Beginner's Guide to Creating Manga Art: Learn to Draw, Color and Design Characters
Author(s): 3DTotal
An insight into the creation of manga art, focusing on coloring, drawing and designing characters using traditional and digital methods. Manga is an increasingly popular art form, particularly with the recent influx of Far Eastern games, anime and comics into the western world. A term originally describing a Japanese comic art style of the late 19th century, manga has come to be applied to a variety of mediums in recent years and is receiving more and more mainstream interest and attention. Beginner's Guide to Creating Manga Art explores the topic of manga art, starting from basic character design and progressing to full color images. Industry greats including Steven Cummings and Gonzalo Ordonez open a window into their world and present tutorials covering everything from drawing features, anatomy and expressions to designing clothing, perfecting poses and coloring characters with a variety of traditional and digital artistic tools. Bursting with knowledge and brilliant artwork, Beginner's Guide to Creating Manga Art is an unmissable title for anyone wanting to learn how to capture that classic manga style.
General Information
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- : 3DTotal Publishing
- : 3DTotal Publishing
- : 0.93
- : 01 January 2013
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 November 2013
- : books
Other Specifications
- : 3DTotal
- : Paperback
- : 1306
- : 741.5952
- : 240
- : illustrations
More About The Product
"Overall, this book is more on understanding the style of manga art, and the tutorials that show you how to create them"- Teoh Yi Chie "Parka Blogs"
Steven Cummings is an American comic book artist who has worked for the likes of DC Comics and Marvel Comics, and is currently a member of the famous Udon Entertainment team in Japan.
Gonzalo Ordonez specializes in manga characters and is the author of the popular book "Legendary Visions: The Art of Genzoman"
3DTotal Publishing was launched in 2010, as the publishing arm of popular digital art website 3DTotal.com. As well as self-publishing the next volumes in the pre-existing Digital Art Masters and Digital Painting Techniques series, 3DTotal Publishing has successfully launched a number of new titles including "Beginner's Guide to Digital Painting in Photoshop," "ZBrush Character Sculpting" and "Elysium - The Art of Daarken."
