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Draw Your Own Manga: All The Basics

Draw Your Own Manga: All The Basics is the book for you! The textbook of choice at Tokyo Animation College--the leading school for mango artists in Japan, it covers all the basic information you need to get started on drawing manga with clear and easy-to-understand instructions.

• Which materials and tools are essential and how to use them.
• How to draw characters, and proportions to use for bodies and faces.
• Creating simple effective special effects in ink and screen tone.
• Easy-to-follow rules for drawing in different types of perspective.
• How to use photographic material for backgrounds.

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Draw Your Own Manga:
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How to Draw Manga: Sketching Manga Style # 2 Logical Proportions

This exciting series is a dream come true for all aspiring anime and manga artists. The first volume in the "Super Manga Sketching" series offers a brand-new "sketching to plan" tin can crammed full of sketching fundamentals for use when creating manga, as well as suggestions and ideas to improve your artwork. The second volume explains how to use manga sketching to devised head-to-body ratios that make each character distinct and how to proportion realistic, attractive characters as well as adorable, ultra-stylized chibi characters. English Text.


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How to Draw Manga: Sketching Manga Style # 2 Logical Proportions
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How to Draw Manga: Sketching Manga Style # 3 Unforgettable Characters

Characters convey action and emtion in manga, and creating those characters can be an artistic challenge. How To Draw Manga: Sketching Manga-Style - Unforgettable Characters teaches the artist, through manga sketching techniques, how to bring unforgettable characters to life by making the fantastic seem plausible, the quality of the information to be conveyed, and how much of it to actually convey. English Text.


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How to Draw Manga: Sketching Manga Style # 3 Unforgettable Characters
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How to Draw Manga: Special

This book covers original color drawing techniques using Copic Sketch markers from the ground up, with copious examples. The basic techniques are presented in 96 full-color pages. Fully illustrated. English text.


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How to Draw Manga: Special
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How to Draw Manga Computones Vol. 4: Portraying Couples

A Previews Exclusive! This book illustrates how using tone to add effects to the panel can completely change the mood projected. You are instructed on how to use a variety of tones to achieve your own unique touch. The bonus CD-ROM (Windows compatible) contains different types of tones that are useful for portraying couples, dramatizing scenes, and giving special effects to romantic manga. English text.


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How to Draw Manga Computones Vol. 4: Portraying Couples
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How to Draw Manga Vol. 2: Compiling Techniques

Reoffering select volumes of the best-selling series! These are select volumes in the popular and best-selling "How To Draw Manga" series, the English-language instructional series featuring authentic instructional data for beginners in the art of manga. If you want begin to learn manga, or to just improve your artistic techniques for drawing exciting manga stories, these volumes are all highly recommended! Choose from Volume 2: Compiling Techniques, Volume 3: Compiling Application & Practice, Volume 4: Causal Wear, or Volume 5: Developing Bishoujo Manga Techniques. With easy-to-understand explanations, these books offer numerous ideas to help you bring out your true potential and to create fantastic manga with a personal touch. English text.


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How to Draw Manga Vol. 2: Compiling Techniques
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How to Draw Manga Vol. 4: Dressing Your Characters In Casual Wear

Drawing realistic faces and bodies is only half the job--you will want your manga characters' clothing to look good, too. Depicting wrinkles, skirt hems and other aspects of clothing isn't as easy as it looks, but this book will simplify the process for you. Features sections on underwear and outer garments, and how clothing changes shape as the body moves, bends and stretches.


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How to Draw Manga Vol. 4: Dressing Your Characters In Casual Wear
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How To Draw Manga Vol. 3: Costume Encyclopedia

Graphic-sha's Costume Encyclopedia series is designed to help manga artists to accurately portray their characters in costumes by providing over 4,000 reference illustrations, with manga characters appearing as models in various poses and angles. VOLUME 3 hits the beach with swimwear, sports attire and active wear. English text.

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DEC043186
How To Draw Manga Vol. 3: Costume Encyclopedia
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How To Draw Manga: Pen & Tone Technique

From the publishers of the best-selling How To Draw Manga series! To excel as a manga artist, one must know how to draw with round-tipped pens, coupler pens, and G-pens. Besides that, how to use screen-tones, gradations, grainy tone, and other double layering techniques as well as paper cutting techniques, are important elements to acquire. This book focuses exclusively on those pen and tone techniques using an easy-to-understand manga format. English text..

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STAR19396
How To Draw Manga: Pen & Tone Technique
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How to Draw Manga Vol. 32: Mech. Drawing

From bicycles to robots and space stations, mechanical drawing can be done with the use of just 4 elements (metal, glass, rubber, plastic). Once you have learned the element expression techniques, all you need to do next is accurately design the form and you've made a mechanical drawing! In order to meet the expectations of the reader, this book introduces all sorts of ideas to bring out the true potential of mechanical function as a way to create fantastic mechanical drawings with a personal touch.

