101 Top Tips From Professional Manga Artists

As a sophisticated and highly stylised art form, Manga presents a series of challenges for budding artists, from character and set design to creating dynamic page layouts, perfectly paced narrative and panels with ever-changing camera angles. Here, award-winning professional Manga artist Sonia Leong and a collective of acclaimed creators lay bare the expert techniques that you need, from essential drawing tips to designing characters, painting vivid illustrations and exciting storytelling. Manga comes in a variety of styles, from kawaii (cute) to hyper-realistic. 101 Top Tips from Professional Manga Artists identifies the key features of each, enabling you to develop your individual style. Including both traditional and digital art methods alongside tips on becoming a professional, 101 Top Tips from Professional Manga Artists is the ultimate resource for beginners and more experienced artists alike.

"Manga creator Sonia Leong and a group of acclaimed fellow professionals lay bare the expert techniques behind this vibrant art form"--P. [4] of cover.

Award-winning manga artist Sonia Leong, with the help of other acclaimed manga creators and educators, gives you all the tips, tricks and tools you will need to get your ideas onto the page. - Discover how to get started, build your confidence, and boost your skills, beginning from first principles. - Learn how to draw faces, bodies, hands, feet, and create unique characters with their own styles. - Get the most out of your drawing materials, from traditional pens and pencils to digital software, and discover how best to use them to work up your own manga stories and comics. - Benefit from advice on pacing, layout, composition and lettering.

Become a digital manga master with the Ultimate Guide to Manga Art. You'll learn tips and tricks to improve your art, learn how to use the authentic Japanese art tool, Sai, and quick ways to create action lines, emotes, backgrounds and more. Within each project presented you are given expert advice from professional manga artists, a look into their portfolios and learn what software they use and why to create their detailed scenes. Get inspired and watch your manga art come to life with help from the masters.

The authoritative guide to cosplay written by a legend in the community, and packed with step-by-step advice and fascinating investigations into every aspect of the art. Cosplay—a portmanteau combining "costume" and "play"—has become one of the hottest trends in fandom . . . and Yaya Han is its shining superstar. In this guide to cosplaying, Han narrates her 20-year journey from newbie fan to entrepreneur with a household name in geekdom, revealing her self-taught methods for embodying a character and her experiences in the community. Each chapter is information-packed as she covers everything from the history of cosplay, to using nontraditional materials for costumes, to transforming your hobby into a career—all enhanced with expert advice. Illustrated throughout and easy to use, this practical manual also delights with fascinating stories from the past decades' global cosplay boom. It's the perfect gift for anyone interested in learning (or improving their skills in) the art of cosplay.

The exciting world of manga is explored in this extreme book. Readers will learn about the skills and training that are needed to become a manga artist. Sidebars and vibrant photographs engage readers and impart another layer of understanding about this captivating art form that is the latest and lasting craze.

Create interesting and expressive manga characters by learning the techniques of professional artists. This volume builds on the proven three-step technique presented in the companion volume, Drawing Basic Characters. 1. Trace a simple outline of the character 2. Add clothing, facial expressions and other details using the easy-to-follow tips 3. Use color and pen to create the finished character Experienced manga artists Junka Morozumi and Tomomi Mizuna are your guides to the dazzling world of lifelike and expressive manga characters who literally leap off the page. Through expert tips and richly-illustrated, step-by-step tutorials, they help you to build your skills and confidence at the same time. Their focus is on creating a dynamic body pose and face for each character and illustration. First you are shown how to sketch a well-proportioned outline, then how to fill in supporting details--powerful dramatic expressions, clothing and actions. Bold examples portray an array of body types and faces, each capturing a different mood or action sequence. Whether your character has just won a major victory and is leaping into the air in triumph, or you want to draw the subtlety of a forlorn expression, this book will allow you to capture it. No matter what story you're telling, Drawing Dynamic Manga Characters shows you how the pros do it.

An easy method to make you an artist. This manual is a guide to learning to draw in a style that belongs to Manga. We have devised techniques to create drawings according to our method: functional and straightforward. By following the manual, you can create works that are part of the Manga Style. We created an educational path to allow fans of all levels to develop accurate and well-made drawings. This path will follow who approaches Japanese drawing for the first time and those who already have some experience. Each part shows useful tools for the topics covered, and demonstrations. With step-by-step examples, it will be possible to practice and make a self-assessment to get concrete results. The entire manual develops by increasing the difficulty of topics, from the basic drawing to coloring. The complex techniques will be presented after the basic ones. It is also possible to start the course from the desired level by choosing a manual among the 3 that compose the whole path: the drawing is the first step, the inking and fillings are the second and the third is about comics and it is the most difficult one. However, to attend the entire course you may prefer the complete manual, which collects all topics. If you practice the examples described step-by-step, you will progressively realize more and more complex drawings. The strengths of this manual, profitable for anyone who wants to learn how to draw correctly, is the presentation of fast and straightforward techniques for highly effective results, designed for this purpose and tested during the courses. Deepening the drawing contents can lead to complex concepts; the only way to deal with them and make the study easier is to create clear examples and introduce techniques that can be used by anyone and produce results. It is possible to learn how to draw even complex subjects easily. Who does not know how to draw will learn to do it easily, and the experts will finally discover the details that will make them a professional!