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title: Anime & Manga Drawing
description: 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.
category: arts-design
subcategory: drawing
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/anime-and-manga-drawing
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# Anime & Manga Drawing

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.

## Available Resources

3 Books

## Youtubes

### 1. Marc Brunet (ART School)

**Author:** Marc Brunet

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

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.youtube.com/@YTartschool

**Tags:** character-design, figure-drawing, anatomy, digital-painting, art-critique

## Books

### 1. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

**Author:** Scott McCloud

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.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/006097625X?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** comics-theory, visual-storytelling, panel-transitions, sequential-art

### 2. Manga in Theory and Practice: The Craft of Creating Manga

**Author:** Hirohiko Araki

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.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1421594072?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** manga, storytelling, character-design, panel-layout, comics-craft

### 3. Mastering Manga with Mark Crilley: 30 Drawing Lessons from the Creator of Akiko

**Author:** Mark Crilley

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.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1440309310?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** manga, character-drawing, facial-proportions, figure-drawing, page-layout

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