Publisher's Synopsis
This ultimate guide, with its accompanying CD, includes everything you need to make your own gutsy, action-packed shonen manga. Background scenes, speech balloons, equipment, vehicles, and dozens of character designs: the CD offers a huge variety of templates you can fully customize with Photoshop™ and Illustrator™. Whether you're a beginner who prefers to work with the hundreds of combinations of line art and accents provided, or a more experienced shonen creator who customizes your comic to your own personal style, the overview of digital art tools, plus tips and illustrations, will help you create the most professional looking manga comic.
Covering topics such as creating an interesting story line or concept, writing simple but compelling dialogue, creating dynamic black-and-white manga pages, and impressive color covers, this is the first book to distill all the elements of shonen manga into one easy-to-use package.