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I mean the Conan picture with Goro. His hair is so dark : D. Do you use pencil : o?

You can shrink using any image manipulation program or picture hosting site like photobucket Very cute work!

I loved the Yu yu Hakusho fighting game when I was little. Also the Captain Tsubasa soccer games <3. I also love the dragon ball games and the gundam taisan games omg (addicted). Lately I've been playing with the Inuzama eleven games. I wonder if the Umineko game counts even though it's technically a game made in to a game...ah well ^^

K-kid-sama <333! He looks so awesome <333 And your Conans are so adorable <333. How did you get such a nice dark tone for the hair?

Hello there, long time no see /hides From Aeyra-chan's gallery it seems I have missed tones of awesomeness when I was away. I shall re-stalk this place *o* I have a tutorial coming up soon, wrote it out in chinese, just need to figure out how to explain properly in english :< As for drawings. I made some new ones. I also opened up chibi commissions on deviantart (shameless plug). So I shall be spamming chibis shortly >>; Thanks for looking

She'll smack him a good one for doing so many corny things like asking her to "wait" for him. Then I think their relationship will stay the same, as "best friends". She'll get into trouble, he'll jump into save her. He'll get in to trouble, she'll kick and then kick his ass for making her worry. She'll date other guys, he'll kidnap and interigate those poor guys for 10 hours straight making sure they're not serial killers and that they're good enough for her. She'll yell at him to stop obliviously leading on like 10 different girls at once and just settle down with one he actually likes already. I think their relationship will be fun actually.

Oh dear did Ran force them in animal suits again xD So adorable <3 I LOVE CONAN IN THIS PIC OMG KAWAIIIIII >w<!!!!

I'm working on a tutorial right now since I saw some members talking about not being able to draw folds, I'm just going to write down some notes for now since I'm too busy to make a full tutorial. For everyone who's in the Toronto area, I hope you check out Imaginism's SUBWAY SKETCHING on sunday afternoons! Most of what I learn is from the people there, I learn especially from T-bear : ). Drawing folds: -To draw folds you must first understand what creates the folds. For example imagine the shoulder as a ball and now picture a cloth on the ball. What doe the cloth look it? Why is it this way? The folds are being created because the ball is pushing the cloth up while gravity is pushing the cloth down. If you study what's pushing and pulling and folding the fabric, it will give you a better idea to where to draw the folds. -Folds are nothing to be scared of. They always act more of less the same way, they all look different in the DETAILS, but they're underlying structure can be understood. -The more lines you add to your folds, the more likely you will confuse the viewer.

Good luck on using photoshop Kaoko-chan \o/ Here's my mini tutorial, another technique to copy pictures. How to use negative space and positive space to check your copy picture: The area coloured in PINK is the area we're used to seeing and drawing. This is called "positive space", The area coloured in BLUE is called NEGATIVE SPACE. In this case the negative space is the background, people sometimes forget that a like the positive space, it's important to draw the negative space correctly as well! When I draw I tend to check both positive and negative spaces, when you change between them it'll give you a fresh perspective on things that you thought were correct : >. Now I'll show you a practical example of how this can be used. I think Cure-kun from DCW for volunteering his pictures for my tutorials \o/. Thank you so much <3! Let's say the drawn version of Heiji's hair is bothering you, but when you look at the measurements and positive space you're not sure what's wrong. If you compare the shape of the negative space (shown in red) you can see where the difference is much clearer. It's just comparing the shape of two triangles instead of the shape of two Heiji hairs. Of course negative space can get complicated too xD. But try your best to compare them~ you can use it to see wrong angles you previously missed : ). Of course negative/positive space viewing skill doesn't only have to apply to the whole figure of Shinichi and Heiji vs background. It can be as small as wanting to check the shape of Shinichi's neck against his shirt and jacket. Use this skill whenever you feel like you need to compare shapes and angles. Best of luck <3 -kirite

So cuteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! I love "wonderland" and Ran too <3. Ahh the meeting of my two obsessions xD. I love the pose she's in. You drew this beautifully ^^

I think something you're struggling with is the "head shape" ^^ You should look closely at the "negative space" of the picture. I think it might help. Negative space is the space on the picture that is not Heiji and Shinichi ^^. So look at the shape of the background and see if they match up with your picture. I think the fun thing about drawing is erasing and changing things as you draw.

