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Following the success of Fantasy Workshop, the ImagineFX team turns to manga art for fantasy artists who want to progress to the next level. With reference to creative painting programs (including Photoshop, Illustrator, and Corel Painter), this must-have guide explains, with the aid of screen grabs, how to progress from basic “pencil” roughs to first-stage line art and finished color art. From creating characters, scenes, and close-ups to designing your own digital paintings using the most up-to-date techniques, Manga lays out the tools to do it all.
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ImagineFX is the only magazine for fantasy and sci-fi artists. Each issue contains an eclectic mixture of in-depth workshops from the world's best artists, galleries and interviews, features, community news, software and hardware reviews, and the latest sci-fi and fantasy films and comics.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book but not for beginners,
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This review is from: Manga: The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Digital Painting Techniques (Paperback)
The contents of this book actually come from one of the special 'How to Draw and Paint' issues of Imaginefx magazine titled simply as Manga. It was popular and sold out but now you have the book. There aren't much differences except for the layout since this is a square format book, and there's no disc included. This is not a starter guide to drawing manga so it's not really for beginners. You'll need basic knowledge on manga drawing, figure drawing essentially, if you want to get most out of the book. The book covers, as the title suggest, digital painting techniques that are used for creating manga. You need to be able to draw first so that you have something to scan in before you can apply the techniques taught, stuff like adding colours and textures. The first two tutorials feature quick tips to help make your drawings more manga-like. They are presented in a series of points, that you can sort of use as a checklist of ideas to think about when you're drawing. The other tutorials are workshops that present a step-by-step look at how the artists create their illustrations. The software used are Photoshop and Painter. Again, you should have some basic knowledge of those two software. That way, you can follow along what they are saying. The commentary is clear and also covers the artistic parts like using colours schemes, creating shadows, or creating some special effects like depth of field blur, glowing effects etc. It's an informative book where artists freely share their digital tricks and tips. The insight will probably come from discovering what you can do digitally. Recommended to artists who are just past the beginner stage trying to pick up new digital drawing skills. Here's the list of contents: 1. Manga Gallery 2. Manga For Beginners - Get Under the Skin of Manga (Saejin Oh) - Essential Manga Tips (Joanna Zhou) - The Cherry Blossom Girl (Joanna Zhou) - Brush Up On Your Portrait Skills (Lois Van Baarle) 3. Character Creation - Paint a Dynamic Manga Character (Chester Ocampo) - The Greatest Waveracer (Michael Chomicki) - The Spear and the Spell (Chester Ocampo) 4. Manga Style - The Painted Princess (Hoang Nguyen) - She Dreams of Lilac (Joanna Zhou) - Mistress of the Elements (Aileen Strauch) - Flight of the Warriors (Sinad Jaruartjanapat) - The Music of Life and Death (Madeleine Rosca) 5. Fantasy and Sci-fi - The Way of the Warrior (Cris De Lara) - The Saga of the Scout (Michael Chang Ting Yu) - Create and Render a Robot Concept (Keith Thompson) - Mecha's Heart (Saejin Oh) - The Girl and the Katana Guardian (Patipat Asavasena) 6. Comic Panels - Draw and Ink a Manga Comic Page (Joanna Zhou) - Create a Comic Ready For Print (Jamie Mckelvie) (There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)
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3.9 out of 5 stars (13 customer reviews) 63 of 64 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book but not for beginners,
By Parka - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Manga: The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Digital Painting Techniques (Paperback)
 This is not a starter guide to drawing manga so it's not really for beginners. You'll need basic knowledge on manga drawing, figure drawing essentially, if you want to get most out of the book. The book covers, as the title suggest, digital painting techniques that are used for creating manga. You need to be able to draw first so that you have something to scan in before you can apply the techniques taught, stuff like adding colours and textures. The first two tutorials feature quick tips to help make your drawings more manga-like. They are presented in a series of points, that you can sort of use as a checklist of ideas to think about when you're drawing. The other tutorials are workshops that present a step-by-step look at how the artists create their illustrations. The software used are Photoshop and Painter. Again, you should have some basic knowledge of those two software. That way, you can follow along what they are saying. The commentary is clear and also covers the artistic parts like using colours schemes, creating shadows, or creating some special effects like depth of field blur, glowing effects etc. It's an informative book where artists freely share their digital tricks and tips. The insight will probably come from discovering what you can do digitally. Recommended to artists who are just past the beginner stage trying to pick up new digital drawing skills. Here's the list of contents: 1. Manga Gallery 2. Manga For Beginners - Get Under the Skin of Manga (Saejin Oh) - Essential Manga Tips (Joanna Zhou) - The Cherry Blossom Girl (Joanna Zhou) - Brush Up On Your Portrait Skills (Lois Van Baarle) 3. Character Creation - Paint a Dynamic Manga Character (Chester Ocampo) - The Greatest Waveracer (Michael Chomicki) - The Spear and the Spell (Chester Ocampo) 4. Manga Style - The Painted Princess (Hoang Nguyen) - She Dreams of Lilac (Joanna Zhou) - Mistress of the Elements (Aileen Strauch) - Flight of the Warriors (Sinad Jaruartjanapat) - The Music of Life and Death (Madeleine Rosca) 5. Fantasy and Sci-fi - The Way of the Warrior (Cris De Lara) - The Saga of the Scout (Michael Chang Ting Yu) - Create and Render a Robot Concept (Keith Thompson) - Mecha's Heart (Saejin Oh) - The Girl and the Katana Guardian (Patipat Asavasena) 6. Comic Panels - Draw and Ink a Manga Comic Page (Joanna Zhou) - Create a Comic Ready For Print (Jamie Mckelvie) (There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.) 20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Ultimately Disappointing,
By Orso - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Manga: The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Digital Painting Techniques (Paperback)
I guess i got confused by the words "Ultimate Guide to Mastering Digital Painting"I expected more...i found it to be very light on digital painting techniques, no real in-depth instructions on how to master any of the few techniques, just light overviews. The cover illustration of this book is very beautiful, it's unfortunate that there is no step by step instructions on how the very talented artist Stanley Lau created such an awe-inspiring masterpiece, the same goes for the other beautiful illustrations in the gallery section of the book, beautiful to look at, but no instructions on how to achieve it. If you're going to call your book the "Ultimate Guide to Mastering Digital Painting Techniques" you should have better guides and more digital painting techniques than whats presented here, nothing Ultimate about any of it. very disappointed. 11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A very useful book. A must read,
By Martine Lamarque - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Manga: The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Digital Painting Techniques (Paperback)
I enjoyed this book. Not only does it have tutorials from the featured artists, but it also shows some mini-galleries of their work. Some may not have any experience with for example, Photoshop, Painter, or any other digital art applications, but they would be pleased with the mini-galleries. A must-read.
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