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How do one make a doujinshi?

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Like the topic title says, what kind of methods/techinques used to do a doujinshi? Does tracing a pic/printout also count? Just curious.

Suggestions, ideas and tips are welcome.

Tracing images or cutting out an existing image is considered a vector; not indy art.

yep, i'm agreeing with AWOL, tracing ain't my thing.No offense It's kinda like cheating... but i do refer to drawings if i need any idea's and i draw when i'm in a good mood. That's during the holidays, when exams and homeworks are forgotten *tears wells up* sniff... sorry there ...erhmm and my mind is free to think up a storm. Yes, well just draw circles when your free, it's like a practice. heheh

It depends on how you trace it, lol.

If you trace with with a pen tool (ie. computer based tracing) then that's definitely a vector.

If you literally trace with tracing paper and a pen or pencil, then no, I wouldn't consider as doujinshi.

Doujinshi is more like your personal impression of a particular character or thing. It's most likely to have been a creation of your imagination, rather than a direct translation (ie. tracing).

The most common ways of doing doujinshi I guess~

* Sketches - just raw sketches of what your impression of the character should be like
* Sketches + coloured pencil or rendering - your character comes more into realisation
* Sketches + scan + colour via computer - many scan in their sketches and then either trace over the sketch (to make the lines finer) or just colour it in (leaving the raw sketch/ pencil lines) using a graphics program.
* Tablet - some people draw on a tablet which means you don't have to scan anything in~ and then colour it in on computer too.

Apart from sketching there are other way of doing doujinshi, depending on what medium you choose- using ink, watercolour, paint, markers- I won't go on forever, but I guess my personal interpretation of doujinshi is an artwork that is pretty much from scratch, can borrow ideas from other places, but is generally derived from your imagination :D

Thanks for the input fellas, you were a great help, especially kuroimisa. Much appreciated. :D

Doujinshi is like just drawing a pic of something, but not copying something exactly. Jus draw something original, but you can base it on whatever you want obviously.

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