If you love Manga, you'll eatManga For Dummies, right up. This step-by-step guide shows you how to create all of your favorite Manga characters from rough sketch through final full-color renderings. You'll build your skills as you draw animals, mythical creatures, superheroes, teenagers, and villains-along with their weapons, cars, and homes. Soon you'll be inventing your own characters and placing them in stylish poses and stirring action scenes. Before you know it you'll be knocking out storyboards and plotlines for you own Manga book. Find out how to: Gear up for drawing with all the right tools and materials Develop the basic skills of Manga figure drawing Customize and accessorize your Manga characters Design spectacular weapons, gadgets, mechas, and vehicles Create 3-D drawings and give characters motion and emotion Write an exciting Manga Story Complete with a stunning, full-color 8 page insert,Manga for Dummies is your real-life guide to the ultimate fantasy world.

Kensuke Okabayashi teaches art at the Educational Alliance Art School in New York City. His work can be seen in everything from comic books to graphic novels to advertising storyboards.

Introduction	p. 1
About This Book	p. 1
Conventions Used in This Book	p. 2
What You're Not to Read	p. 2
Foolish Assumptions	p. 2
How This Book Is Organized	p. 3
Manga 101	p. 3
To the Drawing Board	p. 4
Calling All Cast Members!	p. 4
Time to Go Hi-Tech	p. 4
An Advanced Case of Manga	p. 4
The Part of Tens	p. 5
Icons Used in This Book	p. 5
Where to Go from Here	p. 5
Manga 101	p. 7
Welcome to Manga World	p. 9
Tracing the Rise of Manga's Popularity	p. 9
All Manga Is Not Created Equal: Looking At the Different Genres	p. 10
The Key Components of Manga	p. 12
Manga versus American Comics	p. 12
Broader readership than American comics	p. 13
Availability differences	p. 14
The guts and glory. Differences in workload and credit for artists	p. 15
"Making It" in the Manga World	p. 16
Gearing Up and Getting Ready	p. 17
Materials You Need to Get Started	p. 17
Paper (genkoyoshi)	p. 18
Drawing supplies	p. 19
Inking materials	p. 21
Miscellaneous items	p. 23
Setting Up Your Studio	p. 24
Finding a quiet place to draw	p. 24
Using the right equipment	p. 25
Upgrading your basic studio	p. 25
Drawing: Starting with the Basics	p. 29
Making Your First Moves with the Pencil	p. 29
Exercises Using Your Ruler	p. 31
Drawing and inking basic straight lines	p. 32
Inking from thick to thin	p. 34
Splattering	p. 35
Creating Patterns	p. 37
Trailing pattern	p. 37
Half-tone patterns	p. 38
Fixing Mistakes	p. 41
Brushing it out	p. 41
Cutting it out	p. 43
To the Drawing Board	p. 47
Taking It from the Top with the Head	p. 49
Heading Out on a Manga Mission	p. 49
Drawing the female head	p. 50
Drawing the male head	p. 51
The Eyes Have It!	p. 53
Beginning with the basic eye structure	p. 54
Seeing eye to eye	p. 56
Drawing all shapes and sizes	p. 57
Filling In the Features	p. 60
Being nosy	p. 61
Lend me your ear	p. 64
Speak your mind: Drawing the mouth	p. 70
Capping it off with hair	p. 74
The Emotions Tell All	p. 77
Neutral face	p. 78
Serious face	p. 78
Mad face	p. 80
Psycho mad	p. 80
Sad face	p. 81
Even sadder face	p. 82
Total devastation	p. 83
Surprise or shock	p. 84
Happy face	p. 85
Super happy face	p. 85
Nice Bod: Manga Body Basics	p. 87
How Many Heads? Setting Up Your Character's Proportions	p. 87
Drawing a Wire Frame	p. 90
Getting in Shape with Geometry	p. 94
Defining the head	p. 95
Taking on the torso	p. 96
Can you stomach this?	p. 98
It's all in the hips	p. 98
Forging the arms	p. 98
On to the legs	p. 101
All hands on deck	p. 102
Getting off on the right feet	p. 108
Merging the shapes to the wire figure	p. 111
Beefing up with muscles and rhythm	p. 113
Adding a woman's touch with curves	p. 119
Growing Pains	p. 121
Customize and Accessorize Your Manga Character	p. 123
Know When to Fold 'Em: Drawing Fabric Folds	p. 123
The art of the pinch, pull, and tuck: Exploring drapery folds	p. 124
