Cartooning category: 232 books

This useful step-by-step guide to drawing manga boys is a must-have for the aspiring artist. The detailed and colorful example characters and simple-to-follow descriptions allow for an exciting read, while sharing basic techniques for drawing, inking, and coloring. Artists will make their own inventive male characters with expressive attributes and energy.

Young artists who love manga and anime will enjoy learning to draw girls with attitude and style. Step-by-step instructions allow readers to master female characters, faces, and figures. Colorful images will entrance girls and boys alike with the magic of manga.

What makes a villain truly vile? Threatening postures, creepy color schemes, and dastardly weapons are a good place to start creating bad people! This ultimate guide teaches readers how to craft the perfect villains to oppose their heroic characters. They’ll learn crucial storytelling techniques,...

Readers will design their own monstrous characters who are good, evil, or something in between. Example backstories help readers create their own complex characters. They'll also learn important artistic techniques to enhance their storytelling, such as how to use body language to express a wide range...

Walt Disney's name is synonymous with family entertainment. Mickey Mouse, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Bambi, Disneyland, and numerous other creations have inspired generations of children the world over. From his childhood in rural Missouri to his legendary stature as a film and television icon,...

You love to be adorned in handmade beautiful mixed media jewelry. The 15 projects in this book chronicle an affair with the shiny, the delicate, the found object renewed, and will whet your craving to mix medias and impress your own artistic statement on bling to wear or give as a gift. Wherever you...

Cartoonist Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989) is the single most important figure in Japanese post-World War II comics. During his four-decade career, Tezuka published more than 150,000 pages of comics, produced animation films, wrote essays and short fiction, and earned a Ph.D. in medicine. Along with creating...

As a sophisticated and highly stylised art form, Manga presents a series of challenges for budding artists, from character and set design to creating dynamic page layouts, perfectly paced narrative and panels with ever-changing camera angles. Here, award-winning professional Manga artist Sonia...

100 exciting and ingenious ways to design and draw better fantasy figures - from developing characters to adding costumes, props and backdrops. Hollywood concept designer Francis Tsai shares tips and tricks for creating imaginative figures, giving readers a unique opportunity to gain guidance from a real pro.

It's the most mammoth book of manga drawing EVER! If there's one key to drawing manga, it's GO BIG--starting with this humongous book of step-by-step instruction and inspiration. Compiled from nearly 10 years of best-selling books by David Okum, these pages are teeming with the most popular...

What do you get when you cross popular manga style with legends of old? Manga Magic! In this one-of-a-kind guide, beloved and prolific manga artist Supittha "Annie" Bunyapen (a.k.a. Ecthelian on deviantART) shows you how to put original spins on popular fantasy figures and creatures, with...

A step-by-step guide to all the tricks-both freehand and digital-to creating the best manga characters, Shonen Manga is a fun, easy to read manga manual for artists of all ages and languages. Focusing on Shonen-style manga and anime (a genre targeting young boys-”Shonen” means young boy,...

Soar on the wings of legendary creatures and take a journey into creativity with this interactive book! Learn to draw 30 dragons and fantastical settings in living color! Draw dragons soaring through the clouds, sea serpents conversing with mermaids, star dragons traversing the galaxy, and volcano...

Create Mangamon With No Reading! Everybody needs mangamon (mini manga monsters)! These mangamon are easy to draw with just a few simple steps. Inside you'll learn to draw 21 cute and ferocious characters for all your stories!