A step-by-step guide to all the tricks-both freehand and digital-to creating the best manga characters, Shonen Manga is a fun, easy to read manga manual for artists of all ages and languages.Focusing on Shonen-style manga and anime (a genre targeting young boys-”Shonen” means young boy, referring to elementary through grade school age groups), Shonen Manga is a practical, hands-on guide to learning the skills of action-packed drawing. It includes detailed information on how to apply digital colour, 3D designs, vectorial drawing, and a host of other fascinating and useful design applications. Each project in Shonen Manga includes step-by-step instructions specifying software, tools, and professional tricks to achieve the gritty eyes, roaring faces, and clenched fists of teen heroes, martial art masters, ninja girls, and violent samurai, integral to the Shonen genre.
[...]... be giving their personal and far-ranging views of manga that includes everything from sh nen’s more fantastical side to its most realistic interpretations The illustrations run from the more adult-oriented and experimental to the more child-like, also including ones influenced by European comics, together creating a wide variety of illustrations made from all types of manga drawing and illustration... in one of the typical genres of sh nen manga With all this in mind, the book is truly useful both to comic artists and fans of manga and anime, plus all types of designers (graphics, advertising, video game…) or creators from other fields, as it can be used as a way of documenting the birth of creative illustrations Rubén García Art Director Kamikaze Factory Studio DIGITAL WORKSHOP The coloring section...SH NEN STEP BY STEP Although sh nen manga was originally intended for a male audience, its readers and artists represent both sexes This is why we set out to make this manga drawing manual from a modern point of view, giving it a more general appeal and making it practical for all those wanting to improve their illustration and digital coloring skills In the twenty-two original exercises, divided into... this book relies on using digital programs, and in it we will be focusing on the range of possibilities opened to us by Adobe Photoshop, although we also use programs such as Corel PHOTO-PAINT, PaintTool SAI, and IllustStudio SCANNING To begin with, it is essential to have a good scan of the paper image If we begin with a black and white drawing, we should import it using a grayscale, which will digitalize... using Adobe Photoshop or save it as a .psd or tiff and continue in another program DIGITAL COLORING Our line drawing will appear as a locked background layer in the Layer panel We can unlock it by double-clicking on it, converting it into Layer 0 Now we can start adding new layers over it where we will be applying the color In standard coloring, these layers use a Multiply or Darken Layer Blend Mode In... extremities, warping them to attain the desired optical effect 5 DETAILS We added in Japanese and Chinese inspired outfits and morphed the scene into an oval shape, as if we were viewing it through a fish-eye lens 6.1 COLOR We applied the plain colors in a new layer in the Multiply Blend Mode, using a range of warm yet lightly saturated tones 6.2 COLOR On a new layer we added in the shadows using the . best-selling manga magazine, we can also find tremendously popular sh nen manga series in other publications, such as Sh nen Ace, Sh nen Magazine, Shonen Sunday,. Magazine, Shonen Sunday, Dragon Age, and Gangan Comics The manga for boys tend to be action packed with titanic battles and heroes who have an insatiable desire