Expand your digital drawing skills with vivid colors and dramatic lighting effects! Colour, lighting and shadows are critical components of effective manga and anime illustrations. This comprehensive guide covers topics every artist needs to know, offering expert guidance you won’t get anywhere else. In this highly detailed book, you’ll learn how to: Create natural-looking colour schemes with the right balance…

This book provides a revolutionary new 3-step tracing technique that beginning artists can use to quickly learn to draw manga characters just like a pro! Every page presents a classic manga pose, from walking and running to jumping for joy, in three different steps: 1. A simple outline of the body2. The defining elements of the character (like clothes, hair…

What if treating misery as a medical problem is making us miserable? Fact: Antidepressant use in the West has more than doubled in the last two decades. Fact: Despite great leaps forward in other branches of medicine, no biological test can currently diagnose any mental health problem. So where are we going wrong? Rose Cartwright reveals how the failure of…

For the last decade, Joe Quesada has guided Marvel and itscharacters back to prominence as editor in chief – along the way changing themanner in which the industry works from the inside out. With those achievements part of his resume, it’s perhapseasy to overlook that at the root of all his success is his skill as an artist. The Marvel…

Learn about the most important mathematical ideas,theorems, and movements inThe Maths Book. Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics andthemes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Maths in thisoverview guide to the subject, great for novices looking to find out more andexperts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike!The Maths Bookbringsa fresh…

While helping out at a blood donation drive, Joni, Mia, and Emilia learn a lot about blood types! Later, the excited Joni finds out about four blood type personalities in a magazine, which she finds pretty accurate despite her friends’ disbelief.