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Beginner Guide to Drawing Anime & Manga
Best Manga Drawing Books To Master Manga Art
If you have an interest in drawing your own anime strips or just find the entire genre interesting, the books listed below should help you to get on your way. But before we review them, let’s help you to better understand what anime and manga are.
Subtitled: Drawing Manga Characters And Scenes From Start To Finish, you get a good idea of what to expect between the covers of this book. The author provides unique tips and guidance on taking your characters and doing some amazing things with them.
This author is considered by most to be the King of Anime and you will find that many of his books are going to be on this list simply because he is one of the best.
Subtitled: The Go-To Guide For Drawing Stylish Outfits And Characters, this book covers a very important part of the anime drawing process – their clothing.
Sometimes you can glean some great information from someone who is doing what you wish you were doing.
Did we mention a couple of books up this list that “Mastering Manga” was part of a series of books on the subject? We probably didn’t, so here is the third one in the set.
Subtitled: How To Draw The Supercute Characters of Japanese Comics, this book teaches you one specific style of manga art – kawaii or cute characters.
The Manga Artist’s Workbook: Easy-to-Follow Lessons for Creating Your Own Characters is another Chris Hart book that makes drawing anime a little easier for beginners. I would buy it along with the first book, they go together very well.
Although I use the term “anime drawing books” here, if you’re looking for tips on how to create your own comics, you’re actually trying to create manga. Anime is, as the name kind of implies, animated. Manga is the “anime” that you read , and it’s usually in comic book form.
The Manga Fashion Bible. Manga and anime characters have a very unique style of clothing, so it’s just as important to master fashion as it is faces! The Manga Fashion Bible: The Go-To Guide for Drawing Stylish Outfits and Characters features: Plenty of great tutorials on how to draw stylish outfits.
While I love Christopher Hart and Mark Crilley for teaching you how to master the basics, Manga Crash Course: Drawing Manga Characters and Scenes from Start to Finish offers some unique tips on taking your characters to whole new levels. It will also help you create amazing scenes and stories.
Manga for the Beginner Chibis. Chibis are shorter versions of the traditional anime characters. They have very different proportions, so if you want to master this style, pick up Christopher Hart’s Manga for the Beginner Chibis: Everything You Need to Start Drawing the Super-Cute Characters of Japanese Comics.