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How to Draw Manga Vol. 32:
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How to Draw Manga: Making Anime

From the publishers of the best-selling How To Draw Manga series! This book is co-authored by the animation production company, A.I.C. and Yoyogi Animation Gakuin, a leading animation institute in Tokyo, Japan. It conveys the main or "key" poses in action by showing the reader the work process up to the point where a finished animated work has been created. English text..

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How to Draw Manga: Making Anime
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How to Draw Manga Vol. 7: Amazing Effects

Seventh in the best-selling series! The use and assembly of the frame effect all elements of the direction. In this volume, image, character, vocals, and the direction of the frame are thoroughly explained. English text..

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STAR19310
How to Draw Manga: Amazing Effects
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Draw Your Own Manga: Maids & Miko (SC)

PREVIEWS Exclusive! It's Maids and Miko, at your service! This entry in the popular How To Draw Manga features easy-to-follow instructions for drawing sexy maid uniforms and the traditional garments worn by "Miko," young women who work in Japan's religious shrines. The only book of its kind, this volume is perfect for manga artists who want to increase their characters' sex appeal by dressing them in authentic Japanese clothing. English text..

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STAR19307
Draw Your Own Manga: Maids & Miko
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Draw Your Own Manga: Colorful Costumes
by Tadashi Ozawa

From the publisher of the world's foremost series of English-language books on drawing Japanese-style comics comes the first all-color volume, How to Draw Manga: Colorful Costumes. More than a simple "how to" book, Colorful Costumes offers a close-up look at the whimsical costumes and elaborately tailored uniforms worn by the young women who work in Japan's cafes, restaurants, hotels and other service-industry venues. Featuring 136 full-color pages showing manga characters in a variety of costumes and poses. English text.

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STAR19305
Draw Your Own Manga: Colorful Costumes
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How To Draw Manga Vol. 5 (SC)

Fifth in the best-selling series! This volume shows the techniques used in manga for girls now so widely used today that they have come to define modern manga style. These techniques are indispensable for you to draw characters more realistically and pay close attention to backgrounds. This volume is a definitive compendium that reveals these techniques in extraordinary detail and precision. Accept no substitutes! This is the latest release in the official How to Draw series from Graphic-Sha!

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STAR16142
How To Draw Manga: Volume 5
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How To Draw Manga Occult & Horror (SC)
by Hikaru Hayashi

This one-of-a-kind book provides very useful tips on how to evoke terror and eeriness in your manga illustrations, while offering plenty of examples of ghosts, ghouls, monsters, zombies, mythical creatures, and evil-busters from all over the world. Learn how to draw scary faces, ghost renderings, ominous and ethereal backgrounds, severed arms, faces bitten off, blood gushing, radiating psychic energy, warped space, telepathic communication, clairvoyance, telekinesis, electric shocks, spontaneous combustion, and much more, using pens, tone, and blots.

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How To Draw Manga Occult & Horror
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How To Draw Manga Vol. 3 (SC)

Reoffering select volumes of the best-selling series! These are select volumes in the popular and best-selling "How To Draw Manga" series, the English-language instructional series featuring authentic instructional data for beginners in the art of manga. If you want begin to learn manga, or to just improve your artistic techniques for drawing exciting manga stories, these volumes are all highly recommended!

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APR045071
How To Draw Manga: Volume 3
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More How To Draw Manga Vol. 4 (SC)
by Go Office

A Previews Exclusive! This fourth volume in the More How to Draw Manga series presents the basic drawing techniques depending on twelve (12) types of bishoujo characters, as well as their costumes, movements, and much more! Lessons created by Go Office, one of Japan's top design houses. Softcover with full-color dustjacket. English text.

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APR045094
More How To Draw Manga: Volume 4
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More How To Draw Manga Vol. 2 (SC)
by Go Office

It's time to learn the basics manga artistry, and More How to Draw Manga is here to teach you! Volume 2 teaches one of the most valuable techniques in manga artwork - inking and the two indispensable stroke types: strokes with tapered and even ends. Combining tapered lines with blunt, even lines allows for the production of balanced artwork. English Text.

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More How To Draw Manga: Volume 2
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More How To Draw Manga Vol. 3 (SC)
by Go Office

This third volume in Graphic-Sha's More How to Draw Manga series takes a focused look at ways the budding manga artist can enhance his character's sense of presence, and also explains in detail techniques for imbuing a character with a sense of presence by suggesting movement. Softcover with full-color dustjacket. English text.

