Manga Mania Fantasy Worlds: How to Draw the Amazing Worlds of Japanese Comics

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Watson-Guptill Publications, 2003 - Art - 144 pages
Manga fantasy is the swords-and-sorcery Japanese animation style featured in the most popular video role-playing games on the market. Best-selling author Christopher Hart’s latest tutorial reveals the secrets and techniques that go into building these worlds of wonder. An increasingly fashionable style among both digital and traditional animators, manga enjoys unrivaled popularity among the game players themselves, allowing them entry into fabled worlds of startling beauty, terror, and adventure.Manga Mania Fantasy Worldsthrows down the gauntlet for people interested in creating these scenes for themselves. Artists will learn how to illustrate detailed backdrops and landscapes, rugged weaponry, and, of course, fearsome creatures—aliens, faeries, ogres, and much more. In the straightforward style that is his trademark, Christopher Hart teaches the basics and the intricacies of creating manga fantasy illustrations that practically jump off the page. • 5th title in the best-selling Mania series with over 200,000 copies sold to date • Manga is the most popular graphic style in the world and the fastest- growing genre in the US

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About the author (2003)

Christopher Hart is the acclaimed author of countless how-to-draw tutorials, including two of the best-selling art books in the US—Manga Mania and Anime Mania. He has sold more than one million books worldwide and makes his home in Connecticut.

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