How to Draw Someone Getting Punched in The Face
AKA: The first of many posts where I donāt just lose my shit over Hajime no Ippo, but I explain to you, in stupid amounts of detail, whhhyyy.
Layout Disclaimer: Any sequential pages will be laid out right to left.Ā Thatās how it goes in Japan and itās important to the motion of the page to keep it the way the artist intended it.
Also, I donāt own any of the following artwork. If youāre a publishing company and want me to take it down, just ask and I will.
Letās start with the basics. Letās have one of Japanās greatest living artists, Inoue Takehiko, rewind like thirty years of his life and show us the early years of Slam Dunk as an example of how most artists show someone getting punched in the face. (Non-sequential excerpts)
So on the right, we have a decent and typical page: we canāt really see the person whoās hitting our protagonist, his eyes are flat for comedic effect, and weāre in the split-second right after the punch. To tell us the strength of the hit, we have strong motion lines, mild distortion of the characterās face, and some ink splatter for blood from a split lip. In the other page, we get even less info, not even seeing their faces. We still get the sense of the strength of the big guyās hit, both from the motion lines and by how much the guy dominates the panel.Ā
It gets the point across that someone was just punched in the face, and it does it a lot better than most. (Have you ever seen someone get punched in a shoujo manga? Itās pathetic, they really need to pick up their game over there.)
But in order to talk about this, letās introduce a timing/effectiveness numbering Ā system:
So 0 is the point of impact. 1 is right before it. -1 is right after it. So a 5 might beĀ āHitter walking up to Hitteeā while a -5 might beĀ āHitter walking away from struck Hitteeā. So thatās the timing numbering. And then letās add a second number in there to account for power. As you can see in 1:2, itās the moment before impact, but it looks a hell of a lot more effective than 1. and in -1:2, that impact actually looks like it hurt, as opposed to -1.Ā
Iād put the Slam Dunk panels at -1:1. So theyāre both right after the moment of impact, and theyāre effective punches, but Iām not thinking that someoneās gonna get knocked unconscious.
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