Christopher Hart's Draw Manga Now!: Top Ten Essentials

Christopher Hart's Draw Manga Now!

by Christopher Hart

Top Ten Essentials breaks down the 10 most common aspects that apply to any manga character, from a wild chibi to a bishoujo woman, into detailed lessons. Focusing on body proportion, different types of eyes, hair, poses, character types, expressions, and more, this book covers everything readers need to go from manga fans to manga artists. After an introduction to these elements, readers will have a chance to follow along Hart's in-depth step-by-steps, and will even be invited to draw on their own, right in the book's pages.

Genres: Drawing, Manga, Art

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

Librarian 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

Reviews

[lorien ‧͙⁺˚*･༓ଳ · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was very helpful to me. I liked that in this how-to-draw book, the author explains to you how to draw something step by step. It does give you good pointers and things like that, which I found very helpful. It was informative and helped you so you wouldn't get lost be like, 'Huh?'. I bought two more different manga how-to's and enjoyed them very much.

[Brianna · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book helped me draw. I usually don’t do well when I draw but this book gave me simple instructions that helped me.

[Hanifa · Rating 5 out of 5]

umm I didn't see wats inside but I just saw 1 page my friend have like this book that's why. but I give it 5 starts cuz my friend now know how to draw manga from this book it seemed good and ill buy like this book soon. very nice book even from out side look XD

[Audriana · Rating 5 out of 5]

I would rate this book just the same as Chris' "Anatomy 101" book. This helped me so much with the face, clothes, etc. after I improved with the body when reading the anatomy one.