A colour science expert’s must-have colouring guide for manga and anime artists!

Author Teruko Sakurai, Japan’s leading colourist, applies her expert knowledge of colour 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 colours to accurately express their moods and actions. This all-in-one guide allows you to become a skilled colourist in just a few easy lessons.

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 coloru theory and how to match the colour palette of a scene with the story being told
Colour’s role in conveying emotion – and the essential colours used to capture a particular mood
Hundreds of palette colour combinations and swatches with CMYK and RGB percentages— all at your fingertips

This book shows you how to become a skilled digital colourist just by following a few simple guidelines—and 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 Colouring Guide is a book every manga and anime artist will want to have!

Author Biography

Teruko Sakurai is CEO of Tokyo Colors, a company focusing on design, color consulting and corporate training. She advises product and advertising clients as well as color science instructors at universities and design schools, in addition to producing her own teaching manuals. In 2014, she was the first Japanese to be certified as an instructor in the Swedish National Standard Natural Color System (NCS). She is a member of the Japan Color Society, a color design master with the International Color Design Association, and a certified lecturer for the Color Certification Association and Colorist Association of Japan. She’s the author of two bestselling Tuttle guides: Japanese Color Harmony Dictionary: Modern Colors of Japan and Japanese Color Harmony Dictionary: Traditional Colors of Japan.

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