Product Description
If you love Manga, you?ll eat Manga For Dummies, right up. This step-by-step guide shows you how to create all of your favorite Manga characters from rough sketch through final full-color renderings.? You?ll build your skills as you draw animals, mythical creatures, superheroes, teenagers, and villains?along with their weapons, cars, and homes. Soon you?ll be inventing your own characters and placing them in stylish poses and stirring action scenes. Before you know it you?ll be knocking out storyboards and plotlines for you own Manga book. Find out how to:
- Gear up for drawing with all the right tools and materials
- Develop the basic skills of Manga figure drawing
- Customize and accessorize your Manga characters
- Design spectacular weapons, gadgets, mechas, and vehicles
- Create 3-D drawings and give characters motion and emotion
- Write an exciting Manga Story
Complete with a stunning, full-color 8 page insert, Manga for Dummies is your real-life guide to the ultimate fantasy world.
From the Back Cover
Packed with hundreds of how-to illustrations
Take your manga drawings from rough sketches to finished art!
Are you an aspiring manga artist? This easy-to-follow guide shows you how to create your own manga characters and their world ? from heroes and villains to weapons, cars, animals, and more. You get expert, step-by-step guidance in various drawing techniques, developing a story, and using motion and emotion to bring your characters to life!
Discover how to
- Draw different faces and body types
- Understand the manga genres
- Create plotlines and storyboards
- Design high-tech gadgets
- Show off your work
- Set up your own manga studio
What I liked best is that this book is that it doesn’t just help you to “draw manga” like a “how to draw cats” book (which it does quite well), but it connected me to with the whole manga genre. I got some sense that manga has a really creative and innovative history, starting with Hokusai (which was really news to me, because I always liked his prints and crazy drawings) and extending through some key creative artists I had never heard of who have brought manga to where it is today. This is an inspiration because it gets you thinking about what new could be done that could be really compelling in the future. Another thing I liked was that it gives a good sense of how different story lines and roles get articulated graphically. This Manga for Dummies is not just for dummies…
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GREAT FIND!
I am a 29 year old that used to love to draw, and have wanted to get back into it, but needed a place to start, and some help along the way.
I bought this book because of my interest in Manga art but, this book took me beyond drawing. The author, besides being a good artist, is a great teacher. This book is full of information and history. I got this book to learn to draw Manga type art but, I became drawn into the words of the author. You can sense his respect for it’s history and his want for the reader to understand all there is to know about Manga. The book is very easy to follow and when (and if) you get to the “How to Draw” part of the book, it takes you through a very easy, step by step process.
I feel this book was a wonderful purchase on my part.
I was, at best, ignorant in regards to manga and mediocre in regards to drawing. This book improved both these deficiencies with its friendly and informative text, and its clear and step-by-step drawings. I definitely recommend this book as an accessible introduction to the genre and art of manga.
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The reason why you buy a “dummies” book
I purchased this because I was a dummy with regards to drawing in general, and for some reason got a “wild hair” to try and draw manga.
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Great in most areas, not thorough enough in others
I purchased this book based on experiance of using the ” For Dummies Series” in the past. The book does a good job on creating heads, bodies, and the differences in male/female…
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Becoming a GREAT manga artist!
You may not be the greatest manga artist, but you WILL have the confidence to start.
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A great book for Manga lover beginners.
I bought this book for my 17-year old stepson who always loves manga. He is very excited to have this book that can teach him Manga from very basic stuff to the leve he can draw…
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This book is great!
I’m learning all sorts of things I never knew about manga – the history, the drawing techniques, the characters, and even the storylines. Very impressive!
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Very cool
I thought this book was awesome. I am more into pop culture than Manga in particular, but a friend recommended this book and I thought it was great.
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Excellent
Superb quality and very very thorough. Extremely well done and a must-have for every manga lover!