How To Draw In Jojo Style

I made this in response to @Unshiza 's post virtually asking how to draw in Araki's style

One note I can make off the height of my head that is more of a full general trick to improving art but is too super of import for cartoon in Araki'south style is ✨planes✨ peculiarly planes of the confront, when you learn realism it is like 1 of the beginning things y'all acquire

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Planes are actually good to know because they can help with shading, if you observe the way the faces are are colored and lit in basically any drawing by Araki (and just whatsoever pro art in general) they use the planes to help with shading. I think Araki has I guess more than "geometric" or more than "prominent" use of the planes, especially in his older art, where they're much more prominent. In actual realism they kind of alloy into each other, Merely THEY ARE ALWAYS THERE

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And I mean actually everything tin can be broken down into planes but we'll just start with the confront for simplicity

Araki's style is heavily based in realism, especially with how it looks in Jojolion and SBR, but regardless you should ABSOLUTELY memorize the planes of the face, an piece of cake way to do information technology when yous draw annihilation only use it equally reference for placing features and shading then it'south less ho-hum. you should just acquire realism in general considering it is actually really helpful for cartoon EVERYTHINg... just kinda deadening.... Then drawing jojo characters every bit you learn might brand it less and so

If y'all want the specifics of how Araki does specific styles (since the art of jojo has changed overtime) I recommend you follow what @Elephant2009, nOnOnOnO said in the original mail about drawing the characters over and over once more because that'll definitely get you a meliorate hang of the dissimilar styles

Now WHEN IT COMES TO POSES-

Beginning off- everybody who likes jojo should read Araki's how to make manga book, it is super insightful and I read it religiously, just in there he goes into a ton of his philosophies soo it is Really WORTH READING

Anyway- in that book mentions how when information technology comes to cartoon jojo poses is to starting time yaknow acquire anatomy and due figure drawing (information technology is super helpful trust meeee)

He essentially says that the bend of the central guideline, and the placement of the elbows and waist are the most important things when cartoon the poses. And yous just twist em around and exaggerate shapes and whatever

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Y'all can see that here pretty well, curved center guideline, angled hip placement, joints at an angle, and interesting elbow placement.

Oh yeah so in that location'southward foreshortening.... that is a whole other ball game...

In that location is and then much more to be said nearly how y'all draw in Araki'south style but I've written plenty and I would say that is simply a basic assay of how it kind of works

I hope that helps anyone interested in starting to draw in the mode, if yous have more than questions I might have the answer, I believe in all of you

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EDIT- don't forget to employ reference!! it is actually actually helpful, who would accept thought! If you lot want good reference for jojo like poses just await through vogue magazines similar Araki :)