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The Manga Fashion Bible: The Go-To Guide for Drawing Stylish Outfits and Characters
Design your own anime and manga characters with the ultimate manga fashion drawing book from bestselling how-to-draw author Christopher Hart.
Christopher Hart goes “manga chic” with this guide to drawing the edgy fashions found in the popular Japanese genre. Packed with tutorials, this stylish manga drawing book offers many enticing projects for aspiring artists, from creating classic outfits worn by popular manga characters to depicting the newest trends emerging from Tokyo. Chris explains how to draw clothing, eyes, and hairstyles as well as figures, body types, and poses; mix and match outfits, accessorize, create complementary color schemes, add a sense of movement to the image, and design exciting wardrobes for all seasons. He demystifies topics that typically puzzle beginners, from capturing the creases and folds of clothing to drawing patterns on fabric. A troubleshooting guide covers common problem areas so fans will quickly learn how to transform their basic manga characters into compelling fashion icons.
Part figure drawing guide and part fashion design book, the Manga Fashion Bible is a great gift for fans of other Christopher Hart drawing books who are interested in drawing manga. Anyone looking for manga books for teens with a flair for fashion will find everything they need in this all-encompassing guide to manga fashion.
Christopher Hart goes “manga chic” with this guide to drawing the edgy fashions found in the popular Japanese genre. Packed with tutorials, this stylish manga drawing book offers many enticing projects for aspiring artists, from creating classic outfits worn by popular manga characters to depicting the newest trends emerging from Tokyo. Chris explains how to draw clothing, eyes, and hairstyles as well as figures, body types, and poses; mix and match outfits, accessorize, create complementary color schemes, add a sense of movement to the image, and design exciting wardrobes for all seasons. He demystifies topics that typically puzzle beginners, from capturing the creases and folds of clothing to drawing patterns on fabric. A troubleshooting guide covers common problem areas so fans will quickly learn how to transform their basic manga characters into compelling fashion icons.
Part figure drawing guide and part fashion design book, the Manga Fashion Bible is a great gift for fans of other Christopher Hart drawing books who are interested in drawing manga. Anyone looking for manga books for teens with a flair for fashion will find everything they need in this all-encompassing guide to manga fashion.
144 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2016
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About the author
Christopher Hart
155 books203 followersLibrarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
I started drawing character designs and storyboards for a small animation studio in while in High School. Cartooning and animation was a magical experience to me. I try to bring that experience, as well as art tips, to my readers. Their enthusiasm also motivates me.
Early in my career, 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. It sold 200,000 copies, which is a healthy number. So we kept going. I discovered that I enjoyed the art of creating books, which has its own special requirements. I also worked as an author for Random House, Quarto and Soho Publishing. In total, I have had 8 million books sold, and have been translated into 20 languages.
My book, "The Master Guide to Drawing Anime: How to Draw Original Characters from Simple Templates" has sold over half a million copies to date and is still very actively in print. An earlier book of mine, "Manga Mania: How to Draw Japanese Comics:" reached the number one art book in the country, according to Bookscan.
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.
Christopher Hart
I started drawing character designs and storyboards for a small animation studio in while in High School. Cartooning and animation was a magical experience to me. I try to bring that experience, as well as art tips, to my readers. Their enthusiasm also motivates me.
Early in my career, 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. It sold 200,000 copies, which is a healthy number. So we kept going. I discovered that I enjoyed the art of creating books, which has its own special requirements. I also worked as an author for Random House, Quarto and Soho Publishing. In total, I have had 8 million books sold, and have been translated into 20 languages.
My book, "The Master Guide to Drawing Anime: How to Draw Original Characters from Simple Templates" has sold over half a million copies to date and is still very actively in print. An earlier book of mine, "Manga Mania: How to Draw Japanese Comics:" reached the number one art book in the country, according to Bookscan.
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.
Christopher Hart
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May 16, 2023
Christopher Hart fills the book with a lot of useless commentary. The illustrators are the ones that deserve the credit.
February 22, 2021
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September 1, 2023
This is a book that is supposed to be for beginner artists focused on fashion seen in anime.
"The Master Guide to Drawing Anime" series is more accurate and the tutorials are more helpful on drawing "anime style"
Many of Hart's older tutorial books are a mess of repeated images with little to no explanation on how to draw or color anything.
The book doesn't teach or explain much about basic anatomy for anime characters but instead focused almost entirely on fashion styles (like sweet lolita & mori kei),cute and laying down poses.
The outfits are very cute and I had fun drawing them.
However I wish more male characters were featured in this book and it would be nice if the book featured more gothic& alternative fashion and featured athletic styles.
This tutorial book features mostly "moe"/"loli" girls but there are normal styled characters featured occasionally.
The book is lacking adults characters and characters in traditional Japanese clothes.
This book doesn't teach the readers about how to color skin the proper way or how to draw accessories.
Parental advisory:
The other artists are listed under "contributing artist"
Many of the artist have inappropriate "pen names" and post questionable art online.
Shiroi Room has art with characters in bondage accessories.
Most of his anime/manga tutorial books aren't written for people who genuinely want to be professional manga artists.
His anime tutorial books are written mostly for weebs/otaku (people who are obsessed with anime,manga and Japanese videogames)who want to learn to draw "moe" girls and shoujo manga romance kiss and hug scenes.
My rating:
4 and a half stars
Read:
September 13th,2018
"The Master Guide to Drawing Anime" series is more accurate and the tutorials are more helpful on drawing "anime style"
Many of Hart's older tutorial books are a mess of repeated images with little to no explanation on how to draw or color anything.
The book doesn't teach or explain much about basic anatomy for anime characters but instead focused almost entirely on fashion styles (like sweet lolita & mori kei),cute and laying down poses.
The outfits are very cute and I had fun drawing them.
However I wish more male characters were featured in this book and it would be nice if the book featured more gothic& alternative fashion and featured athletic styles.
This tutorial book features mostly "moe"/"loli" girls but there are normal styled characters featured occasionally.
The book is lacking adults characters and characters in traditional Japanese clothes.
This book doesn't teach the readers about how to color skin the proper way or how to draw accessories.
Parental advisory:
The other artists are listed under "contributing artist"
Many of the artist have inappropriate "pen names" and post questionable art online.
Shiroi Room has art with characters in bondage accessories.
Most of his anime/manga tutorial books aren't written for people who genuinely want to be professional manga artists.
His anime tutorial books are written mostly for weebs/otaku (people who are obsessed with anime,manga and Japanese videogames)who want to learn to draw "moe" girls and shoujo manga romance kiss and hug scenes.
My rating:
4 and a half stars
Read:
September 13th,2018
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