Let's Draw Manga: All about Fighting

LET'S DRAW MANGA-ALL ABOUT FIGHTING. Urban street rumbles, battling maids, destructive fantasy creatures and futuristic battle sequences...it's all covered here. Everything from learning how to draw gun combat down to the most pedestrian and domestic husband and wife disputes, this unique instructional guide presents to readers step-by-step drawing techniques and the "hows" and "whys" of effective manga storytelling from the perspective of a manga artist. This book is sure to pack a big punch for those wanting to learn how to draw dynamic battle royals with the unique manga flavor. Makoto Nakajima and his team of creators from the Big Mouth Factory, well established manga artists in Japan with many successful manga hits featured in Comic Afternoon and Weekly Shounen Magazine through Japan's publishing powerhouse, Kodan-sha, brings you their latest and exciting new how-to book to America.

Let's Draw Manga: Shoujo Characters

Need to brush up on giggling schoolgirls? Want to know how to sketch all the goods for hot guys? Are you ready to learn the best way to put together your own full-panel story? Put down your pen and take a look at LET'S DRAW MANGA-SHOUJO CHARACTERS! Learn how to draw in the popular and authentic shoujo styles, modeled after hit manga and anime shows. Everything from basic body features to adding precise facial details to choosing the right equipment, accessories and proportions...it's all laid out in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step fashion to make your drawings just right for the shoujo touch. It's like having a personal manga coach on every page! The successful LET'S DRAW MANGA series brings you the next anticipated instructional book that all shoujo manga fans have been waiting for. Authored and illustrated by seasoned Japanese manga and doujinshi artist, Akaro, this book will teach beginners and seasoned pros the new skills to draw in the style of their favorite shoujo artists in no time at all.

Let's Draw Manga: Ninja and Samurai

LET’S DRAW MANGA – Ninja & Samurai is a fist full of fun, with more action than you can shake a katana at. The western audience’s fascination with ninja and samurai has been on the rise recently with famous titles such as Lone Wolf and Cub and animated features like Ninja Scroll, which have gained much public attention. Yet there has not been a real instructional book about these legendary warriors until now! Inside this book you will learn from experienced manga artist, Hidefumi Okuma, on drawing the daily life and tools of the legendary samurai and their most menacing foes, the ninja. Also featured are the Kunoichi “female ninja”, mendicant Zen priests and much more. By providing readers with an in-depth look at these characters and their appearances, facial expressions, clothing and weaponry, you will gain the knowledge and understanding of what it takes to create authentic manga of this genre. This book will serve as a unique reference for any manga artist aspiring to create a samurai and ninja manga action series.

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Let's Draw Manga: Sexy Gals

Sexy female characters are the spice of every manga story. These heroines find themselves in every position possible! This volume in the Let's Draw Manga series helps manga artists expand on their knowledge of the human body to draw women in a variety of poses, and with a variety of clothing, facial expressions, hairstyles, and more. It offers valuable instruction on solving tricky problems, such as drawing the folds of fabric and perspective. The seductive, flirtatious women in this heavily illustrated reference are an inspiration to any artist.

Let's Draw Manga: Using Color

LET'S DRAW MANGA-USING COLOR You've got your black lines down-now what? Will you use paint or markers? Fill in with the computer or use your brushes? Just how do you mix up "skin color?" Where do all of the highlights and shadows go? What colors will you even use?! Look no further than LET'S DRAW MANGA-USING COLOR for all of these answers and more! Inside you'll discover the nature of color and the best ways to add color to any of your drawings. You can also take step-by-step lessons on coloring line drawings using paint, markers, or your computer. Find out about other methods for coloring too, and learn all about value, hue, saturation and the other color definition terminology, just like the pros use! LET'S DRAW MANGA-USING COLOR also lets you pick up a quick education in lighting effects and atmosphere and how they affect color. Gain control over the use of color and you'll never look back. This is the digital age-time to draw your manga in color! LET'S DRAW MANGA-USING COLOR includes text and coloring by John Ott, an American-born illustrator who has worked extensively with colorizing manga for print and CD-ROM, as well as producing color comics for worldwide distribution based on classic anime titles like STAR BLAZERS and GUNDAM. The key line art is by Tokyo-based illustrator You Kusano, well-known creator of many how-to-draw art books and chairman of Kusano Illustration Design Studio.

Let's Draw Manga: Bodies and Emotions

Why doesn’t my character pose the way I want it to in my drawing? Why does my character’s face look like she’s crying when I want her to smile? How do I get my drawings to look like it was illustrated by a manga artist from Japan? If you are faced with these common problems and have no where else to turn, we have the solution for you. LET’S DRAW MANGA – Bodies and Emotions! This invaluable instructional guide will teach you the do’s and don’ts of drawing the human form. With step-by-step drawings of human muscles, facial and skeletal structures of different body types, you will learn the break-down of complicated objects down to its most simple geometric shapes. You will be able to draw characters in numerous angles and poses in no-time at all. Take an in-depth view– drawing from a variety of character designs, each with their own distinctive stance to their character type. Learn the unique manga-style pose to each character that makes it so distinctive from other drawing styles... The successful Let’s Draw Manga series brings you the work of Tadashi Ozawa, author of the best- selling How to Draw Anime & Game Character series. This book will teach beginners and seasoned pros fresh techniques to emblish mundane pedestrian objects into dynamic and expressive characters to look like they were drawn by native manga artists from Japan. This is a “must have” book for anyone wanting to bring life and manga flavor to their still drawings!

