Nothing brings anime artists more satisfaction than creating original characters to use in a comic strip or graphic novel. Bestselling how-to-draw author Christopher Hart helps them reach this goal by providing insight into the six most popular anime types: 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,

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Pictures and text outline methods for drawing various medieval figures.

King Arthur, Merlin, and all of Camelot's dashing, regal, and romantic figures spring to life under the gifted hand of a master illustrator/cartoonist and aspiring teacher.

Explores how to look at an animal, such as how it stands and walks, and provides step-by-step instructions for drawing animals from the jungle, savannah, farm, forest, and sea, as well as cartoon animals.

Presents general guidelines for drawing dinosaurs, and features step-by-step instructions for drawing various plant-eaters, meat-eaters, dinosaur battles, ancient reptiles, early mammals, and dinosaur cartoons.

Starting with a simple circle, this easy-to-follow book shows you step by step how to create 50 fantastic drawings.

In Drawing from Numbers, the latest addition to the hugely successful Drawing Shape by Shape series, best-selling author Christopher Hart has created his most inventive characters yet. Expanding his quirky cartooning expertise into the realm of numbers, Chris offers a wildly creative collection of cartoon characters all drawn with a simple number as the starting point. The construction of each character--shown in detailed, step-by-step instruction--is...