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Manga For Dummies - Kensuke Okabayashi

Manga For Dummies

Buch | Softcover
440 Seiten
2007
For Dummies (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 1

Part I: Manga 101 7

Chapter 1: Welcome to Manga World 9

Chapter 2: Gearing Up and Getting Ready 17

Chapter 3: Drawing: Starting with the Basics 29

Part II: To the Drawing Board 47

Chapter 4: Taking It from the Top with the Head 49

Chapter 5: Nice Bod: Manga Body Basics 87

Chapter 6: Customize and Accessorize Your Manga Character 123

Part III: Calling All Cast Members! 155

Chapter 7: The Main Protagonists 157

Chapter 8: Those Loveable Sidekicks 179

Chapter 9: The Dreaded Villains 197

Chapter 10: Elder Figures 213

Chapter 11: Damsels in Distress 227

Chapter 12: Girl Power! Sho _ jo Manga 243

Part IV: Time to Go Hi-Tech 267

Chapter 13: Designing Mechas 269

Chapter 14: Gadgets and Weapons 291

Chapter 15: Taking Off: Vehicles and Airplanes 305

Part V: An Advanced Case of Manga 327

Chapter 16: Putting Manga into Perspective 329

Chapter 17: Using Speed Lines to Create Motion and Emotion 347

Chapter 18: Thumbnails and Scenery 359

Chapter 19: Writing a Good Story 379

Part VI: The Part of Tens 389

Chapter 20: Ten (or so) Manga Artists 391

Chapter 21: (Nearly) Ten Places to Strut your Stuff 397

Index 403

Erscheint lt. Verlag 2.2.2007
Zusatzinfo Photos: 5 B&W, 20 Color; Drawings: 20 B&W, 100 Color; Screen captures: 0 B&W, 10 Color
Sprache englisch
Maße 188 x 234 mm
Gewicht 680 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
Zustand Neuware
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