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How to Create Manga: Drawing Dynamic Hand & Body Movements Coming in April

By Josh PiedraJanuary 16, 2025

Tuttle Publishing announced that How to Create Manga: Drawing Dynamic Hand & Body Movements: The Ultimate Bible for Beginning Artists is set to release on April 8,

Manga

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!
Source: Email Correspondence
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Josh has been an anime fan for nearly twenty years. In addition, he is a light novel author with over 25 books published as well as the owner of Meteora Press, his personal publishing label. Anime and otaku culture isn't Josh's only area of expertise. He also has a Bachelor of Arts in Game Design and has created a handful of independent games along with a deep working knowledge of the gaming industry.

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