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Author and Illustrator: Kensuke Okabayashi

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If you love manga, you’ll devour Manga For Dummies!

This step-by-step guide takes you from rough sketch to final full-color artwork, showing you how to bring your favorite manga characters to life. You’ll build your skills as you draw animals, mythical creatures, superheroes, teenagers, and villains—along with their weapons. Before long, you’ll be inventing your own characters, posing them dynamically, and crafting storyboards and plotlines for your very own manga story.

Inside, you’ll learn how to:

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• Gear up with the right tools and materials

• Master the fundamentals of manga figure drawing

• Customize and accessorize your characters

• Design epic weapons, gadgets, mechas, and vehicles

• Create 3D effects and add motion and emotion to your art

• Write thrilling manga stories that leap off the page
   

Complete with a stunning full-color, 8-page insert, Manga For Dummies is your hands-on guide to building the ultimate fantasy world—one panel at a time.

Product Details:
 

• Paperback: 440 pages

• Publisher: For Dummies; 1st Edition (February 5, 2007)

• Language: English

• ISBN-10: 0470080256

• ISBN-13: 978-0470080252

• Dimensions: 7.4 x 1 x 9.2 inches

• Shipping Weight: 1.2 lbs