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More How To Draw Manga: Volume 3
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How To Draw Manga Vol. 2: Computones (SC)

Aimed at the beginner, How To Draw Manga: Computones is a detailed introduction (complete with raw material) to tone work, an indispensable manga technique. Volume 2 focuses on tone work relating to human figures. Includes a CD-ROM boasting approximately 140 digital tones (for Windows: includes compatible plug-in modules for Adobe Photoshop 5.0/5.5/6.0/7.0/CS, Adobe Photoshop Elements 1.0/2.0, and Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7.0/8.0), teeming with effective uses designed to suit the subject matter. English Text.

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MAR053520
How To Draw Manga Vol. 2: Computones
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How To Draw Manga Computones Vol. 5: Aiming for Action (SC)

The use of tone makes the portrayal of action scenes, such as running, flying, fighting, throwing, swordplay, and more a snap! Jam-packed with speed lines, burst effects, and other absolutely vital tones as well as their effective uses, this fifth Computones volume is one you won't want to miss! English text.

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How To Draw Manga Computones Vol. 5: Aiming for Action
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Professional Manga: Digital Storytelling with Manga Studio EX (SC)
by Steve Horton and Jeong Mo Yang

Combine high-end manga storytelling theory and advice with the tools for digital creation in Manga Studio, guided by expert professional manga-ka. You'll discover manga storytelling techniques, from speed lines to technology, from toning to big sound effects. Every ounce of theory is backed up with step-by-step manga illustrations and Manga Studio screenshots that show how these illustrations were created. See the techniques in action in The Other Side of the Tracks, a new manga short story in the book centerfold which demonstrates at least one example from every technique described. And there?s more! The companion CD includes trial version of Manga Studio EX along with high-resolution image files from the book. .

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PROMANGA
Professional Manga: Digital Storytelling with Manga Studio EX
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Let's Draw Manga: Using Color (SC)
by John Ott & You Kuseno

Look no further than Let's Draw Manga: Using Color for everything you'll need to add color to your manga! Inside, you'll discover the nature of color and the best ways to add color to any of your drawings! Through step-by-step lessons, you'll learn how to color line drawings using paint, markers, or your computer. Find out about other methods for coloring too, and learn all about value, hue, saturation and the other color definition terminologies, just like the pro's! Let's Draw Manga: Using Color also lets you pick up a quick education in lighting effects and atmosphere, and how they affect color. Gain control over the use of color and you'll never look back! This is the digital age - time to draw your manga in color!

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Let's Draw Manga: Using Color
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Drawing Manga Shoujo Illustrated
by Matt Forbeck & Tomoko Taniguchi

This guide presents how-to instruction for the specialized characters and backgrounds that comprise the romanticized world of manga known as shoujo. With more than 300 illustrations, readers learn stroke by stroke how to create everything from winged princesses to robotic girls and fantasy settings from the historical to the futuristic..

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IDIOTMANGA
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Drawing Manga Shoujo Illustrated
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50 Manga Babes to Draw and Paint (SC)
by Chi Hang Li

Packed with more than 300 full-color, highly instructive, often provocative illustrations, manga and anime illustrator Chi Hang Li reveals the traditional and digital techniques and inspiration used in rendering fantastic female characters - from Schoolgirls and Princesses, to Geishas, Cat Girls, and French Maids.

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50 Manga Babes to Draw and Paint (SC)
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How To Draw Manga Vol. 2: Costume Encyclopedia
by Hikaru Hayashi & Kimiko Morimoto

Graphic-sha's Costume Encyclopedia series is designed to help manga artists to accurately portray their characters in costumes by providing over 4,000 reference illustrations, with manga characters appearing as models in various poses and angles. Volume 2 uncovers undergarments and lingerie.

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JAN045150
How To Draw Manga Vol. 2: Costume Encyclopedia
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Manga Studio For Dummies
by Doug Hills

The newest features of Manga Studio help you bring your ideas to life! The tools available in the latest version of this powerful program make it easy to turn your computer into your drawing board, and Manga Studio For Dummies makes it easy to get started. Discover how to use Manga Studio to begin creating comics in manga or Western styles, add color to your creations, and share them with your adoring public. It’s a breeze once you know your way around the program.

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Manga Studio For Dummies
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Manga Mania Bishoujo (SC)
by Chis Hart

This book shows aspiring artists exactly how to handle anatomy and muscles, hands and nails, seductive outfits, extreme hairstyles, body landuage, and facial expressions - everything to make manga women who strike fear in the heart of the enemy and inspire love in the heart of the hero.

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Manga Mania Bishoujo
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Draw Your Own Manga: Honing Your Style (SC)
by Haruno Nagatomo

3rd book in this popular series provides advanced-level instruction and essential information for artists who want to perfect their skills and create action-packed, exciting, and authentic manga. The book offers not only tips, practical instruction, and inspiration but explains all the essential features of the main genres and the standard techniques used in common situations and action scenes. Also includes an exclusive interview with artist Monkey Punch (Lupin III).

