Product Description

If you love Manga, you’ll eat Manga For Dummies, right up. This step–by–step guide shows you how to create all of your favorite Manga characters from rough sketch through final full–color renderings.  You’ll build your skills as you draw animals, mythical creatures, superheroes, teenagers, and villains—along with their weapons, cars, and homes. Soon you’ll be inventing your own characters and placing them in stylish poses and stirring action scenes. Before you know it you’ll be knocking out storyboards and plotlines for you own Manga book. Find out how to:

• Gear up for drawing with all the right tools and materials
• Develop the basic skills of Manga figure drawing
• Customize and accessorize your Manga characters
• Design spectacular weapons, gadgets, mechas, and vehicles
• Create 3–D drawings and give characters motion and emotion
• Write an exciting Manga Story

Complete with a stunning, full–color 8 page insert, Manga for Dummies is your real–life guide to the ultimate fantasy world.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9771 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 496 pages

From the Back Cover
Packed with hundreds of how–to illustrations

Take your manga drawings from rough sketches to finished art!

Are you an aspiring manga artist? This easy–to–follow guide shows you how to create your own manga characters and their world — from heroes and villains to weapons, cars, animals, and more. You get expert, step–by–step guidance in various drawing techniques, developing a story, and using motion and emotion to bring your characters to life!

Discover how to

• Draw different faces and body types
• Understand the manga genres
• Create plotlines and storyboards
• Design high–tech gadgets
• Show off your work
• Set up your own manga studio

About the Author
Kensuke Okabayashi teaches art at the Educational Alliance Art School in New York City. His work can be seen in everything from comic books to graphic novels to advertising storyboards.

Customer Reviews

My favourite manga tutor
I've got several 'how to...' books about manga, and this is the one which has taught me the most.

I like the way the book is structured and paced. Anyone familiar with the '... for Dummies' series will be instantly at home as it uses the well tried formula of teaching in the vernacular with humour.

Sure, there aren't as many pictures to copy as in some manga tutor books, but the author explains the all principles and techniques you need to master in order to become a manga-ka (manga artist) in easy to digest chunks.

In addition to the technical instruction, there are practical tips and interesting historical/cultural sections which add depth and perspective to the subject.

Oh, and the author is one fine artist too!

In my opinion, this book is well worth the price.

Good for beginners
As stated by the title, it's meant for beginners...someone like me. It covers a lot of things, from basic human anatomy, facial expressions, simple perspectives, folds, clothings, etc etc. Definitely a good place to begin.

The sample art pieces are not that good...as compared to others, but sufficient for you to understand.

One thing missing though is the posture....some sample posture on how to draw a human. There's also limited example on sideview (for human). If there are more info on the anatomy...i think it'll be much better.

Overall, it is a good buy...but this is not the book where you should look at if you cannot draw (no drawing n shading lessons) and can only draw a human which stand straight (no interesting posture).

Hope it helps.

pretty good but
im not very good at drawing, and i thought this book could make me better and learn to draw manga. It says on the cover of the book "fun and easy way to create your own manga characters", that is true if you take away all of the boring and not very fun stuff. instead of showing you how to draw the characters it pretty much tells you how to in text and shows you a example of how its gonna look. After reading 50 pages and drawing for one or two it suddenly became very hard, i may not be giving this book a chance but its not supposed to be boring and hard to learn how to draw.