Shojo Wonder Manga Art School: Create Your Own Cool Characters and Costumes with Markers
Supittha Bunyapen
Jul 2011 · Penguin
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A Complete Shojo Manga Art Course!
The world of shojo manga art dares you to go all out—big eyes, colorful skin tones, spiky hair—the works. Shojo Wonder Manga Art School shows you how to take full advantage of that freedom while bringing believability and originality to your manga characters.
With easy to follow step-by-step instruction, Supittha "Annie" Bunyapen (known as ecthelian on deviantART) shows you how to draw a wide range of characters in the manga style including heads and figures, attitudes and expressions, clothing, and natural and dynamic poses. In addition to this expert instruction, you'll discover tricks for building mood with shadows, light and expressive color.
• More than 20 step-by-step demos cover an assorted cast of colorful characters, including 5 complete scenes with finished backgrounds
• Basics-and-beyond instruction on drawing heads, figures, clothing, accessories, poses, hairstyles, costumes and backgrounds
• Color-mixing charts and step-by-step demonstrations for mastering basic skin tones
• Coloring techniques for refining your illustrations and mixing markers with other media to create cool effects
The world of shojo manga art dares you to go all out—big eyes, colorful skin tones, spiky hair—the works. Shojo Wonder Manga Art School shows you how to take full advantage of that freedom while bringing believability and originality to your manga characters.
With easy to follow step-by-step instruction, Supittha "Annie" Bunyapen (known as ecthelian on deviantART) shows you how to draw a wide range of characters in the manga style including heads and figures, attitudes and expressions, clothing, and natural and dynamic poses. In addition to this expert instruction, you'll discover tricks for building mood with shadows, light and expressive color.
• More than 20 step-by-step demos cover an assorted cast of colorful characters, including 5 complete scenes with finished backgrounds
• Basics-and-beyond instruction on drawing heads, figures, clothing, accessories, poses, hairstyles, costumes and backgrounds
• Color-mixing charts and step-by-step demonstrations for mastering basic skin tones
• Coloring techniques for refining your illustrations and mixing markers with other media to create cool effects
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About the author
Known as Ecthelian on deviantART since February 2004, Supittha “Annie” Bunyapen is a prolific young manga and cover artist whose site has received more than two million pageviews. She earned her BFA in sequential art from Savannah College of Art and Design, and currently works in the game industry for Kiz Toys (kiztoys.com). Bunyapen’s influences include the Japanese manga and Konami game artists Ayami Kojima and Fumi Ishikawa; Taiwanese manga, comic book and video game artist Jo Chen; yaoi manga artist Naono Bohra; writers J.R.R. Tolkien and the Brothers Grimm. When not busy working at Kiz Toys or on personal commissions, she spends her free time taking photos, listening to music and traveling. She divides her time between her home in South Carolina and Bangkok, Thailand. Visit her deviantART page at Ecthelian.deviantART.com.
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