My imagination of a cyborg is a androgynous, fragile and very skinny girl. In order to let her skin appear pale, I let it just white and only coloured the shadow parts with pinkish and beige pastel chalk. With her ice-blue hair and the absent-minded expression she seems distantly and lost in reverie.

"50 MANGA BABES to draw and paint" is an English How-to-draw book displaying fifty artworks of different women in manga style together with step-by-step illustrations, detailed descriptions and drawing tips.

I had the wonderful commission to draw fifteen of this "babes" (see the right column). I had to comply with this criteria: drawn in manga style, female chara, view of the whole body, related to a topic/character type, no background.

This book is great and I can recommend it to all learning to draw in manga style. It's available at Amazon.

DRAWING MEDIA:
Outlines: black ballpoint-pen
Medium: Tria Marker, Copic Ciao, pastel chalk, colour pencil, watercolour, opaque white
Paper: satined color copy paper; A3 (29,7 x 42 cm); 120g/m²
Time: 6 h

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Read my manga online: gottgauss.viviane.ch