Author Teruko Sakurai, Japan's leading colorist, applies her expert knowledge of color to drawing effective anime and manga.

Starting with the basics, Sakurai shares her secrets on how to provide your characters and scenes with the right colors to accurately express their moods and actions.

This book shows you how to become a skilled digital colorist just by following a few simple guidelines—and how to refine your illustrations further using professional-level digital shading and coloration techniques.

How-To, SC, 8x9, 192pgs, FC

It's time to create your own comic book and let your imagination soar!

Tuttle Studio brings you the ultimate do-it-yourself comic book and manga sketchbook.

Create your own adventure and illustrate the story only you can tell! Watch as your story comes to life, panel by panel, right before your eyes!

The dozens of blank templates in this book allow you to sketch your story and design an eye-catching cover. Then add words using the variety of different speech balloons and text boxes provided

How-To, SC, 8x11, 96pgs, B&W

A Step-by-Step Artist's Handbook

Whether your character is jumping for joy or grappling with an opponent, this book provides all the essential techniques to draw more lifelike action figures in the classic Japanese manga style.

The comprehensive introduction first shows the reader the physical anatomy of male vs. female figures and gives important tips on proportions, perspective and small but often-overlooked details such as the relative differences between male and female hands, fingers and feet.

Five subsequent chapters cover over 40 action poses in the following categories:
* Chapter 1: Action (e.g. running and jumping)
* Chapter 2: Martial Arts (e.g. punching and kicking)
* Chapter 3: Interacting (e.g. judo holds and high fives)
* Chapter 4: Weapons (e.g. swords and knives)
* Chapter 5: Reacting (e.g. dodging a punch or taking a punch)

Each pose and movement is illustrated with a rough sketch outline followed by a highlighted manga drawing containing detailed annotations by the author. After studying the sketches, you practice the drawing techniques in a tracing section at the end of each chapter. Each chapter also provides professional tips on the use of color and shading for greater realism.

Special sections contain information and tips on particular topics of interest, such as how to draw clothes, hair and facial expressions or how to create special effects. At the end of the book, an actual 6-page comic strip gives readers the opportunity to practice what they have learned by filling in the missing elements.

144 pages

A Comprehensive 13-Week "Art Course" with 65 Clear and Easy Daily Lessons

The complete manga, anime and video game "art school" course for beginners!

The Complete Guide to Drawing Manga & Anime offers a structured 13-week lesson plan that is typically found in professional drawing classes. With 65 detailed lessons arranged into 13 weekly topics, it's simple to learn the essentials and then progress to higher levels. You can create your own personalized learning experience as the structured lessons can be followed in sequence on a strict daily schedule or as an easy learn-at-your-own-pace course. With a hybrid focus this book offers skills for both digital and traditional artists learning to create manga and anime.

This book's unique progressively structured lessons offer:
* Essential basic instructions on drawing bodies, clothes, facial expressions, movements and poses with 3D composition for animation
* Hundreds of sample illustrations and full-color examples that make it easy to learn
* Detailed lessons that teach poses, dress styles and life-like expressions that match each character's personality
* Star ratings for each lesson that indicate difficulty and allow the aspiring artist to follow and understand their own learning progress
* Professional tips and tricks that make learning fun and memorable
* Free downloadable practice materials, templates and guides

The Complete Guide to Drawing Manga & Anime offers all the essential information needed to acquire basic drawing skills--creating a solid foundation for future learning!

How-To Reference, SC, 7x10, 192pgs, FC

Long, swishing tails and pointy animal ears or maybe antlers, horns, wings and feathers if you prefer-this is the ultimate furry handbook for manga and anime artists as well as cosplay enthusiasts.

Choose your favorite animal then fuse its salient features with a fabulous human form and animal-specific clothing. Shugao shows you how! She teaches you to combine authentic animal details with original fashions to create new and exciting characters. And she provides hundreds of amazing examples.

Whether you're inspired by furry characters or looking for a way to draw authentic kemonomimi, this is the book you have to get!

How-To, SC, 7x10, 144pgs, FC

In this unique book, author and illustrator Rui Tomono provides detailed case studies showing you how to create more compelling illustrations using the time-honored principles of composition and perspective. Follow Rui's examples, notes and tips as you learn to create dynamic compositions that will thrill readers and keep them turning the page. When you use the right perspective, framing and focal points, you lead the viewer's eye and communicate your stories in a clear and engaging way. Rui also explains how to add color to your B&W sketches to create spectacular finished artworks.

How-To-Draw, SC, 8x11, 128pgs, PC

Drawing characters with realistic facial expressions is a challenging and critical skill for every manga artist and storyteller.

Drawing Manga Faces & Expressions is an invaluable practical guide for illustrators who wish to bring their drawing skills to the next level! This book contains over 175 detailed step-by-step lessons and 1,200 drawings, with practical advice and helpful tips on every page.

How-To-Draw, SC, 8x11, 176pgs, FC

Create one-of-a-kind outfits with this essential guide to Japanese-style fantasy fashion!

