Author(s): Tim Ivan & Seelig Curtis & Hissey Tappenden

Art History

This dynamic book provides a detailed guide to drawing your own cartoons traditionally and digitally. It provides guidance on how to create characters - from showing a range of facial expressions and features to drawing hands, feet, shoes and clothing. It explains the rules of designing manga characters, such as drawing features and defining gender, age, good and evil. There are special features on shojo and shonen, as well as super-deformed manga characters in hand-drawn media. A range of projects offers the opportunity to portray children, villains and mecha robots, compose a panel story, plan a battle scene and create a narrative.