Excellent Manga Sketching Techniques, Vol. 1: Pretty Girl

by Hikaru Hayashi, Tsubura Kadomaru

This series shows basic and comprehensive techniques of how to draw manga including basic points just what you want know. Commentaries are made by Hikaru Hayashi (Go office) who has written widely about manga techniques and Tsubura Kadomaru, drawings by a famous professional Kazuaki Morita.This book contains tricks of making a drawing of a girl attractive. Each chapter presents the point of drawing on the subject including the balance of the head & the body, the proportion, posing, expressions of the face, eye makeup, hair style.



ホビージャパンが発行する大人気マンガ技法書シリーズ『マンガの基礎デッサン』。その『女の子キャラ編』英語版です。初心者からベテランまで、女のコキャラを描く基本を、総合的かつ徹底的に掘り下げてまとめた技法書なので、読者の皆さんのレベルに合わせて長く、繰り返して学べる「女のコキャラ」を描く決定版です。

Kindle Edition

Published June 1, 2011

About the author

Born in Tokyo in 1961, Hikaru Hayashi started his activity as a manga artist after graduating from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of Tokyo Metropolitan University. After working as an assistant, he made his professional debut with the manga Story of Aja Kong, then went on to found the manga and design agency Go office in 1997. Since then he has created more than 250 manuals on drawing manga, many of which have been successful internationally.