Encourage your child to pick up a pencil and draw. They may be copying images for now but that's always the first step because you have to build their skills in order to encourage freelance artistry later on. Drawing builds your child's hand and eye coordination, grasping and fine motor skills. The activity also increases your child's ability to pay attention to details. Draw today!

Adventurous girls are the stars of this original coloring book. More than 40 manga images depict a pirate, rock star, witch, and other fetching fantasy figures. Ages 7 and up.

Renowned Japanese manga artist, international instructor, and illustrator of the Wedding Peach series Nao Yazawa guides you step by step through all phases of manga drawing, from developing characters to creating a story line and story boards. With this detailed guide, learn every aspect of how to draw manga, including poses, movement, perspective, and props. Starting with rough sketches, you'll learn to add ink, coloration, special effects, and finishing touches to create dynamic manga characters and stories.You'll also find tips on how to give your characters lively facial expressions and how to create backgrounds with simple perspective. Learn authentic manga drawing from a manga master.

The first book in Christopher Hart’s bestselling Master Guide to Drawing Anime series—How to Draw Original Characters from Simple Templates is the essential guide for anyone who wants to learn how to draw anime, from the world’s leading author of How To Draw books. Nothing brings anime artists more satisfaction than creating original characters to use in a comic strip or graphic novel. In this anime drawing book, bestselling how-to-draw author Christopher Hart helps them reach this goal by providing insight into the six most popular types of anime characters: schoolgirls, schoolboys, preteens, vengeful bad guys, humorous personalities, and fantasy figures. He supplies templates for each; an extensive array of “menus” of head and body types, outfits, and accessories; and detailed, accessible, step-by-step demonstrations and drawing exercises, making this the perfect reference for anyone who wants to learn to draw anime. Plus, Hart showcases some of the best anime artists in the world for this title—including Inma R., Tabby Kink, Ayame Shiroi, Euro Pinku, and Tina Francisco. It’s the guide every would-be anime artist has been looking for! Suitable for all levels, from beginners who are just starting to learn how to draw anime, to advanced users who want to hone their skills, this is the ideal resource for all fans of anime and manga drawing. Drawing books are a perennial present to inspire young artists and a popular gift for teens. There is no greater tool than an art book to spark creativity, develop new artistic skills, and help kids and teens channel their energy towards positive self-expression.

Japanese is now well-known all over the world because of the tri-media. This anime-inspired coloring book will therefore be a familiar adventure for your child. Coloring is highly recommended because it helps build your child's knowledge particularly on colors, shapes, lines and forms. It also helps improve focus, patience and determination too. Grab a copy today!

★ Do You love Anime and Manga? ★ Do You want to learn how to draw Anime in simple steps? This book will teach you in an easy way how to draw different Anime characters. It starts step by step the process of drawing Anime and Manga characters in a fun way and with the easiest approach possible...by using simple shapes. Each tutorial makes learning how to draw Anime as simple as possible. Among the botanicals featured are: Male Anime Face Shape Breakdown Anime Male Character Face Proportions Anime Male Character Drawing Drawing an "Average Guy" Anime Male Character Drawing Long Anime Hair Drawing Short Anime Hair Drawing Trimmed Anime Hair (Hime Cut) Drawing Long Messy Anime Hair Drawing Anime Pony Tail /Tied Back Hair This book does just that...makes drawing fun and easy for everyone (Kids and Adults). This book will turn you into the artist that you want to be, It is for both Boys and Girls, they will all have fun trying these drawing tutorials out. Have fun drawing the day away!

Do you know a child that is interested in manga? They keep drawing manga characters in their notebooks or just can't stop talking about their favorite hero...Enter this practice manga book that is sure to make the child in your life glimmer with excitement. When you get this manga book, they have a practice book that helps make their drawings better. It all starts with tracing over the character and then using the grid to replicate on the other page. As they get better and better the training wheels come off and they have to do it without the grid! The last pages provide a coloring section with the characters duplicated so that they can experiment with different clothes colors, hair colors and draw their own backgrounds. Features: ☑ Well designed cover, looks like from a manga shop! ☑ Includes a motivating (true) story that teaches that nothing beats practice ☑ 100 pages for hours of screen-less fun and creativity☑ 10 unique characters to draw ☑ Challenging fun: later pages helps test drawing skills learned previously ☑ Creative coloring: Repeated characters helps experiment. What if a character's hair was blue instead of black? This practice manga book makes for the perfect screen-less fun gift for any child. This version is the boy (Shonen in manga-talk) version cover, another version (click the YouComics Press author name) features a girl (Shojo in manga-talk). Both are identical inside.