Master manga with these top tips and techniques from professional artists! Learn how to create figures, action, portraits, street scenes and more, using digital and traditional tools including Paint Tool SAI and Copic Markers.
WELCOME TO ULTIMATE GUIDE TO MANGA ART
Ultimate Guide to Manga Art
How to be a manga superstar • Fame game Pro artists at the top of their game tell Tom May how they’ve been able to attract global acclaim for their manga artwork
HEIKALA • The story behind the picture: Gary Evans meets the Finnish illustrator who is as enigmatic as her art
SKETCHBOOK Sai Foo • Here’s an artist who’s happy to address his perceived illustrative shortcomings in his sketchbook… and it’s all the better for it
ARTIST PORTFOLIO DJAMILA KNOPF • The artist tells Gary Evans about practising in secret, losing her artistic voice and being told to try “proper art”
Photoshop DRAW AND PAINT FANTASY MANGA • Yueko shares her process for painting a female knight in an anime-inspired art style, paying particular attention to the hair and face
Artist Portfolio SACHIN TENG • Dropping out of college, roughing it in motels, working up a mountain: the US artist tells Gary Evans about the high and lows of a roller-coaster career
Clip Studio Paint COLOUR MANGA IN CLIP STUDIO PAINT • Asia Ladowska reveals her process for creating a manga portrait, while passing on essential advice on sketching, shadows and lighting
Photoshop COMPOSE AN ANIME STREET SCENE • Tan Hui Tian uses colouring, lighting and perspective techniques to paint an urban setting that’s full of details
Photoshop LEARN NEW MANGA COLOURING SKILLS • James Ghio breaks down his rendering techniques for creating colourful and appealing manga art without having to render every element
Photoshop BE INSPIRED BY A MANGA CLASSIC • Toni Infante taps into the influence of Akira, and uses colour, contrast and composition to create a striking image
Procreate & Photoshop CREATE AMAZING MANGA FIGURE ART • Manga and anime character artist Ilya Kuvshinov brings to life a girl and her toy Totoro, using a range of Photoshop blending layer modes
Photoshop PAINT A FANTASY MANGA PORTRAIT • Asia Ladowska puts aside her ink pens and markers, and embraces the digital painting process of a soft and colourful manga character
SketchUp & Photoshop CREATE ANIME - STYLE SCENES • FeiGiap combines SketchUp’s 3D modelling tools with Photoshop colouring techniques to create an anime-style background illustration
Procreate CREATE YOUR OWN ASUKA • Learn how Paul Kwon (aka Zeronis) interprets a character from Neon Genesis Evangelion
Paint Tool SAI GET BETTER AT PAINT TOOL SAI • Artist Angela Wang (aka awanqi) shows how to compose figures from mythology using symbology coupled with a sense of refinement
Artist Insight 15 TIPS ON PAINTING MANGA FACES • Collateral Damage Studios’ Zakary Lee reveals his techniques for creating engaging manga characters, using a painting-based approach
Artist insight 15 TIPS FOR BETTER CHARACTER ART • Artists from Singapore’s Collateral Damage Studios walk you through the key steps of creating and then refining your manga characters
APPLY TAN HUI TIAN’S COLOUR THEORY TIPS TO YOUR FIGURES
DEVELOP A STORY FOR YOUR CHARACTER WITH HO WEI RONG
CHARACTER DESIGN IN COPIC MARKERS • Discover how ASIA LADOWSKA expertly blends pencils and markers to create an original manga character whose innocent appearance belies a nefarious streak…
DISCOVER OUR GREAT BOOKAZINES • From crochet and quilting to painting and Photoshop, pick up a book that will take your hobby to the next level
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