Using the authors' unique Costume Matrix, you will learn how to develop new and daring designs for your anime and manga characters and cosplay creations. First, choose a look to serve as your fashion foundation. Then select an alternate style and fuse it with the first fashion theme to create an unexpected ensemble combining elements have never before been seen together!

Mixing and matching basic themes and styles in this way results in one-of-a-kind mashups and hybrids, for example:

* School Uniforms & Military Apparel
* Casual Basics & Gothic Formal Wear
* Japanese Fashion & Folk Costumes
* Plant Motifs & Animal Motifs
* Nature Motifs & Mechanical Objects
* Seasonal Motifs & all of the above!
* Using the Costume Matrix, the fashion mashup possibilities are endless!

Here are just some of the unique combos made possible by applying the Costume Matrix technique:

* A Folk Costume crossed with a snake motif that results in a Scheherazade vixen with veils transforming into slinky scarf-like vipers!
* A Gothic Lolita paired with a Rabbit for a fun and furry character with fuzzy paws for boots and a crazy carrot-top hairdo!
* A Sailor Girl School Uniform combined with a Female Ninja fighting outfit--with a throwing star as the perfect accessory!
* A mashup of Casual Basics and Plant Motifs creates a head-turning Sunflower Girl complete with a green-leaf collar and flared-petal skirt

Fantasy Costumes for Manga, Anime & Cosplay presents over 55 fantasy fashion mashup examples and provides you with the key to designing your own totally original characters and styles!

How-To, SC, 8x11, 160pgs, B&W

Veteran illustrator Ryo Sumiyoshi stretches the boundaries of fantasy human-animal hybrids in his new book—presenting not just the usual jungle beasties but a fascinating array of strange and unusual creatures found nowhere else!

Sumiyoshi's extensive sketchbook ideas, drawing tips and full-color examples combine insights on body structures and movement with conceptual sketches and notes linking physical attributes to personality and behavior.

How-to, SC, 8x11, 144pgs, PC

Fashion meets form in this essential style guide to dressing up your drawings.

Drape your manga creations in the wardrobe of your dreams, while learning techniques and tips used by professional illustrators to realistically draw clothing and accessories of all types, from blouses and T-shirts to button downs, sweaters, coats, pants, skirts and shorts. And what about the accessories? Boots, belts, shoes and sandals are all included as well, along with detailed coverage of satchels, purses and backpacks.

How to Create Manga: Drawing Clothing and Accessories presents more than 900 drawings by twelve accomplished illustrators, covering a broad range of fashions.

Reference Book, SC, 7x10, 176pgs, FC

This book shows you how to accurately render human faces and emotions to create complex characters and add compelling immediacy to your work.

The ability to draw realistic and powerful facial expressions is essential for every manga artist. All artists will tell you that human faces are the most important and challenging element of any drawing. How to Create Manga: Drawing Facial Expressions is an essential resource for artists who want to bring their skills to the next level.

Thirteen professional Japanese artists have contributed their expertise to this book, which contains 1,250 drawings, with several detailed tips and comments on every drawing. It includes a comprehensive opening section on all the basic expressions budding manga artists need to master. Sections dedicated to detailed emotions and playing up the intensity and drama of more animated facial expressions follow.

Tuttle's How to Create Manga series guides users through the process of reaching a professional-looking final drawing through actual sketch progressions, practical tips and common missteps to avoid. Other books in the series include How to Create Manga: Drawing the Human Body, How to Create Manga: Drawing Clothing and Accessories and How to Create Manga: Drawing Action Scenes and Characters.

176 pages

Anatomy and art combine in this incredibly detailed manga drawing guide that offers an in-depth look at the human body.

Manga artists of every level will benefit from this essential anatomical overview. Step-by-step instructions bring manga characters to life and provide a clearly defined and easy-to-follow art course on the human body. With more than 1,500 highly-detailed drawings and useful tips from a manga artist actually working in the business, this book is a self-contained art class in a single volume.

In this book, the body is covered head-to-toe—from various angles and positions with versions for men, women and children all provided. How to Create Manga: Drawing the Human Body is a must-have for budding manga artists and an essential reference for experienced artists looking to hone their ability to draw certain parts of their characters with greater accuracy.

Tuttle's How to Create Manga series guides users through the process of reaching a professional-looking final drawing through actual sketch progressions, practical tips and common missteps to avoid. Other books in the series include How to Create Manga: Drawing Facial Expressions, How to Create Manga: Drawing Clothing and Accessories and How to Create Manga: Drawing Action Scenes and Characters.

176 pages

Learn to read, write, and speak everyday Japanese with manga stories!

If you enjoy manga, you'll love learning Japanese with this book. The language lessons are interspersed with entertaining manga comic strips, making it easy to learn and remember all the key vocabulary and grammar. With a focus on the casual speech used by young people in Japan, you'll find yourself feeling confident with speaking, reading, and writing Japanese quickly!

Designed for self-study use by adult learners, this book is a fun resource for beginners-no prior knowledge of Japanese required!

