I'm actually surprised this isn't brought up much by other artists or manga-ka. Good points! I also suffer from "not knowing when to make lines thicker or thinner" syndrome, and you opened my eyes to a lot of my mistakes. Also, your artwork has come so far in such a short time. Great work as always and thanks from the USA!
!!!! my mind gets really confused easily at details eSPECIALLY at a subtle detail like this, so it’s rEALLY nice to learn about this~! thank you sO much~!!! ; v ;
Good job!! It's pretty impressive that you noticed just by looking that line weight is not applied however you like!! And just as you said at the beginning it might be intimidating but once you learn how you can use it, it is super useful and a great asset to have! To expand on your discovery, line weight applies to any kind of drawing it doesn't matter if it's western or eastern. Thinner lines (and you can mix opacity too) as you said are applied to places where there is a lot of detail so it is not as cramped and can be also used to show distance i.e. farther away or really close(just think of it as the blurry parts of a photo) and it's easier on the eye. Thicker lines which are darker, help the subject pop out or show that something is close but on focus! Remember, you want to make the focus point easy to spot so if you play with thinner lines in the background and stuff that it's not as important as the subject and then the subject has thicker lines, the viewers' eyes will go straight into the subject. You control where the viewer looks in your piece. tl;dr: thinner lines are good for backgrounds and details and thicker lines are good for focus point! Obviously, art is a creative subject and so once you learn how lines work, you can mix them up and play around! So take this as an advice and not as a rulebook or manual to follow exactly.
You are very talented at drawing but also giving tips your videos have helped me improve my art a lot this was really helpful. Thank You for making fantastic videos!
Thank you! Your tips are very helpful! 😊 I have a suggestion on a video that I would love to see. My suggestion is, can you make a video on how to digitally screentone darker-skinned manga characters? If a manga character is darker-skinned, what kind of screentone effect would you apply on their skin? How would you shade their skin, and how would you add the highlights to the skin? How would you add blush to their skin, if the character is blushing? Since manga pages are in black & white, there’s no color to work with, so we can only represent things using values, which is kind of limited. If a character was light-skinned, then we wouldn’t use much screentone on their skin, except for shading and in some instances blushing. But when a character is darker-skinned, we need to apply screentone to their entire skin, and then we need to think about how to add shading, highlights, and perhaps blushing to prevent that screentone from looking too flat. So, I would love some tips on how to properly add a halftone effect to the skin of darker-skinned characters in a way that will look nice.
It’s funny, because people that I don’t know and like (because their content is bad) Have a lot of subs, But you, your the opposite! It dosent make sense....