Let's Draw Manga: Yaoi

You’re a yaoi fan, but have you ever wanted to create your own original yaoi manga? Want to learn how to draw cute ukes and sensual semes? Or maybe you might need help drawing kiss scenes! “I have all these ideas, but I’ll never be able to draw them out!” Right? Wrong! Are you ready to bring your characters to life on paper? Then channel your yaoi fantasies, grab onto your pen and check out LET’S DRAW MANGA – YAOI! This guide to the world of yaoi manga will teach you everything you need to know about how to create characters that look and feel authentically “yaoi.” You will discover how to draw stylish clothes, how to accurately portray different yaoi character types, and what steps every professional manga artist follows to create manga. This book covers all the bases, giving you helpful resources like a yaoi terms list and comprehensive guides to screentoning, panel arrangement, perspective, and more! Beginners and pros alike will find invaluable the many helpful tips and tricks to making your characters look the way you see in your favorite yaoi manga! Creating a yaoi manga is more than just learning how to draw…it’s also about story, aesthetics, and imagination! The successful Let’s Draw Manga series provides you with the insight and techniques you need to transform your manga ideas into reality. With illustrations and easy to understand, in-depth explanations courtesy of the world-famous manga artist Botan Yamada, you will gain everything you need to give yourself a solid foundation to create that yaoi manga you’ve always dreamed of!You’re a yaoi fan, but have you ever wanted to create your own original yaoi manga? Want to learn how to draw cute ukes and sensual semes? Or maybe you might need help drawing kiss scenes! “I have all these ideas, but I’ll never be able to draw them out!” Right? Wrong! Are you ready to bring your characters to life on paper? Then channel your yaoi fantasies, grab onto your pen and check out LET’S DRAW MANGA – YAOI! This guide to the world of yaoi manga will teach you everything you need to know about how to create characters that look and feel authentically “yaoi.” You will discover how to draw stylish clothes, how to accurately portray different yaoi character types, and what steps every professional manga artist follows to create manga. This book covers all the bases, giving you helpful resources like a yaoi terms list and comprehensive guides to screentoning, panel arrangement, perspective, and more! Beginners and pros alike will find invaluable the many helpful tips and tricks to making your characters look the way you see in your favorite yaoi manga! Creating a yaoi manga is more than just learning how to draw…it’s also about story, aesthetics, and imagination! The successful Let’s Draw Manga series provides you with the insight and techniques you need to transform your manga ideas into reality. With illustrations and easy to understand, in-depth explanations courtesy of the world-famous manga artist Botan Yamada, you will gain everything you need to give yourself a solid foundation to create that yaoi manga you’ve always dreamed of!

Let's Draw Manga: Fantasy

Do you know how to create the perfect sci-fi sidekick? Need to figure out what kind of armor an actual Shaolin knight might wear? And how do you build up excitement in your original manga when it's time to face that evil end boss?! Sharpen your pencil and make way for LET'S DRAW MANGA-FANTASY! You'll learn how today's most popular fantasy manga styles are influenced by both your favorite classic books and real-life history. Everything from drawing precise body details to fleshing out the world your characters inhabit is covered in this easy-to-follow (and fun to read) guide, too. Tons of examples and step-by-step instructions guarantee that you won't lose your way in the mythical manga forest...just watch out for the fire-breathing dragon at the end! The successful LET'S DRAW MANGA series offers insight and key advice for every manga master. Helmed by professional manga artist Aster Noriko, this volume includes key tricks and tips for translating your original ideas into detailed reality. Novice fans and seasoned pros alike can now draw the fantasy world of their dreams...you're on your way to creating your very own secret worlds, weapons and so much more!

Let's Draw Manga: Tokyo-Urban Hip Hop Culture

Fast cars, fast women, late nightclubs, hardcore rappers & troubled youth-welcome to the urban world of Hip Hop, Japanese style! Hip Hop has long become a cultural icon that has but recently spilled over American edges and into countries like Japan. Now, LET'S DRAW MANGA takes you behind the scene of Tokyo's trendy subculture with LET'S DRAW MANGA-TOKYO URBAN-HIP HOP CULTURE. Instructed by Japanese street experts and drawn by industry veterans of manga, this valuable instructional guide helps readers depict the fast-pace urban lifestyle of Tokyo, Japan's largest mecca for the Hip Hop subculture it bears by its youth today. Through a series of studied drawings of various character designs, urban environments, city living conditions and youth environment, which are essential elements to creating this unique genre, this book presents to the novice artist step-by-step illustrations and design instructions which ultimately lead up to formulating a short urban story. With focus on creating characters with the hippest hairstyles and latest trends in fashion, down to constructing the various local youth settings, this book makes the perfect reference guide for anyone wanting to draw an urban manga drama! Makoto Nakajima and Big Mouth Factory bring you their second book to their successful LET'S DRAW MANGA series. With their first hit, LET'S DRAW MANGA-ALL ABOUT FIGHTING, LET'S DRAW MANGA-TOKYO URBAN-HIP HOP CULTURE would be the perfect addition to your LET'S DRAW MANGA collection.

Weapons File

ANOTHER WORLD-WIDE DIGITAL EXCLUSIVE. The industry's premiere weapon photo-reference title is taking another shot—hundreds of 'em! We've loaded it up with another full magazine of the best gun images, ideal for illustrators and 3-D digital artists! Hundreds of reference photos of the most popular and visually interesting firearms, photographed from 360 degrees and at three different points of view: worm's-eye, eye level, and bird's-eye. This book will enhance any artist's work, providing an easy-to-use guide for creating realistic depictions of widely used firearms. See the weapons you need to reference up close and personal—no permit or ear protection necessary!

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