Need to brush up on giggling schoolgirls? Want to know how to sketch all the goods for hot guys? Are you ready to learn the best way to put together your own full-panel story? Put down your pen and take a look at LET'S DRAW MANGA-SHOUJO CHARACTERS! Learn how to draw in the popular and authentic shoujo styles, modeled after hit manga and anime shows. Everything from basic body features to adding precise facial details to choosing the right equipment, accessories and proportions...it's all laid out in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step fashion to make your drawings just right for the shoujo touch. It's like having a personal manga coach on every page!

LET'S DRAW MANGA-ALL ABOUT FIGHTING. Urban street rumbles, battling maids, destructive fantasy creatures and futuristic battle sequences...it's all covered here. Everything from learning how to draw gun combat down to the most pedestrian and domestic husband and wife disputes, this unique instructional guide presents to readers step-by-step drawing techniques and the "hows" and "whys" of effective manga storytelling from the perspective of a manga artist. This book is sure to pack a big punch for those wanting to learn how to draw dynamic battle royals with the unique manga flavor.

You're a yaoi fan, but have you ever wanted to create your own original yaoi manga? Want to learn how to draw cute ukes and sensual semes? Or maybe you might need help drawing kiss scenes! "I have all these ideas, but I'll never be able to draw them out!" Right? Wrong! Are you ready to bring your characters to life on paper? Then channel your yaoi fantasies, grab onto your pen and check out LET'S DRAW MANGA – YAOI! This guide to the world of yaoi manga will teach you everything you need to know about how to create characters that look and feel authentically "yaoi." You will discover how to draw stylish clothes, how to accurately portray different yaoi character types, and what steps every professional manga artist follows to create manga. This book covers all the bases, giving you helpful resources like a yaoi terms list and comprehensive guides to screentoning, panel arrangement, perspective, and more!

Provides step-by-step instructions for drawing manga characters, focusing on creating realistic bodies and movements, and using facial features and body positioning to portray emotions.

Provides step-by-step instructions for drawing fantasy manga characters, costumes, weapons, beasts and worlds.

LET'S DRAW MANGA-USING COLOR You've got your black lines down-now what? Will you use paint or markers? Fill in with the computer or use your brushes? Just how do you mix up "skin color?" Where do all of the highlights and shadows go? What colors will you even use?!

Fast cars, fast women, late nightclubs, hardcore rappers & troubled youth-welcome to the urban world of Hip Hop, Japanese style! Hip Hop has long become a cultural icon that has but recently spilled over American edges and into countries like Japan. Now, LET'S DRAW MANGA takes you behind the scene of Tokyo's trendy subculture with LET'S DRAW MANGA-TOKYO URBAN-HIP HOP CULTURE.

LET'S DRAW MANGA – Ninja & Samurai is a fist full of fun, with more action than you can shake a katana at. The western audience's fascination with ninja and samurai has been on the rise recently with famous titles such as Lone Wolf and Cub and animated features like Ninja Scroll, which have gained much public attention. Yet there has not been a real instructional book about these legendary warriors until now! Inside this book you will learn from experienced manga artist, Hidefumi Okuma, on drawing the daily life and tools of the legendary samurai and their most menacing foes, the ninja.

The popularity of manga (Japanese comics) is growing at a phenomenal rate. This is a practical, easy-to-follow and fun introduction to the most popular contemporary art style of the moment and is ideal for the first-time manga artist.

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!