Books by Christopher Hart

Book SynopsisStep-by-step drawings to nourish your creative self! What makes you happy? Whatever it is, draw it, with the help of Christopher Hart, the world’s top-selling author of art instruction books! Whether it’s an adorable pet, the trip of a lifetime, or an everyday moment to savor (like your morning cup of coffee or buying a cute pair of shoes), this book celebrates the many things that make you happy—and helps you turn them into fun-filled drawings. An enlightening introduction explains how to create the illustrations and make them come alive: how to use color, change poses, personalize the drawings, add shading, and more.

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Book SynopsisMaster the basics of drawing chibis—which are super-small sidekicks, pets, and alter egos that are essential to manga cartooning—with The Manga Artist’s Workbook: Chibis, by Christopher Hart, a bestselling author in the field of art instruction. This workbook highlights important techniques for creating the chubby rounded bodies, sweet doe eyes, and action poses that make each character unique. With tracing paper, blank practice pages, and exercises, this sketchbook and art tutorial rolled into one as a portable journal will help you master this popular aspect of drawing manga.

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Book SynopsisTargeted at managa fans the world over who are irresistibly drawn to everything Kawaii and the cult of cute. From Hello Kitty to the huge array of Pokemon characters, this book shows you how to draw these intensely cute and colourfully graphic Kawaii characters.

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Book SynopsisIncludes 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 you find all they need to know about turning a cute child into an undead one.Trade ReviewPRAISE for Christopher Hart: “Hart is an excellent teacher, and the easy-to-follow, kid-friendly instructions of Young Artists Draw Manga will inspire, not frustrate, a beginning artist, just as previous books of the series have done. In fact, Hart’s books have sold more than 3.1 million English-language copies; have been translated into 20 languages; and have been selected by the American Library Association for special notice.”—Examiner.comTable of ContentsIntroduction 9 The Basics 11 Major Character Types 12Drawing Heads 21 Powerful Male Goth 22 Victim 24 The Wild One 26 The Seductress 28 Young Teen Goth: Male 30 Young Teen Goth: Female 32 Drawing Bodies 35 Front View Basics: Male 36 Front View Basics: Female 39 Girls from the Dark Side 43 Gothic and Lolita-Style Female 44 Dark Gothic Girl 48 Possessed Child 52 Girl Witch 56Zombie Girlfriend 60 Boys with Lost Souls 65 Vampire Boy 66 Hunter of Vampires 70 Sorcerer 74 Fallen Angel 78 Vampires: Rulers of the Underworld 83 The Ever-Popular Victorian-Style Vampires 84 Modern Vampires: The New Stars of Graphic Novels 92 The Bewitching Beauty of Female Vampires 102 Magical Beasts 111 Dragon 112 Werewolf 114 Human-Creature Hybrid 116 Magical White Tiger 118 Elk Monster 120 Flying Snow Fox 122 Unicorn 124 Backgrounds 127 In the Garden of Death 128 The Baron’s Castle 130 Church Steeple 132 Lost in the Woods 134 Abandoned Farmhouse 136 Things That Go Bump in the Night 138 Color Theory 145 Color Palettes for Supernatural Characters 146 Color Backgrounds 152 Interpretive Colors 156 Black-and-White versus Color 158 Combining Genres and Expanding your Art 161 Sports and Supernatural 162 Traditional Japanese Characters and Goth 164 Fantasy (Fairies) and Horror 166 Samurai and Goth 168 Magical Girl and Horror 170 Moe and Goth 172 Taking Your A.R.T. to the Next Level 174 Index 176

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Book SynopsisA 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. It offers tips such as how to self-check the proportions of the head and body to make sure they are accurate.

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Book SynopsisSuitable for children aged 9 to 12 years old, this title shows budding artists how to draw the wonderful characters of manga, from pretty shoujo girls and moody bishounen boys to the hilarious, super-cute chibis.

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Book SynopsisShows aspiring beginners how to draw the most popular style and widely read genre of Japanese comics.

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Book SynopsisDrawing 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, civil disorder.

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Book SynopsisGirl power forever! Christopher Hart has created the perfect follow-up to his hugely popular coloring book, The Manga Artist’s Coloring Book: Girls! Coloring and manga fans will welcome Hart’s second exciting collection of adorable, irresistible girls! Featuring intricate backgrounds throughout, these pictures make for a fun and challenging coloring experience, and give budding artists a fun opportunity to play creatively with color and character. All pages are printed single sided on quality stock so you can use most coloring materials to complete the drawings.

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Book SynopsisDraw along with bestselling author and artist Christopher Hart as he shows you how to draw...anything! In You Can Draw Anything!, acclaimed drawing instructor and author Christopher Hart leads you through a fun, easy, and informative course in learning to draw. Each lesson teaches you how to create one or more specific drawings, while also sharing important art principles that you can apply to many drawings. In classic Christopher Hart style, the lessons are shown step by step with concise but valuable instruction, captions, and helpful hints. The lessons are grouped into chapters that allow you to explore a variety of subjects, including animals, people, flowers and trees, cute stuff, magical themes, and more. It’s like taking a course in art school—from the comfort of your own home!

