Draw Your Own Manga: Beyond the Basics (Draw Your Own Manga Series) - Softcover

Nagatomo, Haruno

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1568365020 ISBN 13: 9781568365022

Publisher: Kodansha International, 2016

Synopsis

Now that I've got the hang of the basic techniques, how can I improve my style?
Color manga looks really cool, but I don't know what materials I need or how to use them!

The Draw Your Own Manga team is back to help your take your manga to the next stage. Draw Your Own Manga: Beyond the Basics expands on some of the techniques explained in this first book, All the Basics, and introduces some new ways in which you can add personality and style to your manga.

 ·  How to distinguish between male and female characters of all ages with physical features, facial expressions, and clothing.
 ·  How to enhance your manga with a range of special effects, from flashes to sound effects.
 ·  How to draw indoor and outdoor backgrounds from different perspectives, and how to use screen tone and ink to depict daytime and night scenes.
 ·  How to use various types of color ink, markers, and airbrushes to create stunning manga in color.

Draw Your Own Manga: Beyond the Basics also features an interview with the famous sports manga artist Shinji Mizushima, who talks about what it takes to create great manga.

The name Shinji Mizushima is synonymous with baseball manga. He is the creator of such popular, long-running series as Dokaben, Mr. Abu, and Poem of the Baseball Craze.

About this title

About the Author

HARUNO NAGATOMO is a manga artist best known for her Boys Love-themed work. Since 1996, she has been creating simple and entertaining books designed to help budding manga artists.

From School Library Journal

Grade 7 Up–With Japanese art influencing everything from action figures to breakfast cereals, the question is not where to find books on drawing manga, but which of the many available titles are best for your library. This book is by far the most authentic–having been written, illustrated, and endorsed by Japanese manga artists and published first in Japanese. Basics covers characters, effects, backgrounds, and coloring. It teaches drawing by way of explanatory text and samples rather than showing a step-by-step production of a character. This style allows serious art students to feel as though they are being taught rather than simply learning to copy a specific drawing. Because this book was translated from a right-to-left-reading format into a left-to-right format, and because much of the book takes place in panels, comics-style, there is a slight learning curve involved in reading it. Still, manga fans will have no problem deciphering it and will benefit from its mixture of playfulness and professionalism. The book includes an interview with Shinji Mizushima, who draws baseball-themed manga, a welcomed respite from the usual sci-fi/fantasy-themed art that is, admittedly, more popular in the United States. He offers some interesting insights into what it's like to be a professional manga artist.–Steev Baker, Kewaskum Public Library, WI
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Edition details

• Publisher: Kodansha International
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1568365020
• ISBN 13: 9781568365022
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112