Jeannie Lee Books

This guide demonstrates how to draw chibi characters using simple steps and accessible art tools. It offers over 50 projects featuring chibi characters, animals, and props, making it easy to learn to draw figures of various ages, outfits, and fantasy creatures. The book encourages creativity with tips and techniques for designing your own chibi creations once you grasp the style. You only need basic materials like a pencil, pen, markers, and paper to get started. It begins with essential information on tools, drawing techniques, color basics, and an exploration of chibi faces and bodies. Following this, step-by-step projects guide you through drawing chibis in various poses. Templates are provided for scanning or photocopying, allowing for repeated practice. The book also delves into the details of chibi clothing and props, helping you depict characters in action. With abundant tips for drawing chibi characters, this resource is ideal for both beginner and intermediate artists, as well as manga and anime enthusiasts. You'll enjoy the process of creating your own unique chibi characters, critters, and scenes!

Just for Kids: You Can Draw Manga Chibis teaches how to draw in the chibi style with simple steps and accessible art tools. It offers tips and techniques for designing unique chibi characters. With easy, step-by-step projects, you can create chibi art using just a pencil, pen, markers, and paper. The book starts with sections on tools and materials, essential drawing techniques, color basics, and an overview of typical chibi faces and bodies. Following this, various projects guide you in drawing chibi characters in different poses and from multiple angles. At the end, you'll find templates to scan or photocopy for practice. The book encourages exploration of chibi characteristics, allowing you to modify templates to create original characters that can be depicted walking, jumping, dancing, falling, and flying. Packed with tips and techniques, this resource is ideal for beginning and intermediate artists, as well as fans of manga and anime. You'll enjoy the process of creating your own manga chibi characters!

Develop your drawing and storytelling skills to create your own manga book with guidance from accomplished artist Jeannie Lee. This comprehensive guide covers essential techniques for crafting captivating manga artwork and narratives. It begins with an introduction to drawing basics, including art tools, the basic shapes method, shading, coloring, composition, and perspective. Step-by-step projects featuring specific characters simplify the learning process, serving as both lessons and inspiration for your own manga creations. You'll learn to draw heads, hair, facial features, and full bodies, followed by in-depth exploration of character development and story creation. The book offers insights into finding inspiration for character designs and story ideas, along with techniques for script writing, thumbnailing, penciling, inking, producing special effects, and lettering. With practice, you’ll be equipped to apply your skills and complete your own manga book. Designed for beginners, this guide is part of the How to Draw & Paint series, which provides easy-to-follow instructions and introduces artists to essential tools and materials. With clear lessons on drawing, coloring, composition, and storytelling, you’ll be well on your way to mastering the art of manga.

In this new series from Walter Foster Publishing, artists and art hobbyists alike will delight in learning a variety of fun and interesting art topics in a portable format boasting a fresh, contemporary design. Filled with open practice pages, creative exercises, and art prompts, The Little Book of Manga Drawing encourages interactivity for immediate results, while also teaching beginners the fundamentals of the featured medium in an engaging and fun way. In The Little Book of Manga Drawing, beginning manga artists and aspiring illustrators will discover a variety of basic manga drawing techniques through step-by-step projects, creative prompts, and engaging ideas to ignite creativity. From learning how to master the proportions and shape of heads and bodies, to understanding how to create personally relevant manga characters, this fun guidebook covers all the basics. After an introduction to the tools you'll use when creating manga, you'll dive into how to draw and colorize your own manga artwork with the help of dozens of techniques and helpful instructions. You'll also learn to draw props, costumes, and color, as well as how to draw manga chibis, to round out this comprehensive book.