Techniques for Drawing Female Manga Characters (v. 20)
by Hikaru Hayashi
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Author: Hikaru HayashiEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-02-22
ISBN: 476611146X
Number of pages: 128
Publisher: Graphic-Sha
Book Reviews of Techniques for Drawing Female Manga Characters (v. 20)
Book Review: Everything you'll need all in one!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book was basically about drawing the female's face, body, and clothing, there are some nudes in this book:
Chapter 1-Bishoujo Character Drawing Theory
The topics are: Grasping the key traits of bishoujo characters, Drawing faces, Jawbones-outlines and facial direction, Eyes and irises, Eye types, Eyelashes and eyebrows/how to draw eyes, Managing various pupils/shutting the eyes, Bishoujo eye types, standard eyed girls/droopy eyed girls/up-turned eyed girls, Changing the shape of the eyes with angles, Ears, nose and mouths, Heads and hair, Head depths/hairlines and foreheads/tying the hair back, Drawing cute characters making faces.
Chapter 2-Bishoujo Bodies
The topics: Balancing heads and bodies, Drawing waists/drawing slender bodies/shoulder breadth and figures, Flowing bodylines, Bodyline-front view/back lines/side lines-from the armpits to the side, Bending bodies-visually directing cuteness, Drawing breasts, Continuous movement and girls, High and low angles.
Chapter 3-Situations and Techniques of Expression
The topics: Changing clothes, Taking off jackets, blouses and skirts/putting on t-shirts and jeans, Yukata: japanese dressing gowns, Visual direction with dressing gowns-showing some skin, Taking off clothing before a bath, Bathtub and shower scenes, Soaking in bathtubs/visually directing foam and steam, taking showers/water flowing down the body, Wrapping towels, Around the head/around the body, Working with lingerie, Simple Lingerie/extravagent lingerie, Dressing for bed, Pajamas and negligee/t-shirts, Visual direction effects using sheets, Wrapping characters in sheets/sheets and sleeping poses, Using tones to express suntans.
Chapter 4-Everyday Life Bishoujo
The Topics:Girls with glasses, Girls with their hair in a plait, Hairbands, tiaras and ribbons, Hairbands and tiaras/ribbon principles, Hats and caps, Various Caps/sun shielding hats/ten gallon hats, Girls in school uniforms, Maids, Bunny girls, Nurses, Maidens in the service of shinto shrines, Young misses-drawing gorgeous curly hair.
Chapter 5-Out-of-This-World Bishoujo
The Topics: Cat eared lasses, Girls in fur, Drawing ears and tails, Girls with wings, Bird wing principles/wings-front and back/folding the wings, Mermaids, Fairies, Pointed ears/pointed ears and thier appearance/fairy wings, Hoods and Cloaks, Powered suits, Bionic cybog girls, Drawing tiny tot characters,Various tiny tot characters.
Chapter 6-Learn from the Masters
This shows professional artist drawings, they are:
BISHOUJO by Eimu Mizuki
ICE FAIRY by Tomoko Taniguchi
CONTRAST by Kaoru Kawakata
DOUBLE WAITRESS by Kouichi Kusano
ELF MOMENT (ERUFU NO TOKI) by Mako Sakura
FEMALE STUDENT (JOGAKUSEI) by Ganmma Suzuki
This is good for advanced beginner to intermediate and a good reference for professionals too. I recommend this book and guarentee that you will LOVE it! ^.^
~kay~
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In an easy-to-follow format, this unique publication offers the future Manga artists all of the necessary components of drawing the various forms of the female focusing on their physical attributes.Drawing Books
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