How to Create Manga: Drawing Dynamic Hand & Body Movements: The Ultimate Bible for Beginning Artists

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Sideranch

How to Create Manga

Drawing Dynamic Hand & Body Movements: The Ultimate Bible for Beginning Artists

Sideranch

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English

Tuttle Publishing
08 April 2025

Graphic novel & Manga artwork; Painting & art manuals

Series: How To Create Manga Guides

An indispensable reference guide for manga artists presenting hundreds of different body positions, actions, movements and hand gestures!

This complete guide shows you how to draw your characters with the right proportions and perspectives when performing all sorts of actions. With useful tips on depicting dynamic motions and movements more accurately you can make your drawings look more realistic! Are your characters opening an umbrella? Fussing with their phones? Or talking with their hands? Or are they flying through the air and landing blows in the midst of a fight?

With over 1,100 illustrations to guide you, this book helps you draw your characters with the right proportions and perspectives while doing all sorts of different things:

Making hand gestures ranging from a peace sign to a heart to a fist bump Sitting, kneeling, crouching, walking, running or jumping with legs extended Putting on gloves, pushing up glasses, taking a drink or fixing their hair Executing flying kicks and complicated martial arts maneuvers And hundreds of other different actions and movements!

Start with basic hand gestures before moving onto more complex movements and poses involving the entire body. This comprehensive guide offers you over 1,000 different options. It is the perfect reference book to have on hand at all times, so you can figure out how to draw exactly the pose or position you are trying to create.

By: Sideranch
Imprint: Tuttle Publishing
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 191mm,
ISBN: 9784805318638
ISBN 10: 4805318635
Series: How To Create Manga Guides
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 08 April 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sideranch is a collective of Japanese creative professionals who specialize in a range of artistic, publishing, gaming, and entertainment industry pursuits. This unique organisation brings together experts in character design, illustration, animation, game development, inking/lettering/colouration, and graphic novel and comic book creation.

Reviews for How to Create Manga: Drawing Dynamic Hand & Body Movements: The Ultimate Bible for Beginning Artists

""These are richly designed books that SHOW you how to refine and perfect your drawings so you actually improve…if you're (or someone you know is) looking to up your game and improve your art, they've made it super easy to assemble a super helpful library."" — The Roarbots