Girl to Grrrl Manga: How to Draw the Hottest Shoujo Manga

Aprende a Dibujar Manga #4

by Colleen Doran

How to Draw the Hottest Shoujo Manga From the creative mind of superstar comic artist Colleen Doran , Girl to Grrrl Manga is your invitation to the drama, high romance and dreamlike settings of shoujo manga! Page after page of step-by-step instruction lets you get right to it as you learn the simple tricks to drawing different shoujo looks. Beautiful, glamorous girls in funky costumes. Gorgeous guys with smoldering, direct gazes and tortured storylines. Dazzling characters with supermodel-lean builds, voluminous hair and those enormous, liquid eyes that swim with emotion. Inside, you'll learn to draw faces and figures from different perspectives and to various dramatic effects. Discover the secrets to drawing hands, tearful eyes, fantastic costumes, and other fun and expressive facets of shoujo art. You'll see how the smallest details, like extra-long eyelashes or a highlight on the lips, can make the biggest difference! So you want to draw like CLAMP (Cardcaptor Sakura and CLAMP School Detectives), or Mineo Maya (Patalliro), or Fuyumi Soryo (Mars) ... or (best of all) uniquely like YOU?! With Girl to Grrrl Manga, you'll learn to recognize and replicate authentic shoujo styles—classic, contemporary, retro, children's, aesthetic, modern, illustrative—on your way to achieving your own, fabulous, one-of-a-kind style.

Genres: Manga, Nonfiction

128 pages, Paperback

First published October 4, 2006

About the author

Colleen Doran is an American writer-artist and cartoonist. She illustrated hundreds of comics, graphic novels, books and magazines, including the autobiographical graphic novel of Marvel Comics editor and writer Stan Lee entitled Amazing Fantastic Incredible Stan Lee, which became a New York Times bestseller. She adapted and did the art for the short story "Troll Bridge" by Neil Gaiman, which also became a New York Times bestseller. Her books have received Eisner, Harvey, Bram Stoker, and International Horror Guild Awards.

Reviews

[Lindley Walter-smith · Rating 4 out of 5]

Despite the stupid name, which I suspect the author was saddled with, this is actually the only how-to-draw-manga book I've ever liked much. Instead of generic Western comic looking figures with added big eyes, like most manga books, it mylooks at different shojou styles. I especially liked the looks at "classic" Rose of Versailles type shojou styles, pop art "retro" styles and the formal, ugly/beautiful "aesthetic" style.