Anime & Manga Digital Coloring Guide - Teruko Sakurai

From Teruko Sakurai, Anime & Manga Digital Coloring Guide is a paperback handbook for manga and anime artists looking to make more confident colour choices in their drawings. Starting with the essentials, Sakurai shares practical guidance on selecting colours that help express a character’s mood and actions, with a focus on how colour supports storytelling across both characters and scenes.

Inside, the book explores the basics of colour theory and how to pair a scene’s palette with the story being told. It also looks at colour’s role in conveying emotion, including the essential colours used to capture a particular mood. With over 1000 colour combinations, plus hundreds of tips and sample palettes to refer to, it’s designed as an all-in-one reference you can return to while planning and colouring your work.

Key features

• Guidance on choosing hair and eye colours to reflect personality and mood
• Introduces colour theory and pairing palettes with narrative
• Explores how colour can convey emotion and mood
• Includes over 1000 colour combinations
• Features hundreds of tips and sample palettes for reference
• Colour illustrations

Specifications

• Author: Teruko Sakurai
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 192
• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
• Publication date: 7 March 2023
• ISBN: 9784805317228

Sizing

191 x 229 x 17 mm

Rackhams Reference : 8BXGSPYMLH