Manga for the beginner chibis : everything you need to start drawing the super-cute characters of Japanese comics

The ultimate guide to creating chibis! They populate manga with chunky bodies, oversized heads, and huge expressive eyes. They're schoolgirls and schoolboys, magical girls and mad scientists, fairies and fighter princesses, cyborgs and sci-fi secret agents, bikers and bad samurais, robots and rebel leaders. They've even got chubby pets and zany monster sidekicks! They're chibis! Excruciatingly cute, highly stylized, and beloved in all manga genres (fantasy, magical girls, shounen, anthro, sci-fi-, and more), without them, manga would barely exist. And now you can learn, step by step, how to draw virtually every chibi out there, how to "chibify" ordinary manga characters--and how to invent your very own designs! Covering facial expressions, those iconic manga eyes, costumes, character interaction, and story settings, Manga for the Beginner Chibis has it all. From the Trade Paperback edition. Chibi basics -- Chibi tricks of the trade -- The chibi cast of characters -- Mini-monsters -- Chibi animals -- Shounen : action-style chibis -- Chibi robots -- Animation : chibis in motion -- Chibi locations & backgrounds.;Presents step-by-step guidelines to drawing manga children and super-deformed characters, including tips on facial expressions, action poses, backgrounds, and chibi animals.