How to Draw the Death Note Notebook

 STEP 1.

Let's start first by drawing the front cover of the notebook. This is pretty simple, just draw an image like the one you see here in this first step.

STEP 2.

You will now add a couple pages inside the notebook to give it thickness.

STEP 3.

Next up, begin drawing the words 'Death Note' starting with the D and E. Notice there is a dot in the center of the D.

STEP 4.

Lastly, finish the word Death, then draw the word 'Note'. You are all done. You can choose to add some texture detailing to the book or leave it a simple drawing. Oh, if there are mistakes just erase them now.

STEP 5.

Color the cover black, and the pages/words white. You are done and have completed this lesson on drawing the Death Note notebook.

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Tip! For Drawing Male Characters

Drawing manga-style male characters can be a bit more challenging than drawing female characters because there are usually more choices you can make. But the basic approach is the same. You might already know that any anime/manga character is proportioned by counting the number of "heads tall" they are. In other words, a chibi character will only be the height of 2 to 3 times the size of his or her head, and typical "cartoony" manga characters are usually 5 to 7 heads tall. More realistic (and occasionally shoujo-style) characters are sometimes up to 8 heads tall. Keeping to these scales will assure your characters — male or female — look properly proportioned.




Another difference to be aware of is that female bodies tend to curve in at the stomach and flare out at the hips, and accentuating this is a sure giveaway that your character is a female. Males, on the other hand, have torsos that do not curve in much, and should even expand out if you're drawing a beefy or overweight character. Pay attention to the legs too — instead of drawing nice, curvy calves, you will want to use slightly more blocky shapes to add muscle, or simply draw the legs much skinnier and straighter (Monkey D. Luffy of One Piece is an extreme example). Also, male shoulders tend to be broader (they expand out farther from the head), and occasionally very muscular characters will have a neck that sort of expands out into the shoulders (any Dragon Ball Z character is a good example).

This brings us to our final point: What kind of male character are you drawing? In manga, you seldom see female characters that aren't tall, thin and pretty, but male manga characters can run the gamut from being short and impish, to fat and ogreish, to tall and striking. Choose what image you want your character to project and really accentuate the physical attributes that convey that image. If he's a real geek, make him hunched over with his shoulders almost behind his head (like L from Death Note). If he's a dashing young man, give him an 8-head-tall figure with long, thin legs and a nice thin torso. The possibilities are endless, but trying to draw different kinds of figures is the best way to learn which kinds of bodies create various impressions.

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How to Draw Mew Mint

 STEP 1.

Let's begin like we always do by drawing the head, torso and hip guides. You will then sketch in the limb guidelines next.

STEP 2.

Up next, draw in the shape of the face and then draw the big eyes by using the facial guidelines. When that is done add a mouth and then draw Mint Mew's neck shape followed by the necklace around the neck.

STEP 3.

In this step you will take your time as you draw out Mint Mew's head which is also her awesome hairstyle. She is almost always wearing her hair in two buns. The bangs and hair on the sides should be shaggy.

STEP 4.

Let's start the drawing process for the upper body beginning with the shoulders and arms. You will then draw the cuffs on her arms from the one piece dress she wears.

STEP 5.

We can now draw in the hands which are gloved like you see here.

STEP 6.

Finish the upper body by drawing the shape of her torso, hips and waist. Add the designing to the dress and the cuffs like so.

STEP 7.

It's now time to draw the legs in a together bent style. Draw the boots or feet and then add detailing to the boots.

STEP 8.

Finish the dress and add a band around the thigh. When you are done with that task you can draw in the wings and add detailing to the wings Erase your mistakes and guides then you're done.

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How to Draw Mew Lettuce

Tokyo Mew Mew

 STEP 1.

Make the guide shapes for Lettuce like so. This should consist of a head and torso. Sketch in the facial guidelines and then draw the limb guides.

STEP 2.

We will now draw the shape of Mew Lettuce face, and then draw in the hair which parts and arches. The ends of her hair should be pointed, you should also draw the lobes of her ears as well.

STEP 3.

We will now draw the large eyes with the upper lids being thicker. Add the eyebrows, nose and mouth.

STEP 4.

Draw the shape of the neck, then draw in her shoulders, some of the torso and then draw the cuffs for her dress. Add detailing to the neck and proceed to step five.

STEP 5.

We will now draw the arms and some of the tails for the dress. Mew Lettuce's dress is blowing in the breeze.

STEP 6.

For the last drawing step all you have to do is draw in the legs and then her boots. The boots are almost knee high. Draw the rest of her clothing and when you are satisfied with the results you can begin to clean up the drawing by erasing the mistakes and guidelines.

STEP 7.

