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Offers manga art instruction and projects. This title features over 20 step demonstrations showing how to draw and paint beautiful characters with watercolour and markers. It includes instruction on tools and materials, and basic techniques - sketching, drawing and colouring.
About the Author
Supittha Bunyapen is a prolific young manga and cover artist whose site recieves around 30K pageviews a month along with hundreds of commissions for her work and tutorials. She currently works in the game industry for hot outfit Kiz Toys and uses both traditional and digital media. She lives in Charleston, South Carolina and her work can be viewed at www.ecthelian.deviantart.com
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
The shading tutorials, including layering and different skin-tone sets are very well done. It is quite easy to follow along with the instructions, even though I am using ArtRage Studio Pro, not real paper and Copic markers.
The rest of the book is of an equal standard, clear and well laid out. (Kindle edition)
The rest of the book is of an equal standard, clear and well laid out. (Kindle edition)
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Im really pleased with this book. It is very helpful and the art work is amazing.I have ordered it because I am interested in Manga illustrations and i must say it has more than i thought. Im always refering to it while doing my own illustrations.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
A surprisingly good reference
16 Sep 2011
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
There are some great resources about adding color to comic art using digital media, from the publisher of this book and from others. However, I was looking for a resource that would specifically guide me on how to paint my manga/comic artwork with markers. And from the cover of this book (Create Your Own Cool Characters and Costumes with Markers) you would think that's all you're going to get. However, you get a bit more and that is not a bad thing.
This is how this book is organized:
Introduction
Chapter 1 Tools and Materials
Chapter 2 Drawing and Painting Heads
Chapter 3 Drawing Bodies and Poses
Chapter 4 Fantastical Costumes
Chapter 5 Textures, Backgrounds and Perspective
Index
About the Author
Each Chapter contains 5 to 10 pages of theory/tutorials about the subject at hand. Chapter 1 is very good at establishing the tools and materials to use for painting with markers. Chapters 2 and 3 present brief tutorials on how to draw, but extensive demos on how to paint heads, and posing figure. Chapter 4 gives good tips and demos about fantastic attire, but leaves you wishing for more. In the last pages of this book (43 out of 144), Chapter 5 presents tips on scenery and perspective before delving into how to paint various scenes.
The most important part for me about this guidebook is the extensive repertoire of step-by-step demos showing how to paint with markers. This book includes plenty of demonstrations:
Chapter 1 -- 2 demos, 3 to 4 steps long
_ Layering
_ Blending
Chapter 2 -- 6 demos, 6 to 7 steps long
_ Painting Light Skin
_ Painting Tanned or Asian Skin
_ Painting Dark Gray Skin
_ Painting Colorful Hair
_ Emphasizing Emotion with Shadows and Highlights
_ Using Complementary Colors to Create Drama
Chapter 3 -- 8 demos, 3 to 11 steps long
_ Suggesting Distance with Color
_ Little Miss Sunshine
_ The Rebel
_ Casual and Cool
_ Glamorous Star
_ The Fighter
_ Summer Breeze
_ Brotherhood
Chapter 4 -- 2 demos, 10 to 11 steps long
_ Lionel, Warrior King
_ Belen, The Elf Archer
Chapter 5 -- 6 demos, 4 of them 14 to 16 steps long
_ Painting A Spring Lake Background
_ Creating a Light-Filled Atmosphere
_ Deep Ocean Scene
_ Combining Markers and Paint
_ The Traveler
_ Nailing Perspective in No Name Cafe
In all, I'm very satisfied with this book. The only bad thing is that the book is brief (144 pages long). I found the demos so effective that I end up wishing for more. But that is me, being greedy.
This is how this book is organized:
Introduction
Chapter 1 Tools and Materials
Chapter 2 Drawing and Painting Heads
Chapter 3 Drawing Bodies and Poses
Chapter 4 Fantastical Costumes
Chapter 5 Textures, Backgrounds and Perspective
Index
About the Author
Each Chapter contains 5 to 10 pages of theory/tutorials about the subject at hand. Chapter 1 is very good at establishing the tools and materials to use for painting with markers. Chapters 2 and 3 present brief tutorials on how to draw, but extensive demos on how to paint heads, and posing figure. Chapter 4 gives good tips and demos about fantastic attire, but leaves you wishing for more. In the last pages of this book (43 out of 144), Chapter 5 presents tips on scenery and perspective before delving into how to paint various scenes.
