Learn to Draw Exciting Anime & Manga Characters


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This complete guide provides lessons and insights from 100 professional artists! Imagine an art class taught by 100 professional Japanese manga and anime illustrators. In much the same way, this essential guide gathers the collective knowledge, tips and techniques from over 100 anime and manga artists. The lessons cover everything from the basics of figure drawing and posing to advanced cutting-edge digital illustration and coloration techniques. The 200 step-by-step lessons include: Anatomy and body structure Facial features and expressions Drawing Clothing and accessories Digital painting and coloration techniques Composition and narrative structure And much more! Learn to Draw Exciting Anime & Manga Characters features full-color examples that focus on the ?ne details as well as the big-picture, broad-stroke basics. With over 600 sample illustrations to guide the reader, this book offers tips and techniques for traditional hand-drawing and digital design alike. This is the anime and manga drawing guide that all aspiring artists need!




Draw Like an Artist: 100 Lessons to Create Anime and Manga Characters


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This is your go-to drawing and visual reference book for creating anime and manga characters, featuring more than 600 drawings demonstrating basic techniques and depicting a wide range of characters. For student and aspiring artists, illustrators, character designers, and more, Draw Like an Artist: 100 Lessons to Create Anime and Manga Characters demonstrates foundational art concepts like proportion and anatomy as you learn to draw a broad array of characters and their poses and expressions, all shown from a variety of perspectives. Each set of step-by-step illustrations takes you from beginning sketch lines to a finished drawing. Artist and author Alex Brennan-Dent’s expert drawing techniques and video tutorials to key concepts accessible via QR codes make this a must-have sourcebook for animators and manga artists. This comprehensive guidebook includes: Anime and manga drawing fundamentals, including anatomy, poses and body language, and features such as hair, eyes, mouths, and hands A guide to figure proportions, differentiated by age group Step-by-step instructions for drawing a wealth of different characters, including characters from everyday life, sports, music, fantasy, sci-fi and horror, and role-playing games Tips on depicting interactions, both friendly and fighting Draw Like an Artist: 100 Lessons to Create Anime and Manga Characters is a library essential for any artist interested in learning the fundamental techniques for drawing these popular entertainment genres. The books in the Draw Like an Artist series are richly illustrated visual references for learning how to draw classic subjects through hundreds of step-by-step images created by expert artists and illustrators.




Design Your Own Anime and Manga Characters


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For beginner to intermediate artists, Design Your Own Anime and Manga Characters demonstrates how to conceive and draw original characters for these popular art/entertainment genres.




Saturday AM Presents How to Draw Diverse Manga


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For beginner to intermediate artists, Saturday AM Presents How to Draw Diverse Manga demonstrates how to conceive and draw original characters that reflect diverse racial, ethnic, and gender identities, featuring work by the artists represented in Saturday AM magazine, a recognized global brand that unites the two biggest trends in Young Adult graphic novels/comic books: diversity and manga.




Draw Like an Artist: 100 Flowers and Plants


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Featuring 600+ sketches depicting a vast array of beautiful botanicals, floral forms, plant structures, and more, Draw Like an Artist: 100 Flowers and Plants is a must-have visual reference book for student artists, botanical illustrators, urban sketchers, and anyone seeking to improve their realistic drawing skills. Designed as a contemporary, step-by-stepguidebook for artists who are learning to draw botanical forms, Draw Like An Artist: 100 Flowers and Plants features an inclusive array of florals, ferns, succulents, and more, all shown from a variety of perspectives. Each set of illustrations takes you from beginning sketch lines to a finished drawing. Author Melissa Washburn is a skilled illustrator whose clear and elegant drawing style will make this a go-to sourcebook for years to come.




Draw Like an Artist: 100 Lessons to Create Anime and Manga Characters


Book Description

Draw Like An Artist: 100 Lessons to Create Anime and Manga Characters takes readers step by step through the basics of how to draw these popular entertainment genres plus a variety of character types in a wide range of poses, attitudes, expressions, and costumes.




Draw Manga Style


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Draw Manga Style offers step-by-step drawings for the basic elements, character concepts, and visual effects of anime and manga.




Master Guide to Drawing Anime: 5 Minute Characters


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"5-Minute Characters gathers together the easiest characters from The Master Guide to Drawing Anime series and The Manga Fashion Bible for the beginning anime artist. This carefully curated collection shows aspiring artists how to use simple templates to draw the head from different angles, bodies of characters from different age groups, and authentic anime hairstyles and fashions. Next, they'll see step by step how to draw dozens of the most popular character types and the emotions and attitudes that make them compelling. Finally, readers can put it all together and create simple scenes"--




Manga Sketchbook


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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!




Drawing Anime Faces and Feelings


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Big facial expressions are essential to anime and manga. They can be much more eloquent than printed words for getting an emotional response out of viewers. However, faces can be challenging. With this book, improve your anime-drawing skills with instruction for facial features and expressions for a wide variety of ages, character types, hair styles and activities. With 800 different facial expressions, you'll be able to draw your character in any emotional situation or with any reaction.