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How to Create Manga: Drawing Action Scenes and Characters
The Ultimate Bible for Beginning Artists (With Over 600 Illustrations)
Series: How To Create Manga Guides
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Who better to walk you through the basics of creating action-packed manga than a professional Japanese illustrator and animator? Containing 40 detailed tutorials, How to Create Manga: Drawing Action Scenes and Characters
Tuttle Publishing
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Who better to walk you through the basics of creating action-packed manga than a professional Japanese illustrator and animator? Containing 40 detailed tutorials, How to Create Manga: Drawing Action Scenes and Characters will add a whole new set of skills to your manga-drawing toolkit, offering tips and pointers only an expert will know for creating dynamic illustrations.
Enhance your visual storytelling skills with methods and ideas from the world of cinema and traditional figure drawing. Introduce perspective and angles, create more expressive characters and integrate them all to bring your story to life.
The first section looks at how to build your scene, while the second shows you how to pose and position your characters. Put the two together and you're on your way to creating artworks that will leap off the screen and page. The techniques covered in this book include:
- Framing devices
- Multiple perspectives
- Split-screen viewpoints
- Closeups and group shots
- And much more!
Ideal for digital as well as traditional artists looking for new techniques to access the world of action manga, How to Create Manga: Drawing Action Scenes and Characters allows you to harness the wisdom and experience of one of Japan's leading master artists.
Series: How To Create Manga Guides
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How to Create Manga: Drawing Action Scenes and Characters
Who better to walk you through the basics of creating action-packed manga than a professional Japanese illustrator and animator? Containing 40 detailed tutorials, How to Create Manga: Drawing Action Scenes and Characters will add a whole new set of skills to your manga-drawing toolkit, offering tips and pointers only an expert will know for creating dynamic illustrations. Enhance your visual...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week -
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How to Create Manga: Drawing Action Scenes and Characters by Shikata Shiyomi has been praised for its comprehensive and visually appealing approach to teaching manga drawing techniques. It is particularly recommended for those aiming to enhance their artistic skills, with reviewers noting that it effectively guides readers in refining their drawings.
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ISBN: 9784805315644
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 08 December 2020
Country: United States
Imprint: Tuttle Publishing
Illustration: With Over 600 Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 191.0mm
Height: 254.0mm
Weight: 709g
Pages: 176
About the Author
Shikata Shiyomi is based in Hiroshima, Japan, where he is an illustrator and instructor of comic illustrations at Anabuki Design College and Sogo Gakuen Human Academy. Shiyomi's works include "Shinkenzemi" (Benesse Corporation), "Books 3 and 4 that make music more fond" (Gakken Plus), "Tottori Arisaru" (TO Books), "Holy Dungeon" ("Live A Live" collaboration--Square Enix) and Uranus drawing. He has been involved in a wide range of activities and touches, such as drawing more than 30,000 portraits of rice paddies in Miyajima for the past 10 years.
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