Part 6.1 - Aging Characters (Obata Takeshi, DEATH NOTE and HIKARU NO GO)

Obata gets an essay all to himself, because I am a squee-ing fangirl for his work. My flimsy justification is that I'm focusing on more complexly drawn, more realistic characters than in the previous one, but we all know that's a sham. So, on to ogle study Obata's work.

On to How to Age Characters - Part 2.

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Good advice on relationships and marriage - I've got friends who needed to have this pounded into their heads when younger.

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All right - normally I dislike those "describe me in one word" memes because how can you describe someone in one word? But this one tickled me, and it's not like I can tell you cheated and dropped in a random word, or used more than one, and you don't have to explain it.


1. What's the first word that comes to mind when you think of me?
2. Go to http://images.google.com/ and search for that word.
3. Reply to this post with one of the pictures on the first page of results (don't tell me the word).
4. Put this in your own journal.


*wonders how many pictures of frogs she's going to get*

Part 6.2 - Aging Characters (Kishimoto Masashi, NARUTO and Ai Yazawa, PARADISE KISS)

And now for the last essay in this series, where we get to look at some differences between male and female aging, and at the differences between shounen and shoujo art styles.


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Part 6.3 - Aging Characters Quick Followup

matildarose was kind enough to scan some images out of her copy of Drawing the Human Head by Burne Hogarth, showing the (male, white, as per usual) human head at various ages.

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