Will she have long, flowing purple hair or short, black, punky spikes? Are her eyes big and glossy, exuding curiosity, or dark, darting, and mysterious? Part of the fun of creating girl characters is determining their style.

Eyes, hair, and figure are all very striking aspects of a manga character’s look. If you make her shoulders too broad and her hands too big, she won’t look girly at all. That’s what this book is for: it will teach you the techniques and tricks to draw your manga girls, one step at a time. Manga girls can be bold and fierce, like an exorcist priestess, or they can be meek or mousy, like a princess in distress, but in order to tell your story in pictures, you’ve got to get the look down. In fact, when it comes to creating female manga characters, your creativity is the limit! Manga (that’s pronounced mahn-ga) is a fun and highly stylized art form that originated in comics and graphic stories from Japan. Rom space explorers to schoolgirls to ninjas, girls in manga come from all walks of life. All other content copyright © 2007 Axis Publishing Limited, London.ĬONTENTS Introduction 4 Materials and Equipment 6 Female Figures 10 Female Faces 13 Female Hair 16 Hands and Arms 30 Legs and Feet 34 Female Clothing 46 Glossary 71 For More Information 73 For Further Reading 76 Index 78 NC1764.8.G57S68 2012 741.5'1-dc22 2011007882 Manufactured in the United States of America CPSIA Compliance Information: Batch #S11YA: For further information, contact Rosen Publishing, New York, New York, at 1-80. Comic books, strips, etc.-Japan-Technique. cm.-(Manga magic) Includes bibliographical references and index. Drawing manga girls / Anna Southgate, Keith Sparrow.-1st ed. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Southgate, Anna. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer.

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