Manga For Dummies

Step-by-step guidance on creating manga, the popular Japanese-style comics

Featuring youthful characters with oversized eyes and outsized emotions, expressive graphics, and a wide range of genres, Japanese manga (comics) and anime (animated cartoons) have taken the world by storm in the last few decades. And while much of manga still originates in Japan, American comic book and graphic novel publishers have recently begun producing their own home-grown manga. This friendly guide shows would-be manga artists how to get started, explaining manga's graphic and storytelling conventions and guiding people step by step from preliminary rough sketches to finished full-color art. Complete with eight pages of color illustrations, advice on plotlines and storyboards, and tips on drawing teens, heroes, villains, weapons, cars, homes, and more, it's the ideal beginner's guide for aspiring manga artists.

Kensuke Okabayashi (Jersey City, NJ) is a professional artist. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts, his work can be seen in everything from comic books to graphic novels to advertising storyboards. Kensuke teaches art classes at the Educational Alliance Art School in New York City.

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Title of ebook: Manga For Dummies
ISBN: 9780470140338
parent-ISBN: 9780470080252
Publisher: For Dummies
Internet download file size: 14437 kb
Pages: 416
Published: 02-2007
Released online for download: 02-03-2007
Author of eBook: Okabayashi, Kensuke

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Manga For Dummies

Chapter One

Welcome to Manga World

In This Chapter

* Discovering the origins and history of manga

* Exploring the different types of manga

* Evaluating the differences between American comics and Japanese manga

Welcome to the wonderful world of manga. From its humble beginnings after World War II, manga has grown to become an international phenomenon in the entertainment industry. Prestigious Japanese publishing houses (including the top three: Kodansha, Shueisha, and Shogakukan) release hundreds of titles translated into a multitude of foreign languages worldwide to promote the multi-billion-dollar industry.

Whether you're new to manga or a professional artist looking to try something different, this book is a great place to get your feet wet. Throughout this book, I take you step by step through exercises in drawing all sorts of characters, backgrounds, and useful special effects. I also give tips and pointers, most of which are based on my own experience. Although I recommend that beginners go through this book in seq ... read full excerpt from Manga For Dummies ebook

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Manga For Dummies

Chapter One

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