Manga Art for Beginners: How to Create Your Own Manga Drawings

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With titles ranging fromAttack on TitantoPokmon, manga is a billion-dollar industry with millions of fans worldwide. Readers will love this step-by-step guide to drawing characters that resemble the Japanese comics and anime they love. In this book, fans can learn how to draw their own manga characters and join in on the fun.Manga Art for Beginnersexplores the basics, like how to draw faces and eyes, and gradually shows how to get into more complex drawings.
Readers will learn to draw the following character types in easy, detailed steps:
Hero/Heroine
Schoolboy/Schoolgirl
Male and Female Ninja
Butler/Maid
Bishonen
Gothic Lolita
Shrine Maiden
Magical Girl
Chibi

Author Bio

Danica Davidson a writer for MTV and author of the Minecraft novels Escape from the Overworld and Attack on the Overworld. A longtime manga fan, her work on manga has been published by MTV, CNN, The Onion, Otaku USA, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Anime News Network and about twenty other places. She has both written the English adaptation and worked on the editing process for manga published in Sturgis, Michigan.

Melanie Westin is an artist and longtime manga fan who worked at VIZ Media, Americas largest manga publisher. She learned how to draw manga from guide books and self-study. She has been drawing for over ten years. She lives in San Francisco, California.