Doodletopia: Manga: Draw, Design, and Color Your Own Super-Cute Manga Characters and More (Includes Bonus Manga Crafts and Cut-Outs) - Softcover

Christopher Hart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 160774693X ISBN 13: 9781607746935

Publisher: Watson-Guptill, 2016

Synopsis

An interactive doodle book from the best-selling art instruction author and cartoon master that pairs illustrating insights with drawing, designing, colouring and crafting activities for aspiring manga artists. For years, Christopher Hart has given readers the tools and techniques needed to learn how to draw and cartoon. With the Doodletopia series, Hart offers his readers a chance to practice and perfect their artistic skills. Filled with page after page of chibi, kawaii and shoujo characters, Doodletopia: Manga provides aspiring manga artists with activities to stimulate their creativity. After covering the basics of rendering cute manga characters, Hart sets readers loose to interact with the book's many exercises and challenges, including sections where readers can draw a companion for an already drawn character, create their own emojis, and complete their own scenes. Readers can design manga bookmarks, stationery and even get started developing their own manga graphic novels. Pairing the informative content for which Hart is beloved with myriad opportunities for creative expression, Doodletopia: Manga offers aspiring artists the next level of interactive art instruction.

About this title

About the Author

Christopher Hart is the world's best-selling author of drawing and cartooning books. Renowned for up-to-the-minute content and easy-to-follow steps, Hart's books have become staples for a new generation of aspiring artists and professionals, and have been selected by the American Library Association for special notice.

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INTRODUCTION

All through the ages, humans have doodled. In prehistoric times, they doodled on cave walls. As technology progressed, they began to doodle on stone tablets. Eventually, the art of doodling moved to the margins of loose-leaf paper, which was generally unappreciated by teachers trying to grade homework assignments. And there, the art of doodling languished—until now. 

Recently, there has been a hue and cry for doodling. I’m not exactly sure what a “hue” is, but I recognize the sound when my readers cry. Therefore, I knew I had to do something—and fast. So I finished my cup of coffee, poured myself a second cup, finished reading the paper, and then sprang into action! 

I discovered that manga, that amazingly popular style of Japanese comics, which features an irresistible array of characters, visual icons, and design motifs, could satisfy the demands of even the most dedicated doodler.

This book, the second in my series of interactive Doodletopia titles, brings you buckets of fun characters to draw, doodle, and color, plus cool projects, including many that you can use outside of this book, such as designs for your own personal stationery, bookmarks, emoticons, and more.

Doodletopia: Manga is your ticket to a world of creativity. Each chapter gives you a head start with visual prompts so that you can complete manga mascots, adorable animals, silly chibis, eye-catching designs, and more.

You may try to resist the pull of manga doodles. But if you are reading this introduction, it’s already too late. The only thing that will help now is a pencil, and a tabletop to place this book on. Welcome aboard, fellow manga doodler!

Edition details

• Publisher: Watson-Guptill
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 160774693X
• ISBN 13: 9781607746935
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160