ZONE's Guide To Hentai Drawing

Ok, I've been very bored recently so instead of sitting around doing nothing, I have compiled this guide to drawing. It's really not that hard to achieve results of good quality if you follow the advice given here. One obvious thing before I start is that you MUST be a good drawer. Don't even bother to scan your work and colour it if it isn't pleasing to the eye. Practice until you are good enough then give it a go. There is nothing I hate to see more than people posting art which just looks like crap (wobbly lines/character looks nothing like original/artist's blatant lack of knowledge about the human anatomy).

Ok, so now that we've established that your are ready, the first thing you will need to know is what you require to pull this off. Well here is my configuration:

  • Apple Macintosh G3 266 (any computer will do but a fast one is useful)
  • A Umax Astra 610S Scanner (A top quality scanner isn't required, neither is a colour one)
  • About 50 megs of free hard disk space and 80 megs of free ram (You're gonna be dealing with BIG graphics at first)
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Painter
  • Graphic Converter
  • Vistascan (the scanning software that came with your scanner should be fine)
  • A pencil (with those fine rods of lead which you can refill) and rubber eraser.

Now that you've gone out and purchased any of that stuff you didn't have let's get started:

First you have to draw your character on paper (don't even try to do it on the computer unless you have one of those art pallets). Work on the body first then place your desired toon's head in place. One thing to make sure is that the body matches the head well so take the character's age heavily into consideration. Try not to smudge your picture, this will only make it harder for you when you scan it. Do not shade your picture at all, only use line.

Now you are ready to scan. Set the scanner to black and white or greyscale and the resolution to 300dpi. This will make your picture about 4 times its original size: this is useful when applying fine detail as you colour. Preview your picture and fiddle with the settings until you have a good plain b/w replica of the drawing. The background shold be 100% white and the lines 100% black, NO grey should be seen! Now scan the picture.

Open it up in painter (or equivalent) and clean up any lines or dots which aren't meant to be there.

The result should look a little like this:

Save your picture.

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