Manga Art Secrets
The Definitive Guide to Drawing Awesome Artwork in the Manga Style
Search Press · Print & ebook · September 7, 2021
Everything you need to become a manga artist, with step-by-step instructions, exercises, and tips and tricks and feature spreads from other artists.
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- Who it’s for
- Build a manga drawing portfolio through guided sequences, practice exercises, and featured artists’ work.
- Themes
- Manga-style drawing, Drawing practice and skill development, Artist inspiration
- Pacing
- Steady
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Everything you need to become a manga artist, with step-by-step instructions, exercises, and tips and tricks and feature spreads from other artists. With the interest in manga-style art now stronger than ever - its influence can be seen in the Pixar films Frozen, Wreck-It Ralph and other movies - this is the perfect book to slipstream into manga drawing. Packed full of step-by-step sequences for face, body, and poses, you too can draw in the manga-art style.
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Learn how to draw figures in the characteristic style of your favourite characters by building a portfolio of drawings. At the end of each chapter is a series of practice exercises where you're encouraged to trace or freehand draw subjects from earlier on. You'll end up with a portfolio of sketches charting your artistic development. There is also an inspirational artists-in-residence section, where cool artists share their manga-art secrets and showcase their own art.
Manga Drawing Practice
Build a manga drawing portfolio through guided sequences, practice exercises, and featured artists’ work.
Come here for
- Step-by-step sequences for drawing faces, bodies, and poses
- Chapter-end practice exercises, plus artists-in-residence spreads
Expect
- Exercises invite tracing or freehand drawing subjects from earlier chapters
- Sketches chart your artistic development
Where it sits
| Cartooning | 77% |
|---|---|
| Drawing Techniques | 35% |
| General Manga | 30% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Cartooning
- General Manga
- Drawing for Kids
- Authors
- Dalia Sharawna
- Publisher
- Search Press
- Published
- September 7, 2021
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Manga-style drawing · Drawing practice and skill development · Artist inspiration
- Reading lane
- Cartooning