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AUG074271
Draw Your Own Manga: Honing Your Style
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Manga for the Beginner: Everything You Need to Start Drawing Right Away! (PB)
by Chris Hart

With Manga for the Beginner, anyone who can hold a pencil can start drawing great manga characters right away. Using his signature step-by-step style, Chris Hart shows how to draw the basic manga head and body, eyes, bodies, fashion, and more. Then he goes way beyond most beginner titles, exploring dynamic action poses, special effects, light and shading, perspective, popular manga types such as animals, anthros, and shoujo and shounen characters. By the end of this big book, the new artist is ready to draw dramatic story sequences full of movement and life.

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MANGABEGIN
Manga for the Beginner: Everything You Need to Start Drawing Right Away! (PB)
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How To Draw Manga:
Ultimate Manga Lessons Vol. 1: Drawing Made Easy

The first chapter of this volume painstakingly explains the artistic development process beginning with copying professional artists' work to the point where the beginning artist is able to produce his or her own original manga. The second chapter covers the basics of a character's face and body, as well as portraying backgrounds. Chapter Three demonstrates how characters from professional manga artists' work are portrayed.

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4766115262
How to Draw Manga:
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How To Draw Manga: Ultimate Manga Lessons Vol. 2: The Basics Of Characters And Materials

Manga as it appears in a magazine has actually been reduced from its original size. Creating artwork on a single sheet of manga drawing paper relies on countless factors that must be learned. Using what can be gleaned from the original manga drawing as its springboard, the first chapter covers in minute detail the uses of materials and tools of the trade. Chapter Two approaches character basics from various angles. Chapter Three introduces techniques for portraying or dramatizing characters.

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How to Draw Manga:
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How To Draw Manga: Ultimate Manga Lessons Vol. 3

A unique project featuring 100% fresh and new content, this series is a must-have for those seeking to create authentic manga. Once you start reading, you won't want to stop.

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Drawing American Manga Superheroes (SC)
by Andy Smith

Manga has transformed the work of cutting-edge American comic-book artists such as Joe Madureira (Uncanny X-Men) and Ed McGinnis (Superman) so much that a new term has evolved: amerimanga. In Drawing American Manga Superheroes, author and illustrator Andy Smith uses his own clear, informative step-by-step format to show artists exactly how to create their own amerimanga by giving traditional American figures and storytelling a twist with manga style and techniques.

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Drawing American Manga Superheroes
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Manga Mania: Magical Girls and Friends (PB)
by Christopher Hart

How to Draw the Super-Popular Action Fantasy Characters of Manga. Sailor Moon. Card Captor Sakura. Magical Girl Rayearth. They’re magical girls, and they’re some of the biggest names in manga. Magical girls, ordinary schoolgirls given superpowers, are hugely popular in Japan and the United States. Now Christopher Hart shows fans everywhere how to draw these manga shoujo faves.

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0823029689
Manga Mania: Magical Girls & Friends
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Draw Manga
by Sweatdrop Studios

Now, learning the creative techniques behind the heavily stylized, wildly popular Japanese comic is made simple! 140 color illustrations, plus easy-to-follow directions, are divided into 3 sections: Basic Tutorials; Creation, which explains how to turn raw ideas into finished comics; and Projects from the Masters, with exhaustive detail on producing professional-grade artwork. The instruction covers not only traditional media such as colored markers, pencil, and watercolor, but also computer-generated manga, and more.

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Draw Manga
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Manga Madness
by David Okum

IMPACT Books introduces Manga Madness: Over 40 Basic Lessons for Drawing Japanese Comics by David Okum. Manga Madness shows beginning artists how to capture the style and dynamics of manga. Over fifty basic lessons use step-by-step instruction will give readers everything they need to create their favorite characters and scenes. Whether artists want to explore visual storytelling or just draw cool characters, beginners will be drawn to this guide's dynamic design and color. It captures all the excitement of manga-from pretty girls and rebellious heroes to space pirates and giant robots!

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1581805349
Manga Madness
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Manga Monster Madness
by David Okum

You'll love drawing the outrageous monsters lurking in Manga Monster Madness. There's no need to fear putting your pencil to paper as this book will teach you everything from basic drawing skills to achieving a cutting-edge manga look.

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158180606X
Manga Monster Madness
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Manga Secrets
by Lea Hernandez

Manga Secrets is the key to unlocking tricks to drawing the world's most popular art style. This comic-book and graphic novel craze has legions of fans who want to re-create the exciting characters and scenes they find in their favorite books and online comics. Now it's easy to do just that. Perfect for beginning and advanced artists, Manga Secrets is the obvious choice for mastering this Japanese style. Readers can get started in minutes!

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1581805721
Manga Secrets
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