
How to Create Manga: Drawing Dynamic Hand & Body Movements
The Ultimate Bible for Beginning Artists
Sideranch(Author)
Tuttle Publishing
Published on 8. April 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-4-8053-1863-8 (ISBN)
Description
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 480 body positions, movements and hand gestures and 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 a thousand options for adding powerful perspective and emotional expression to your characters and the stories you tell!
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 480 body positions, movements and hand gestures and 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 a thousand options for adding powerful perspective and emotional expression to your characters and the stories you tell!
Reviews / Votes
"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 RoarbotsMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Boston
United States
Illustrations
with over 1,100 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 256 mm
Width: 195 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
699 gr
ISBN-13
978-4-8053-1863-8 (9784805318638)
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Sideranch
How to Create Manga: Drawing Dynamic Hand & Body Movements
The Ultimate Bible for Beginning Artists
E-Book
04/2025
Tuttle Publishing
€19.49
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Sideranch is a collective of Japanese creative professionals who specialize in a range of artistic, publishing, gaming, and entertainment industry pursuits. This unique organization brings together experts in character design, illustration, animation, game development, inking/lettering/coloration, and graphic novel and comic book creation. They are the creators of Learn to Draw Exciting Anime & Manga Characters.