Big School of Drawing Manga, Comics & Fantasy
Well-explained, practice-oriented drawing instruction for the beginning artist
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Pub Date Nov 21 2023 | Archive Date Nov 30 2023
Quarto Publishing Group – Walter Foster | Walter Foster Publishing
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Description
Big School of Drawing Manga, Comics & Fantasy allows beginning artists to get started drawing manga, comic book, and fantasy characters, from manga heroines and heroes, chibis, superheroes, and villains to space aliens and guardians, mythical creatures, and more! Learn to develop your sketches from basic shapes, adding clothing, accessories, and personality to draw creative and original characters and scenes, step by easy step.
Perfect for beginners, this 192-page reference guide explains everything you need to get started, from choosing the right materials to basic drawing, inking, and coloring techniques and step-by-step lessons. Experiment with different pencils, inks, colored pencils, and markers, as then follow along as you use those techniques to create your own unique characters.
With more than 50 step-by-step projects for you to reference, Big School of Drawing Manga, Comics & Fantasy covers:
- Sketching from basic shapes
- Shading, texture, and highlights
- Adding personality, facial expressions, and accessories
- Inking and coloring techniques
- How to draw manga heroines and heroes
- How to draw comic book characters and villains
- How to draw fantasy characters and mythical creatures
With helpful tips and easy-to-follow, step-by-step lessons, Big School of Drawing is the perfect series for beginning artists ready to grab a pencil and get started drawing. With practice, you’ll soon be able to create your own realistic pencil drawings. It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3.
Also available as a companion: Big School of Drawing Manga, Comics & Fantasy Workbook, a 112-page interactive workbook allowing artists to practice drawing their own unique characters directly inside the book.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780760384688 |
| PRICE | $19.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 192 |
Available on NetGalley
Featured Reviews
Agnes P, Reviewer
It's the first time I see a volume that puts together three genres like comics, manga and fantasy. It's interesting to confront them and discover differences and similarities.
After the basic tools and techniques part each of them is treated in different sections; a brief introduction and a bunch of step-by-step tutorials for different characters, from the stylized body costruction to the finished artwork, usually in color.
While comics privileges dynamism, manga adds facial expression and body language. The fantasy section contains sci-fi characters, greek and scandinavian mythological creatures, monsters, medieval figures.
Crysta A, Educator
This how to is super easy to follow. It is thorough and clear. I followed some on my own and had fun, but I let one of my students try it out and saw great improvement in his art. I have high hopes for this book when I can get the physical copy and show my whole class.
Alice H, Reviewer
A super fun book for expanding your style and trying out new techniques. Theres step by step tutorials but also an encouragement to apply this to your own work and inspiration
Marz H, Reviewer
If you want drawing references in a variety of styles, this book is for you!
It offers step-by-step strategies to draw different characters and creatures from manga, sci-fi and fantasy, as well as some tips on shading, using Photoshop, etc.
Highly recommended particularly for people interested in adding some flair to their worldbuilding or roleplaying projects -- I can imagine my GM friends having a blast with it!
Kiara C, Reviewer
Another gem that I found in the Netgalley Read Now section! Are the tutorials a little advanced and going over my head as a newbie to drawing? Yes! Do I still love that this book exists and that I have it? Also yes! I love reading comics and manga and I've always been interested in how they're drawn. When my drawing skills have advanced a little more I'll definitely be coming back to this book!
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