Manga Art for Beginners: How to Create Your Own Manga Drawings

by Danica Davidson, Melanie Westin (Illustrator)

Overview

With titles ranging from Attack on Titan to Pokémon, manga is a billion-dollar industry with millions of fans worldwide. Readers will love this step-by-step guide to drawing characters that resemble the Japanese comics and anime they love. In this book, fans can learn how to draw their own manga characters and join in on the fun. Manga Art for Beginners explores the basics, like how to draw faces and eyes, and gradually shows how to get into more complex drawings.

Readers will learn to draw the following character types in easy, detailed steps:

• Hero/Heroine
• Schoolboy/Schoolgirl
• Male and Female Ninja
• Butler/Maid
• Bishonen
• Gothic Lolita
• Shrine Maiden
• Magical Girl
• Chibi

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781510700062
Publisher:	Skyhorse Publishing
Publication date:	03/29/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	220
Sales rank:	242,551
File size:	27 MB
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About the Author

Danica Davidson a writer for MTV and author of the Minecraft novels Escape from the Overworld and Attack on the Overworld. A longtime manga fan, her work on manga has been published by MTV, CNN, The Onion, Otaku USA, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Anime News Network and about twenty other places. She has both written the English adaptation and worked on the editing process for manga published in Sturgis, Michigan.

Melanie Westin is an artist and longtime manga fan who worked at VIZ Media, America’s largest manga publisher. She learned how to draw manga from guide books and self-study. She has been drawing for over ten years. She lives in San Francisco, California.