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Beginner's Guide to Creating Manga Art (Downloadable Edition)

Beginner's Guide to Creating Manga Art (Downloadable Edition)

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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.

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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