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Beginner's Guide to Creating Manga Art - OUT OF PRINT!

Beginner's Guide to Creating Manga Art - OUT OF PRINT!

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Beginner's Guide to Creating Manga Art explores the topic of manga art, starting from basic character design and progressing to full-color images. Industry greats including Steven Cummings and Gonzalo Ordoñez open a window into their world and present tutorials covering everything from drawing features, anatomy, and expressions to designing clothing, perfecting poses, and coloring characters with a variety of traditional and digital artistic tools. Bursting with knowledge and brilliant artwork, Beginner's Guide to Creating Manga Art is an unmissable title for anyone wanting to learn how to capture that classic manga style.

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An insight into the creation of manga art, focusing on coloring, drawing, and designing characters using traditional and digital methods.

Manga is an increasingly popular art form, particularly with the recent influx of Far Eastern games, anime, and comics into the western world. A term originally describing a Japanese comic art style of the late 19th century, manga has come to be applied to a variety of mediums in recent years and is receiving more and more mainstream interest and attention.

Beginner's Guide to Creating Manga Art explores the topic of manga art, starting from basic character design and progressing to full-color images. Industry greats including Steven Cummings and Gonzalo Ordoñez open a window into their world and present tutorials covering everything from drawing features, anatomy, and expressions to designing clothing, perfecting poses, and coloring characters with a variety of traditional and digital artistic tools. Bursting with knowledge and brilliant artwork, Beginner's Guide to Creating Manga Art is an unmissable title for anyone wanting to learn how to capture that classic manga style.

Product details
Softback 208 pages
Dimensions: 297mm x 210mm
Paper quality: Full-color premium paper pages
ISBN: 978-0-9568171-6-7

Contents and contributors

Chapter 1 // Introduction

The Basics of Manga
The Birth of Manga
Features and Expressions
Anatomy and Poses
Clothing
Character Design

Chapter 2 // Manga Drawing Workshops
Designing Characters
The Barber
Ayaka the Zombie-Slaying Idol Singer
A Female Warrior
Kleo the Cat Girl
The School Girl
A Manga Duo
The Angel
A Forest Spirit
A Japanese Warrior Boy
A Lychee-Obsessed Girl
A Fantasy Elf

Chapter 3 // Manga Coloring Workshops
Coloring Characters
The Barber
Ayaka the Zombie-Slaying Idol Singer
A Female Warrior
Kleo the Cat Girl
The School Girl
A Manga Duo
The Angel
A Forest Spirit
A Japanese Warrior Boy
A Lychee-Obsessed Girl
A Fantasy Elf

The Manga Gallery
Featuring some of the top manga artists found in the industry today.

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Nejc
Perfect startup

This book is an excellent tool to use when you need starting points, guidance and inspiration on how to dive in to the manga art. The interpretation is user friendly, giving enough technical and practical advice, and also an interesting reading material. My drawing abilities are improwing as i follow the book's guidance.

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Beryl
To start...

It's great for starters. You can even choose your tools. But if you already know something, (like anatomy, basic shapes) it will be useless. You can only buy for starting fresh. Though it will still come handy.

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Daniel
Great way to learn fundamentals of the style

A great book, especially if you want to learn the building blocks to develop that signature anime/manga art style.

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Iqbal
Comprehensive

A comprehensive book, covers an important aspect of creating manga arts such as type of styles, expressions, postures, coloring, etc. A good collection for my library.

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Jrme
Best Manga tutorial ever

If you plan to learn to draw manga, this book is a must have ! After a short history of manga styles, the author leads you in a series of well documented tutorials. You can learn how to draw and bring colors in your illustrations in a manga style.Very helpful.

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