How to Create Manga: Drawing Dynamic Hand & Body Movements

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Ultimate manga bible guide how to draw anime scenes and characters art illustration book beginner easy essential fundamental basic complete class learn at home anatomy dynamic composition poses fighting running jumping sitting posture step-by-step

Product details

  • ISBN 9784805318638
  • Dimensions: 191 x 254mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Apr 2025
  • Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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An indispensable reference guide for manga artists presenting hundreds of different body positions, actions, movements and hand gestures!

This complete guide shows you how to draw your characters with the right proportions and perspectives when performing all sorts of actions. With useful tips on depicting dynamic motions and movements more accurately you can make your drawings look more realistic! Are your characters opening an umbrella? Fussing with their phones? Or talking with their hands? Or are they flying through the air and landing blows in the midst of a fight?

With 480 body positions, movements and hand gestures and over 1,100 illustrations to guide you, this book helps you draw your characters with the right proportions and perspectives while doing all sorts of different things:
  • Making hand gestures ranging from a peace sign to a heart to a fist bump
  • Sitting, kneeling, crouching, walking, running or jumping with legs extended
  • Putting on gloves, pushing up glasses, taking a drink or fixing their hair
  • Executing flying kicks and complicated martial arts maneuvers
  • And hundreds of other different actions and movements!

Start with basic hand gestures before moving onto more complex movements and poses involving the entire body. This comprehensive guide offers you a thousand options for adding powerful perspective and emotional expression to your characters and the stories you tell!
Sideranch is a collective of Japanese creative professionals who specialize in a range of artistic, publishing, gaming, and entertainment industry pursuits. This unique organization brings together experts in character design, illustration, animation, game development, inking/lettering/coloration, and graphic novel and comic book creation. They are the creators of Learn to Draw Exciting Anime & Manga Characters.