Manga Mania Magical Girls and Friends: How to Draw the Super-Popular Action Fantasy Characters of Manga »

Christopher Hart is an award-winning and best-selling author whose books have set the standard for art instruction, both nationally and internationally, with more than two million copies in print in seventeen languages.

Sailor Moon. Card Captor Sakura. Magical Girl Rayearth. They re magical girls, and they re some of the biggest names in manga. Magical girls, ordinary schoolgirls given superpowers, are hugely popular in Japan and the United States. Now Christopher Hart shows fans everywhere how to draw these manga shoujo faves. Faces and body proportions, action poses, costumes, expressions, transformations, special effects--they re all here, all in Hart s distinctive step-by-step approach. So are magical fighting boys and everybody s favorite, the cute, furry manga mascots. Hart demonstrates how to create funny mascots, magical boys, fighting teams, and supporting characters, plus how to design layouts. Magical girls show us that we all have special powers deep inside--now Manga Mania: Magical Girls and Friends let those special drawing powers reveal themselves at last!