Anime & Manga Digital Coloring Guide: Choose the Colors That Bring Your Drawings to Life! (with Over 1000 Color Combinations)

A color science expert’s must-have 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.

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 mood of a character The basics of color theory and how to pair the color palette of a scene with the story being told Color’s role in conveying emotion–the essential colors used to capture a particular mood

Sakurai shows you how to become a more skilled digital colorist just by following a few simple guidelines–and then how to refine your illustrations further using professional-level digital shading and coloration techniques. With hundreds of tips and sample palettes to refer to, Anime & Manga Digital Coloring Guide is a book every manga and anime artist will want to have!