- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Barron's Educational Series (Oct 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0764130919
- ISBN-13: 978-0764130915
- Product Dimensions: 27.7 x 21.6 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,679,095 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Well-illustrated and easy to understand, and if you're completely new to manga this is a good book to pick up.' Imagine FX (November 2007)
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This is the complete guide to creating professional-quality manga illustrations on your computer. All the most popular software packages are clearly explained, with advice on using scanners and formatting work for the web or print media. Step-by-step illustrations reveal the fundamentals of digital drawing, inking and colouring. There is also guidance on designing characters and developing storylines, creating cover artwork and getting work published.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Worst digital art book I've seen.,
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This review is from: Digital Manga Techniques: Create Superb-quality Manga Artwork on Your Computer (Paperback)
I think my main issue with this book is the terrible quality of the artwork. It isn't close to a professional level, and is riddled with anatomy and inking errors.
The information contained in this book could easily be found in online tutorials on art sites, and it does very little to expand upon basic methods (other than teaching them entirely incorrectly). And for a start, it contains surprisingly little information in digital art. The book is riddled with wrong information. Supposedly "advanced" lineart preparation teaches the wonder of the brightness/contrast controls and the magic wand, creating surprisingly chunky ugly lineart. It mentions none of the more suitable functions on photoshop for doing this, such as levels. And it suggests the novice trick of using the magic wand to remove white space, rather than channels. The colouring section itself is reasonably dire as well. It covers the very basics of photoshop's layer system and the very obvious tools, but as well as pretty much every other book I've seen. There is no mention about colour theory and it doesn't explain lighting much either. If you have zero knowledge of photoshop, it might be useful, but it isn't going to take long to grow out of. As for the tone section, it is just another big example of the creators ineptness. Much of the screentone pictures look cluttered and they don't teach much about when to use tone, adding high-lights to it and the like. It just isn't there. The section is filled with poor pictures and useless filler text. If you want to throw away some money and learn tricks you'll quickly discover are wrong, buy this horrible book.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A great book for beginners,
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This review is from: Digital Manga Techniques: Create Superb-quality Manga Artwork on Your Computer (Paperback)
This book introduces several great, simple techniques which allow you to produce good quality artwork in photoshop and similar software. It covers a remarkably broad number of topics and while it doesn't delve into any with great depth it does provide a thorough grounding in the techniques of a digital artist.
Aimed primarily at the amateur manga artist this book contains ideas on characters and scenarios, with a few stock characters and simple tutorials, explanations of several manga terms and similar such articles. It also suggests ways to show your art off, on the internet, self-publishing or even an independent publisher. It tells you the benefits of working in black and white, or full colour, it demonstrates how different resolutions and colour qualities are portrayed on the page. This book won't teach you how to draw, and the tutorials do cover a wide variety of manga styles, but it will teach you how to ink and colour on the computer. It also has numerous inspiring images and comic pages, with ideas for dynamic backgrounds prevelent in manga. When I first opened photoshop this book was by my side and while you will eventually grow beyond it the book is a perfect lead in and will provide you with all the techniques to make competant digital art.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent guide to creating manga on your computer!,
By Jay "Jay" (Manchester, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Digital Manga Techniques: Create Superb-quality Manga Artwork on Your Computer (Paperback)
I've bought a few different 'how to draw manga' books but most of them seem to focus too much on the basics, which is annoying because I've already got a little experience in drawing. This book explains more about different genres and how you can apply them to your artwork and what you can do to emphasise the manga style, and a lot of useful tips for character design. The photoshop tutorials are very comprehensive! They really helped me to improve how I was making my photoshop coloured pictures so I have a lot more control over how they look now. I also like the section the book on making comic pages and applying screentone! You can get some pretty impressive manga style looks by following the steps in the book. My only criticism of this book is that some of the introduction was stuff I already knew, but only about 15 pages or so and the artwork was good in those bits anyway. Highly recommended!
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