Is that leather, silk, or what?	p. 127
Shadows revisited	p. 128
Dressing Up for the Occasion	p. 130
Starting from the top	p. 131
Do these jeans make my butt look big?	p. 139
Equipped to Make a Positive Impression	p. 145
Hair and head accessories	p. 145
What else can we add or carry?	p. 152
Calling All Cast Members!	p. 155
The Main Protagonists	p. 157
Drawing Male Lead Characters	p. 157
The androgynous student	p. 157
The varsity team captain	p. 161
Army Special Forces rookie	p. 164
Drawing Female Lead Characters	p. 168
The daydreamer	p. 168
Martial arts warrior	p. 171
Hi-tech girl	p. 175
Those Loveable Sidekicks	p. 179
Drawing Male Sidekick Characters	p. 179
Hustle with Mr. Muscle	p. 180
The loyal little brother	p. 183
The intellectual veteran	p. 186
Drawing Female Sidekick Characters	p. 190
The spoiled brat	p. 190
The nurturing and caring soul	p. 193
The Dreaded Villains	p. 197
The Handsome yet Icy-Cold Villain	p. 197
The Awesome Warrior	p. 201
The Military Vixen	p. 205
The Evil Sorceress	p. 208
Elder Figures	p. 213
Enter the Grandmasters	p. 213
The thin grandmaster	p. 214
The huge grandmaster	p. 218
The Wizards	p. 221
Damsels in Distress	p. 227
The "Little Sister" Princess	p. 227
The Innocent Schoolgirl	p. 232
The Loyal, Selfless Damsel	p. 237
Girl Power! Shojo Manga	p. 243
Drawing Classic Shojo Manga Faces and Hair	p. 243
Blondes and brunettes are cool	p. 244
Female and male shojo faces	p. 244
Traditional shojo hair	p. 249
Today's shojo hairstyles	p. 250
Drawing the Rest of the Body	p. 254
Dressing up the shojo female	p. 254
Dressing up the shojo male	p. 258
Art Nouveau Backgrounds in Shojo Manga	p. 263
Time to Go Hi-Tech	p. 267
Designing Mechas	p. 269
Creating Simple and Cute Mechas	p. 269
Drawing a single-shape body	p. 270
Mixing it up with a multishaped body	p. 272
Drawing Pilot-Operated Mechas	p. 275
It's all about the shapes	p. 275
Enter the lightweights	p. 277
Here come the heavyweights	p. 283
Gadgets and Weapons	p. 291
Small Gadgets	p. 291
Communicators	p. 291
Remote devices	p. 294
Battle Arms	p. 296
Swords	p. 296
Guns	p. 297
Taking Off: Vehicles and Airplanes	p. 305
Cars	p. 305
Drawing different angles using basic shapes	p. 306
Drawing standard cars (a.k.a. "grocery getters")	p. 309
Drawing faster, sleeker cars	p. 311
Planes	p. 312
Drawing the jumbo jet	p. 312
Drawing the F-18 fighter jet	p. 320
An Advanced Case of Manga	p. 327
Putting Manga into Perspective	p. 329
Creating Buildings and Backgrounds with Basic Perspective	p. 329
Drawing one-point perspective	p. 330
Trying two-point perspective	p. 333
Shaping up for three-point perspective	p. 335
Adding People to the Environment	p. 339
One-point perspective characters	p. 339
Two-point perspective characters	p. 341
Three-point perspective characters	p. 342
Using Perspective and Camera Angle to Tell the Story	p. 344
Creating strong establishing shots	p. 344
Establishing the strong versus the weak	p. 345
Using Speed Lines to Create Motion and Emotion	p. 347
Getting Your Character Moving	p. 348
Making your character move fast	p. 348
Creating the illusion of moving along with the character	p. 349
Making objects and characters come toward readers	p. 351
Slowing down your character	p. 353
Zooming Around for Emotion	p. 354
Striking fear into your character	p. 355
Shocking your character	p. 356
Thumbnails and Scenery	p. 359
Creating Effective Thumbnails	p. 359
Why bother with a thumbnail?	p. 359
Practicing thumbnails	p. 360
Transferring the thumbnails to final paper	p. 361
Sketching Scenic Backgrounds	p. 362
Cityscapes	p. 362
Heading to the country: Trees, bushes, and pastures	p. 364
Rocks and bodies of water	p. 373
Writing a Good Story	p. 379
Deciding Who Your Audience Is	p. 379
Establishing a Synopsis and Plot Creating a synopsis	p. 380
Constructing your plot	p. 381
Seeking Inspiration	p. 387
The Part of Tens	p. 389
Ten (or so) Manga Artists	p. 391
(Nearly) Ten Places to Strut your Stuff	p. 397
Index	p. 403
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