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Anime and manga art has its own conventions of anatomy, expression and panelling. You will learn character construction, faces and hair, dynamic poses, inking and the manga storytelling format.

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📺YouTube(1)

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Marc Brunet (ART School)

Free lessons and student paint-overs from a former Blizzard senior character artist, covering stylized head and body construction, shape design, anatomy simplification, and light and colour applied to the semi-realistic anime idiom. His redline critiques of viewer work show why a drawing fails

intermediate🇬🇧

📚Books(3)

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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

Comics theory presented in comics form: panel-to-panel transition types including the aspect-to-aspect cuts characteristic of manga, closure in the gutter, iconic abstraction of faces, depicting time and motion in still images, and word-picture relationships.

intermediate🇬🇧
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Manga in Theory and Practice: The Craft of Creating Manga

The JoJo's Bizarre Adventure creator sets out his working method: character sheets before plot, his four-part balance of character, story, setting and theme, panel flow and reader eye-path, and how weekly serialized manga is actually produced. Explains why manga pages read the way they do (panel sequencing, character-first construction, and serialization constraints) which no Western how-to-draw book covers.

intermediate🇬🇧
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Mastering Manga with Mark Crilley: 30 Drawing Lessons from the Creator of Akiko

Thirty structured lessons from a working graphic novelist, moving from head construction and facial proportion through eyes, hair, hands, clothing folds and full figures, and ending with page layout and dramatic spreads.

beginner🇬🇧
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