INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SERIES, now in English! More than 2.3 million copies sold in 23 languages! Big School of Drawing Manga, Comics & Fantasy allows beginning artists to get started drawing manga, comic book, and fantasy characters, from manga heroines and heroes, chibis, superheroes, and villains to space aliens and guardians, mythical creatures, and more! Learn to develop your sketches from basic shapes, adding clothing, accessories, and personality to draw creative and original characters and scenes, step by easy step. Perfect for beginners, this 192-page reference guide explains everything you need to get started, from choosing the right materials to basic drawing, inking, and coloring techniques and step-by-step lessons. Experiment with different pencils, inks, colored pencils, and markers, as then follow along as you use those techniques to create your own unique characters. With more than 50 step-by-step projects for you to reference, Big School of Drawing Manga, Comics & Fantasy covers: Sketching from basic shapes Shading, texture, and highlights Adding personality, facial expressions, and accessories Inking and coloring techniques How to draw manga heroines and heroes How to draw comic book characters and villains How to draw fantasy characters and mythical creatures With helpful tips and easy-to-follow, step-by-step lessons, Big School of Drawing is the perfect series for beginning artists ready to grab a pencil and get started drawing. With practice, you’ll soon be able to create your own realistic pencil drawings. It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3. Also available as a companion: Big School of Drawing Manga, Comics & Fantasy Workbook, a 112-page interactive workbook allowing artists to practice drawing their own unique characters directly inside the book.

Big School of Drawing Manga, Comics & Fantasy Workbook provides an interactive introduction to creating your own unique characters, allowing beginning artists to practice directly inside the book with approachable step-by-step lessons.

Big School of Drawing Manga, Comics & Fantasy provides a complete introduction to drawing manga, comic book, and fantasy characters, with more than 50 step-by-step drawing projects.

Kids flock to manga—they watch the television shows, they go to the movies, they carry the licensed products everywhere. And the most popular manga of all is manga shoujo (pronounced MAHN—gah SHOW—jo), a clean—lined style with stories about friends, romance, school, and magic. Girls love it, boys love it, and parents love it, too, because it's bright, cheerful, and appealing. Kids Draw Manga Shoujo starts with basic heads, faces, bodies, and costumes, then goes on to show dozens of high—energy characters in Christopher Hart's easy—to—follow step—by—step drawings and clear, engaging text. Teens, school kids, magical girls and boys, fairies, elves, demigods, and goddesses are all part of the world of manga shoujo-and now kids everywhere can be part of that world with Kids Draw Manga Shoujo. • Kids Draw Anime and Kids Draw Manga have sold more than 50,000 copies • Simple step-by-step format and dozens of colorful, appealing characters to draw • Christopher Hart has phenomenal sales-more than two million books sold!

This survey of great contemporary artists is the perfect introduction to the exciting world of art today. Artists working after the Second World War faced a confounding array of challenges, as stylistic barriers were broken, technology advanced, and issues of sexuality and race came to the forefront. From painters and photographers to sculptors and performance artists, fifty of the most influential contemporary artists are profiled in this colorful and engaging book that traces the various artistic movements and radical changes of the second half of the twentieth and early twentyfirst centuries. Presented chronologically, each artist is featured in 2 or 4-page spreads that include brilliant reproductions of their most important works, an illuminating biography, key dates in their career, and informative background on major developments in the art world. Throughout the volume a timeline places each artist within the context of contemporary art. As diverse and inspiring as the artists themselves, this book is a voyage of discovery into art's cutting edge.

This instructive guide to an exciting new art medium was written for the cartoonist who knows a lot about drawing, color, and design, but doesn't know how to apply his talents to computer technology. Webcomics shows artists how to get into the fast-growing field of online comics. Created digitally and distributed on the Internet--some for free; others on subscription--webcomics range in style from traditional looking cartoon strips to innovative works that often integrate imagery from photography, video, and other visual arts. This book offers detailed advice on how to design, create, and publish online comics. It also showcases the best webcomics work being produced today. Interviews with leading artists walk readers through all the essential steps in the various creative processes, starting with a story idea and developing it into a finished graphic narrative. More than 400 full-color illustrations, diagrams, and examples of webcomics works.

A catalog and price guide for collectors of comic books.