Manga Drawing And Japanese Language Course In Tokyo

You will be picked up on a Friday from the airport and brought to your accommodation in Tokyo. The next three days until Monday are free for you. You have time to explore Tokyo by yourself, do some shopping or seightseeing; Japan's capital has plenty of things to offer.

The following four weeks are packed with Japanese language classes in the mornings at a language school (20 hours per week) and manga drawing courses in the afternoons. The 4-week drawing course includes a total of 5 lessons, the 8-week course 10 lessons and the 12-week course 16 lessons, each leasson is 120 minutes. The weekends are at your leisure. The language school offers courses of different skill levels, for beginners to upper intermediate.  The manga drawing course is available for complete beginners in drawing, as for those who are experts but would like to broaden their expertise in Japan. In the drawing classes you learn about the essentials of being a manga artist from a professional artist. No language skills are required since a bilingual coordinator (Japanese + English) is on site.  In the first 4 weeks of the manga drawing course you work through the following topics: 1. ORIENTATION TO THE COURSE AND OUTLOOK OF JAPANESE MANGA: Self-introduction of the participants and orientation to the course. Exercises. Drawing with a dip pen, filling in procedure, whitening out with liquid and screentones. 2. CHARACTER FACES: How to draw the face. Deformation theory and expressive techniques to show human feeling such as joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure. 3. DRAWING THE CHARACTER AS A WHOLE: Positioning technique of the whole character. Head and body and their proportions. Deformation and attractive poses. 4. CHARACTER DESIGN 1: Methodology of characterization through fashion, body shape and hair style. 5. CHARACTER DESIGN 2: Drawing the character in different thema of Japanese Manga.

The 4-week course finishes here and you depature from Tokyo on a Saturday or you continue for 4 or even 8 more weeks to finish the manga drawing course and also continue your Japanese language classes. The following topics will be included in the 8-week course: 6. CHARACTER MOTION: Practice in drawing running characters. Practice in creating the side composition, or composing from a previous composition. 7. PROFESSIONAL CHARACTER DESIGN: Actual hands-on experience with a professional manga artist. Lecture about the typical work of a professional manga artist. 8. HOW TO DRAW THE BACKGROUND: The basic methodology of background art (clouds and skies, trees and leaves, seas and waves). Shaving technique using screentone. 9. SCENE ALLOTMENT: Basic description of the panel layout. Trial production of 1 page scene allotment based on an existing story. 10. DIGITAL PRODUCTION (MONOCHROME): Drawing manga using “CLIP STUDIO PAINT”, a computer software. The 8-week course finishes here. You can depart or continue with the 12-week course and graduate from the course after finishing a final graduation project: 11. GRADUATION PROJECT 1 - MONOCHROME (DRAFT): Making a cover page of the manga in your debut as a professional manga artist. Drafting with a pencil. 12. GRADUATION PROJECT 2 - PEN LINING: Making a cover page of the manga in your debut as a professional manga artist. Pen lining, putting in title (in case of handwritten) 13. GRADUATION PROJECT 3 - DIGITAL COLOR 1: Coloring of the project work by computer. Coloring of the cover page.  14. GRADUATION PROJECT 3 - DIGITAL COLOR 2: Completion of the digitally colored graduation project. 15. FIELD TRIP: Observation trip regarding manga history and viewing of videos for drawing manga. 16. FINAL COMMENT AND GRADUATION CEREMONY: Review and comment on each graduation project. Presentation of the completion certificate for the course.