Saturday Am Presents How to Draw Diverse Manga: Design and Create Anime and Manga Characters with Di

Saturday AM is the world's leading showcase of diverse anime and manga stories. How to Draw Diverse Manga features the comics brand's most popular artists, who themselves represent racial identities, ethnicities, and cultures from all over the world, as well as diverse gender identities.

Our perceptions of the world are shaped by how the media presents it. With this guide, you will be able to tell inclusive stories about heroic, beautiful, strong, intelligent, and courageous heroes from all backgrounds that are relatable to all and represent the true diversity of our world.

The reader-friendly, step-by-step presentation, which is accessible even to beginning artists, shares drawing guidance for:

• Diverse faces, features, and expressions
• Bodies, proportions, and body positivity
• Hair, including afros, braids, and waves
• Developing character design through the language of shape, silhouette, and color schemes
• Avoiding stereotypes and caricatures

Find even more inspiration for diverse manga characters in Saturday AM TANKS, which collect Saturday AM's comics in graphic novel format.

The Saturday AM TANKS series include: Apple Black, Clock Striker, Gunhild, Hammer, Henshin!, The Massively Multiplayer World of Ghosts, Oblivion Rouge, Saigami, Soul Beat, Titan King, Underground, and Yellow Stringer.