Need to brush up on giggling schoolgirls? Want to know how to sketch all the goods for hot guys? Are you ready to learn the best way to put together your own full-panel story? Put down your pen and take a look at LET'S DRAW MANGA-SHOUJO CHARACTERS! Learn how to draw in the popular and authentic shoujo styles, modeled after hit manga and anime shows. Everything from basic body features to adding precise facial details to choosing the right equipment, accessories and proportions...it's all laid out in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step fashion to make your drawings just right for the shoujo touch. It's like having a personal manga coach on every page!

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 manga characters, focusing on creating realistic bodies and movements, and using facial features and body positioning to portray emotions.

Sexy female characters are the spice of every manga story. These heroines find themselves in every position possible! This volume in the Let's Draw Manga series helps manga artists expand on their knowledge of the human body to draw women in a variety of poses, and with a variety of clothing, facial expressions, hairstyles, and more. It offers valuable instruction on solving tricky problems, such as drawing the folds of fabric and perspective. The seductive, flirtatious women in this heavily illustrated reference are an inspiration to any artist.

Provides basic shapes and other techniques of cartooning, followed by illustrated, step-by-step instructions for drawing cartoon villains, superheroes, manga characters, and more.

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!