Product Description: Cartooning: 100 Faces & Expressions covers the fundamentals of creating cartoon heads and faces. This 32-page book includes instruction on selecting face shape, rendering features, exaggerating, and modifying features to suggest mood and personality...read more

A generation of young people influenced by this ever-popular and perennial art form are eager to pick up a pencil to create their own manga. Top Tips from Professional Manga Artists reveals the latest techniques for creating digital and traditional manga illustrations. Written by an award-winning manga artist with contributions from a select band of fellow professionals, Top Tips from Professional Manga Artists offers a multitude of eye-opening hints and techniques for the budding creator. From basic drawing tips to designing characters, painting vivid illustrations and creating captivating comics, the book collects the wealth of knowledge and experience of these manga professionals. Covering fundamentals of art alongside tips on becoming a professional, this is the ultimate resource for beginners and more experienced artists alike.

Product Description: Let your inner artist strut with this inspirational sketchbook that teaches you to draw anything and everything fashionable! Strut your stuff with 20 Ways to Draw A Shoe and 44 Other Sneakers, Slippers, Stilettos, and Slingbacks...read more

Product Description: Let your imagination shine with 20 Ways to Draw a Star and 44 Other Far-Out Wonders from the Sky and Galaxy. Beautifully illustrated, this inspirational sketchbook will help you learn how to draw anything in the sky and beyond. From satellites, space ships, and asteroids, to crystals, raindrops, clouds, suns and moons, 20 Ways to Draw a Star is perfect for illustrators, cartoonists, doodlers, and anyone who loves to sketch...read more

A guide to the Japanese comic book describes the genre's characters from Astro Boy to Yu-Gi-Oh.

Product Description: A unique collection of 100 vintage postcards, each featuring a different girlsa (TM) comics image from Misty, Tammy and Jinty. From gymnastics and school hijinks to spine-tingling mystery and menace, therea (TM)s an abundance of classic images in this sturdy gift box...read more

Product Description: Ed Hooks' indispensable acting guidebook for animators has been fully updated and improved! Hooks uses basic acting theory to explain everything from character movement and facial expressions to interaction and scene construction...read more

Product Description: This book will inspire you to become young again, to rediscover your inner artist. Start coloring now and embark on an inspiring journey of creativity! Make use of a felt tip pen or coloring pencils to decorate the predesigned patterns, or use a fine nib to create your own art and extend existing patterns...read more

This book will inspire you to become young again, to rediscover your inner artist. Start coloring now and embark on an inspiring journey of creativity! Make use of a felt tip pen or coloring pencils to decorate the predesigned patterns, or use a fine nib to create your own art and extend existing patterns. Let you imagination run wild, and make this book your own. This beautiful and interactive coloring book features delicate and highly detailed pen-and-ink illustrations—all waiting to be brought to life with color. Provides hours and hours of stress relief, mindful calm, and fun, creative expression. Designs range in complexity from beginner to expert-level. It's a wonderful way to fire up your imagination and relieve stress.

Product Description: This book will inspire you to become young again, to rediscover your inner artist. Start coloring now and embark on an inspiring journey of creativity! Make use of a felt tip pen or coloring pencils to decorate the predesigned patterns, or use a fine nib to create your own art and extend existing patterns...read more

From Gary Larson's The Far Side to George Herriman's Krazy Kat, comic strips have two obvious defining features. They are visual narratives, using both words and pictures to tell stories, and they use word balloons to represent the speech and thought of depicted characters. Art historians have studied visual artifacts from every culture; cultural historians have recently paid close attention to movies. Yet the comic strip, an art form known to everyone, has not yet been much studied by aestheticians or art historians. This is the first full-length philosophical account of the comic strip. Distinguished philosopher David Carrier looks at popular American and Japanese comic strips to identify and solve the aesthetic problems posed by comic strips and to explain the relationship of this artistic genre to other forms of visual art. He traces the use of speech and thought balloons to early Renaissance art and claims that the speech balloon defines comics as neither a purely visual nor a strictly verbal art form, but as something radically new. Comics, he claims, are essentially a composite art that, when successful, seamlessly combine verbal and visual elements. Carrier looks at the way an audience interprets comics and contrasts the interpretation of comics and other mass-culture images to that of Old Master visual art. The meaning behind the comic can be immediately grasped by the average reader, whereas a piece of museum art can only be fully interpreted by scholars familiar with the history and the background behind the painting. Finally, Carrier relates comics to art history. Ultimately, Carrier s analysis of comics shows why this popular art is worthy of philosophical study and proves that a better understanding of comics will help us better understand the history of art. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Focusing on anatomy, one of the fundamentals of drawing manga characters, Anatomy 101 teaches readers how to accurately draw the manga figure. From lessons on muscular and skeletal structure, arms, hands, and feet to poses and movement, this book covers everything readers need to go from manga fans to manga artists...read more