Two superstars of anime and manga open their studio doors and spill their secrets in this private master class.Join Hisashi Kagawa, an animation director for
Sailor Moon, and Yoshihiko Umakoshi, a character developer for
My Hero Academia, as they show you how to bring your battle heroines boldly to life.
Helpful sidebars and tips appear in dialogue bubbles throughout this book, as the artists guide aspiring illustrators from initial idea to finished artworks, pointing out common missteps and pitfalls that can easily frustrate beginning artists along the way.
The essential techniques and design elements needed to create engaging female-led battle scenes are first reviewed in detail. Then each author walks the reader through their entire creative process of developing an original story from beginning to end.
Along the way the authors give you hundreds of helpful tips on how to create compelling characters and render realistic expressions and poses, showing you how practiced professionals work. Starting from a storyboard sequence of simple sketches you'll progress to a polished finished drawing.
By learning from two artists with different styles at the same time, readers get twice the advice and emerge doubly prepared to create scenes, stories and battle heroines of their own.
About the Author:After graduating from Osaka Art College,
Hisashi Kagawa joined the Studio Cockpit, where he worked on
Sailor Moon and
The Girl Revolution Utena. He is currently the drawing director and in charge of character design and development for
Fresh Pretty Cure! and
Soul Eater and in recent years has contributed to the character design of
Tiger Mask W. This is his first publication in English.
Yoshihiko Umakoshi is the animation director and a character developer for
My Hero Academia. He was one of the developing animators of
Super Bikkuriman and oversaw character design for
Grappler Baki. He received the 10th Tokyo Anime Award Individual Category Character Design Award for
Heart Catch Precure!