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    The Practical Guide to Drawing Manga: (Artist's Workbook)
    The Practical Guide to Drawing Manga: (Artist's Workbook)
    The Practical Guide to Drawing Manga: (Artist's Workbook)
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    The Practical Guide to Drawing Manga: (Artist's Workbook)

    By Peter Gray

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    Arcturus's series of Drawing Workbooks comprises nine practical guides for artists interested in coming to grips with a particular subject. With titles covering anatomy, animals, caricatures, landscape, manga, techniques, portraits, still life, and figures, there is something for everyone's taste. Tailored step-by-step exercises help artists to build their skills, and handy hints keep them in the know about techniques and materials.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcturus Publishing
    Release dateDec 5, 2013
    ISBN9781782129240
    The Practical Guide to Drawing Manga: (Artist's Workbook)

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    The Practical Guide to Drawing Manga - Peter Gray

    CHARACTERS

    INTRODUCTION

    From its origins in Japanese comics, manga has become one of the most visible drawing styles across the world, in animation, computer games, advertising and design. The style is characterized by dynamic and glamorous character design, fast-moving action and polished draftsmanship.

    This book aims to concentrate on characters – how to draw faces and figures with accuracy and personality, how to achieve that particular manga look and how to create new characters of your own.

    Designed as a course, each new subject follows naturally from the previous one. Step-by-step demonstrations will teach you the most basic principles and then gradually lead you to greater sophistication. With some application, even the complete beginner should soon be able to produce satisfying results.

    Try to resist the temptation to simply copy pictures from the book. Work through from the start and do all the exercises so that you can build up to creating your own dramatic drawings with confidence.

    Don’t be put off by the slick look of artwork by professional manga artists; it isn’t too hard to emulate once you know some tricks of the trade. We will investigate various materials and techniques in easy-to-follow stages.

    The 200 or so illustrations in this book represent only a fraction of the techniques and stylistic approaches open to you as you continue to develop your mastery of manga.

    Above all, remember that drawing is supposed to be enjoyable. Even if it seems like hard work at times, stick with it and you will soon enjoy the rewards of your efforts.

    Create new characters out of diverse inspirations.

    Study the construction of manga body types.

    Build up to professional-quality artwork in easy stages.

    Capture distinctive manga features with authenticity.

    Draw figures with dynamic posture and proportions.

    BASIC MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT

    One of the great things about any style of drawing is that you need very little equipment to get started. Beginners often make the mistake of buying all kinds of expensive materials, but these do little to improve your skills and only confuse the issue of learning to draw. To start with, you’ll need only pencils and a pencil sharpener, paper, and an eraser.

    Pencils

    Although any pencil will do for mastering the basics of drawing, it’s worth splashing out on a few decent artist’s pencils. They are graded from H (hard) to B (black) with a number prefix indicating the degree of hardness or blackness. A useful starting set would be

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