‘Could you also make me a drawing book?’

Design Kompany got a very endearing piece of mail from nine-year-old LS in Matherville, IL. Thanks for sending us your awesome drawing of Temari, L!

L also has a special request for Design Kompany:

Special Request to make a Naruto drawing book

Of course I want to make this happen, so next Monday for Designers’ Korner I’m asking fellow design friends and colleagues to bring your best set of drawing pens.

Already started looking into getting together some reference drawings.

Here’s what I’ve found Naruto kinda looks like in various situations:

In ready stance:
Sasuke and Naruto

Being threatening looking:
Naruto

Pensive:
Naruto and Crew

You guys on for this with me? Who’s in?

I’m ready to make a drawing book and send it back to Illinois!

Korner coming up on May 5Bring your best anime and talented manga drawing friends, and let’s see what we can do! —DK

Designers Korner
Drawing Naruto
Monday, May 5
6:30pm-9pm
@Stumbling Monk
(unless Cinco de Mayo makes for craziness, but that’s not Belgian, is it?)
BYON


UPDATE: May 8, 2008

What a fun session at Designers’ Korner! Lots of different drawing styles and bits of advice for LS. Design Kompany got together with animators, graphic designers and friends over many pints at Stumbling Monk to create a bunch of Naruto drawings for L. We even put in a request to MM, a real manga artist in Japan whom Akira’s known forever. Once that comes through, bang! We’ll have the packet ready!

Collection on the table:
Variety of drawings done at the Korner

This one’s by MV:
Naruto

Here are some links to Flickr of creative outpourings from past Korner drawing sessions, posted by Narisa. Thanks Narisa!

Series 4
Series 3
Series 2
Series 1

UPDATE: June 2008

Japan-based manga artist Marita Morita—referred to above as MM—contributed to the mix!

Check out MM’s work and other links about the monthly happy hour Designers’ Korner:
Manga artist Marita Morita’s drawings of Naruto
More about Designers Korner and why Design Kompany hosts it
Other graphic artists’ Naruto sketches from May Designers’ Korner

3 Responses to “'Could you also make me a drawing book?'”


  1. Gravatar Icon 1 Narisa May 5th, 2008 at 11:42 am

    I’m in. We should do both young Naruto and some from scenes Shippuden.

  2. Gravatar Icon 2 dipika May 5th, 2008 at 11:52 am

    Sounds good! Does anyone out there have some Naruto manga stuff they can bring?

  3. Gravatar Icon 3 akira May 5th, 2008 at 12:00 pm

    You sound like you know what you are talking about, Narisa! Do you have reference pictures for us to look at?

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