That's all my daughters Dinda and Zadia care about now.
Both of them really love to draw - you could probably could still see their early drawings on our bedroom walls in Muri Salim - that is, if the owner hasn't repainted the house yet, LOL ... The drawings are still shaky but with more practice on the manga basics, I think both girls have lots of potential - well, hopefully they will not get bored and bail out prematurely - as always been the case with their other fads.
And it is because of this reason also that I will not enroll them to a Manga school, well, at least not for now. Actually, there are quite a few of them located in Jakarta:
MACHIko MANGA SCHOOL
Jl.Kemang Raya No.14B Jakarta Selatan
12730 INDONESIA
Tel.&Fax
seven artland
Jl. A.M. Sangaji no. 48
Jakarta Pusat 10130
Indonesia
Phone
(Ririn)
(Shirley)
info (AT) sevenartland.com
Website
http://www.sevenartland.com
Ma-Ta Art School
English First Plaza Pondok Indah
Jakarta Selatan
(021)7500459
For a starter, I think it's better for the girls to master the manga basics first. And thanks to Mr. Google and the Internet, after doing a bit of searching, I came across this site 'Manga Tutorials' which offers 'tons of manga drawing instructions from basics to publishing ranging from articles, step-by-steps, references, and video tutorials' and BEST OF ALL, they are free, non membership exclusive and covers a wide range of topics.
To give you an example, here is a tutorial on how to draw the different emotional expression, posted by Rio:
The girls were so excited when I handed them the print out and quickly did a few sketches of their own.
I promise that I will search for more (free) manga tutorials, but, since it's already late (yawn) and I could barely open my eyes (blink blink), I will continue my search tomorrow and surely add to this post. Good night everyone :) (zzzz zzzz zzzzzzzzz) ...
