Free Online Anime and Manga Tutorials on How to Draw

By Rick Feathers

The Internet provides an ocean of information and there are a lot of tutorials on how to draw anime and manga. These free online guides are great because they will help you determine if you are truly interested in drawing anime before spending any money on how to books and art classes.

Here is a good tip in finding the best sites. Look for a site that will provide tutorials ranging from simple line drawing to the very advanced shading techniques. A great site will start with very basic geometric shape drawing, shading techniques and progress to more details of character features and color blending.

There are two reasons I suggest this. First, there may be a great artist within you, and good tutorials will help unlock your creative potential as an anime artist. Second, a site that offers quality tutorials will be one that you can refer back to over and over as your skills progress. These sites often have great support to help you achieve your future anime drawing goals. Remember that the caring people who put great amine tutorial websites online are there to help you and they share the same interest as you do.

Here are two sites I highly recommend as a teacher to get you started. They provide a variety of resources to answer your curious questions into the world of anime art. http://www.mangatutorials.com/index.htm (one of my favorite) and http://www.howtodrawmanga.com/