In Anime Mania, famous cartoonist, teacher, and best-selling author Christopher Hart demonstrates how any comic book artist can become expert in this wonderful style of animation. Step by step, he details how to draw the coolest anime characters from the widest selection of popular styles: high-tech cyberpunks; teens with troubled relationships; and mighty monsters, fantasy warriors, and giant robots.

Ever wanted to draw manga but didn't know where to start? Ever felt there's something not quite right with your drawing but not sure what? Draw Your Own Manga: All the Basics is the book for you! The textbook of choice at Tokyo Animation College, the leading school for manga artists in Japan, it covers all the basic information you need to get started on drawing manga with clear and easy-to-understand instructions.

The Draw Your Own Manga team is back to help your take your manga to the next stage. Draw Your Own Manga: Beyond the Basics expands on some of the techniques explained in this first book, All the Basics, and introduces some new ways in which you can add personality and style to your manga.

This third volume in the Draw Your Own Manga series is aimed at experienced manga artists who wish to improve their skills and technique. The book offers not only tips, practical instruction and inspiration but explains all the essential features of the main genres and the standard techniques used in common situations and action scenes.

Ever wonder how the great Kung Fu comic creators like Tony Wong, Andy Seto and Wing Shing Ma work their magic? Now you can learn how it's done. How to Draw Kung Fu Comics will identify all steps necessary to create a complete kung fu comic. Chapters cover drawing tools and materials, character development (bodies, heads, hair, clothing), background images (backdrops/scenery) and special effects (action sequences/battles).

This American version of the How to Draw Manga series has continued to amaze, delight and satisfy readers the world over, whether they want to draw manga themselves or just want to know how we do it.

192 more pages worth of incredible art and insightful comments from Ben Dunn, Fred Perry, Adam Warren, Joe Wight, Rod Espinosa and David Hutchison.

Incredible art and insightful comments from Ben Dunn, Fred Perry, Joe Wight, Rod Espinosa and David Hutchison, all in one 8 x 10 magazine-sized manga-monster of a collection! Read and be educated, entertained and overwhelmed!

The thing that can make or break a manga is the expression of machines and "automata": It's those fantastic devices and the sounds they create that make manga so exciting. In this book, the techniques taught in volumes 1 and 2 are used in expressive techniques to create outrageous imaginary automata, cars, motorcycles, explosions, fires, mythical animals and other fantastic effects.

Drawing realistic faces and bodies is only half the job - you will want your manga characters' clothing to look good, too. Depicting wrinkles, skirt hems and other apects of clothing isn't as easy as it looks, but this book will simpify the process for you. Features sections on underwear and outer garments, and how clothing changes shape as the body moves, bends and stretches.

Continuing in the tradition of "How to Draw Manga: Illustrating Battles" is this fantastic volume featuring battle scenes from such rough-and-tumble sports as judo, karate and kendo (Japanese fencing), boxing and street fighting. You'll learn not only how to draw battle movements, but also the clothing and gear used in these sports.

Good pen and inking comes with knowledge and practice, and Comickers has enlisted famous pros to bestow their wisdom upon you. Contains step-by-steps by these industry giants Yasuhiro Nightow, Oh! great, and Satoshi Shiki, to help you master your craft.