Manga Mania Girl Power Drawing Fabulous Females For Japanese Comics

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Jan 28, 2014 Yuiko rated it really liked it

This is an epic how to draw book!!!! I buy every one of mr harts books all his drawin books help so much and have so many good examples!!! I would recommend any of his how to books if u want to learn to draw!!!!

Apr 19, 2011 Ellen rated it it was amazing

Again, this book helped a lot with how I can draw manga. The author, Christopher Hart, wrote many books that helped me with manga.

Mar 16, 2015 Faith rated it it was amazing

This how-to book was fantastic. It helped me bunches with practicing my drawing skills at manga. I do wish there were more detailed steps on how to draw some of the parts of the character but it was still a good book with few steps. There were tons of examples of manga girls and lots of ideas for setting and what the plot could be. Overall just a fantastic gift I received for my birthday! (Thanks Abby)

Great facts about drawing the best character for your stories!

Feb 02, 2016 Sammy C rated it it was amazing

I've read this over abillion times and it is so~ helpful! I love the instructive illustrations and the detail, along with the varied looks the different artists bring into the picture! I've read this over abillion times and it is so~ helpful! I love the instructive illustrations and the detail, along with the varied looks the different artists bring into the picture! ...more

Feb 12, 2011 Maddie rated it really liked it

Recommends it for: manga lovers

It didn't cover some of the things I wanted to learn. It didn't cover some of the things I wanted to learn. ...more

Jul 15, 2013 Ella rated it it was amazing

This helped me a lot with learning how to draw manga. I recommend looking at or buying for learning more about drawing manga girls.

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I started drawing character designs for a small animation studio in San Diego, California, when I was still in High School in Los Angeles. I used to drive 136 miles, each way, on the weekends, when I was 16, just for the opportunity to get paid to draw. Cartooning was a magical experience to me.

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I graduated from High School, and attended the character animation program at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. At Cal-Arts, we had to do a lot of intense animation, which I found tedious. I was more interested in character design, and story, rather than drawing twelve poses to create one second of movement. It wasn't for me.

So I left and enrolled in, and graduating from, New York University. The social scene at Valencia consisted of a sandwich shop, where you could buy a magazine, if you got there early enough. New York city had slightly more to offer.

After I graduated, I worked as a staff writer on several NBC prime-time, comedy-variety television shows. I also wrote for 20th Century Fox, MGM-Pathe', The Showtime Cable TV Network and Paramount Pictures. But then the Writer's Guild went on strike. Writers in Hollywood weren't allowed to work for TV or the screen. So I went back to my cartooning roots. And I began writing for the Blondie comic strip, and began contributing regularly to Mad Magazine, and did some cartooning for magazines.

My cartoon work got noticed by Watson-Guptill, a premier publisher of art books. They asked me to do a book for them on drawing cartoons. They had never done that before. The result was 'How to Draw Cartoons for Comic Strips,' and it sold briskly. They asked me to do another, and then another. Well, I've sold over 3 million books domestically since then, have 19 translations, and I'm still at it.

My book, 'Manga Mania: How to Draw Japanese Comics,' quickly became the number one selling art book in the country (source: Bookscan). It is also the winner of the prestigious New Jersey Library Association's Garden State Teen Book Award for 2004 in the category of nonfiction for grades 6-12.

The Young Adult Library Services Association selected two of my books for their prestigious "2003 Quick Picks for Young Adults." Those titles are: "Anime Mania: How to Draw Characters for Japanese Animation" and "Mecha Mania: How to Draw the Battling Robots, Cool Spaceships, and Military Vehicles of Japanese Comics." my title, 'Manga Mania: How to Draw Japanese Comics,' was selected for 2002.

The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) chose my book, 'Drawing Faeries: A Believer's Guide,' for their 2004 'Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults' reading list. The 'Children of the New Earth' online magazine awarded the book its 'CNE seal of Excellence.'

My book, "Manhwa Mania," which introduces Korean style comics to manga audiences, was chosen as a "Quick Pick for Relunctant Young Readers" by the American Library Association in 2006, ages 12-18.

In 2004, I was asked by the Loew-Cornell Art Supply Company to develop a series of eight top-quality art kits, which would feature my manga, cartooning and comic drawings. The kits are now completed. They will be available, on Amazon, in fall, 2006.

My work has also been been featured in such publications as American Artist, Newtype (the premier manga publication), Mad Magazine, Highlights for Children, Crayola Kids, Ranger Rick, Cat Fancy, Dog Fancy and Boy's Life. My tutorials have been featured on Animation World Network, one of the leading websites of the animation industry. I've also been a cover story on the industry trade magazine, "Publisher's Weekly."

And if you've read this far into my bio, then I'm more impressed with you than you are with me!

Thank you so very much for letting me offer some inspiration to you in your art adventures. Keep Drawing!

Chris

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