Manga Mania Fantasy Worlds : How to Draw the Enchanted Worlds of Japanese Comics

by HART, CHRISTOPHER

• ISBN13: 9780823029723
• ISBN10: 0823029727
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill

Summary

Manga fantasy is the swords-and-sorcery Japanese animation style featured in the most popular video role-playing games on the market. Best-selling author Christopher Hart's latest tutorial reveals the secrets and techniques that go into building these worlds of wonder. An increasingly fashionable style among both digital and traditional animators, manga enjoys unrivaled popularity among the game players themselves, allowing them entry into fabled worlds of startling beauty, terror, and adventure.Manga Mania Fantasy Worldsthrows down the gauntlet for people interested in creating these scenes for themselves. Artists will learn how to illustrate detailed backdrops and landscapes, rugged weaponry, and, of course, fearsome creaturesaliens, faeries, ogres, and much more. In the straightforward style that is his trademark, Christopher Hart teaches the basics and the intricacies of creating manga fantasy illustrations that practically jump off the page. 5th title in the best-selling Mania series with over 200,000 copies sold to date Manga is the most popular graphic style in the world and the fastest- growing genre in the US

Author Biography

Christopher Hart is the acclaimed author of countless how-to-draw tutorials, including two of the best-selling art books in the US—Manga Mania and Anime Mania. He has sold more than one million books worldwide and makes his home in Connecticut.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 7
The Medieval World	p. 8
Gothic Beasts	p. 46
The Faerie Kingdom	p. 58
Warrior Women of Manga	p. 84
Science Fiction	p. 98
Monsters	p. 122
Steam Punk	p. 132
Index	p. 144
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