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101 Uses for a Pencil

101 Uses for a Pencil

The Complete Guide to Drawing Manga

$29.99
ISBN
9780857621207

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By Sonia Leong
Format Paperback / softback
Page Extent 256
Imprint New Holland Publishers
Release Date 1/10/2013
Subject Classification Industrial / commercial art & design / Illustration & commercial art / Comic book & cartoon art / Graphic novel & Manga artwork
This combined book and video-guide to drawing manga will allow artists of ANY ability to master this hugely popular drawing style. The 256 page book is packed with step-by-step tutorials on every aspect of manga drawing, basing the instructions around traditional sketching and colouring techniques, and including digital tools for rendering and finishing artwork

The author is highly accomplished professional artist Sonia Leong, who has created 28 two-minute video demonstrations designed to link specifically to the content of this book. These video clips are hosted online, and accessed from the book’s pages using QR codes (or URLs), making this one of the most user-friendly manga tutor books on the market.

Readers will learn how to build up characters from basic shapes and measurements, get the anatomy and poses absolutely right, add crucial design elements to enhance drawings and stories, render artwork in different styles and mediums (including digital), and even start to create comic pages and sequences— for publication in print or online.