The most important part for me about this guidebook is the extensive repertoire of step-by-step demos showing how to paint with markers. This book includes plenty of demonstrations:
Chapter 1 -- 2 demos, 3 to 4 steps long
_ Layering
_ Blending
Chapter 2 -- 6 demos, 6 to 7 steps long
_ Painting Light Skin
_ Painting Tanned or Asian Skin
_ Painting Dark Gray Skin
_ Painting Colorful Hair
_ Emphasizing Emotion with Shadows and Highlights
_ Using Complementary Colors to Create Drama
Chapter 3 -- 8 demos, 3 to 11 steps long
_ Suggesting Distance with Color
_ Little Miss Sunshine
_ The Rebel
_ Casual and Cool
_ Glamorous Star
_ The Fighter
_ Summer Breeze
_ Brotherhood
Chapter 4 -- 2 demos, 10 to 11 steps long
_ Lionel, Warrior King
_ Belen, The Elf Archer
Chapter 5 -- 6 demos, 4 of them 14 to 16 steps long
_ Painting A Spring Lake Background
_ Creating a Light-Filled Atmosphere
_ Deep Ocean Scene
_ Combining Markers and Paint
_ The Traveler
_ Nailing Perspective in No Name Cafe
In all, I'm very satisfied with this book. The only bad thing is that the book is brief (144 pages long). I found the demos so effective that I end up wishing for more. But that is me, being greedy.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
IF YOU ARE NEW TO COPICS AND/.OR MANGA, THIS IS THE BOOK TO BUY!
24 Aug 2011
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I was very happy and impressed with this book. The author goes into a little bit of everything. This book covers drawing, color theory, color mixing,color recipes and how to render dimension via light and shadow and many other processes. I am not a Manga fan, but a Copic fan. After getting this book, I think I will try my hand at Manga. I highly recommend this to beginning Copic and Manga Artists. Oh, and she also covers other mediums beside markers,
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Every bit deserving of 5 stars
19 Nov 2011
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
One of few books in my vast collection of "How To", "Manga School", " Manga Mania" ect books that deserve 5 stars.
Firstly I'd like to say this book isn't exactly made for people new to the art of drawing manga. If you want to learn how to draw manga from the basics look into other sources(Not as if this book advertised itself as such, but I don't want people thinking because it says "Create Your Own Cool Characters" you can have no drawing experience and be able to achieve what this artist does.) While this book went farther in depth than I would have ever thought from the title and Amazon preview, all of the pictures the author is showing us how to color are already drawn line arts. There is a section where they teach you how to draw heads, go into perspective and give you poses but if you're new it's not enough to get you going to full, detailed line arts. Basically, you don't learn how to draw the line arts in this book, you learn how to color them. Just putting that out there.
That said, I highly recommend this book if you're new to Copics/Neopiko/Prismacolor markers(Cheaper brands will not work effectively if you're trying to color as shown in the book). Actually, this book is a absolute must when buying your first set of Copics. I believe there are tips in this book that you will not find elsewhere. And for each picture the author is showing us how to color she lists all tools needed and colors by Copic number so you can use exactly what she uses. Other reviewers went into detail about what this book shows you so I won't repeat when you've probably had a chance to already read it.
If you don't use markers I recommend this book anyway as inspiration. There is very beautiful art to be seen in this book. Just looking through it made me want to better myself as an artist.
Firstly I'd like to say this book isn't exactly made for people new to the art of drawing manga. If you want to learn how to draw manga from the basics look into other sources(Not as if this book advertised itself as such, but I don't want people thinking because it says "Create Your Own Cool Characters" you can have no drawing experience and be able to achieve what this artist does.) While this book went farther in depth than I would have ever thought from the title and Amazon preview, all of the pictures the author is showing us how to color are already drawn line arts. There is a section where they teach you how to draw heads, go into perspective and give you poses but if you're new it's not enough to get you going to full, detailed line arts. Basically, you don't learn how to draw the line arts in this book, you learn how to color them. Just putting that out there.
That said, I highly recommend this book if you're new to Copics/Neopiko/Prismacolor markers(Cheaper brands will not work effectively if you're trying to color as shown in the book). Actually, this book is a absolute must when buying your first set of Copics. I believe there are tips in this book that you will not find elsewhere. And for each picture the author is showing us how to color she lists all tools needed and colors by Copic number so you can use exactly what she uses. Other reviewers went into detail about what this book shows you so I won't repeat when you've probably had a chance to already read it.
If you don't use markers I recommend this book anyway as inspiration. There is very beautiful art to be seen in this book. Just looking through it made me want to better myself as an artist.
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