Customer Review for this product :
A surprisingly good reference - There are some great resources about adding color to comic art using digital media, from the publisher of this book and from others. However, I was looking for a resource that would specifically guide me on how to paint my manga/comic artwork with markers. And from the cover of this book (Create Your Own Cool Characters and Costumes with Markers) you would think that's all you're going to get. However, you get a bit more and that is not a bad thing.
This is how this book is organized:
Introduction
Chapter 1 Tools and Materials
Chapter 2 Drawing and Painting Heads
Chapter 3 Drawing Bodies and Poses
Chapter 4 Fantastical Costumes
Chapter 5 Textures, Backgrounds and Perspective
Index
About the Author
Each Chapter contains 5 to 10 pages of theory/tutorials about the subject at hand. Chapter 1 is very good at establishing the tools and materials to use for painting with markers. Chapters 2 and 3 present brief tutorials on how to draw, but extensive demos on how to paint heads, and posing figure. Chapter 4 gives good tips and demos about fantastic attire, but leaves you wishing for more. In the last pages of this book (43 out of 144), Chapter 5 presents tips on scenery and perspective before delving into how to paint various scenes.
The most important part for me about this guidebook is the extensive repertoire of step-by-step demos showing how to paint with markers. This book includes plenty of demonstrations:
Chapter 1 -- 2 demos, 3 to 4 steps long
_ Layering
_ Blending
Chapter 2 -- 6 demos, 6 to 7 steps long
_ Painting Light Skin
_ Painting Tanned or Asian Skin
_ Painting Dark Gray Skin
_ Painting Colorful Hair
_ Emphasizing Emotion with Shadows and Highlights
_ Using Complementary Colors to Create Drama
Chapter 3 -- 8 demos, 3 to 11 steps long
_ Suggesting Distance with Color
_ Little Miss Sunshine
_ The Rebel
_ Casual and Cool
_ Glamorous Star
_ The Fighter
_ Summer Breeze
_ Brotherhood
Chapter 4 -- 2 demos, 10 to 11 steps long
_ Lionel, Warrior King
_ Belen, The Elf Archer
Chapter 5 -- 6 demos, 4 of them 14 to 16 steps long
_ Painting A Spring Lake Background
_ Creating a Light-Filled Atmosphere
_ Deep Ocean Scene
_ Combining Markers and Paint
_ The Traveler
_ Nailing Perspective in No Name Cafe
In all, I'm very satisfied with this book. The only bad thing is that the book is brief (144 pages long). I found the demos so effective that I end up wishing for more. But that is me, being greedy.
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More Detailed Product Description
A Complete Shojo Manga Art Course!
The world of shojo manga art dares you to go all out—big eyes, colorful skin tones, spiky hair…the works.Shojo Wonder Manga Art School shows you how to take full advantage of that freedom while bringing believability and originality to your manga characters.
With easy to follow step-by-step instruction, Supittha “Annie” Bunyapen (known as ecthelian on deviantART) shows you how to draw a wide range of characters in the manga style including heads and figures, attitudes and expressions, clothing, and natural and dynamic poses. In addition to this expert instruction, you’ll discover tricks for building mood with shadows, light and expressive color.
· More than 20 step-by-step demos cover an assorted cast of colorful characters, including 5 complete scenes with finished backgrounds
· Basics-and-beyond instruction on drawing heads, figures, clothing, accessories, poses, hairstyles, costumes and backgrounds
· Color-mixing charts and step-by-step demonstrations for mastering basic skin tones
· Coloring techniques for refining your illustrations and mixing markers with other media to create cool effects
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