Anime Direct

This excellent title provides great ideas for creating your own drawings, and shows a number of techniques for creating different poses and different surroundings. The pictures are adorable, and provides both technique and reference information. Be warned, this book assumes a certain level of...   Read more...

Easier to draw than its western counterpart, anime is more limited and simpler in its execution. In Japanese anime the characters move, but their movements are generally staccato, sharp, and dramatic-not free-flowing with lots of overlapping action, anticipation, and follow-through. In Anime...   Read more...

Character design guidelines and drawing tips used by professional designers are compiled and presented in this guide to drawing anime and game characters. The authors, who are instructors of illustration and character design, impart the knowledge they have been using as educational material over...   Read more...

In this series, the author who has helped new talent to develop, including GHIBLI and MAD HOUSE, explains character design step by step using his own expertise and teaching materials. In this second volume, learn to master character's emotions and facial expressions.   Read more...