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| ISBN | 9781784946371 |
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| Dimensions (HxWxD in mm) | H275xW215 |
| No. Of Pages | 144 pages, full colour print |
| Publisher | GMC Publications |
| Auther | Keroko James |
| Price | £14.99 |
Draw Manga: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners
Written by a Japanese manga art teacher based in London, Draw Manga is a complete, beginner-friendly guide to creating your own manga characters — designed to help you start drawing with confidence, without feeling lost or left behind.
Drawing is not a talent. It’s a skill — and like cooking or swimming, it can be learned by anyone. This book shows you exactly how.
Across 10 carefully structured, bite-sized projects, you’ll build your skills step by step — from simple shapes and stick figures to fully proportioned characters and dynamic, full-colour illustrations. Each project focuses on a key element of manga drawing, including faces, body proportions, expressions, angles, and action poses, before moving on to composition and background techniques so you can create your own complete scenes and stories.
What makes this book different is its clarity. Unlike most manga tutorials, no steps are skipped — every line is shown, and every stage is fully illustrated, so you always know exactly what to draw and when. A unique 4-step evolution method guides you from basic forms to polished characters, while visual checklists help you identify and correct common mistakes as you go.
The book also includes a character “status sheet” to develop your own original designs in an RPG-style format, practical guidance on inking with fine-liners and colouring with alcohol markers, and a simple “4W1H” storytelling method to bring your characters to life on the page.
Perfect for absolute beginners aged 8 and up — as well as more experienced artists looking to refine their manga techniques — and for anyone who has ever thought, “I can’t draw.”
Author
Keroko James is a Japanese illustrator, graphic designer, and manga tutor based in London. Since 2017, she has run Froggy Manga, delivering drawing classes, workshops, and events for children across schools, libraries, and community programmes.
The book is available via the publisher and major retailers:
Draw Manga (GMC Books)
