Manga For Dummies - Kensuke Okabayashi

Manga For Dummies

Buch | Softcover
432 Seiten
2007
John Wiley & Sons Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-470-08025-2 (ISBN)
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Featuring youthful characters with oversized eyes and outsized emotions, expressive graphics, and a wide range of genres, Japanese manga (comics) and anime (animated cartoons) have taken the world by storm in the last few decades.
If you love Manga, you ll eat
Manga For Dummies, right up. This step–by–step guide shows you how to create all of your favorite Manga characters from rough sketch through final full–color renderings. You ll build your skills as you draw animals, mythical creatures, superheroes, teenagers, and villains along with their weapons, cars, and homes. Soon you ll be inventing your own characters and placing them in stylish poses and stirring action scenes. Before you know it you ll be knocking out storyboards and plotlines for you own Manga book. Find out how to:


Gear up for drawing with all the right tools and materials
Develop the basic skills of Manga figure drawing
Customize and accessorize your Manga characters
Design spectacular weapons, gadgets, mechas, and vehicles
Create 3–D drawings and give characters motion and emotion
Write an exciting Manga Story


Complete with a stunning, full–color 8 page insert, Manga for Dummies is your real–life guide to the ultimate fantasy world.

Kensuke Okabayashi teaches art at the Educational Alliance Art School in New York City. His work can be seen in everything from comic books to graphic novels to advertising storyboards.

Introduction.
Part I: Manga 101.


Chapter 1: Welcome to Manga World.


Chapter 2: Gearing Up and Getting Ready.


Chapter 3: Drawing: Starting with the Basics.


Part II: To the Drawing Board.


Chapter 4: Taking It from the Top with the Head.


Chapter 5: Nice Bod: Manga Body Basics.


Chapter 6: Customize and Accessorize Your Manga Character.


Part III: Calling All Cast Members!


Chapter 7: The Main Protagonists.


Chapter 8: Those Loveable Sidekicks.


Chapter 9: The Dreaded Villains.


Chapter 10: Elder Figures.


Chapter 11: Damsels in Distress.


Chapter 12: Girl Power! Shojo Manga.


Part IV: Time to Go Hi–Tech.


Chapter 13: Designing Mechas.


Chapter 14: Gadgets and Weapons.


Chapter 15: Taking Off: Vehicles and Airplanes.


Part V: An Advanced Case of Manga.


Chapter 16: Putting Manga into Perspective.


Chapter 17: Using Speed Lines to Create Motion and Emotion.


Chapter 18: Thumbnails and Scenery.


Chapter 19: Writing a Good Story.


Part VI: The Part of Tens.


Chapter 20: Ten (or so) Manga Artists.


Chapter 21: (Nearly) Ten Places to Strut your Stuff.


Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 2.2.2007
Verlagsort Chichester
Sprache englisch
Maße 187 x 232 mm
Gewicht 666 g
Einbandart Paperback
Themenwelt Literatur Comic / Humor / Manga
Kunst / Musik / Theater
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Freizeit / Hobby Malen / Zeichnen
ISBN-10 0-470-08025-6 / 0470080256
ISBN-13 978-0-470-08025-2 / 9780470080252
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