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Manga is becoming more and more popular
in the United States. With the flood of books coming over from Japan,
and new American artists and writers, kids today are reading manga books
like crazy. Add to the fact that Japanese anime shows have been popular
now for 15 years or so, it looks like this art form is here to stay. Have you ever wanted to learn how to draw
those cute little manga animals like you see in all those manga books?
These charming creatures makes kids "ohhhh" and "awww" while there read
a manga book. After all, those big, beautiful eyes make you wants to
pick these animals up and cuddle them.
J.C. Amberlyn, author of Drawing Wildlife,
has created a book that shows you how to draw the animals that pull on
your heartstrings.
Drawing Manga Animals, Chibis, and Other Adorable
Creatures contains eight chapters that will teach you how to start
from the beginning until you have a fully-developed manga animal. The following chapters
appear in this book:
The Basics of Creating
Manga Style Characters
- Drawing Heads, Faces, and Expressions
- Drawing Eyes
- Drawing Animals
- Chibis
- Mascots
Mythological and Real
Creatures
- Mythological and Supernatural Manga Creatures
- Manga Creatures Based on Real Animals
Using the Computer to
Create Manga Art
- Essential Comic Book Elements
Each chapter contains both descriptions
and drawings from beginning to completion that will enable you to draw
just like a manga artist . . . with a lot of practice, that is. For
instance, the first chapter, Drawing Heads, Faces, and Expressions, contains the following
sections:
- Simple Cartoon Head Shapes - shows how to
create the basic head shape in four drawings
- Ears and Other Elements -
shows how to draw three different types of ears and a helmet
- Humanoid Head Shapes - shows
how to draw animals heads that have human features in front view,
side view, three-quarter view, far side of oval face, and far side
of heart-shaped faces
- Realistic, Long-Muzzled Animals
Head Shapes - shows how to draw a fox head, dragon head front
view, dragon head side view, dragon head three-quarter view, and
more muzzled animals
- Facial Features - shows how
to draw noses, mouths, more on mouths, and fangs
- Expressions - shows how to
draw the following expressions: shocked / frightened, happy, angry,
sad, embarrassed / nervous, knocked out / spaced out, and
mischievous
Each chapter is full of these kinds of
details. In the back of the book is a full Index that will help you find
exactly what you are looking for.
Drawing Manga Animals, Chibis, and Other Adorable Creatures
is a instructional book on how to draw manga creatures and more by
J.C. Amberlyn.
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