Girl to Grrrl Manga: How to Draw the Hottest Shoujo Manga - Softcover

Doran, Colleen

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9781581808094: Girl to Grrrl Manga: How to Draw the Hottest Shoujo Manga

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ISBN 10: 1581808097 ISBN 13: 9781581808094

Publisher: North Light Books, 2007

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How to Draw the Hottest Shoujo Manga

From the creative mind of superstar comic artist Colleen Doran, Girl to Grrrl Manga is your invitation to the drama, high romance and dreamlike settings of shoujo manga!

Page after page of step-by-step instruction lets you get right to it as you learn the simple tricks to drawing different shoujo looks. Beautiful, glamorous girls in funky costumes. Gorgeous guys with smoldering, direct gazes and tortured storylines. Dazzling characters with supermodel-lean builds, voluminous hair and those enormous, liquid eyes that swim with emotion.

Inside, you'll learn to draw faces and figures from different perspectives and to various dramatic effects. Discover the secrets to drawing hands, tearful eyes, fantastic costumes, and other fun and expressive facets of shoujo art. You'll see how the smallest details, like extra-long eyelashes or a highlight on the lips, can make the biggest difference!

So you want to draw like CLAMP (Cardcaptor Sakura and CLAMP School Detectives), or Mineo Maya (Patalliro), or Fuyumi Soryo (Mars) ... or (best of all) uniquely like YOU?! With Girl to Grrrl Manga, you'll learn to recognize and replicate authentic shoujo styles�classic, contemporary, retro, children's, aesthetic, modern, illustrative�on your way to achieving your own, fabulous, one-of-a-kind style.

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Synopsis:

Readily available and inexpensive materials make Shoujo Manga easy and fun to create. This book gives artists the skills they need to get started. Readers will discover how to create the emotional content that distinguishes Shoujo Manga (strong female characters in adventure yarns or stories focusing on love and relationships) as well as how to draw completely authentic looking art. Step-by-step instructions teach readers to both recognise and create the different Shoujo styles including classic, retro, modern, ladies' contemporary, children's and more.

About the Author:

Colleen Doran is the top female creator working in American comics today, ranked in the top ten in every major category on 2004's Comic Buyer's Guide fan awards poll. She has worked with Marvel, DC, and Image.

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