If you want to draw manga and you want to know more about it, then this article for you because we will talk about the basics of drawing manga and some interesting facts about manga. What are the things that you need to know before you start your lesson or start drawing manga characters? What makes manga complicated to draw? Why manga is so popular? I am sure that you are also interested to know the answers to these questions, so I will try to answer these questions for you in this article too. Drawing manga characters is fun and I am pretty sure that you will like it too, once you know how to draw or how to use drawing patterns.

What is Manga?

I am pretty sure that you are wondering what is the meaning of this popular Japanese word "Manga", this simply means "comic book" in Japan, you can say that manga is Japan's version of comic books which is totally different from any comic books that we know because Japanese comic book or manga characters has distinctive features and postures like big and shiny eyes and perspective views that makes them really popular around the world and on the Internet.

Manga is popular all over the world, especially in Japan, where everybody in any age can read manga because manga has 10 types or genres:

• Doujinshi manga – are fan made manga. This kind of manga is not written and drawn by a mangaka or manga artist.
• Gekiga manga – or dramatic pictures manga. This is an experimental manga.
• Josei manga – literally means "Lady Manga". This manga is exclusively for adule women
• Seinen manga – this is the excat opposite of Josei manga, this manga is for adult males.
• Shoujo manga – this type of manga is for teen or young females. The story usually focuses on relationships.
• Shonen manga – is for young males and the story usually focuses about sports, romance and action.
• Kodomo manga – simply means "child". The target audience or readers of this manga are children.
• Shoujo ai and Shonen ai – focuses on same sex relationships.

What makes manga popular?

Manga and manga characters are popular all over the world because they have these different and distinctive features and the way mangakas draw manga characters are different from the comic characters we know. Manga characters usually have: big eyes, big heads, exaggerated body or proportion and some of them even turn into small and cute stuffed toy like characters called "chibi".

Why is it complicated to draw?

Drawing manga characters is quite hard to draw, especially if you are a complete beginner because most manga characters has this hard to draw features like perfect or exaggerated body proportions, hands, faces, hair and clothes, but once you know the basics or the patterns everything will be easy for you. Another manga character feature that makes them complicated to draw is their postures and poses, most of them are in perspective views which make the body look deformed.

Drawing manga characters is fun. It is not yet too late to learn this skill. You just need practice and patience to get better.