Are you crazy for anime or manga? Have you ever wanted to try and draw your favorite characters or make one of your own? Here are the books for you!!! The titles listed below offer some great info if you are a budding artist or more experienced creator. Check out these books for your next project!

Manga art for beginners : how to create your own manga drawings / Danica Davidson With titles ranging from Attack on Titan to Pokémon, manga is a billion-dollar industry with millions of fans worldwide. Readers will love this step-by-step guide to drawing characters that resemble the Japanese comics and anime they love. In this book, fans can learn how to draw their own manga characters and join in on the fun. Manga Art for Beginners explores the basics, like how to draw faces and eyes, and gradually shows how to get into more complex drawings.

The master guide to drawing anime. Tips & tricks : over 100 essential techniques to sharpen your skills / Christopher Hart This is the guide that all anime and manga artists–of any level–need! Chris Hart delves deep into the specifics of drawing anime characters and scenes and explores every aspect of anime forms. He reveals his secrets for composing a complete picture, and discusses rarely covered topics. Entirely new tutorials include instruction on drawing hands and feet in different gestures or positions, arranging characters within the action, and creating nuanced expressions. Fans of The Master Guide books will find this title to be invaluable in strengthening their drawing skills, while newcomers will see this as a perfect introduction to the series.

You can draw manga chibi characters, critters & scenes / Samantha Whitten & Jeannie Lee ou Can Draw Manga Chibi Characters, Critters & Scenes shows how to draw in the chibi style using simple steps and easy-to-find art tools. Also included are tips and techniques for designing your own chibi creations! You can draw more than 50 chibi characters, animals, props, and much more, with the easy, step-by-step art projects in You Can Draw Manga Chibi Characters, Critters & Scenes. Learn to draw characters of all ages, clothes and props, fantasy critters, and more. Also included are tips and techniques encouraging you to design your own chibi creations once you are comfortable with the art style. No complicated tools are needed; you can create your own chibi art using just a pencil, pen, markers, and paper.

Anime mania : how to draw characters for Japanese animation / Christopher Hart In Anime Mania, famous cartoonist, teacher, and best-selling author Christopher Hart demonstrates how any comic book artist can become expert in this wonderful style of animation. Step by step, he details how to draw the coolest anime characters from the widest selection of popular styles: high-tech cyberpunks who live in the world of the future; teen characters–with troubled relationships at school, home, and on the street; and mighty monsters, fantasy warriors, and giant robots.

How to draw digital manga and anime / Tim Seelig, Yishan Li, Rik Nicol A comprehensive practical guide to digital manga and anime, suitable for both complete beginners and experienced digital artists. An informative introduction covers all the equipment you will need, with step-by-step guides to using the tools of Adobe Photoshop to create different effects. It also covers the translation of manga characters to the screen in the creation of anime, including the software you will need, pre-production and animation.

The master guide to drawing anime: romance : how to draw the popular character types step by step / Christopher Hart The newest addition to Christopher Hart’s bestselling Master Guide to Drawing Anime series takes on one of the most popular styles in Japanese cartoons: Romance. It provides an overview of romance subgenres and teaches every aspect of drawing anime romance, from common male and female character types to the dramatic—and funny—situations they find themselves in. Hart covers the complete arc of romantic anime stories—bliss, arguing, breaking up, and getting back together—and explains how to draw the anime head and body, match poses to the characters’ personalities, craft emotional expressions, design standout features, draw couples that click, and create a romantic setting. Fans will welcome this deep dive into the genre, and newcomers will be drawn in by the dynamic artwork that is a hallmark of Christopher Hart’s anime and manga titles.

The complete guide to– Anime techniques : create mesmerizing manga-style animation with pencils, paint, and pixels / Chi Hang Li, Chris Patmore, Hayden Scott-Baron Art students learn to reproduce the distinctive style and vibrant colors that characterize Japanese movie animation–or anime. The author explains every stage in the creative process, from storyboarding to preparing and distributing the finished movie or video. Step-by-step tutorials demonstrate fundamental skills, such as hand-painting characters and backgrounds on separate cel layers, working with 3D graphics, and using digital pen-and-tone techniques. Separate chapters focus on stylistic techniques, animation basics such as characters’ movements and lip synching, application of styles that comprise fundamentals of animated visual grammar, and other vital topics for successful movie animation.

Drawing manga heroines and heroes : an interactive guide to drawing anime characters, props, and scenes step by stepLeong, Sonia Featuring interactive exercises, creative prompts, and step-by-step projects, Drawing manga heroines and heroes shows you how to create and illustrate your own manga characters and stories in just a few easy steps. Learning all the manga-drawing basics, including inking, shading, and adding color with various media–both traditional and digital

Drawing with Christopher Hart : the master guide to drawing anime : how to draw original characters from simple templates / Christopher Hart Nothing brings anime artists more satisfaction than creating their own original characters. Author Christopher Hart shows how to do just that by breaking down the basics of creating engaging and imaginative anime characters. Using simple templates as a starting point, artists will learn how to make a wide range of wholly original anime characters emerge.