Christopher Hart Books | How to draw manga, figures, animals & cartoons

Christopher Hart Website

Official website of best-selling author Christopher Hart, known for his techniques for drawing manga, anime, cartoons, animals, anatomy and the human figure. His books have sold over 8 million copies, and have been translated into 20 languages. He is published by The Soho Publishing Company, Random House, and Walter Foster Books.

The Big Book of Drawing Anime: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide

The Big Book of Drawing Anime is the ultimate reference on creating and drawing your own unique anime characters.

It covers the basics you need to know for a solid foundation on how to draw anime, from anime heads and faces to poses, including a 101 on figure drawing that will have you creating unforgettable characters in no time.

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Manga 100: The Cute Collection: How to Draw Your Favorite Character Types from Popular Genres

In The Cute Collection, Christopher Hart zeroes in on these adorable characters by showing beginning artists how to draw them for any storyline.

This is the second book in the new Manga 100 series, promising pages chock-full of at least 100 original characters to draw.

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Drawing with Squiggles & Wiggles: Create 100+ Cartoons with Fun Shapes!

Cartoonist Christopher Hart is known for making drawing easy and fun!

In Drawing with Squiggles & Wiggles, he starts with a variety of silly shapes and transforms them step by step into dozens of original drawings.

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The Master Guide to Drawing Anime: Figure Drawing Essentials for the Aspiring Artist

The sixth book in the bestselling Master Guide to Drawing Anime series focuses on using principles of figure drawing to create anime characters and scenes. Chris covers figure-drawing fundamentals—such as proportions, posture, and poses—along with the finishing touches that infuse characters with personality. This book teaches readers how to draw hands and gestures, and also faces, contours, poses, clothing, scenes, and more.

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Learn to Draw Cartoons

Christopher Hart has developed the easiest-ever approach to drawing the basics like heads, bodies, and those super-important cartoon expressions. Hart then helps beginners apply these fundamentals to a variety of fun types and settings such as animals, under-the-sea locales, famous stock characters, and popular backgrounds.

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The Beginner's Fashion Design Studio

Set your inner designer free with this on-trend sequel to Christopher Hart’s bestselling Fashion Design Studio, featuring easy templates to help aspiring fashionistas draw the garments of their dreams. Hart not only covers perennially popular styles and the basics of drawing dresses, tops, pants, and accessories, he provides the fun details all fashion-forward artists love.

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Drawing Animals Shape By Shape

If you can draw a simple circle, square, rectangle, or triangle, you can draw any of the more than 100 cartoon animals in this fun and colorful book.

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FIgure It Out! Workbook

Combining content from Hart’s three previous Figure It Out titles, this handy, travel-sized workbook offers artists step-by-step tutorials plus blank pages for practice. It begins with the basics of drawing the head and facial features, and then moves on to the body, keeping in mind proper proportions, movement, and true-to-life poses.

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Begin to Draw People: Simple Techniques for Drawing the Head and Body

From Chris Hart, the bestselling art instruction author of all time, the first in a brand-new series—and the perfect go-to guide for anyone ages 12 and up interested in beginner-level figure drawing. In Begin to Draw People, Christopher Hart taps into his vast experience to prove that anyone can depict the human body.

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WHERE TO BUY: Christopher Hart books can be purchased at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Hobby Lobby, Indie Bound, in stores at Michael’s Arts & Crafts and Joann Fabric and Craft Stores for offline purchases, and other independent bookshops, art stores, and comic book shops.