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Draw Manga Faces for Expressive Characters: Learn to Draw More Than 900 Faces

Learn to draw the most expressive manga faces ever!Sure, drawing faces is one of the most challenging aspects of manga. But Draw Manga Faces for Expressive Characters is here to help! This fantastically comprehensive book includes more than 900 sample illustrations that teach key elements for capturing facial expressions and emotions for manga characters.Learn to draw:Basic characters, faces …

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Tom of Finland: The Complete Kake Comics

Mustaches and muscles: Back to the days when men were men and sex was carefree   In 1965, Tom of Finland began flirting with the idea of an ongoing character for his panel stories, the ultimate Tom’s Man. He tried out a blond named Vicky—a common male name in Finland—followed by a Tarzan-inspired Jack. Then in 1968 Tom settled on Kake, …

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Illustration School: Let’s Draw Cute Animals

Created by one of Japan’s most popular artists, this book provides detailed and complete instruction for illustrating fun and appealing characters and elements that celebrate life. The author’s special and distinct style is simple, appealing, happy, and cute and offers artists, crafters, and art enthusiasts—with and without experience—the instruction and inspiration to draw in the Japanese character style. …

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Illustration School: Let’s Draw a Story

Created by one of Japan’s most popular artists, this book offers a story in a sketchbook. Take off into the world of fantasy with Sachiko Umoto’s unique, fun character drawings and help them finish their story with your own drawings and sketches. Practice your own with illustratioin techniques and follow the fun, appealing characters and elements that celebrate …

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Character Design From the Ground Up

All stories have characters. Whether it’s a film, game, or comic book, all characters need to be designed. Character design has become a distinct discipline in the entertainment industry, and character designers are employed by film and game companies across the globe to bring life to scripts and ideas. In this book, illustrator and character designer …

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A Sky Longing for Memories: The Art of Makoto Shinkai

A Sky Longing for Memoriesis a Makoto Shinkai fan’s dream! Featuring art created by the beloved director, this full-color art book is packed with art from the many movies he directed for Studio CoMix Wave. The book is a 175 page LANDSCAPE FORMAT softcover, the majority of which are images, a rare treat in …

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Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist (Will Eisner Instructional Books)

The final volume of Will Eisner’s celebrated instructional trilogy explores the critical principle of body grammar in comics storytelling. Designed and outlined by Will Eisner before his death in 2005, this posthumous masterwork, the third and final book in the Will Eisner Instructional Series, finally reveals the secrets of Eisner’s own techniques and theories of movement, body mechanics, …

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20 Ways to Draw a Tulip and 44 Other Fabulous Flowers: A Sketchbook for Artists, Designers, and Doodlers

This inspiring sketchbook is part of the new 20 Ways series from Quarry Books, designed to offer artists, designers, and doodlers a fun and sophisticated collection of illustration fun. Each spread features 20 inspiring illustrated examples of 45 themes–tulips, roses, dahlias, and much, much more–over 900 drawings, with blank space for you to draw your take on 20 Ways to Draw …

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Simplified Drawing for Planning Animation

Simplified Drawing for Planning Animation is packed with information about drawing the human form in a simplified way, for animators, illustrators, character designers and comic artists. It emphasizes simplified structure, balance and posing with sequential images. This book is used by animators at ILM, Walt Disney, Blue Sky, EA and many more. It has been required text at …

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Cartoons: One Hundred Years of Cinema Animation

“… its encyclopedic style will find it a place in the library of everyone interested in the subject.” —Kirkus Reviews”This exciting and informative encyclopedia… is a worthy and welcome addition to our library on world-wide cartooning… this is a marvelous compendium, one that belongs on the coffee-table and on the scholar’s shelf.” —Journal of Popular Culture”… this valuable effort… …

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