- SKU: 9780760389928
- BARCODE: 9780760389928
- VENDOR: BooksCloud
Making Manga: The Saturday Am Way - Storytelling, World-Building, Layouts - With Two Manga Short Stories for You to Complete! - Paperback
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Description
by Saturday Am (Author)
Do you love to draw manga characters? Do you dream of creating and sharing your own fully realized manga stories but don't know how to make it happen? Making Manga is for you!
Created by the team at Saturday AM, the world's leading showcase of diverse manga and comics stories, Making Manga gives you guidance on everything you need to develop, create, and publish your own dynamic stories. Inside you'll find:- A detailed method for building a "storytelling box" that will help you define and frame your concept
- Suggestions for developing compelling characters and power systems that can successfully drive your story
- Techniques for mastering layouts that ensure your scenes are easy to follow while using visual flow to heighten tension, build drama, or deliver a punchline
- How to enhance your stories with powerful backgrounds and effective lettering techniques
- An overview of options for publishing, distribution, and licensing that gives you potential strategies for getting your work out there
- Invaluable advice and insights through interviews with industry experts on storytelling, writing, character development, creating layouts, lettering, printing, retail, promotion, and more
- Two short manga starter stories inspired by Saturday AM's hit series Apple Black and Clock Striker that let you explore your new creative skills
- QR codes that link to exclusive instructional videos
Perfect for beginning to intermediate manga and anime artists, character designers, fantasy illustrators, animators, and cartoonists, Making Manga is the complete insider's guide to producing your own manga from the ground up. For more instruction on character creation, Saturday AM Presents How to Draw Diverse Manga provides step-by-step tutorials for drawing different heads and facial features, hair types, bodies, and more. The Saturday AM TANKS, which collect Saturday AM's manga and comics in graphic novel format, provide even more inspiration for manga characters and stories. The Saturday AM TANKS series includes: Apple Black, Clock Striker, Gunhild, Hammer, Henshin!, The Massively Multiplayer World of Ghosts, Oblivion Rouge, Saigami, Soul Beat, Titan King, Underground, and Yellow Stringer.
Author Biography
Saturday AM is a unique digital comics brand featuring an ever-growing catalog of popular, exclusive and diverse action manga-style webcomics by independent creators from around the world. Among the nearly 50 visionary artists on the Saturday AM team are @WhytManga (Apple Black), @JeyOdin (Hammer), and @saigamiproject (Saigami). To learn more about Saturday AM, visit saturday-am.com, or find them on Instagram (@saturday_am), YouTube (youtube.com/user/MyFutprint), and Twitter (@saturday_am).
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