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.

This book focuses on both the cartoon-like critters and funny mascots that populate the shoujo (girls') style of manga and the more gritty and Gothic animals that inhabit the shounen (boys') style of manga.

Follow the lives of five senior art students as they learn color theory and technique... and have some cute and colorful life lessons along the way. With full-color illustrations scattered throughout, this volume will teach the reader some art basics as well. Art class was never this fun!

Now armed with basic color theory, Kisaragi and friends are ready to play and experiment with tones and new tools! But when the school art club, led by the upperclassman who inspired Kisa-chan to attend G.A., is in danger of being shut down, will the Color Rangers (minus the disguises) save the day?! Well, as long as Kisa-chan's clumsiness, cooking experiments, and badminton battles don't get in the way...

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!

Who says all manga has to be black-and-white? Introducing "Colorful Costumes". This wonderful edition is a veritable "Encylopedia of Styles," offering a close-up look at the whimsical costumes and elaborately tailored uniforms worn by the young women who work in Japan's cafes, restaurants, hotels and other service-industry venues.