The Mega Guide to Drawing Manga

The essential guide to drawing manga figures.

Ideal for seasoned comic artists or complete beginners, this fantastic book is packed with clear instructions and inspiration for drawing manga figures. It begins with the basics and contains galleries of body parts, expressions and hair styles to inspire and encourage the reader, along with step-by-step guides to mastering fundamentals such as anatomy and hands and feet. A range of profiles, characters, genders and ages is included.

Build up skill through drawing and inking and then experiment using different colouring media including markers, watercolour acrylics and pencils to achieve outstanding results.

This title was previously published as Manga - The Mega Guide (9781782210764)

Book Contents

Introduction
Drawing
Learning how to draw
Faces, expression and hair
Gender and age
Expressions
Eyes
Hair
Drawing the figure
Basic figures
The torso
Hands and feet
Pose
Kemonomimi: animal features
Chibis
Composition
Inking and colouring
Tools for inking
Colour theory
Picking a colour scheme
Light and shade
Coloured markers
Watercolours
Coloured pencils
Acrylics
Digital tools
Index