Free Online Manga and Anime How-to-Draw Lessons

From elementary schools to high school to college and beyond, anime or manga, the Japanese style of cartooning, is sweeping the nation and world! Anime books, cartoons, films and characters are outrageously popular. New Sailor Moon, Sakura, Digimon and other Japanese character books fly off the shelves as soon as they arrive.

Do you love anime or manga? Would you like to learn to draw your own anime characters like the professionals. Maybe you will even create your own manga characters or anime cartoon story line? Wouldn't it be fun to write your own manga cartoon or book and illustrate it with your own characters? You can learn to draw in the anime style with these websites with free online how-to-draw manga lessons, tools and tips.

Manga University is a very nicely laid out site devoted to all things Manga. You can watch several how to draw video tutorials, learn to speak Japanese and explore some manga style cooking. This is a frequently updated website so bookmark and check back for updates.

Manga Tutorials is a step by step how to draw tutorial site which is neatly organized to take you through anatomy (human, animal and animorph), clothing, hair, and other elements of anime drawing. Manga Tutorials is nicely linked with different anime illustrators who use the basic styles also. You can also access the complete story-making, story-boarding and anime cartoon development techniques.

Drawing Now features tutorials for drawing some of the more popular anime and manga characters: Naruto, Sasuke, Hinate, Orochimau, Rock Lee, Gaara, InuYasha, Sakura, Neji, Rukia, Aang, Pichu, Ino, Kakashi, Kagome, Dragonball Z, Yu-Gi-Oh, Itashi, Ichigo, Shippa and many more. These some of the more popular manga cartoon characters that you can learn to draw.

Anime Cubed is a good reference site for many other online how to draw manga tutoials. The options are well-explained and help you to decide what level you are ready to try. The site moderator gives a good explanation of each site and what skills that you can develop for your own manga and anime drawings. Ten different manga art sites are listed, catalogued and linked to anime artists who use the style described.

Now make me proud and use these tutorials to learn the art of manga and get busy designing your own anime and manga stories and characters!