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Super Cute Chibis to Draw and Paint
Author: Joanna Zhou
Artists: Joanna Zhou, Faye Yong, Nana Li,
Sonia Leong, Chloe Citrine, Nina Werner,
Viviane, Jacqueline Kwong, Rik Nicol,
Hayden Scott Baron
Publisher: Barrons Educational/Search Press Price: £12.99 Buy UK / Buy USA Written for art students as well as for professional illustrators who design posters, computer art, graphic novels, and related media, this color-illustrated book presents fundamental instruction on creating chibis -- diminutive, large-eyed Anime-style cartoon characters that are attracting increasing interest in today's popular art markets. The author presents step-by-step directions for drawing and painting 30 of these tiny and appealing childlike figures and animals. As students learn the basics of chibi style and develop related visual techniques, they can go on to create chibis of their own original design. The book is filled with instructive illustrations in color and black and white. |
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1000 Ideas by 100 Manga Artists
Editor: Cristian Campos
Artists: Various
Publisher: Rockport Publishers Price: £14.44 Buy Now
How much would a course on drawing cost given by the top 100 international manga artists? How much would they charge to share their most highly valued techniques? This book brings together 100 manga artists and asks each one to offer 10 practical tips for the manga enthusiast on techniques, sources of inspiration, and the best way to build their portfolios. Detailed photographs, 1,000 in total, taken by the artists themselves serve to illustrate each of these 1,000 tips. |
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Telling Tales
Artists: Svetlana Chmakova, Emma Vieceli,
Joanna Zhou, Irina Richards, Rebecca Burgess,
Marubelle Sinclaire, Sonia Leong, Faye Yong
Publisher: Sweatdrop Studios Price: £6.99 Buy Now
Sweatdrop Studios presents you with a collection of tales adapted from stories well-loved and time-tested. Contained within these pages you'll find fables from near and far; some will shock, some will surprise and some will make you smile. Sweatdrop's artists have scoured the globe for stories that have inspired and touched them in some way, and we hope that they'll do the same for you. Magic, greed, love, friendship, loss and punishment – fairytales have always encompassed a haunting mix of the fantastical and macabre. This anthology, perfect for bed-time reading, will capture all of that and more in Sweatdrop’s expected variety of styles and approaches; and the group are thrilled to be joined in this special book by guest creator Svetlana Chmakova (NightSchool/Dramacon). My Piece: The Bird, The Mouse & The Sausage (16 pages) |
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Mammoth Book of Best New Manga 3
Editor: ILYA
Artists: Various
Publisher: Constable Robinson Price: £9.99 Buy Now The essential collection for every reader intrigued by manga, The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga continues to break new ground with this latest volume. Bursting with energy and imagination, it features the most exciting new work in 2007/08 by the brightest young talents in the manga field – comic strip stories and characters influenced or inspired by Japanese anime and manga, and now being produced worldwide. This year’s collection is produced full colour throughout. Over 400 pages long, the anthology showcases more than 20 new stories, complete and unabridged - in every genre you can think of, and quite a few more besides.
My Piece: Carlos & Sakura (5 pages / full-colour) |
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Mammoth Book of Best New Manga
Editor: ILYA
Artists: Various
Publisher: Constable Robinson Price: £9.99 Buy Now Here comes the new breed! This is a full-length anthology of best new manga, by the brightest young talents in the field. Bursting with energy and imagination, this collection features the most exciting new work by western manga-ka - Japanese style comics being produced by western artists. Over 500 pages long, the anthology showcases more than fifteen new stories, complete and unabridged. Many expand on the limited popular conception of 'big-eyed' manga in original and unexpected ways - home-grown stories that speak directly to western audiences. The collection follows the format of the benchmark annual "Mammoth" anthologies of science fiction and horror, and includes a brief introduction to each contributor.
My Piece: Carlos & Sakura (5 pages) |
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Rising Stars of Manga UK & Ireland 2
Editor: Hope Donovan
Artists: John Aggs, Selina Dean, Hannah Saunders
Mai-yeng Tran, Morag Lewis, Khalid Kassim,
Joanna Zhou, Suzanne Lam
Publisher: Tokyopop Price: £5.99 Buy Now In each volume of Rising Stars of Manga—United Kingdom and Ireland TOKYOPOP awards aspiring artists and writers a unique opportunity to be published and receive a well-deserved jump-start on their creative careers. This assortment of brilliant, ingenious, and unpredictable creators was chosen from hundreds of entries in the regional talent competition.
My Piece: Happily Ever After (20 pages) |
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Web Design Index 8
Editor: Guenter Beer
Contributors: Various
Publisher:Pepin Press Price: £24.50 Buy Now The increasingly common use of fast-speed Internet connections over the past few years has considerably increased designers' possibilities to use advanced capabilities, including larger image files. Furthermore, it is clear that web design is reaching its maturity: whereas in the past many designers were hesitant to make the change from print to web, many designers now primarily work in web design. The results of these developments can be seen in this year's edition of our best-selling WEB DESIGN INDEX: as ever, the most accurate overview of the state of the art in web design.
My Piece: Previous site design of Chocolatepixels.com was included in here |
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