Drawing Anime from Simple Shapes: Character Design Basics for All Ages (Drawing With Christopher Hart)

Leading art instructor and bestselling author Christopher Hart teaches tweens and teens how to draw cool anime characters.

When you start with simple shapes, who knows where you might end up? They’re key to drawing just about anything—including full-fledged, expressive anime characters. This book, especially geared to the talents of teens and tweens, is loaded with more than 100 step-by-step demonstrations created by Chris Hart. He explains how to draw everything you need to make this popular genre come alive, from dramatic hairstyles to a comically bad kitty that’s spilled the milk: faces, figures, emotions, gestures, poses, fashions, and more. Led by a cute mascot who takes them through the book, readers will enjoy these fun, effective, and easy techniques.

With more than seven million copies of his books in print, Christopher Hart is the world's leading author of art instruction books. His titles frequently appear on the NPD DecisionKey Weekly Top 50 Non-Fiction Art list. They also have a huge international audience, having been translated into more than 20 languages. In his more than 200 titles, he offers artists of all ages accessible, generously illustrated, and clearly written step-by-step instruction on a wide variety of how-to-draw subjects, including anime and manga, figure drawing and anatomy, cartooning, comics, fashion, and animals. He lives in Westport, CT.