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Summary
If you love Manga, you?ll eat Manga For Dummies, rightup. This step-by-step guide shows you how to create all of yourfavorite Manga characters from rough sketch through finalfull-color renderings. You?ll build your skills as youdraw animals, mythical creatures, superheroes, teenagers, andvillains?along with their weapons, cars, and homes. Soonyou?ll be inventing your own characters and placing them instylish poses and stirring action scenes. Before you know ityou?ll be knocking out storyboards and plotlines for you ownManga 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 forDummies is your real-life guide to the ultimate fantasyworld.
Author Notes
Kensuke Okabayashi teaches art at the Educational Alliance Art School in New York City
Table of Contents
Introduction | p. 1 |
About This Book | p. 1 |
Conventions Used in This Book | p. 2 |
What You're Not to Read | p. 2 |
Foolish Assumptions | p. 2 |
How This Book Is Organized | p. 3 |
Part I Manga 101 | p. 3 |
Part II To the Drawing Board | p. 4 |
Part III Calling All Cast Members! | p. 4 |
Part IV Time to Go Hi-Tech | p. 4 |
Part V An Advanced Case of Manga | p. 4 |
Part VI The Part of Tens | p. 5 |
Icons Used in This Book | p. 5 |
Where to Go from Here | p. 5 |
Part I Manga 101 | p. 7 |
Chapter 1 Welcome to Manga World | p. 9 |
Tracing the Rise of Manga's Popularity | p. 9 |
All Manga Is Not Created Equal: Looking At the Different Genres | p. 10 |
The Key Components of Manga | p. 12 |
Manga versus American Comics | p. 12 |
Broader readership than American comics | p. 13 |
Availability differences | p. 14 |
The guts and glory. Differences in workload and credit for artists | p. 15 |
"Making It" in the Manga World | p. 16 |
Chapter 2 Gearing Up and Getting Ready | p. 17 |
Materials You Need to Get Started | p. 17 |
Paper (genkoyoshi) | p. 18 |
Drawing supplies | p. 19 |
Inking materials | p. 21 |
Miscellaneous items | p. 23 |
Setting Up Your Studio | p. 24 |
Finding a quiet place to draw | p. 24 |
Using the right equipment | p. 25 |
Upgrading your basic studio | p. 25 |
Chapter 3 Drawing: Starting with the Basics | p. 29 |
Making Your First Moves with the Pencil | p. 29 |
Exercises Using Your Ruler | p. 31 |
Drawing and inking basic straight lines | p. 32 |
Inking from thick to thin | p. 34 |
Splattering | p. 35 |
Creating Patterns | p. 37 |
Trailing pattern | p. 37 |
Half-tone patterns | p. 38 |
Fixing Mistakes | p. 41 |
Brushing it out | p. 41 |
Cutting it out | p. 43 |
Part II To the Drawing Board | p. 47 |
Chapter 4 Taking It from the Top with the Head | p. 49 |
Heading Out on a Manga Mission | p. 49 |
Drawing the female head | p. 50 |
Drawing the male head | p. 51 |
The Eyes Have It! | p. 53 |
Beginning with the basic eye structure | p. 54 |
Seeing eye to eye | p. 56 |
Drawing all shapes and sizes | p. 57 |
Filling In the Features | p. 60 |
Being nosy | p. 61 |
Lend me your ear | p. 64 |
Speak your mind: Drawing the mouth | p. 70 |
Capping it off with hair | p. 74 |
The Emotions Tell All | p. 77 |
Neutral face | p. 78 |
Serious face | p. 78 |
Mad face | p. 80 |
Psycho mad | p. 80 |
Sad face | p. 81 |
Even sadder face | p. 82 |
Total devastation | p. 83 |
Surprise or shock | p. 84 |
Happy face | p. 85 |
Super happy face | p. 85 |
Chapter 5 Nice Bod: Manga Body Basics | p. 87 |
How Many Heads? Setting Up Your Character's Proportions | p. 87 |
Drawing a Wire Frame | p. 90 |
Getting in Shape with Geometry | p. 94 |
Defining the head | p. 95 |
Taking on the torso | p. 96 |
Can you stomach this? | p. 98 |
It's all in the hips | p. 98 |
Forging the arms | p. 98 |
On to the legs | p. 101 |
All hands on deck | p. 102 |
Getting off on the right feet | p. 108 |
Merging the shapes to the wire figure | p. 111 |
Beefing up with muscles and rhythm | p. 113 |
Adding a woman's touch with curves | p. 119 |
Growing Pains | p. 121 |
Chapter 6 Customize and Accessorize Your Manga Character | p. 123 |
Know When to Fold 'Em: Drawing Fabric Folds | p. 123 |
The art of the pinch, pull, and tuck: Exploring drapery folds | p. 124 |
Is that leather, silk, or what? | p. 127 |
Shadows revisited | p. 128 |
Dressing Up for the Occasion | p. 130 |
Starting from the top | p. 131 |
Do these jeans make my butt look big? | p. 139 |
Equipped to Make a Positive Impression | p. 145 |
