|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
Frequently Bought Together
Product Details
|
Product Description
Product Description
Got manga? Christopher Hart’s got manga, and he wants to share it with all his millions of readers—especially the beginners. With Manga for the Beginner, anyone who can hold a pencil can start drawing great manga characters right away. Using his signature step-by-step style, Hart shows how to draw the basic manga head and body, eyes, bodies, fashion, and more. Then he goes way beyond most beginner titles, exploring dynamic action poses, special effects, light and shading, perspective, popular manga types such as animals, anthros, and shoujo and shounen characters. By the end of this big book, the new artist is ready to draw dramatic story sequences full of movement and life.
About the Author
Christopher Hart is the world’s best-selling author of drawing and cartooning books, with more than 2.5 million copies in print in seventeen languages. He lives in Westport, CT.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
First Sentence
WHEN I FIRST CAME UP WITH THE IDEA for this book, I saw nothing like it on the bookstore shelves. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index
WHEN I FIRST CAME UP WITH THE IDEA for this book, I saw nothing like it on the bookstore shelves. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
|
There are no customer reviews yet on Amazon.ca
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
4.1 out of 5 stars (43 customer reviews)
32 of 33 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Manga for the Beginner: Everything You Need to Start Drawing Right Away!, Sep 6 2009
A Kid's Review - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Manga for the Beginner: Everything you Need to Start Drawing Right Away! (Paperback)
This book really did get me started drawing manga. The directions are easy to follow with good tips for drawing. The only part I didn't understand was the vanishing points section but I pretty much got everything else. One part I wish it would've gone over was the wrinkles in clothes. Although the book was pretty good, I'm working on realistic drawings but for anyone who wants to draw manga, this is really the right book to start off at.
26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Impressive resource. For beginners and more advanced illustrators, Jun 15 2010
By J. J. Marino "Geekasaurus Rex" - Published on Amazon.com
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Manga for the Beginner: Everything you Need to Start Drawing Right Away! (Paperback)
A big fan here of Manga and just about all of the Japanese styles of art. I watch several shows regularly from Full Metal Alchemist to Bleach. When I was younger I watched tons of _Anime_ programs too. So, its been a dream of mine to draw Manga in some form or another for quite some time. When I bought this book I was unsure how it would be helpful.On my own drawing Manga has been less than successful. With this book I have improved my faces, bodies and hair more than I could have through practice alone.
The book covers the basics all the way up to perspectives in scenes and more. If you are even a little bit interested in drawing manga and like self help books then this book should not be passed up. It is a true treasure for the beginner up to the more advanced illustrator.
Accessories:
If you are going to be drawing on a tablet on your PC I recommend Manga Studio EX 4 (Win/Mac) for software and Wacom Intuos4 Medium Pen Tablet for the tablet. Don't bother with the Debut program of Manga Studio if you think you are going to get into this at all. I use Manga Studio to draw all of my line art sketches and illustrations.
If you are going to be drawing on paper, do yourself a favor and go to a real art store. Get good paper, HB or harder pencils and a VERY good eraser. Also get a set of .01 up to 1.0 pens. It will help you with your illustration.
Thats it, good luck with this great art form!
Thanks for reading my review.
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Name Says It All!!, Jan 22 2010
By Lim Shao Cong - Published on Amazon.com
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Manga for the Beginner: Everything you Need to Start Drawing Right Away! (Paperback)
Well my title says it all as well!This book is exactly what most people need to start drawing manga right away. Starting with the most basic of all things, character design!
The book consists of a lot of different tips and guidance on how to draw characters. starting from the front view, the profile to the 3/4 views of the characters face,body and poses. It also has the basic tips and instructions on drawing weapons and clothes.
Just when you thought you are done by mastering those basics, the book teaches something more in a form of drawing animals, anthropods, shading ,colouring and drawing backgrounds!
The tips on drawing from perspective is in fact, in my opinion, a very useful tip for any artist in particular.
Overall, the book has everything the beginner needs to learn to start drawing right away! but, advanced or even intermediate artists may find this book a bit lacking, but why buy a book for beginners when you are higher in skill level in the first place?
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
- Books > Arts & Photography > Drawing
- Books > Arts & Photography > History & Criticism > Criticism
- Books > Arts & Photography > Instructional & How-To > Drawing
- Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Cartooning
- Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Comic Strips
- Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Graphic Novels
- Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Manga > By Creator > Hart, Christopher
- Books > Teens > Manga > By Creator > Hart, Christopher
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
