The go-to guide to learn how to draw manga, Manga Sketchbook provides tons of tips and details the building blocks to drawing both male and female manga characters. Including in-depth character profiles and graph paper practice pages both with and without helpful guides, children will spend hours sketching and perfecting dozens of drawings!

This sketchbook series is designed for anyone who loves to doodle, draw, sketch, color, or create anime! This book will provide hours of sketching fun. The Anime Sketchbook series is the perfect canvas for improving your drawing skills. Our sketchbooks are sized at 8 1/2 x 11. The popular cover has a beautiful finish and is perfect for school, home or work. You can use pens, pencils, markers, paint, and crayons. Grab one for yourself or a few to pass out at the next anime convention.

From VOFAN, the star illustrator of the Monogatari series of novels written by NISIOISIN, comes a full-color artbook of his best personal works. Praised by the fans around the world as "The Magician of Light and Shadow from Taiwan", VOFAN is famous for using a vibrant art style combined with unique camera techniques in his art. As the main illustrator for NISIOISIN's novel series for over a decade, VOFAN has illustrated more than 30 book covers and has created dozens of original character designs. Beside his extensive illustration works for NISIOISIN, VOFAN has illustrated magazine covers such as Famitsu and Fancy Frontier Magazine. VOFAN is also the main character designer for the popular Playstation 3 RPG Time and Eternity.

This indispensable sketchbook features instructions, storyboard layouts, and drawing frames in non-repro blue. For aspiring and experienced artists, this dual-purpose, lie-flat sketchbook is ideal for honing skills and storylines. Along with instructions, it provides 112 pages of storyboard layout grids with cells for working out page ideas and plot details as well as space for notes and captions. The second half of the book contains 60 single-sided pages that feature drawing frames in non-repro blue for finished art, with outer rules that help organize space and scale. The high-quality, acid-free, medium-weight paper erases cleanly and has a smooth vellum finish ideal for all dry media. All pages are perforated for easy removal.

Renowned manga artist and comics creator Camilla D'Errico's beginner's guide to drawing her signature Japanese-style characters. From comics to video games to contemporary fine art, the beautiful, wide-eyed-girl look of shoujo manga has infiltrated pop culture, and no artist's work today better exemplifies this trend than Camilla D'Errico's. In her first instructional guide, D'Errico reveals techniques for creating her emotive yet playful manga characters, with lessons on drawing basic body construction, capturing action, and creating animals, chibis, and mascots. Plus, she gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at her character design process, pointers on creating their own comics, and prompts for finishing her drawings. Pop Manga is both a celebration of creativity and an indespensible guide that is sure to appeal to manga diehards and aspiring artists alike.

"A manual of methods, principles and formulas for classical, computer, games, stop motion and internet animators"--Cover.

Detailed text and drawings illuminate how to conceive animated characters.