Customer Reviews

Manga Mania: Chibi and Furry Characters: How to Draw the Adorable Mini-characters and Cool Cat-girls of Japanese Comics

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Chistopher Hart has truly out done himself with this book,as well as his other book fantasy worlds. In this book, Hart gives you examples of teaching you how to draw chibi characters as well as telling you what makes a chibi a chibi. A great thing about this book is that they have a large section of how to draw a variety of cat girls!!! That was my most favorite part! I really enjoyed this book alot, and as a bonus I will give you the run down of what to expect in the book....

Chibi basics
What makes a chibi a chibi?
The chibi head
Drawing the chibi head step by step
Full figures: Standard manag versus chibi
Turn any character into a chibi
Personality pointers
The chibi size size chart
Drawing the chibi face and body step by step
full body views

Chibi characters and costumes
Costumes
Mischevious chibis!
Making eye contact
Girl costumes and popular japanese roles
Stupid chibis!
Regular chibis versus super small chibis
Super small chibis
Fantasy chibis: Angels, fairies, and princesses

Chibi Expressions, emotions, and attitudes
Emotions
body language with special effects
Magical effects

Chibi cat girls and furry characters
Furry-style ears
Chibi cat-girls:full figures
Boxing cats
Chibi cat girl types
In-space adventures

Standard-size cat girls
Standard-size cat girls: the basics
Drawing the cat-girls head step by step
Drawing the cat-girl versus human head
drawing cat-girl bodies step by step
From tame to wild
Cat-girl hand and foot markings
Cat-girl prsonalities
Cat-girl poses
Cat-girl scenes
Foreshortening
A world of cat girls!

Chibi and magical creatures
Standard monsters versus chibi monsters
Creating chibi monsters from basic shapes
Creating chibi monsters from inanimate objects
Pterodactyl chibi monsters
Chibi monsters with magical powers
Magicalchibis without owners

Super stylized chibis
Little lady
Super stylized chibi boy
Super stylized chibi cat girl
Super stylized chibi rabbit girl
Chibi trouble maker
Witch in training
Little angel
Wishing on a star
Candy girl
Serious student
Chibi hero fighter
Tropical girl

The rest of the pictures are basically sample images showing you that you can use a chibi in certain scenes of regular sized characters, like when they are emabarrassed or mad. The chibi form of that person shows great expression, as well as hillarity. Plus chibis are ultra cute! This book is a perfect add on to any how to draw collection. I definitely recommend this book to any artist, whether beginner or intermediate, this book is extremely helpful. A must buy!

OMG! This was the best how-to book i have ever READ!!!!! It is so thorough. I could draw everything, and it came out near perfection. My friends loved, I loved, and heck, my GRANDFATHER loved it! He thought it was really, really good, in terms of teaching you how to draw! I loved it, and recommend it to everyone! The book shows you step by step how to draw cat-girls (beautiful) and cute tropical girl/chibi/cat-girl and other adorable creatures. It teaches you when to use super-deformed characters, and uses cute drawings (eg, questionable little angel (my fave!) to enable you to use different, effective techniques! This is chock-full of great things!

Christopher Hart's "Manga Mania" series continues with a how-to on creating supe-deformed characters, anthromorphic catgirls and furry characters. While Hart covers the creation chibis from the ground up, some experience with figure drawing is recommended for the catgirl section. And some of Hart's sample drawings, while unexpectedly good, don't exactly meet fanboy standards. But if you want to draw super-cute characters like the pros do, that's what this book--and practice--is for.

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This book has so much to offer; I don't even know where to begin. There are great step-by-step's, wonderful poses, expressions, techniques, and just some very impressive artwork. Chibi and Furry has so many high quality, incredibly creative ideas. I was super impressed and blown away. I can't recommend this book enough.

My daughter loved the book for a few weeks. I'm sure she'll go back to it again. She's been told she draws so similarly to the Chibi & Furry series of books.

The art in this book is adorable, there's not denying that, but it's not very helpful for anything other than putting a smile on your face. There's next to no instruction of any kind, and what's there is almost incomplete and completely unhelpful for anyone that doesn't already have a fair degree of skill already. This is great for suggestions, and will probably help with a few details that you might have been leaving out of your chibi drawings, but it's not helpful for much of anything else.

Bought this for my eleven year old who loves to draw anime. She really likes this book and uses it often. The little chibi characters are really cute and the step by step instructions are excellent. It includes sections on how to draw facial expressions, body laguage, action, beginning a sketch all the way to color. The only thing missing is a "how-to" on shading but you can just look at their examples.

She also uses "Manga for the Beginner" (also by Christopher Hart) and "Manga Moods" (by Saori Takarai) both of which I would highly recommend.

This book coves what the title says and gives you practical information on doing chibis and furry manga characters. To become more of an artist able to do these type of manga characters more professionally! As well as terms used to discribe your characters.

This has got to be Christopher Hart's best book yet. It covers alot of things such as cat girls and my favorite section,the super stylized chibis!! It great book and is highly recomended for any manga artist. I loved it and you should get the book. :-)

This book gave me some help with drawing eyes, mouths,and hair.
I would recomend it to up and coming artists and anyone that wants to learn to draw. It takes everything step by step for you. It also imspired me to draw some of my newer work.