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Design Your Own Anime and Manga Characters

Step-by-Step Lessons for Creating and Drawing Unique Characters - Learn Anatomy, Poses, Expressions, Costumes, and More

Author: TB Choi  

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For beginner to intermediate artists, Design Your Own Anime and Manga Characters demonstrates how to conceive and draw original characters for these popular art/entertainment genres.

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For beginner to intermediate artists, Design Your Own Anime and Manga Characters demonstrates how to conceive and draw original characters for these popular art/entertainment genres.

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With Design Your Own Anime and Manga Characters, you'll learn character design from the inside out from renowned concept artist and teacher TB Choi.

- Begin by exploring straight and curved lines, rough and final sketching, and how to effectively incorporate values
- Develop convincing character backstories with consistent behaviors and traits
- Draw faces, bodies, poses, and expressions that reinforce your characters' personalities and circumstances
- Createclothing, costumes, and accessories that enrich your characters' stories
- Design and drawpets and sidekicks with captivating personalities that complement and highlight their lead characters
- Finalize drawings with just the right light, shadow, and color temperature to enhance your creations

Filled with step-by-step demonstrations and expert guidance and advice, Design Your Own Anime and Manga Characters teaches you everything you need to bring unique characters to life.

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Critic Reviews

“" Design Your Own Anime and Manga Characters lives up to its title as an instructive and visual "how-to" guide for aspiring artists interested in drawing characters or comics in the style of Japanese manga. A wealth of black-and-white illustrations (color is primarily used as highlights to aid in focus, and only occasionally shown in finished examples) demonstrate how to incorporate the basics of human anatomy, portray poses and gestures, add details like hair and clothing, apply lines and shadows to give expression and emotion, and much more. Thoroughly accessible to budding artists of all ages, Design Your Own Anime and Manga Characters is an excellent supplementary resource to broaden artistic creativity."”

"Design Your Own Anime and Manga Characters lives up to its title as an instructive and visual "how-to" guide for aspiring artists interested in drawing characters or comics in the style of Japanese manga. A wealth of black-and-white illustrations (color is primarily used as highlights to aid in focus, and only occasionally shown in finished examples) demonstrate how to incorporate the basics of human anatomy, portray poses and gestures, add details like hair and clothing, apply lines and shadows to give expression and emotion, and much more. Thoroughly accessible to budding artists of all ages, Design Your Own Anime and Manga Characters is an excellent supplementary resource to broaden artistic creativity." Midwest Book Review

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About the Author

TB Choi is a character/concept artist and drawing instructor specializing in anatomy and character design. Included among her many celebrated film, animation, and gaming clients are Adobe, EA (Entertainment Arts), Sony Pictures, Guerilla Games, Netflix, Reel FX, Riot Games, Blizzard, and Epic Games. To see more of TB's work, visit her on Instagram @tb_choi and on Twitter @TB_Choi12.

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For beginner to intermediate artists, Design Your Own Anime and Manga Characters demonstrates how to conceive and draw original characters for these popular art/entertainment genres. With Design Your Own Anime and Manga Characters , you'll learn character design from the inside out from renowned concept artist and teacher TB Choi. - Begin by exploring straight and curved lines, rough and final sketching, and how to effectively incorporate values - Develop convincing character backstories with consistent behaviors and traits - Draw faces, bodies, poses, and expressions that reinforce your characters' personalities and circumstances - Createclothing, costumes, and accessories that enrich your characters' stories - Design and drawpets and sidekicks with captivating personalities that complement and highlight their lead characters - Finalize drawings with just the right light, shadow, and color temperature to enhance your creations Filled with step-by-step demonstrations and expert guidance and advice, Design Your Own Anime and Manga Characters teaches you everything you need to bring unique characters to life.

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Product Details

Publisher
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc | Rockport Publishers Inc.
Published
15th November 2022
Pages
144
ISBN
9780760371374

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