Manga for the Beginner: Everything you Need to Start Drawing Right Away!Got manga? Christopher Hart’s 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. |
Contents
Contents | 9 |
Teen | 20 |
Sparkling Manga Eyes | 26 |
Manga Hair | 32 |
Front View | 38 |
Rear View | 100 |
Clothing Costumes | 106 |
Magical Girl Costumes | 114 |
Other editions - View all
Manga for the Beginner: Everything you Need to Start Drawing Right Away! Christopher Hart Limited preview - 2013 |
Manga for the Beginner: Everything you Need to Start Drawing Right Away! Christopher Hart No preview available - 2008 |
Common terms and phrases
angle ankles anthro artists BASIC BODY CONSTRUCTION Beginner's Drawing beginners cat-girls center line character's chest chibi chin clothes CONFL CONFUSE cool costume create curve CYBERPUNK ears eyeball eyebrows eyelid face falls fantasy feminine fighter figure fingers FINISHED PENCIL foot forced perspective front view genre gives GRAPHIC NOVEL GRAYSCALE gray tones guidelines guys hair hairstyle hand head horizon line INK COLOR Intermediate's Drawing knees Latissimus dorsi light look magical girl MALE FEMALE manga animals manga eyes MANGA-STYLE COLOR martial arts mecha Miniline muscle neck ninja ninjitsu nose Note outfit overlaps panels popular pretty Quick Tip reader rib cage scene secondary action shadow shoujo shoulders and hips shounen side SIMPLIFIED SKELETON slightly special effects speech balloons speed lines standing pose straight style tail TEEN GIRL There's things TIGHT PENCIL tilt Top eye line torso tortoise vampire vanishing lines vanishing point left vanishing point right