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| Manga Mania Bishoujo (Manga Mania) | 
 enlarge | Author: Christopher Hart
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 186021
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 8.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0823029751
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.53522
EAN: 9780823029754
ASIN: 0823029751
Publication Date: July 1, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: New - may have a small remainder mark on the edge.
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Product Description
The women of manga are famous for their alluring, sexy looks. They play a major role in all genres of manga, from the female fighter pilot and the sophisticated spy to the feisty headstrong teenager and the magical elf queen. To excel in drawing manga style, the aspiring artist must be able to draw a female lead who can kick butt when she needs to but is attractive enough to win the heart of the hero. With Christopher Hart's clear, step-by-step drawings and dynamic, easy-to-follow text, MANGA MANIA BISHOUJO teaches aspiring artists how to handle basic anatomy and women's muscles, hands and nails, seductive outfits, extreme hair styles and also how to capture body language, alluring expressions, and create chemistry - everything to make manga women who will strike fear in the hearts of the enemy...and inspire love in the heart of the hero.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
Great Book! March 23, 2006
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This book is adorable. The art is stunning (That's because Christopher Hart only drew about 22 illustrations out of the whole book.)Christopher was never a good artist in the style of manga. I'm was never a fan of his art and still isn't.
But this book is great to have for refrence, most of the book is not for beginners, But it might be useful for them to buy it anyway. It does has some simple steps for them in drawing the heads.
It starts you off drawing beautiful eyes. Then the many lips and mouths and their expressions.
Then drawing the head in different poses.
And then it goes to teaching you how to draw the Cheat between the Pretty Girl (only two pages though.)
It shows you 9 pages on hair, when wind is blowing, between short, long, medium, and wild hair. The many curves of hair and style. Also "When you change a hair style, you change a character" page. It gives you 12 pages on body expressions and poses and Body Language.
3 pages on the poses of hands and (2 pages)
on feet (note all feet pictures except one, is wearing some kind of shoe.) It also tells you between a Stylish Figure and a Seductive Figure,a Cool Figure, and Warrior Figure(4 pages.)
It also have Advance Action Poses (11 pages.)
It also has Bishoujo Clothing from Primitive to Techno Soldier to School to Professional Uniforms to Magical and non-Human costumes (11 pages.) They have Drawing Characters in Costume
(17 pages)(the following is in order); Futuristic fighter and in medieval Futuristic Fighter, Fantasy Elf Princess and Rich Elf Princess, Traditonal in Country and Tropical, Athlete in Gymnast and Runner, Villian is Fantasy and Sci-fi, Scientist in Pretty and Beautiful, School Girls and their many uniforms.
Glamouring up a Character (9 pages) shows you how you can make a character more glamourous by changing the hair, outfit, or pose. But afterwards it's Creating Chemistry (7 pages).
And last but not least "Magical Girl Special Effects" (on the last 7 pages.) <--That might be very useful if you creating a Magical Bishoujo Manga.
I'll give it 5 stars cause it was a very good book and most of the illustraions were amazing. It was worth the money.
A Super Good Book for Kids. Cause it contains no nudy at all.
But I think that this book is better than Christopher Hart's Shoujo Book.
Great Book February 9, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Manga Mania was actually not bad. Chris Hart's books are rather hit or miss for me, but this book was very comprehensive. It covers the female figure in great detail in Japanese style. The contributing artists were wonderful and did a good job of showing the female figure and face from various angles.
The sad thing about Chris Hart's books is that his own artistic style is so very poor. Frankly I could've done without his own illustrations, which is really too bad since he is the author.
I think the couples illustration at the end, and the drawings of the face from various angles were worth this book's price alone.
5 stars. A book I'll use again and again!
A grteat book for any artist library... July 9, 2005
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Having pre-read the book I plan on buying it now!!! It is very easy and informative along with Hart's other titles (Cutting Edge Anatomy, Cutting Edge Comics and Manwha) this book is a must own nice and solid and from having read it I have seen tremendous leaps and bounds in my own work.
Great title for anyone!!!!
Another hit by Hart January 4, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I must say, that looking at this cover is exactly what you will get throughout all of this book, well almost. Hart put his drawing in their as well, but it's not alot of it. Anyway, This book gives you examples of hair styles, facial expressions, clothes, and girl type. Although Hart's simple so called manga style is in some of the pages,the book is still very good. The contents of this book includes:
The details of the head
Character types
Bishoujo hair
The bishoujo body
Advanced poses
Bishoujo clothing
Drawing characters in costumes
Creating glamour
Creating chemistry (only very little images of this section.)
Magical girl effects. (Only a small portion of effects in this section)
This book is a good start to giving you the basic idea of giving your girl character a appealing standing pose, as well as attractive hair. I definitely recommend this book for those who are having a slight problem with giving their female characters sex appeal, and if this book isn't your cup of tea, then I would recommend "More how to draw manga Volume 1: The basics of character drawing." That is another great book. Other than that Hart picked some good artists' for this book, so it's definitely worth buying.
fantastic June 30, 2005
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
The time has come for a high quality book dedicated all to women manga. Hart has accomplished the task with great success. the attention to detail, yet clear & easy steps to follow puts this book in its own league.
A huge verity of women, moods, poses, dress codes, shapes and to top it all, the creating the scene chapters, is definitely unique and makes this book a winner. The pleasure I obtain from working with this book is tremendous. Who does not want to be with the winners?
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