Readers will find:
* Help with learning to write and pronounce the 92 Hiragana and Katakana letters plus 160 basic Kanji characters
* Hundreds of useful words and phrases--from numbers and greetings to expletives and insults!
* Seven manga stories woven throughout the book, reinforcing your grasp of the language
* The basic vocabulary and grammar needed to communicate in Japanese!
* Hundreds of exercises with free online audio recordings by Japanese native speakers
* A bidirectional dictionary and answer keys for all the exercises

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If you enjoy manga, you'll love learning Japanese with this book.

The language lessons are interspersed with entertaining manga comic strips that make it easy to learn and remember all the key vocabulary and grammar. The plot picks up where Learn Japanese with Manga Volume 1 left off, following Nuria, a journalist who is sent to Tokyo to research a news story, where she keeps encountering a mysterious "shadow" or kage. Learn to form complex sentences, with relative clauses, honorific forms and more! Learn hundreds of useful words and phrases —from how to order food in a restaurant to dealing with unexpected events and emergencies.

Six manga episodes are woven throughout the book, reinforcing your language skills.

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Lessons from 100 Professional Japanese Illustrators

Imagine an art class taught by 100 professional Japanese manga and anime illustrators. In much the same way, this essential guide gathers the collective knowledge, tips and techniques from over 100 anime and manga artists.

The lessons cover everything from the basics of figure drawing and posing to advanced cutting-edge digital illustration and coloration techniques. With over 600 sample illustrations to guide the reader, this book offers tips and techniques for traditional hand-drawing and digital design alike.

This is the anime and manga drawing guide that all aspiring artists need!

How-To-Draw, SC, 7x10, 216pgs, FC

The male form is the focus here, twisting, leaping and tumbling in dramatic action sequences! Master manga and anime artist Kyachi shows you the secrets professional Japanese artists use to create dynamic motion on the page. A series of detailed tutorials show you how to draw the male form in every possible position. Individual lessons cover standing, sitting, reclining, walking, running, kicking, pitching, swimming, dribbling and sparring. A rogues' gallery is also presented, showing how to create dastardly villains, armed with weapons and ready to rumble.

Reference Book, SC, 8x11, 144pgs, FC

Professional manga and anime artist Kyachi offers aspiring artists an easy-to-follow approach to drawing manga women.

For beginners, it can be intimidating to know where to start when drawing the human form. This book is meant to dispel those fears and wipe away any hesitation, so you can begin with a blank page or empty screen and start populating it with people. Soon your simple forms will take on greater detail and your characters will come to life before you!

Reference Book, SC, 8x11, 144pgs, FC

Are you an animator, an illustrator, a designer? Or an artist working in multiple digital fields at once?

If so, this is the book for you! The step-by-step lessons in this book show you how to create amazing characters and illustrations for a broad range of commercial and creative applications.

Manga & Anime Digital Illustration Guide takes you inside the studios of 12 professional Japanese artists and animators. Pull up a chair for a private tutorial and let the experts show you how they work. Learn the tips and techniques that lead to unforgettable illustrations! Then use them to forge your own unique pathway.

How-To, SC, 7x10, 160pgs, FC

This book explores the fascinating history, lore and practice of Japanese cooking through the eyes of Gaku, a young man who aspires to become a professional Japanese chef. Each chapter presents a new set of topics which help the reader to appreciate the great depth and complexity of Japan's amazing food culture.

Reference Book, SC, 6x9, 192pgs, FC

For comic-book artist Audry Nicklin, her visit to Japan was the trip of a lifetime. However, she only had ten days to see everything she had dreamed of!

Armed with her watercolors and accompanied by her husband, Connor, she explored Hiroshima and its Peace Memorial Park; the famous red-gated shrine at Miyajima; Himeji Castle; neon-lit Osaka; the ancient temples of Mount Koya, Nara, and Kyoto; and the crowded streets and leafy parks of Tokyo.

With cute illustrations and entertaining commentary from the artist, this book will appeal to manga fans and anyone who loves Japan. Practical tips are included for those interested in painting on location.

Travelogue, HC, 6x8, 128pgs, FC

Furries fuse human and animal characteristics to create unique and fantastical hybrid forms. This book contains everything you need to start drawing furries for the printed page, for the screen, or for cosplay characters.

Follow the lead of 14 professional Japanese artists as they show you how to create scores of unique human-animal hybrid characters. Create furries for every situation and scenario and learn how to develop compelling and complex characters for the stories you want to tell.

Let your imagination run wild as your anthropomorphic creations come to life, spring into action, and leap off the page!

How-To-Draw, SC, 8x11, 144pgs, FC

Create realistic-looking outfits and one-of-a-kind looks for your manga and anime characters, or design amazing creations for any cosplay event.

Author Rabimaru is Japan's leading fashion illustrator and she teaches you how to develop your own unique manga fashion vocabulary!

In this comprehensive fashion sourcebook, you'll learn to create an array of stunning outfits including stylish separates and original ensembles. Rabimaru then shows you how to add realistic details, folds, creases, contours and shadows that will make your characters truly come alive!

How-To-Draw, SC, 8x10, 160pgs, B&W