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• Easy, progressive art course that shows beginners how to draw innovative manga. • Teaches the basic drawing skills needed to create the distinctive features of manga characters. • 13 tutorials cover all of the essential topics such as eyes, hair, clothing, accessories, lighting and coIor. • 10 step-by-step projects show how to create characters of all ages – children, teenagers and adults. • Written and illustrated by a collaborative group of manga artists.
Describes how to use Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop elements along with line drawings provided on the accompanying CD-ROM to create manga art digitally.
This title is packed with step-by-step tutorials on every aspect of manga drawing, basing the instructions around traditional sketching and colouring techniques, and including digital tools for rendering and finishing artwork.
Learn to illustrate and create unique manga art in this fun and engaging, step-by-step book. Beginning Manga treats aspiring illustrators to a fun, interactive learning experience with a variety of creative prompts, tips, exercises, and engaging step-by-step projects. Starting with an introduction to tools and materials, readers learn new drawing and inking techniques, as well as how to work with color, thanks to a variety of simple step-by-step projects and prompts designed to spark creativity and inspire artists to create unique manga worlds of their own. Included are templates and practice pages to assist with developing one's craft in addition to brainstorming, sketching, and gathering project inspiration. All of this and more make Beginning Manga the perfect resource for aspiring manga artists and illustrators.
The go-to guide to learn how to draw manga, Manga Sketchbook provides tons of tips and details the building blocks to drawing both male and female manga characters. Including in-depth character profiles and graph paper practice pages both with and without helpful guides, children will spend hours sketching and perfecting dozens of drawings!
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Take the first step toward becoming an expert manga artist! Author and manga illustrator Laura Watton’s expert tutorials will teach you the skills you need to gain the confidence to create your own manga characters, layouts, and stories. You’ll learn how to draw boys and girls in different poses, cute animals, and even fun chibi, all the while mastering illustration techniques and the fundamentals of manga storytelling.
Outside Japan, the term ’manga’ usually refers to comics originally published in Japan. Yet nowadays many publications labelled ’manga’ are not translations of Japanese works but rather have been wholly conceived and created elsewhere. These comics, although often derided and dismissed as ’fake manga’, represent an important but understudied global cultural phenomenon which, controversially, may even point to a future of ’Japanese’ comics without Japan. This book takes seriously the political economy and cultural production of this so-called ’global manga’ produced throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia and explores the conditions under which it arises and flourishes; ...
A collection of essays by an international cast of scholars, experts, and fans, providing a definitive, one-stop Manga resource.
Manga is an emotive and expressive form of storytelling that has become popular worldwide; vivid and fascinating characters make a large contribution to its appeal. Characters are an essential component of a good story, crucial to the plot and vital for engaging the reader's interest and emotions. They are also enormous fun to imagine and to draw, but it is not always easy to fit your characters, your world and your plot together to create a seamless, convincing whole. Written and illustrated by five artists from Sweatdrop Studios, this book starts with drawing in the manga style before going on to describe the process of character creation and how your character could express their personality and emotions. Five original characters help to explain every topic, including character traits, from personalities and typical roles all the way down to the individual details important to make your character unique. The book also looks at the creation of side characters to complement your main character, and world-building. Packed with tips, it describes how to make your world realistic and intriguing, no matter how fantastical or everyday its basis.