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Christopher Hart,Christopher Hart
The personality of a cartoon character begins with the face: the head, the features, the expressions. Get that right and you can create a memorable personality. The author presents a…
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In easy-to-follow lessons interspersed with high-quality pages for hands-on practice, this guided sketchbook shows how to bring manga’s faeries, warriors, villains, sci-fi figures and monsters to life.
If you can make a simple shape, you can draw an animal! In his fun follow-up to Drawing Shape by Shape, Christopher Hart - the world’s bestselling author of how-to-draw…
This whimsical approach to drawing is like a blueprint for creativity! This basic impression invites you to fill in all of the details to create your own unique characters. Focusing…
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Guide to drawing edgy fashions found in the popular Japanese genre. By best-selling author Christopher Hart. Offers many enticing projects for aspiring artists, from creating classic outfits to different poses.
Christopher Hart
It’s manga GRRLLL power! With these easy-to-follow templates, anyone can create and draw absolutely amazing female anime characters.
Learn all the ins and outs of drawing stunning manga heroines, schoolgirls…
Christopher Hart has come up with cartoons to make you happy! From the important milestones in ones’s life (graduation, falling in love, scoring the winning run) to adorable pets and…
An art-instruction book filled with templates to create drawings of dogs and cats - from poodles, dachshunds and Bernese Mountain Dogs to tabbies, Persians and Siamese cats.
This versatile book allows aspiring artists to create their very own story through words and pictures. Each page offers blank, black-framed panels formatted in the comic-book style.
The sixth book in the bestselling ‘Master Guide to Drawing Anime’ series focuses on using principles of figure drawing to create anime characters and scenes.
Bestselling author and how-to-draw expert Christopher Hart presents an essential guide to drawing the cutest characters in manga from the most popular genres.
Simplifies professional anime art so readers can develop their own original characters. This title provides insight into the six most popular anime types: schoolgirls, schoolboys, preteens, vengeful ‘baddies’, humorous personalities…
Chris Hart simplifies the process of drawing dynamic cartoon characters so that anyone can get started right away.
This guide helps artists learn to draw natural-looking figures. Hart portrays everyday, real-life gestures on human-looking foundation figures: standing, sitting, kneeling and reclining, with arms folded, ankles crossed, hands on…
This is a great guide for anyone aged 12 and up interested in beginner-level figure drawing.
C, Christopher Hart
THE COMING-OF-AGE NOVEL FOR PEOPLE WHO HATE COMING-OF-AGE NOVELS! Charlie Kirby spends his life imagining trouble is just around the corner. For once, it is and the only man on…
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C Hart
Focusing on the charming and adorable pets and animals that enrich manga stories, this title teaches readers how to draw animals from a fox, to a cow, to a penguin…
Chris Hart
Furries, also known as anthros (for anthropomorphic creatures) are human-animal hybrids. This title introduces readers to the basic concepts of creating half-man/half-beast characters and to the variety of styles in…
A guide to drawing Manga-style comic book art. It explains how to draw fantasy robots, monsters, mythical animals and other characters that are part of this Japanese genre. The author…
Now kids can learn how to draw their own shoujo-style manga characters with KIDS DRAW MANGA SHOUJO, the 12th addition to the popular Kids Draw series. KIDS DRAW MANGA SHOUJO…
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Young artists should delight in the wonderful animals that fill the pages of this lively how-to book. Colourful, fun spreads demonstrate, step-by-step, how to draw African animals, bears, horses, birds…
The Young Artists Draw series by bestselling author Chris Hart focuses on subjects that kids love to draw. The first in the series, Young Artists Draw Manga, shows budding artists…
With step-by-step illustrations, this work shows you a simple way to draw anatomy. It teaches you how to draw streamlined figures, different body types, muscles, facial expressions, classic comic-book poses…
Includes stories from zombie apocalypses to love stories that are centered on brooding, blood-sucking vampires, the occult and all things goth are immensely popular in today’s media. This title helps…
Shows aspiring beginners how to draw the most popular style and widely read genre of Japanese comics.
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The sequel to Drawing Cutting Edge Comics shows would-be artists how to draw the exaggerated musculature of figures in action poses, in an instructional manual that covers all aspects of…
Aimed at beginner artists interested in cartooning and at the countless fans of cartoons, animation and comics, this title shows readers basic tips for creating a cast of the characters…
Chibis are the cute, miniature characters and creatures of Japanese comics. They appear in various genres of manga. This book covers chibis, character by character, according to the various subgenres…
Covers various types of animals including dogs, cats, horses, penguins, lions, tigers, bears, and elephants, as well as the favourite sidekick animals - pigs, kangaroos, giraffes, turtles. This book features…
A manual of techniques that visually simplify and refine the study of the body’s muscles and skeleton into concepts that can easily be used by beginning and intermediate artists alike…
Packed with step-by-step demonstrations detailing how to draw correctly proportioned manga faces and bodies, and lots of tips and tricks of the trade, this title has what aspiring beginners need…
Cartoon animals are the essential subject matter for the cartoonists and animation artists. This book presents the fuzzy world of creatures, and shows different exotic animals, which also make for…
Helps kids learn how to draw manga eyes, heads, faces, bodies, as well as more specific lessons on drawing manga fantasy characters, manga ‘shoujo’ and manga monsters. This title features…
Shows how to draw the basic manga head and body, eyes, fashion and more. This book explores dynamic action poses, special effects, light and shading, perspective, popular manga types such…
Teaches how to draw cartoon people, fantasy characters, layouts and background design. This title features fantasy characters and even sections on cartoon costumes, character design and cartoon backgrounds and composition.
Moss Hart
Originally published by Random House, Inc., 1959.
Prof Christopher Hart (Lancaster University, UK)
Researchers in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) have often pointed to grammar as a locus of ideology in discourse. This book illustrates the role that grammars as models of language (and…
Dr Christopher Hart (Lancaster University UK)
A collection of original essays celebrating the legacy of the Chicago School of Sociology during the first half of the 20th century. Contributors - Professor Howard S. Becker, San Francisco…
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Drawing on insights from linguistics, multimodality and media studies, this book explores the ideological dimensions of media representation and its function in discursively constructing public understandings of, and attitudes toward…
Christopher-Gerard Harts
A collection of poems, plays, essays, and short stories by Pan-African nationalist, Christopher-Gerard Isaac Harts.
Christopher D Hart
This lab workbook is designed for use with the text Horticulture Today. The chapters in the lab workbook correspond to those in the text and should be completed after reading…
Vaughan Hart
A fresh look at the Eastern origins of Christopher Wren’s architecture
CDS is a multifarious field constantly developing different methodological frameworks for analysing dynamically evolving aspects of language in a broad range of socio-political and institutional contexts. This volume is a…
Callie Marie Rennison,Timothy Christopher Hart
Research Methods in Criminal Justice and Criminology connects key concepts to real field research and practices using contemporary examples and recurring case studies that demonstrate how concepts relate to students’…