Fast cars, fast women, late nightclubs, hardcore rappers & troubled youth-welcome to the urban world of Hip Hop, Japanese style! Hip Hop has long become a cultural icon that has but recently spilled over American edges and into countries like Japan. Now, LET'S DRAW MANGA takes you behind the scene of Tokyo's trendy subculture with LET'S DRAW MANGA-TOKYO URBAN-HIP HOP CULTURE.

Instructed by Japanese street experts and drawn by industry veterans of manga, this valuable instructional guide helps readers depict the fast-pace urban lifestyle of Tokyo, Japan's largest mecca for the Hip Hop subculture it bears by its youth today. Through a series of studied drawings of various character designs, urban environments, city living conditions and youth entertainment, which are essential elements to creating this unique genre, this book presents to the novice artist step-by-step illustrations and design instructions which ultimately lead up to formulating a short urban story. With focus on creating characters with the hippest hairstyles and latest trends in fashion, down to constructing the various local youth settings, this book makes the perfect uniquely themed reference guide for anyone wanting to draw on urban manga drama!

Provides step-by-step instructions for drawing fantasy manga characters, costumes, weapons, beasts and worlds.

LET'S DRAW MANGA-USING COLOR You've got your black lines down-now what? Will you use paint or markers? Fill in with the computer or use your brushes? Just how do you mix up "skin color?" Where do all of the highlights and shadows go? What colors will you even use?!

This book offers instructions for drawing urban street rumbles, battling maids, destructive fantasy creatures, and futuristic battle sequences.

You're a yaoi fan, but have you ever wanted to create your own original yaoi manga? Want to learn how to draw cute ukes and sensual semes? Or maybe you might need help drawing kiss scenes! "I have all these ideas, but I'll never be able to draw them out!" Right? Wrong! Are you ready to bring your characters to life on paper? Then channel your yaoi fantasies, grab onto your pen and check out LET'S DRAW MANGA – YAOI! This guide to the world of yaoi manga will teach you everything you need to know about how to create characters that look and feel authentically "yaoi." You will discover how to draw stylish clothes, how to accurately portray different yaoi character types, and what steps every professional manga artist follows to create manga. This book covers all the bases, giving you helpful resources like a yaoi terms list and comprehensive guides to screentoning, panel arrangement, perspective, and more!