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A color science expert's must-have coloring guide for manga and anime artists! Author Teruko Sakurai, Japan's leading colorist, applies her expert knowledge of color to drawing effective anime and manga. Starting with the basics, Sakurai shares her secrets on how to provide your characters and scenes with the right colors to accurately express their moods and actions. This all-in-one guide allows you to become a skilled colorist in just a few easy lessons. Here are just some of the key topics presented in this all-in-one handbook: How to select the right hair and eye colors to express the personality and...

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I made a new drawing of a maiden crouching. It isn’t the most interesting drawing, but I am busy with other projects. The new Scary Cat book is progressing at a slug’s pace, but at least I am managing to add new pages to it once a week. It is in the final hurdle. I am also going to be reediting the English versions of my Scary Cat books. It is just a basic polish of the dialogues. It is good to reedit your works every so often. Anyhow, I hope you find my latest drawing amusing. It isn’t the...

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Today, I did one of my still practice drawings. It features a maiden sitting down, all nice and pretty. I have been working a lot on my book projects. I am also working on my Scary Cat volume 4. It is going to be a Spooky story. The new drawing itself was done with coloring pencils and fineliner pens. I hope you like.

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When I was in high school, I limited myself to drawing fanarts. Due to financial constraints, I only had pencil and paper to work with. I was always asking the teachers to give me some print paper to draw on. It got so pathetic that eventually one of my teachers bought me a drawing notebook, and three drawing pencils.   I got a lot of usage out of those art supplies. That early part of my career taught me that you do not need a lot of supplies to produce quality art. This also gave me the habit of being...

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I started drawing at a young age. I only got past stick figures when I started High School. A teacher gave me a sketchpad. She was tired of me drawing on the side of the notebook. I do not remember the name of that teacher. I do not remember a lot of things about the past. During my formative years, I experimented a bit with drawing live humans. Regardless of how much I tried, my humans just looked terrible in realistic style. I was never able to render a person in a believable fashion.   This is why I eventually...

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