500 Manga Characters is the biggest collection of manga clip art ever collected on one disc. Now stunning artwork can be created quickly and easily using this vast collection of hi-res (300dpi) JPEG images that are ready to use in any project. The book accompanying the disc teaches how to use professional coloring techniques, add figures to backgrounds, combine them into a text document and even create original manga stories!
An enormous range of characters are included, from the heroic, dramatic, and historical to the comedic. There are also aliens, villains, monsters, and giant mecha robots. 500 Manga Characters is perfect for any designer or manga fan looking to create amazing artwork without learning to draw. All illustrations are royalty-free and are also supplied as black outlines, offering endless coloring possibilities. The book includes a complete illustrated listing of all the images on the CD. These criteria include: pose, setting, mood, aspect, appearance, expression, characteristics, and physical appearance.

500 Manga Characters

Arts & Photography

Li, Yishan

Graphic Design

Harper Paperbacks

500 Manga Creatures is the biggest collection of manga clip art ever collected on one disc. Now stunning artwork can be created quickly and easily using this vast collection of hi-res (300dpi) JPEG images that are ready to use in any project. The book accompanying the disc teaches how to use professional coloring techniques, add figures to backgrounds, combine them into text documents, and create original manga stories!
An enormous range of creatures are included, from soft and cuddly Chibi and Kawaii characters to Digimor and Pokemon style monsters, aliens, villains, and giant mechanical robots. 500 Manga Creatures is perfect for any designer or manga fan looking to create amazing artwork without learning to draw. All illustrations are royalty-free and are also supplied as black outlines, offering endless coloring possibilities.
The book includes a complete illustrated listing of all the images on an accompanying CD. Criteria includes pose, setting, mood, appearance, expression, characteristics, and physical appearance.

500 Manga Creatures

Study & Teaching

The perfect follow-up to the highly successful 500 Manga Characters, this new edition features a compelling clip art library of professionally drawn manga and anime heroes and villains. The disc of 500 Manga Heroes and Villains contains copyright-free manga and anime illustrations and poses that can be printed, saved as PDF or JPEG files, or imported into Photoshop and manipulated; while the book includes detailed instructions for coloring the figures or importing them into backgrounds or text files. Perfect for illustrators and non-illustrators alike!

500 Manga Villains and Heroes

It is a woman's world, thanks to breakthrough artists and creators such as the young Yishan. Yishan's talent is a true find and so is her exciting new work, Manga Females Clip Art. It's all female and all fun. The 300-piece clip art CD package and hardback book contains everything needed to create professional-looking manga artwork. The CD features female kawaii characters, warriors, traditional figures, fantasy figures, and other glam gals, plus cool backgrounds and accessories. Now anyone can create exciting manga art regardless of drawing skill or talent level. Girls rule--and that's no fantasy. This book empowers its readers to push the limits of their creativity. * Li Yishan has earned worldwide exposure through her published works. She is a recurring invited guest at international comic festivals and has been written about in Publishers Weekly.

Manga Females Clip Art: Everything you need to create your own professional-looking manga artwork

Computers & Technology

Games & Strategy Guides

Andrews McMeel Publishing

The biggest collection of manga resource art ever seen. The CD contains 100 complete, ready drawn figures, plus 100 heads, 100 upper bodies, 100 lower bodies for 1,000,000 possible permutations. The book explains how to construct and color the figures and how to insert them into existing art. The book also acts as a visual catalog of the manga figures that are on the disk. Yishan Li's One Million Manga Figures is a uniquely useful--and fun--resource for manga artists. A custom program on the accompanying CD (supported by both Mac and PC platforms) allows 100 heads, 100 upper bodies, and 100 sets of legs to be combined into 1,000,000 possibilities. All of the elements have been specially drawn, and the resulting combinations are by turns dynamic, sexy, futuristic, frightening, or all of those things at once. The book acts as a visual catalog of the elements on the disc, and gives advice on exporting your newly created characters and using them in your own art. Perfect for manga novices and experts alike, One Million Manga Figures boasts an unprecedented array of high-quality manga art from a respected leader in the medium.

One Million Manga Characters: Over One Million Characters to Create and Color

Comics & Graphic Novels

James, Andrew

How To Create Comics & Manga

With over 2500 inspiring drawings and 150 step-by-step exercises and projects, this practical book is an easy-to-use guide, which will show you how to produce your own amazing cartoons.

The Complete Step-By-Step Guide to Drawing Cartoons, Manga and Anime: Expert techniques and projects, shown in more than 2000 illustrations

Seelig, Tim

Nicol, Rik

Tappenden, Curtis

HISSEY, IVAN

Lorenz Books

Learn to create and color your own manga characters!Massive Manga shows you step by step how to bring your ideas to life on paper. Learn by practicing the skills needed for drawing a wide range of manga in a huge variety of hairstyles, faces, and clothing, as well as animals, mechas, weapons, and vehicles. Each subject has a chapter of its own in which you'll find line-by-line instructions and tons of designs. From teens to tech, cuddly pups to dangerous dragons, you'll find them all here in these pages.Step-by-step drawings in pencil, ink, and color show you how to draw bodies, faces, eyes, hair, hands, and feet across a range of human and fantasy creations. Learn scores of hairstyles, facial expressions, hand gestures, and body poses. To complete your scenes, you'll learn how to draw accessories and gadgets, weapons, vehicles, and so much more!

Massive Manga: How to Draw Characters, Animals, Vehicles, Mecha, and So Much More!

Stackpole Books

Featuring everything from the simple camaraderie of a sports team or the humorous adventures of young men and their love interests to secret clans of ninja warriors or super-powered humans battling to save the earthfrom the mundane to sci-fi to fantasy, there is literally no limit to where you can take your shonen manga story. This ultimate guide, with its accompanying CD, includes everything you need to make your own gutsy, action-packed shonen manga. Background scenes, speech balloons, equipment, vehicles, and dozens of character designs: the CD offers a huge variety of templates you can fully customize with Photoshop¢ and Illustrator¢. Whether you’re a beginner who prefers to work with the hundreds of combinations of line art and accents provided, or a more experienced shonen creator who customizes your comic to your own personal style, the overview of digital art tools, plus tips and illustrations, will help you create the most professional looking

Shonen Art Studio: Everything You Need to Create Your Own Shonen Manga Comics

Watson/Guptill

Manga is the world's most popular visual art€”and within it, there's a subgenre dedicated to teenage girls about teenage girls€”shoujo manga. From serialized soap operas about everyday girl drama or a high school swim team that transforms into magical warriors fighting for love and justice, there's no limit to what you can write or draw about, though typically there's a main heroine, a cute love interest, a best friend, and a geeky guy who has a crush on the main character. All of the characters are supremely adorable, with the trademark big, expressive manga eyes and cool outfits. Now, creating this popular genre is easier than ever with this ultimate guide that includes a CD to help you draw your own shoujo stories. From background scenes, speech balloons, color choices, accessories, tones, and effects (like speedlines), the CD offers a huge variety of templates you can work with in Photoshop and Illustrator and customize to your liking and your unique s

Shoujo Art Studio: Everything You Need to Create Your Own Shoujo Manga Comics

Manga

This detailed guide to drawing your own cartoons traditionally and digitally explains all the stages, including 250 exercises to try yourself.

The Practical Step-by-Step Guide to Drawing Cartoons, Manga and Anime: Expert Techniques And Projects, Shown In More Than 2500 Illlustrations

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