup yup, i can type pretty fast
Quite simply… He draws like most kids his age… Lets not get too excited here…
true, but never hursts to “shape” talent…
Agreed… But I say all kids need encouragement![:)]
Chris
also very true my friend, but this one has a dad posting pics…
And the reason I am posting this is to encourage him by seeing the post and positive responses to what he has done.And I thanks everyone,including you Chris for being kind.
Admiral Grasshopper1,
Don’t let him quit for sure I was going to try and become a commercial artist when I was younger but got discouraged by of all things family members. I could draw fairly well and was doing better all the time. Just keep him practicing and soon he’ll be up there with the best of them.
Tracy
for everyone who loves a good artist:
this is the website of some guy who worked an has drawn for 15 years for marvell.
his own work is sooo good… be sure to check the forums as well, especially the thread: whats in your sketchbook? pro’s and amateurs are posting their drawings as well (sometimes you can’t see the difference though…). be sure to put your sons drawings there on the board!..
here is a random pic of this guys own work:
tons available at link. check it out!
gr. s.
Keep him at it AG. If he loves drawing and has a style he likes at his age all it can do is grow. If he likes drawing anime I would recommend looking for some of the How to Draw Manga books. Most of the big box book stores stock them. If all else fails they are fun just to look at. Give him my best in his persuit.