Wahhh SATOUxTAKAGI <33333333 I LOVE THAT SCENE!!! Next time try drawing the picture upside down xD. It'll be fun~ Can I use this picture as an example for my next tutorial? I won't if you don't want me to D:.

Aww you flatter me Aeyra-chan -blush-. Let's all get awesome at drawing together <33 The colours for Conan's eyes are so beautiful *o*! I like how you use gray for the shadow of the eye~. In my opinion the skin tone looks a little bit too yellow. I would warm it up a bit (make it a bit redder). Just the smallest little bit ^^.

Here's a tutorial I posted because someone on DCTP asked about manga colouring. I thought it might be useful here too ^^; Here's a tutorial I posted on "Holmes study" forum back in the old days (get off my lawn you crazy kids!): How to separate lineart from background in Photoshop: Please note: This tutorial is based on the drawing program adobe photoshop. However I'm sure other programs can do it too. There are also many ways of doing this, this is just the way I've always done it (I'm sure this is outdated but please bare with me orz). 1. Open image. Make sure it's relatively clean. (If needed I'll post a small tutorial on how to clean lineart, but for now I'm guessing you guys will get a clean image or know how to clean images). 2. Go to Image> Mode and make sure the image is in "RGB colour" (note that Image is right beside File and Edit on the top of the program window) 3. Go to Window>CHANNELS to open the CHANNELS window. You'll see 4 layers in the channels window. RGB, Red, Green, and Blue. 4. Duplicate the Blue layer. You can do this one of two ways: a ) Grab the blue layer with your mouse and drag it to the "new" square It's the box thingy beside the garbage can. b ) Right click on the blue layer and select "duplicate channel" 5. Now you'll have the layer "Blue copy". Make sure it's selected (highlighted in blue) and has an eye thingy in the box beside it. Now press "CTRL-I" (apple logo key- I on mac) to invert the layer. You can see what that layer is suppose to look like on my final image below. 6. Now press the "Load channel as selection" also know as the "broken line circle thingy" beside the mask button. You should now have a selection of all the black lines in the image. 7. Now go to your LAYERS window and create a new layer. You can chose to make the bottom layer invisible now if you wish. 8. Now fill the image with Black (or whatever colour you wish) with the paint bucket tool. And we're done! Now that your black lines are seperated from the background, you can paint the lines itself (selecting the lines by pressing ctrl or making a layer on top and pressing alt in between the layers), you can paint under it to make skin tone, you can do a different background....whatever you please. If you don't understand a step feel free to ask. I hope you understand this. -kirite <3

Ah~ hats are hard to draw. Because they're a strange shaped 3d object x_x. Don't worry about it *pats*. Keep drawing <3

Thank you for looking at this thread everyone! I'm glad some of you find this helpful. /blush I'm very bad at explaining things so I'm glad you guys understand at least a bit of it ^^; For those of you who think this is too complicated. I can just do a version where you guys just draw the picture and you check over the picture you drew with basic anatomy and measuring techniques. It'll be great if you have a reference or some kind. If anyone has a picture I can use as an example in that tutorial that will be very helpful for me :>

I think it looks really great ^^ <3. I love the pose, it shows his attitude perfectly <3.

