Arts / Graphic Arts

Shonen Manga

by Kamikaze Factory Studio

A step-by-step guide to all the tricks-both freehand and digital-to creating the best manga characters, Shonen Manga is a fun, easy to read manga manual for artists of all ages and languages.

Focusing on Shonen-style...

I Love Kawaii

by Charuca

Kawaii is a word that originated in 1970s Japan when schoolgirls adopted the term to describe everything cute. This word is now understood world-wide and identifies a particular trend of visual aesthetics (Hello...

The Graphic Designer's Guide to Portfolio Design

by Debbie Rose Myers

This book is developed to provide students with everything they need to know to make the transition from design student to design professional. It provides step-by-step instruction for creating professional...

Making Comics

by Scott Mccloud

Scott McCloud tore down the wall between high and low culture in 1993 with Understanding Comics, a massive comic book about comics, linking the medium to such diverse fields as media theory, movie criticism,...

Perspective Drawing in Adobe Illustrator CS5

by Gaurav Jain & Kaushik Agarwala

 Adobe Illustrator CS5 brings to users a hitherto new paradigm of vector drawing - perspective or “3D-like” drawing. The scores of questions asked by pre-release testers of Illustrator CS5 due to lack of...

Caffeine for the Creative Team: 200 Exercises to Inspire Group Innovation

by Stefan Murnaw & Wendy Oldfield

Brainstorming...

In your office, your school or your group, it may have already become a bad word. You're charged with generating a great idea... the next big thing... the perfect concept. But you only have...