How to Draw Japan

About this book

You can draw a character. You can draw a place. Then you put them on a page — and the page does not read. This book teaches the page itself: 100 complete manga pages, each in 6 steps — plan the page (panel map, reading order, declared device), draw the frames, place the blocks, set the balloons, add effects and drawn sound, then finish. Five chapters: panel layouts; speech balloons; effects, lines and tones; SFX lettering; and story flow — transitions and the reader's eye. Every page is read in the Japanese order (right to left, top to bottom), printed in red numbers on every plan, and every lesson ends with a practice page. No real manga, artist or work is imitated: every page is an original teaching design, so the grammar transfers to any story you draw.