Manga: The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Digital Painting Techniques

by ImagineFX

Following the success of Fantasy Workshop , the ImagineFX team turns to manga art for fantasy artists who want to progress to the next level. With reference to creative painting programs (including Photoshop, Illustrator, and Corel Painter), this must-have guide explains, with the aid of screen grabs, how to progress from basic “pencil” roughs to first-stage line art and finished color art. From creating characters, scenes, and close-ups to designing your own digital paintings using the most up-to-date techniques, Manga lays out the tools to do it all.

Genres: Art, Manga, Reference

208 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2011

About the author

ImagineFX is a digital art magazine that features workshops and interviews with artists from the science fiction, fantasy, manga, anime, game and comic disciplines.

Published in Bath, UK by Future plc since January 2006, its main focus is the workshops featured in the second half of the magazine. Artists such as Ryan Church, Jonny Duddle, Martin Bland and Henning Ludvigsen contribute to the magazine. The magazine comes with a DVD that includes workshop files that relate to the tutorials in the magazine as well as reader artwork, program demos, free fonts, textures, images and Photoshop brushes.

Reviews

[Christopher Kincaid · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you are like me, you feel drawn to these books (no pun intended), yet frustrated when you attempt to techniques. I dislike the sexiness of the poses, but that is par for this type of art. It's not that I'm a prude. Rather, such poses and designs are just tired. Still, the book stirs ideas.

[Najera DVD 10 · Rating 5 out of 5]

that pretty book.

[Ayra · Rating 4 out of 5]

Useful in colouring techiques with Photoshop, though I don't have Painter.
Even basic guidlines on the composition of manga characters helped.