From School Library Journal
Grade 1-5 This title offers clear, concise writing and large, bold, easy-to-follow instructions. Hart uses his typically simple shape-based, step-by-step methods to illustrate the large-headed denizens of the
chibis genre. With just four wordless steps to a complete drawing, even young children will feel that they can create their own mini manga characters.
Steev Baker, Kewaskum Public Library, WI Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Kurzbeschreibung
Strange things happen when kids see a book on drawing manga: They'll walk right over to that book and pick it up, mesmerized, as if it's the only one in the store. Manga is all-powerful. Unleash that power with
Xtreme Art: Draw Mini-Manga! This fifth installment in the best-selling Xtreme Art series offers those obsessed kids a fun-filled tutorial on drawing the cute, chunky mini-people of manga. Young artists progress quickly from basic tips on drawing faces and bodies to sketching pages and pages of exciting characters—sweet and fuzzy mischief-makers, silly sidekicks, and dozens more. Each kooky manga character is shown the Chris Hart way, broken down into four simple steps with new lines highlighted, so it's easy to build the final drawing. All hail the power of manga!
• More than 100,000 Xtreme Art books sold!
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Xtreme Art: Draw Manga Chibi! has sold more than 12,000 copies in just six months.
• Kids are drawn to manga like moths to a flame