Here is Mew Lettuce when you are all done. Now you can go ahead and color in this drawing of another Tokyo Mew Mew character.

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How to Draw Mew Zakuro

Tokyo Mew Mew

STEP 1.

Make the guides for Mew Zakuro's body. This consists of three shapes, one for the head, one for the upper body and another for the lower part of her body.

STEP 2.

We will tackle the head and face completely by using the face guide to define the structure of her face. When that is done draw in her eyes, nose and then the mouth. You can now sketch out her hair starting with the bangs. Draw in the length of her hair next, and move to step three.

STEP 3.

Draw in the ears and add detailing inside the ears. You can then draw the shape of her neck, then draw the outline of her body starting with the shoulders, back, leg and chest.

STEP 4.

You can now draw in the rest of her arm, then draw the chest, stocking line on the thigh and define or detail the upper part of her body which is the clothing.

STEP 5.

You can now draw the legs which are bent up to the chest. Her boots are thigh high and the heels are semi thick. Add lining down the front of the boot and proceed to step six.

STEP 6.

For the last drawing step all you need to do is sketch in her thick, puffy foxy tail. Erase your mistakes and all the guides before you go.

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Basic Drawing : Shade & Shadow

Basics
Shading can be a bit tricky at first but its not as difficult as it seems. The picture to the right shows a light bulb and several geometrical shapes; circle, triangle, cylinder, and a square.

You’ll notice that one side of the shape is light and the other is darkened. All you need to know or keep in mind is just that. What the light doesn’t hit, it is darkened. In this example, all you have to do is picture the light source and the object which is being hit by the light –  which part will the light hit? How far will the light go?

You also have to ask yourself where is the light source coming from? If the light is far above, the shorter the shadow is (try checking out your shadow at noon – 12:00PM) whereas the lower the light, the longer the shadow will become. According to the light source, make your shadow fit accordingly.

Good thing to remember also: what is the shape of the object I’m giving a shadow? Each of the shapes in the picture each have their own unique cast. The triangle has a pointy shadow, the circle has a circular shadow, the cylinder has a rectangular shadow, and the cube has a “L”-like shadow. At a different angle, though, the cube will cast a different shadow shape. For instance, if the light was head-on to one of the flat sides, it will cast a square to rectangular shadow depending on the light source’s height.

With that in mind, you also need to remember: what is the shape of the object the shadow is falling on top of? The current example only has a flat surface on which the shadows fall but in most cases, shadows of – say a character – will fall on rocks or on water, which will look different compared to each other.

 
Tips to keep in mind:
-The darker the shadow, the brighter the light source.
-As the shadow is drawn further from the object, the lighter it becomes.

Drawing the Shadow
The shadow takes on the shape of the item it comes from. If you look to the example picture to the left, you will see various shapes and their shadows being cast. Notice that to make the shadow, all you have to do is create a triangular shape from the top of the object to the ground and back to to the base of the object. 

The cube is a bit more complicated as there are two and in some cases, three triangles you have to draw when at an angle.

Drawing the shadow on the ground, I drew in dotted lines to indicate the shape of the shadow – which is basically the same shape as the object itself. Again, you’ll notice that the cube does its own unique cast as indicated at the bottom example. It forms an “L” type shadow.

Shading
Shading on an object usually starts midway into the object as shown on the cylinder, cone, triangle, and cube. The circle is also shaded midway but considering that it is round, the shape of the shading also becomes rounded! The result is something quite like an eclipse. Note: Shadows depicted in example image are intentionally drawn entirely dark for tutorial purposes.

Light Source and Shadow
The shape of the shadow is also affected by the light source. When the light source is from anything but the sun, like a light bulb, the shadow widens the further it is from the object. The sun, meanwhile, casts a “striaight” shadow in that it remains true to the objects shape.

More Than One Light Source
A shadow is made for each light source present in a scene. If you are inside a room, for example, and there are two lights on, you will cast a shadow from each light source. This is shown on the right-most example. 

Notice both of the bulbs are at the same distance and height from the object. This fact causes the shadows from both light bulbs to be the same. When the light sources are from different distances and heights, the light source that is closer to the object gives off the darker shadow.

Looking at the example again, note that the area where the two shadows meet is darker than the one shadow itself. Dark + Dark = Darker. Keep this in mind when drawing groups of people who’s shadows happen to overlap and intersect each other.

Summary
Those basic shapes I have mentioned in the previous pages makes up the human anatomy. The circle, rectangle, triangle, cylinder, and square. The arms are basically cylinders, the head is an oval on top of a cylinder, etc. From there, the shadow is based on those shapes. Of course it’s a bit more complicated since the face isn’t all one shape but a combination.

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