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Book SynopsisChristopher Hart, the bestselling author and expert on all things manga, brings fans and aspiring artists a brand-new collection of the most popular manga character types.Manga 100 is bursting with the most popular and fun-to-draw characters found in manga and anime, including schoolgirls and boys, humorous kids, fantasy characters, exotic animals, and other fan favorites. The step-by-step projects range from very simple faces and figures to more complex characters and scenes. Many of the characters showcase big emotions, a hallmark of manga, and eye-catching action poses. While drawing these varied and appealing characters, artists will learn important basics of drawing manga faces and bodies, expressions, poses, and even simplified backgrounds. The characters in Manga 100 include: • Essential manga characters: handsome high-school boy, cute teen girl, funny 12-year-old, master villain • Popular school characters: baffled student, tattletale, reliable friend, girl with a grudge, aloof boy • Characters with cool jobs: wedding-dress maker, helicopter pilot, emcee at a manga convention, archeologist, coffee-shop owner • Cosplay outfits: steampunk, space invader, J-pop boy band, warlock • Adorable and huggable creatures • Animal friends: endangered and unusual species • Fantasy characters: samurai girl, boy with a dragon pet, mermaid, boy android • Modern princesses

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Book SynopsisThe latest installment in The Manga Artist's Coloring Book series gives manga and coloring enthusiasts dozens of fabulous fashions to color. Christopher Hart continues the best-selling Manga Artist's Coloring Book series with this collection that is bursting with eye-catching characters and clothes to color. The most fashionable girls and boys from the world of Japanese comics show off their sense of style in more than 40 full-page images printed on high-quality paper. Each image includes an intricate patterned background for maximum coloring fun. The Manga Artist's Coloring Book: Fashion! is a fun and challenging experience for anyone who loves to color.

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Book SynopsisWith over 8 million copies of his popular learn-to-draw books sold worldwide, Christopher Hart is everyone's favourite art instruction author. In How to Be Super Creative, he leads the reader on a journey through the inner workings of the imagination, and reveals how to find an almost limitless number of ideas, concepts, and visual images.

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Book SynopsisThe Japanese-style comic books known as manga have a huge following in America. Chris Hart, author of several bestselling how-to-draw books, now offers aspiring young artists a complete course in the manga-romance genre. He shows how to create classic manga characters: sweet and pretty girls with huge eyes; exciting boy heroes, including handsome teen-idol types, rough-hewn rebels and young mystery men; girl comedy characters, who not only provide laughs, but also help high school girls deal with their insecurities; and many others. With thorough art instruction and lots of ideas for story plots, this is an intriguing invitation to an art form that anyone who loves to draw will find irresistible.

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Book SynopsisFor anyone with manga mania, this guided sketchbook will be an endless source of instruction and inspiration. In easy-to-follow lessons interspersed with high-quality pages for hands-on practice, bestselling author Christopher Hart shows how to bring manga's faeries, warriors, villains, sci-fi figures and monsters to life. The pad encourages students to sketch right along with Hart, mastering the skills to draw characters' heads, expressions, bodies, outfits and dynamic action poses.

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Book SynopsisLearn how to draw adorable, tiny manga pals! Best-selling author, Christopher Hart, teaches budding artists how to master the techniques of drawing cute little manga characers in this essential how-to-draw volume.

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Book SynopsisQuieres dibujar la figura humana, perote intimida aprender anatomía?Te frustran los libros sobre dibujo de la figura que se centran más en los huesos ylos músculos que en las personas? Si es así, Figúrate! es el libro que estabas esperando.Esta guía divertida e inspiradora te enseña a dibujar eficazmente figuras masculinas yfemeninas sin necesidad de conocimientos exhaustivos de anatomía. Aprenderás adibujar la cabeza y las expresiones faciales, para después completar poses de la figura,incluyendo personas vestidas y cuerpos en movimiento.En el interior encontrarás:? Cientos de figuras en poses variadas.? Claros dibujos paso a paso.? Secretos de los artistas para dar vida a los dibujos... y muchas cosas más!CHRISTOPHER HART es el autor de los libros didácticos de dibujo y animación más vendidos del mundo. Susobras han establecido el estándar para la enseñanza artística a nivel internacional; de ellas se hanvendido más de 3 millones de

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Book SynopsisPara dibujar los personajes más característicos de Anime.Esta guía indispensable enseña a crear personajes dinámicos de los géneros de animemás populares. Usando como punto de partida sencillas plantillas, se aprenderá a hacersurgir una amplia gama de personajes de anime totalmente originales: los clásicoscolegiales, preadolescentes, villanos, tipos humorísticos y figuras de fantasía.El maestro Chris Hart ofrece en este libro: plantillas de la cabeza y el cuerpo para dibujarpersonajes; instrucciones paso a paso accesibles y específicas; detalles de peinados,moda y accesorios para completar la apariencia del personaje; y ejercicios de dibujopara practicar la aplicación y combinación de todos los elementos que necesitan lospersonajes que aparecen en la escena.

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