Hair and head accessories | p. 145 |
What else can we add or carry? | p. 152 |
Part III Calling All Cast Members! | p. 155 |
Chapter 7 The Main Protagonists | p. 157 |
Drawing Male Lead Characters | p. 157 |
The androgynous student | p. 157 |
The varsity team captain | p. 161 |
Army Special Forces rookie | p. 164 |
Drawing Female Lead Characters | p. 168 |
The daydreamer | p. 168 |
Martial arts warrior | p. 171 |
Hi-tech girl | p. 175 |
Chapter 8 Those Loveable Sidekicks | p. 179 |
Drawing Male Sidekick Characters | p. 179 |
Hustle with Mr. Muscle | p. 180 |
The loyal little brother | p. 183 |
The intellectual veteran | p. 186 |
Drawing Female Sidekick Characters | p. 190 |
The spoiled brat | p. 190 |
The nurturing and caring soul | p. 193 |
Chapter 9 The Dreaded Villains | p. 197 |
The Handsome yet Icy-Cold Villain | p. 197 |
The Awesome Warrior | p. 201 |
The Military Vixen | p. 205 |
The Evil Sorceress | p. 208 |
Chapter 10 Elder Figures | p. 213 |
Enter the Grandmasters | p. 213 |
The thin grandmaster | p. 214 |
The huge grandmaster | p. 218 |
The Wizards | p. 221 |
Chapter 11 Damsels in Distress | p. 227 |
The "Little Sister" Princess | p. 227 |
The Innocent Schoolgirl | p. 232 |
The Loyal, Selfless Damsel | p. 237 |
Chapter 12 Girl Power! Shojo Manga | p. 243 |
Drawing Classic Shojo Manga Faces and Hair | p. 243 |
Blondes and brunettes are cool | p. 244 |
Female and male shojo faces | p. 244 |
Traditional shojo hair | p. 249 |
Today's shojo hairstyles | p. 250 |
Drawing the Rest of the Body | p. 254 |
Dressing up the shojo female | p. 254 |
Dressing up the shojo male | p. 258 |
Art Nouveau Backgrounds in Shojo Manga | p. 263 |
Part IV Time to Go Hi-Tech | p. 267 |
Chapter 13 Designing Mechas | p. 269 |
Creating Simple and Cute Mechas | p. 269 |
Drawing a single-shape body | p. 270 |
Mixing it up with a multishaped body | p. 272 |
Drawing Pilot-Operated Mechas | p. 275 |
It's all about the shapes | p. 275 |
Enter the lightweights | p. 277 |
Here come the heavyweights | p. 283 |
Chapter 14 Gadgets and Weapons | p. 291 |
Small Gadgets | p. 291 |
Communicators | p. 291 |
Remote devices | p. 294 |
Battle Arms | p. 296 |
Swords | p. 296 |
Guns | p. 297 |
Chapter 15 Taking Off: Vehicles and Airplanes | p. 305 |
Cars | p. 305 |
Drawing different angles using basic shapes | p. 306 |
Drawing standard cars (a.k.a. "grocery getters") | p. 309 |
Drawing faster, sleeker cars | p. 311 |
Planes | p. 312 |
Drawing the jumbo jet | p. 312 |
Drawing the F-18 fighter jet | p. 320 |
Part V An Advanced Case of Manga | p. 327 |
Chapter 16 Putting Manga into Perspective | p. 329 |
Creating Buildings and Backgrounds with Basic Perspective | p. 329 |
Drawing one-point perspective | p. 330 |
Trying two-point perspective | p. 333 |
Shaping up for three-point perspective | p. 335 |
Adding People to the Environment | p. 339 |
One-point perspective characters | p. 339 |
Two-point perspective characters | p. 341 |
Three-point perspective characters | p. 342 |
Using Perspective and Camera Angle to Tell the Story | p. 344 |
Creating strong establishing shots | p. 344 |
Establishing the strong versus the weak | p. 345 |
Chapter 17 Using Speed Lines to Create Motion and Emotion | p. 347 |
Getting Your Character Moving | p. 348 |
Making your character move fast | p. 348 |
Creating the illusion of moving along with the character | p. 349 |
Making objects and characters come toward readers | p. 351 |
Slowing down your character | p. 353 |
Zooming Around for Emotion | p. 354 |
Striking fear into your character | p. 355 |
Shocking your character | p. 356 |
Chapter 18 Thumbnails and Scenery | p. 359 |
Creating Effective Thumbnails | p. 359 |
Why bother with a thumbnail? | p. 359 |
Practicing thumbnails | p. 360 |
Transferring the thumbnails to final paper | p. 361 |
Sketching Scenic Backgrounds | p. 362 |
Cityscapes | p. 362 |
Heading to the country: Trees, bushes, and pastures | p. 364 |
Rocks and bodies of water | p. 373 |
Chapter 19 Writing a Good Story | p. 379 |
Deciding Who Your Audience Is | p. 379 |
Establishing a Synopsis and Plot Creating a synopsis | p. 380 |
Constructing your plot | p. 381 |
Seeking Inspiration | p. 387 |
Part VI The Part of Tens | p. 389 |
Chapter 20 Ten (or so) Manga Artists | p. 391 |
Chapter 21 (Nearly) Ten Places to Strut your Stuff | p. 397 |
Index | p. 403 |