Developing Shoujo Manga Techniques

This volume shows the techniques used in manga for girls. which is now so widely used today that they have come to define modern manga style. These techniques are indispensable for you to draw characters more realistically and pay close attention to backgrounds. This volume is a definitive compendium that reveals these techniques in extraordinary detail and precision.

The techniques used in manga for girls are not so widely used today that they have come to define modern manga techniques. They are indispensible for you to draw characters more realistically and to pay close attention to back grounds. This volume is a definitive compendium that reveals techniques in extraordinary detail and precision.

A step-by-step guide to the basics of drawing "girl comics," otherwise known as shoujo.

A guide to creating shoujo manga stories, including information on the basics of storytelling, and practical advice for inventing narratives just like the professionals. Presented in graphic format.

This edited collection explores how graphic art and in particular Japanese manga represent Japanese history. The articles explore the representation of history in manga from disciplines that include such diverse fields as literary studies, politics, history, cultural studies, linguistics, narratology, and semiotics. Despite this diversity of approaches all academics from these respective fields of study agree that manga pose a peculiarly contemporary appeal that transcends the limitation imposed by traditional approaches to the study and teaching of history. The representation of history via manga in Japan has a long and controversial historiographical dimension. Thereby manga and by extension graphic art in Japanese culture has become one of the world's most powerful modes of expressing contemporary historical verisimilitude. The contributors to this volume elaborate how manga and by extension graphic art rewrites, reinvents and re-imagines the historicity and dialectic of bygone epochs in postwar and contemporary Japan. Manga and the Representation of Japanese History will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian studies, Asian history, Japanese culture and society, as well as art and visual culture

In this follow-up to Manga Drawing Deluxe, manga artist/author Nao Yazawa’s inaugural how-to-draw title, Drawing and Painting Anime and Manga Faces demonstrates how to draw expressive key characters, from warriors to magical girls to chibis.

All the information required to draw Manga, the immensely popular form of Japanese animation. Features an emphasis on the use of markers and the different materials and art supplies needed.