Illustration Studio: Drawing Manga Heroines and Heroes
An interactive guide to drawing anime characters, props, and scenes step by step
by Sonia Leong
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Pub Date Oct 08 2019 | Archive Date Oct 29 2019
Quarto Publishing Group – Walter Foster | Walter Foster Publishing
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Description
In this exciting extension of the interactive Illustration Studio series, learn how to illustrate a range of manga heroes, heroines, and characters—from male and female warriors and fighters to schoolgirls and boys, knights, angels, cyborgs, interstellar idols, and more. The Illustration Studio series features interactive exercises, creative prompts, and step-by-step exercises to educate and excite beginning and aspiring artists working in a variety of media and techniques, from manga and anime to illustration done in ink.
Illustration Studio: Manga Heroines and Heroes teaches aspiring and beginning manga artists the basics for creating a range of popular characters, props and scenes. No matter your skill level, the drawing and colorization tips, loads of techniques, and step-by-step projects are instructive and helpful, while creative promptsand exercises invite personalization and participation inside the pages of the book..
You'll be guided through every step as you not only learn how to draw but also familiarize yourself with the vernacular and story lines associated with this popular art genre.
Marketing Plan
Key Selling Points: Interactive format includes projects, creative prompts, helpful practice exercises, templates, and open practice pages that invite immediate participation and creativity. Manga continues to drive sales in the art & craft space and large retailers. Includes instruction for colorizing line art using a variety of traditional and digital tools.
Key Campaign Activity Target media outlets in arts, crafts, DIY, comics
Trade: Finished Advances (Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Shelf Awareness, Foreword Reviews)
Retail: Finished Advances
Consumer: Pitch to art and craft magazines and websites for review, such Make: Magazine, Sketchbook Magazine, Creative Bloq, Cloth Paper Scissors, Craft Gossip, Craft Foxes, Artforum, Art in America, Artvoices Pitch to comic magazines and blogs, such as Big Shiny Robot, Fanboy Nation, Sandbox World, AnimeNation, Let’s Anime Pitch to craft and family bloggers for reviews/giveaways Leverage author social media and community/Patreon Work with UK marketing to provide postcards/collateral for any cons author will attend pre and post publication
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781633228047 |
| PRICE | $19.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 128 |
Featured Reviews
Richelle W, Reviewer
In love with this manga book. The drawings are incredible. I love the real life solutions of transitioning from a drawing to a rendered digital model. The tips on coloring and shading are invaluable. I highly suggest this book for any manga fan even if you don’t want to draw them the characters are beautifully depicted and the tips for realistic chapters is relatable and inspiring. I received this book from NetGalley for an honest review. This will hands down help inspire my artwork.
Nicki M, Reviewer
Overall, Drawing Manga Heroines and Heroes is a pleasing volume. It begins with several overview pages looking at things like proportion and shading, before proceeding to a wide range of character examples. I particularly appreciate the fact that Leong uses different media in her designs, so there are good examples to follow whether your preferred medium is digital colouring, pencils, or markers. The only thing I would have liked was to have had a few more overview pages looking at drawing facial features and other aspects. However, what is present is shown well and this book will certainly be useful to budding manga artists.
Jennifer H, Reviewer
Definitely for a more advanced artist, as the step-by-steps are not broken down as much as they would be in a novice book. Great, though, for someone looking to learn more about appropriate shading, different coloring techniques (markers, pencils, digital). Quick refresher on tools. Overall, not bad but not great.
Audrey A, Reviewer
I enjoyed this book because it made it easy to learn about drawing Manga. Sonia Leon goes step by step making it easy for me to emulate the work (my own lack of talent isn't their fault lol). Leon also walk you through digital art work and color. There are sections for specific types of characters found in Manga and scenes where more tah one person is included; that helps me tremendously with spacing.
I would recommend this book for anyone interested in drawing manga.
Ramie P, Reviewer
I liked this one but didn’t love it. I feel like there’s a lot missing. If you’re unfamiliar with manga or how to draw some of the types of characters here space Marine, angels, etc) this won’t help you much. There are few to no tips for creating such characters.
What this book does well is explain why layering colors is important, but even there the steps could be confusing as there’s usually a handful of steps and a lot of lines and colors being added in each one.
It also has some sample character for drawing or adding clothing to. For me this is more around coloring your images well or adding to existing ones.
If you’re already pretty proficient in the Manga art form, you’ll probably like this. If you’re not and are looking to get into drawing in this style, I think you’d want to start elsewhere.
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