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Shoujo Art Studio: Everything You Need to Create Your Own Shoujo Manga Comics

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Firstly, let's get one thing out of the way regarding this book. This is not JUST a Manga dyi book, this is a book that happens to use Manga art techniques instead of traditional superhero art styles.

Unlike many "Draw Your Own Comic Book" books, this one focuses primarily on digital imagery (post character design). That is truly the beauty of this particular presentation. Yishan LI breaks manga art into three digital sections, Digital manga, the `catalog' (characters), and accessories. As manga reader, if you have seen the effect whether tones, movement lines, shading, covers, or photo to art, the first section covers it in detail. One particularly enlightening section explained how photo images are converted to line art, a skill that seems universally used in all forms of illustrated fiction. Yishan brings `up' the photoshop tool bar and explains the use of each tool in sequence, a method I find very useful. Other books handle the writing of Shoujo manga/comics well so that does not have to be covered here.

Included with the book is a DVD rom that contains photoshop elements and accessories that can be used for your manga. There are characters, layout templates, balloons, fonts, backgrounds, and so much more.

A `good' book is as useful as the time it takes to read, a great presentation challenges you to dig into your art and practise. This is that kind of great book that should be recommended as a text for illustration manga classes. Highly recommended.
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