How to Draw Manga - Sketching Manga-Style Vol. 1

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How to Draw Manga - Sketching Manga-Style Vol. 1

How to Draw Manga - Sketching Manga-Style Vol. 2

How to Draw Manga - Sketching Manga-Style Vol. 3

How to Draw Manga - Sketching Manga-Style Vol. 4

How to Draw Manga - Sketching Manga-Style Vol. 5


This volume offers a brand-new ''sketching to plan'' tin can crammed full of sketching fundamentals for you to use when creating your own manga, as well as suggestions and ideas to help your artwork improve. This book is a brilliantly condensed can of artwork, jam-packed with a wide range of styles, ranging from renditions that are realistic without being slavishly naturalisitc to stylized ''abstracted'' and ''exxagerated'' renditions

Contents:
Chapter One: Sketching while planning
-Differences between standard
-Sketching and Manga sketch frontline Part 1
-Drawing a female character standing
-Drawing a close-up of a female charcters face
-A look at the Manga charcter standing
-Drawing the figure in reverse
-Manga sketching forms the foundation of planning

Chapter Two: The fundamental in sketching a face Manga style
-The basics of sketching a face layout (using circles and X's)
-Reduction of the head rendered
-Using a Circle and X layout
-The steps in drawing a face
-Drawing the same face
-Darwing an assortment of faces
-Ths basics in drawing the head
-Conceiving of the head as a solid
-The basics in drawing the head
-The face's musculature, and expressions
-Drawing facial expressions based on muscle movement

Chapter three: The fundamentals in drawing a figure manga style
-The backbone forms the base of composition
-The backbone travels the length of the torso
-The backbone is the source of movement
-Adding arms and legs after completing the torso
-The steps in drawing a figure
-Guideline defining the backbone from the front
-Drawing a standing pose using the bone and the axial line
-Using the axial line to draw
-A front view standing pose with presence
-Standing poses and the center of gravity
-Noting the spacing between the feet when drawing
-The body's structure
-Major body parts and their names
-Muscles affecting the exterior contours
-Distinguishing the genders
-Figure drawing
-Proportional differences
-Makeup of the primary joints and movement
1. Basic neck structure and movement
2. Basic spine structure and torso movement
3. Basic shoulder and arm
connections and movement
4. Basic leg structure and movement
5. Basic hand and finger structure and maovement
6. Basic leg structure and movement

Chapter four: From sketching to design
-The fundamentals of stylization
-Character design techniques using stylization
-Stylized face design
-Stylized figure design
-Techniques for designing distinctive characters
-Thin and trim build
-Powerful and muscular builds
-Grotesquely muscular build
-Slender female characters
-Freindly super deformed (ultra stylized) characters
-The reality behind key poses
-Composition technique: Imagining a box
-What constitutes a three deminsional figure
-Placing A figure in a box
-The steps in drawing a figure from a box
-Techniques in dressing characters
-The ABCs of drawing clothes
-The reality behind dressing characters
-Drawing dynamic poses
-Cover character designing frontline
-Coloring characters
-Coloration improvement Techniques
-The improved Palette
-Improved finished artwork
-Artists' discuss the true nature of manga sketching