Tutorial 1. A way of copying a drawing accurately. This tutorial will cover basic measuring, point to point drawing and plumb lines. NOTE: This is mucheasier to do with pencil and paper. I'm only doing it on computer because I have no scanner. No matter what you're using please look up tutorials to how to measure with your pencil. Such as this on http://www.ehow.com/how_5511040_use-pencil-measure-drawing.html Also I would recommend drawing something easier then this at the beginning. Haibara is kinda complicated xD. Try drawing a box or something~ Don't expect to get it perfect the first time, this is very difficult skill to learn!!! Let's say I want to copy the drawing of Haibara in this picture. (note: try to get your hands on a bigger reference picture when you try this on your own) Now some of you might just start at the eyes or the hair, then kinda guess the rest of the way. But there is actually a more accurate (but slower and more tedious) way of copying pictures. You don't have to follow all the steps exactly, just using 1 measuring skill might already improve your drawing! Tip: A way to get really accurate drawing is to flip the Haibara picture upside down and copy it upside down. That way you will draw what you actually see and not what you think you see. I won't do that here though because I'm afraid it will confuse people looking at this tutorial lol. First you want to figure out how Haibara fits in the picture. Haibara's chin is in the center of the pic. Her hair is close to the edge. Her eyes are slanted, the top of 1 eye is the middle of the second one. Lightly sketch these straight lines on your paper. Note that it's very important that these lines are STRAIGHT, they're crooked in my example because I fail at drawing on computer otz. These lines are called "plumb lines". They're a way to measure objects~ Now we want to find the exact location of where everything is located. We're going to do that by lightly making marks/dots at important points and drawing a straight line through the dots. This type of drawing is called "point to point drawing". We find the points by using those plumb lines I was talking about. Measuring with your pencil is important here! The chin is around 1/6 the way up the picture, the cheek is around 2/6 the way across and the top of the head is around 1/4 the way across, etc... Of course this is all guessing ^^, try to get it close but it doesn't have to be perfect. We can always fix it later! When your relatively comfortable with were the points are you can lightly put a STRAIGHT line through the points. We're just mapping out where everything is right now, so don't obsess over details. You can lightly curve the lines using multiple straight lines. That will make sure the curve is accurate. So continue lightly putting dots in places you're not sure where things go. And lightly putting a line through it. You can use the points to get other points. For example some points are on the same horizontal as another point. You can also use your pencil to measure the angle of one point to another. Note that I don't really put many points when I'm doing the hair. It's because I like to take liberties with the hair (it won't make her completely unrecognizable). However points such as the face and main spikey for the hair I will try to get as accurate as possible. If you're trying to get it "perfect" then you'll have to make points at the hair as well ^^. Here's this step finished. Note that I didn't follow my plumb lines exactly, they're not very accurate since they're not straight. When you do this step I would recommend looking at the pictures upside down to make sure things are accurate! Now pushing a little bit harder with your pencil, you're going to "draw" Haibara. It should be a bit easier now that you measure out where everything is! If you made mistakes on your measurement, it will be very apparent here. If that's the case go back and remeasure the things you think you didn't get right. Erase the light pencil lines and you're finished! Note that my copy isn't perfect at all xD haha. I still need to work on this. The face is really off haha. Anyways here's my tutorial, I hope you learned a little bit. - kirite <3

Since I seem to epic fail at critiquing art works and explaining things. I decided to make a small tutorial thread in attempt to hopefully better explain what I mean. In this thread I will post tutorials and draw over (with your permission) your pictures. Please note I don't know much about drawing either, I'm no professional. You don't have to take this very seriously xD. If you don't understand I'll try to explain better. Maybe I'll make a video.

I think Yuusaku is the one who's too lenient. If anything Yukiki was about to deliver a stern lecturing while Yuusaku is all like ehhh it's fineee, he's home now isn't he : D? LOL I love Yukiko's "What are you doing calling a girl in at school in the middle of the night?!" when Shinichi is like eight years old xDD.

Well we have a clumsy scientist that can build solar powered skateboards, 3 kids who see dead bodies every few days, 1 rich heiress who's company probably controls a section of Japan, 2 karate champions who beats that crap out of everyone, a smart and witty lawyer, a rich bastard of a cop who's crazy in love with a gentle elementary school teacher, and of course the most important, Yamamura's grandmother. Nope, can't see potential for spotlight files here.

Arms usually go up to the "center" of your upper knee ^^. So I think it's right.

I don't think you should trace pictures much, you don't learn much from tracing without thinking. The key to copying anything measure carefully with your pencil and your eyes ^^. Also figure the "direction". When you place to objects for example the eye, then you create a direction. Getting direction correct is important for characters I think ^^. The haibara in the picture is slightly slanted, it's fine if you didn't mean to copy the slant though lol.