Manga 100 : The Ultimate Guide to Drawing the Most Popular Characters

Christopher Hart, the bestselling author and expert on all things manga, brings fans and aspiring artists a brand-new collection of the most popular manga character types. Manga 100 is bursting with the most popular and fun-to-draw characters found in manga and anime, including schoolgirls and boys, humorous kids, fantasy characters, exotic animals, and other fan favorites. The step-by-step projects range from very simple faces and figures to more complex characters and scenes. Many of the characters showcase big emotions, a hallmark of manga, and eye-catching action poses. While drawing these varied and appealing characters, artists will learn important basics of drawing manga faces and bodies, expressions, poses, and even simplified backgrounds. The characters inA�Manga 100 include: A� �_� Essential manga characters: handsome high-school boy, cute teen girl, funny 12-year-old, master villain �_� Popular school characters: baffled student, tattletale, reliable friend, girl with a grudge, aloof boy �_� Characters with cool jobs: wedding-dress maker, helicopter pilot, emcee at a manga convention, archeologist, coffee-shop owner �_� Cosplay outfits: steampunk, space invader, J-pop boy band, warlock �_� Adorable and huggable creatures �_� Animal friends: endangered and unusual species �_� Fantasy characters: samurai girl, boy with a dragon pet, mermaid, boy android �_� Modern princesses A