Product Description

Graphic artists who open this scintillating tutorial discover the beauty secrets of cartoon bombshells, then learn how to give them active roles in stories. Step-by-step illustrations show female anatomy and proportion, ways to render poses and body shapes, and methods to exaggerate or simplify female shapes for special effects. Artists learn to create convincing drawings of seductive supergirls, action heroines, sexy cyberpunks, feisty Manga babes, and other types. Instruction includes methods for drawing facial features, head-turning hairstyles, and fantasy wardrobes with eye-popping metal bikinis and skin-tight jumpsuits. A historical overview of females in animation and comics covers styles from Betty Boop to Tank Girl. The author explains the importance of storytelling in art and discusses ways to develop story concepts before starting to draw. Chapters that follow focus on choosing art equipment (pencils, papers, brushes, inks, paints, and pixels), selecting appropriate drawing styles to match characters’ personalities, rendering different feminine types, from goddess to the girl next door, and more.The book concludes with a brief survey of the business of commercial art, with advice on how and where to sell finished work, how to draw characters to order, and how artists can protect their rights. More than 200 flamboyant, full-color illustrations.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #104478 in Books
• Published on: 2006-02-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780764130892
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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From the Back Cover
(back cover)
From Lara Croft to Xena, supergirls are an ever popular feature of the cartoon genre, but can be one of the most challenging to illustrate. How do you create characters who are tough yet still sexy, who can pack a punch without losing their allure? Discover how to render fantasy females for computer games, comic books, and graphic novels.

Customer Reviews

Cheesy title, not really a "How-To" Book
I purchased "fantasy females" sight unseen, and with some reservations considering the title. (I find it somewhat degrading to see women referred to as "raunchy"). As a drawing book I considered the book to be 'okay.' The artist covers a lot of different artistic styles from realistic to chibi, to computer-generated. There isn't a lot of drawing instruction in this book. Most of the pics are already fully sketched or in need of colorization only. There is a little too much discussion of poser for a drawing book. Also the illustrations are crammed on the pages with a lot of text, in such a way that I felt the book was poorly designed.

On the plus side, if you are looking for ideas on how to improve your art, and can already sketch the human figure this book might be the book you are looking for. Interesting, but ultimately not particularly useful, especially if you are looking for drawing instruction. If you are, there are better books on how to draw female characters out there.

3 stars.

Good, but too much Poser
I purchased this book (without being able to see any interior pages), hoping it would be full of ideas, images, and techniques about how to draw and design "sexy cybperpunks, etc". Way too much time is spent on using Photoshop, Poser, and DAZ Studio. While these programs can be used to make excellent artwork (and I know numerous artists who use these programs), a book on "How to Draw" should not be talking about how to arrange Poser figures in a scene. Using Poser is like photography: you're arranging elements in a scene... there is no "drawing" involved.

A "how to" in need of more "how to"
I've been doodling on and off for years, and have just recently started to get more serious with my drawing. I was looking for a book that would give me guidance on drawing female figures because my attempts to capture the female form on paper have been quite horrible. This book does not do that. It tells you what they should look like, but doesn't tell you how to get there. There are some black and white sketches of characters already drawn with the colorized final work next to them, but NO notes on how to actually start drawing such characters.

The author touches on using Photoshop, 3D modeling programs, and writing character background stories. No offense, but I'd rather have some suggestions on how to draw the characters; not how to scan and color or spin yarns around them. I mean, the book IS titled "How To Draw...". Granted though, like every other topic in the book, the author doesn't spend much time on these topics.

Seriously, I didn't see hardly anything on how to start drawing, and building these characters up. No stick figures, and very little in the way of rough sketches.

I really feel like I wasted my money on this.

There just isn't enough "how to" in this "how to".