How to Draw Like Jojo’s Bizzare Adventure Manga Artist: Hirohiko Araki

It makes a lot of sense that Araki sensei's style is very statuesque. He talks about studying marble statues in his book.

the most hilarious thing about Araki's style is that if you remove the sheer amount of lines, you do inevitably get a regular ish looking teenager or young adult underneath

Jojo probably has the most unique art of any anime I’ve ever watch Btw I just started watching it 2 days ago

YES FINALLY I CAN DRAW BIG BULKY MEEEENNNN IN THE JOJO STYLE

Araki went to Italy and other famous museums and became mesmerized by how the statues were captured and their movements/poses were perfected and he wanted to incorporate that in his style. So you were really accurate in your analysis dd 😁

In his book Manga in theory he does say he was inspired by statues in museums

I feel an aspect you could’ve mentioned is that it can be good to find a specific art style from araki that they want to emulate before ever even drawing. Arakis art evolution is far more noticeable and drastic that what people mean when they say “jojo artstyle” can vary drastically. Some are thinking of part 3, some a part specifically from the anime (which isn’t araki’s artstyle at all but you get it) some parts 7/8, some specifically 6 for some reason etc. You did a good job covering the general stuff that someone would need to know across all parts. But i feel like some people wouldn’t quite understand that and be frustrated when their piece doesn’t quite match the style they weren’t even aware they were aiming for.

Oh new art style is approaching me

DD Markk, you are an incredibly underrated content creator. I love your videos and you have inspired me to start my own manga. Thank you for putting all this amazing content out there for us! Much love from Bulgaria♥️🇧🇬

Great video Markk! Now I can't wait to watch you dissect Akira Toriyama's style! Keep up the series!

I never thought of his style as mannequin or statuesque because the poses are so flamoyant and full of energy. I think of male models or just the idea of a model walking as overtly as possible and the images are screenshots of that walk. I always imagined his art was just a single camera shot of a full motion so it was always meant to be read as an object in motion. A statue or a mannequin is based off of a male model but it's designed to be static. I would draw more in the energy of the intention that the character is moving an instant after the image. So to DD, to the version you made, picture a zoolander flamboyant level male model pointing at something or doing any gesture, capturing that flamboyant gestural energy is the style itself. The way he poses things is the actual art style that you can see evolve from season 1 on. Especially with how Dio moves.

ive been studying arakis style for 2 years which basically means that throught this entire video i was screaming. THE EYES THE EYES!!!!!!!

Thanks a lot ddmark your videos have been super helpful

Absolutely love the series, keep up the great work

Ayo this is something i rlly needed, u blessed me

Perfect Brudah! In many his interviews he has said he references from statues directly, he always has a book of Michelangelo, while drawing.

The style you used looks sort of like an in between of parts 3 and 4 for the anime Which I love

This is going in my favorites playlist

Been waiting for this a

Sensei Araki's art style is so amazing. Also, DD Markk, you did a good Job copying his art style!