How to Color: Advanced takes you through the process of turning a black-and-white comic page into a full-color masterpiece. Starting with the scanning stage, we take you through laying flats, rendering, and special effects, all the way to prepping it for the printer. All done panel by panel from start to finish. Multiple techniques and styles, precisely explained, will show you everything from dramatic anime color and stylistic backgrounds to hyper-realism and painted super detail.

A detailed instruction guide to drawing kung fu comics! If you have ever wondered how to draw your favorite kung fu fighters light-footing away and spinning around making elaborate kung fu moves, now you can even learn to draw some on your own! This great guide will reveal the secrets of drawing kung fu comics, from the basics to how to draw emotions into the characters and even script-writing!

This volume of the Let's Draw Manga series teaches illustrators and animators the characteristics of this beloved robot boy with never-before-seen details. You will discover the cinematic techniques of Astro Boy creator Osamu Tezuka that revolutionized the look of manga.

Look no further than Let's Draw Manga - Using Color for all the answers and more! Inside, you'll discover the nature of color and the best ways to add color to any part of your drawings. The book also lets you pick up a quick education in lighting effects and atmosphere and how they affect color. Gain control over the use of color and you'll never look back. It's time to start drawing your manga in color!

Fueled by classic hits, such as the animated film Ninja Scroll and the best-selling manga book Lone Wolf and Cub, the fascination with ninjas and samurai has reached peak levels in the last few years. This valuable resource covers the weapons and tools of the legendary samurai and their deadly foes, the ninja, along with a variety of relevant characters, such as feudal lords, the Kunoichi or female ninja, the mendicant Zen priests, and merchants.

Sexy female characters are the spice of every manga story. These heroines find themselves in every position possible! This volume in the Let's Draw Manga series helps manga artists expand on their knowledge of the human body to draw women in a variety of poses, and with a variety of clothing, facial expressions, hairstyles, and more!

Learn to draw manga staged in the heart of the trendy Tokyo urban & hip hop scene! This book looks at the stylizations that make the urban & hip hop trend the dominant culture it is amongst youths today. As an added bonus, the last section of the book offers a rough layout of an urban manga staged in a cosmopolitan Ikebukuro, a youth mecca...

A fun and informative book that takes you through the necessary steps in creating robots that transform from everyday vehicles and sports cars all the way up to military tanks and Space Craft. The chapters inside offer simple step-by-step instructions that begin with the basics and build up to the more complex. In no time at all Let's Draw Manga Transforming Robots will have you drawing and designing your own awesome robots with their interchanging and deceptive disguises.

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.

Take a dive into the mechanics of the Japanese Manga stylization from an American's point of view. Detailed descriptions and illustrations will help develop and improve any budding manga artist's skills as Christopher Hart takes an in-depth look at all aspects of the genre.

Chapters oozing with evil villains instruct readers on drawing evil heads and evil bodies, evil poses and evil expressions, evil costumes, and more endlessly evil stuff. Chris Hart, the best-selling author of drawing and cartooning books, makes drawing evil fun and leaves out no villain: there are space pirates, mad scientists, mutants, even corporate sharks!

Mecha Mania features all of the coolest mecha designs and variations, along with outrageous battle scenes. Also included are informative interviews with a company that creates mecha-based games and a Japanese publisher of mecha.