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Manga for the Beginner: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started Right Away!

by Christopher Hart

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Publisher Comments:

Chris Harts complete one-volume guide to mastering manga!

* Super size, super value!

* Complete tutorial packed with Chris Harts step-by-steps

* Top-selling subject, top-selling author--more than 600,000 Manga Mania copies sold!

Got manga? Christopher Harts got manga, and he wants to share it with all his millions of readers--especially the beginners. With Manga for the Beginner, anyone who can hold a pencil can start drawing great manga characters right away. Using his signature step-by-step style, Hart shows how to draw the basic manga head and body, eyes, bodies, fashion, and more. Then he goes way beyond most beginner titles, exploring dynamic action poses, special effects, light and shading, perspective, popular manga types such as animals, anthros, and shoujo and shounen characters. By the end of this big book, the new artist is ready to draw dramatic story sequences full of movement and life.

Synopsis:

Using his signature step-by-step style, Hart shows how to draw the basic manga head and body, eyes, bodies, fashion, and more. Then he explores dynamic action poses, special effects, light and shading, perspective, and popular manga types.

About the Author

Christopher Hart is the worlds best-selling author of drawing and cartooning books, with more than 2.5 million copies in print in seventeen languages. He lives in Westport, Connecticut.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780823030835
Subtitle:
Everything You Need to Know to Get Started Right Away!
Author:
Hart, Christopher
Publisher:
Watson-Guptill Publications
Subject:
Drawing
Subject:
Comic books, strips, etc.
Subject:
Cartooning
Subject:
Techniques - Drawing
Subject:
General
Subject:
Techniques - Cartooning
Subject:
Cartooning -- Technique.
Subject:
Comic books, strips, etc. -- Japan -- Technique.
Edition Description:
Trade Paper
Publication Date:
August 2008
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
192
Dimensions:
986x868x51 163

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