Comickers Art: Tools and Techniques for Drawing Amazing Manga [Paperback]

Comickers Magazine (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 27, 2008

The first book in the Comickers Art series, Comickers Art: Tools and Techniques for Drawing Amazing Manga explores the various drawing tools and art techniques necessary to create successful and authentic manga. This book will teach you how to use pencils, markers, brushes, and software to create all styles of manga, and features the manga artists who best use each of the key techniques. Four color finished work from each of the featured artists is also included to inspire.

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About the Author

Published quarterly in Japan, Comickers Magazine is the authoritative guide to the Japanese comics trade and provides unique information on the worlds of manga, anime, illustration, games, fashion, and cinema.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Harper Design (May 27, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0061441538
• ISBN-13: 978-0061441530
• Product Dimensions: 11.6 x 8.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #347,478 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great introduction to art materials and techniques, January 18, 2009

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Parka (Singapore) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Comickers Art: Tools and Techniques for Drawing Amazing Manga (Paperback)

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For anyone who's just starting out drawing manga style, this book provides useful information on colouring.

Different colouring tools are introduced. Each are explained on their characteristics and tips on using them.

The featured artists in this series are Saya Iwasaki, Hiroki Mafuyu, Ayumi Kasai, Hamlet Okinawa, Renji Murata, Kim Jyung-Tae and Houden Eizo. These artists goes through tips on their colouring process with their tools: markers, coloured ink, water colour, acrylic paint and digital colouring. These are step by step tutorials with detailed captions.

Additionally, there are Q&A interviews with some of the artists.

Right at the end is a gallery containing illustrations created from a variety of medium. These are from other manga artists.

This book is a great book for beginners. Experts might learn something new too, especially on exploring new colouring techniques and medium.

(More pictures are available on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for "advanced" beginners, May 18, 2009

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This review is from: Comickers Art: Tools and Techniques for Drawing Amazing Manga (Paperback)

For the title of my review...I believe it helps to know who this is good for. This is based soley on my own personal view of my ability, so that you may gauge it for yourself.

I am a self taught artist and believe I need no further skill development in many areas of artistic creation. That said, Comickers Art is a great book and worth the money I paid for it.

This book covers the basics of many materials, styles, procedures and methods. It is great information for those who already have a good foundation in artistic talent but are always on the lookout to learn the ways of others in hopes of being more efficient, or just learning new ways.

Comickers Art books are for refining skills and knowledge and is not meant to teach you how to draw. These books showcase beautiful and genuine artwork and talent from the east.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, July 6, 2009

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Che Yang - See all my reviews

This review is from: Comickers Art: Tools and Techniques for Drawing Amazing Manga (Paperback)

This amazing book increase artists' knowledge by informing them of varies materials that artists can use. It provide wonderful instructions and illustrations. I'm speechless at the detail. I recommend this to anyone who is interested in art (or generally anyone).