How to draw manga Expert techniques for creating manga characters and storylines, with over 85 exercises and projects and more than 1000 illustrations
Book - 2023
"The Japanese drawing style known as manga has rapidly evolved from low-budget, black-and-white graphic novels to one of the most diverse, popular and celebrated contemporary art forms. This beautifully illustrated book is a guide to drawing your own manga characters, enhancing them with diverse props and backgrounds, building action scenes and developing attractive storylines. There are also sections on different manga styles, including shojo, shonen and seinen. In addition, the book explains how to digitally enhance your manga drawings, and even turn them into anima animation. With much to offer both a professional illustrator or complete novice, this practical volume provides expert instruction about this cutting-edge and innovative... art form."--
- Subjects
- Published
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[London] :
Lorenz Books, an imprint of Anness Publishing Limited
[2023]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
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- Item Description
- Includes index.
- Physical Description
- 256 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- ISBN
- 9780754835875
- Introduction
- The origins of manga
- The rise of manga
- Manga worldwide
- Styles of manga
- Chapter 1. Tools of the trade
- Pencils
- Pens and inking
- Brushes and paper
- Tone
- Colour
- Chapter 2. How to draw a manga character
- Heads and faces
- Drawing eyes
- Drawing hair
- Drawing the mouth and nose
- Facial expressions
- The manga figure
- Proportion
- Drawing hands
- Drawing feet
- Movement and perspective
- Stance gallery
- Colouring your drawing with markers
- Character archetypes
- Super-deformed characters
- Character themes
- Dress to impress
- Clothing gallery
- Character accessories
- Weapons
- Putting it together
- Kodomo animal characters
- Girl protagonist project
- Fantasy pirate project
- Chapter 3. Building the backgrounds
- Background and perspective
- Vanishing acts
- Placing characters
- Present-day setting
- Natural setting
- Quasi-historical setting
- Fantasy setting
- Cyberpunk setting
- Steampunk setting
- Interiors as backgrounds
- Versatile vehicles
- Multi-purpose planes
- Fantasy setting project
- Spacecraft project
- Chapter 4. Allies and enemies
- Animal allies
- Animal monsters
- Alien life forms
- Mecha giant robots
- Sidekicks and friends
- Elderly characters
- Villains
- Supporting cast gallery
- Battle scene project
- Chapter 5. Narrative and layout
- What's in a story?
- Copmposing the panel contents
- Narrative dramatization in panels
- Panel shapes and sizes
- Laying out an entire page
- Dialogue and speech balloons
- Panel shapes gallery
- Sketching thumbnails
- Creating roughs Inking and finishing off the page
- Chapter 6. The digital age takes over
- Tools of the digital trade
- Introduction to Adobe Photoshop
- The paint tools
- Other useful tools
- Photoshop layers
- Scanning and retouching an image
- Digital inking
- Toning techniques
- Speedlines and focus lines
- Style of lettering
- SFX lettering
- Using filters
- Inked background project
- Robot in space project
- Fight scene project
- Chapter 7. Digital colouring
- Colouring basics
- Colouring techniques
- Colouring a page
- Night image project
- Chapter 8. Improvements and beyond
- Customizing colour palettes
- Creating motion
- Creating a metallic look
- Creating reflections
- Converting a photo
- Creating lighting
- Combining software
- Digital shojo project
- Digital shonen project
- Digital kodomo project
- Digital seinen project
- Chapter 9. Anime
- The history of anime
- Software
- Pre-production
- Animation
- Cute dancer project
- Walk-cycle project
- Glossary
- Index
- Acknowledgements