The Manga Artist's Workbook - Easy-to-Follow Lessons for Creating Your Own Characters and All My Friends Are Dead

Master the basics of the most popular style of cartooning with The Manga Artist's Workbook by Christopher Hart, a bestselling author in the field of art instruction. You'll learn the fundamental proportions of the manga face and figure, how to draw those large sparkling eyes, and how to create hairstyles and costumes that make each character unique. A sketchbook and art tutorial rolled into one portable journal, this workbook contains tracing paper, blank practice pages, and exercise to help you become a true manga artist.

Brand: Hart, Christopher

Published on: 2009-10-13

Released on: 2009-10-13

Original language: English

Dimensions: 7.80" h x .60" w x 6.10" l, .68 pounds

Binding: Spiral-bound

160 pages

Features

- Practice models

- Cover sheets to protect work

- Tracing paper

- Dynamic poses

- Boy and girl teen examples throughout

About the Author 

Chris Hart is the author of the award winning book series Manga Mania. His books have sold more than 2.5 million copies in 22 languages. Since 2000, he has had 20 books on the top 50 best-selling list in the overall art category in the nation, according to Nielsen Bookscan. Also, according to Bookscan, he has had the number 1, 2, and 3 best-selling art books in the country at the same time.

If you're a dinosaur, all of your friends are dead. If you're a pirate, all of your friends have scurvy. If you're a tree, all of your friends are end tables. Each page of this laugh-out-loud illustrated humor book showcases the downside of being everything from a clown to a cassette tape to a zombie. Cute and dark all at once, this hilarious children's book for adults teaches valuable lessons about life while exploring each cartoon character's unique grievance and wide-eyed predicament. From the sock whose only friends have gone missing to the houseplant whose friends are being slowly killed by irresponsible plant owners (like you), All My Friends Are Dead presents a delightful primer for laughing at the inevitable.

Brand: Monsen, Avery/ John, Jory

Published on: 2010-06-30

Original language: English

Dimensions: 6.25" h x .63" w x 4.75" l, .42 pounds

Binding: Hardcover

96 pages

Features

- Hardcover

- Color Illustrations Throughout

- 4-1/2 x 6 in 96 pp

- Chronicle Books LLC

Review 

"What a charming way to introduce wee ones to all the downers in life." - crushable

"Darkly comic. Funny." - Pop Candy, USA Today

"Finds humor in mortality." - Paste Magazine

"Hilariously morbid." - Laughing Squid

"Laugh out loud funny, and a tiny bit disturbing. In other words, perfect." - The Huffington Post

"One of the most reblogged things of all time (of all time!) on Tumblr." - urlesque

"This is a cartoon-with-captions book, about the size of your hand." - Harry C. Holloway, Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes

About the Author 

Avery Monsen is an actor, artist, and writer.

Jory John is a writer, editor, and journalist. They are friends, and neither is dead. Yet.