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Manga Mania Fantasy Worlds: How to Draw the Amazing Worlds of Japanese Comics Paperback – September 1, 2003
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An increasingly fashionable style among both digital and traditional animators, manga enjoys unrivaled popularity among the game players themselves, allowing them entry into fabled worlds of startling beauty, terror, and adventure. Manga Mania Fantasy Worlds throws down the gauntlet for people interested in creating these scenes for themselves. Artists will learn how to illustrate detailed backdrops and landscapes, rugged weaponry, and, of course, fearsome creatures—aliens, faeries, ogres, and much more. In the straightforward style that is his trademark, Christopher Hart teaches the basics and the intricacies of creating manga fantasy illustrations that practically jump off the page.
- Print length144 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherWatson-Guptill
- Publication dateSeptember 1, 2003
- Dimensions11.25 x 0.25 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-100823029727
- ISBN-13978-0823029723
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- Publisher : Watson-Guptill (September 1, 2003)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 144 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0823029727
- ISBN-13 : 978-0823029723
- Item Weight : 1.2 pounds
- Dimensions : 11.25 x 0.25 x 8.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #653,868 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #149 in How to Create Manga
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Christopher Hart is the world’s best-selling author of How-To-Draw books. Readers have gobbled up over 8 million copies of his titles, and his work has been translated into more than 20 languages. Chris has had the rare distinction of having the top 1, 2 & 3 art books in the country, simultaneously, as reported by Nielsen BookScan. He has had over 100 books published.
Christopher is known for his ability to create cute and dramatic characters, brimming with personality. He focuses on the most contemporary styles, genres, and techniques, in order to give his readers and fans the very latest in art instruction.
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The book itself is by Chris Hart and it’s worth the lessons. The only flaw I found was it never dives into a few aspects like composition. To be fair this isn’t really what the title leads on to be but panel layout with some composition seems to be a fair expectation in any how to draw manga book. Pros is it definitely has enough crazy creative creatures to keep you busy and begin to give you the right mindset to move towards creating the weird and strange along with the expected like elf’s and weird minions and things I’m not even sure what I’m looking at. Chris is a brilliant mind
First of all, there’re some really good references on the fantasy, science fiction and medieval world. For example, you can find knights, faeries, monsters, dragons and even aliens in the book. Plus, topics on evolving medieval weapons, differences between elves and faeries, special effects and even the turnaround section (which tells you how a person looks like when “turned around) are covered. There’s also a section telling you what’s a weak and dynamic drawing looks like, which helps if you’re interested in honing your manga-drawing craft. Another great section I would like to point out is the “Castle” section. The book also covers some different places within the castle, such as the dungeon and drawbridge, and I find this really helpful when drawing the inside of the castle.
Unfortunately, there are only one example for most creature, beast or place, which can be rather limiting if you’re trying to draw the same creature in a different way. However, I think this is where your imagination will come in. Also, I noticed that some of the artworks have a certain “American” style (instead of Japanese) to it, but many of the artworks are very nice and attractive.
For the serious mangaka-wannabe though, you are better off getting more “technical” & "Japanese style" books such as the “How to Draw Manga” Series, but overall, this book will make a great reference or resource book for people interested in fantasy and drawing cartoon/manga.





