Basic instructions and examples teach skills for drawing manga. Provides advice and tips on drawing in the Japanese manga style, including heads, faces, and features, body proportions, poses, movement, and clothing for typical youthful characters, adults, and children, settings, and other details.

Includes index. "30 drawing lessons from the creator of Akiko"--Page [1] of cover.

What you need -- Making the manga eye -- Character design -- Choosing your style -- 1. Heads and faces : Female front view ; Female three-quarter view ; Male front view ; Male profile view ; 20 female hairstyles ; 20 male hairstyles ; Adult front view ; Adult three-quarter view ; Fuller-figured character front view ; Fuller-figured character 3/4 view ; Child front view ; Child profile view ; 101 manga eyes ; 12 common manga facial expressions -- 2. Proportions and poses : Drawing the human body ; Proportion tips and tricks ; The teen girl ; Alternative female proportion styles ; The teen boy ; Alternative male proportion styles ; The father figure ; Tips on drawing adults ; Fuller-figured girl ; Drawing fuller-figured characters ; The kid brother ; Babies and toddlers ; Sometimes you can't help being big-headed ; Chibi variations ; 20 chibi emotions ; 50 ways to draw hands ; 50 ways to draw feet ; Hitting your stride ; Walk this way ; Kissing ; XOXO: displays of affection ; Fighting ; The fight club ; 30 classic poses ; Clothing folds and wrinkles ; Dress pants and jeans ; Skirts ; T-shirts, sweaters and coats -- 3. Setting the scene : Fundamentals of perspective ; Street scene using one-point perspective ; Objects big and small ; House interior using two-point perspective ; Two points ; Space station exterior using three-point perspective ; Point of view ; Inking tips ; Putting pen to paper ; Anatomy of an inked manga illustration ; Crosshatching ; Paneling and page layouts ; My process ; Layout sequences ; To panel or not: different layouts ; Make your own manga sequences ; Making the leap: advanced sequencing ; Can we talk? Word balloons ; Make some noise.