ART TECHNIQUES/DRAWING

EVERYTHING you need to know to

DRESS, STYLE and ACCESSORIZE
MANGA ART SCHOOL

SHOJO FASHION
your characters!
What you wear (and how you wear it) reveals
as much about you as what you say and do.
Same goes for the characters you create. This
Year 2
book will help you visualize whats in their
closets, from t-shirts and sleepwear to
work clothes and school uniforms. With
Shojo Fashion Manga Art School, Year 2

MANGA ART SCHOOL | YEAR 2

whatever the scenariofrom bumming
around the house to high-styling at
promyoull have a wardrobe full of
options for dressing your characters with
style and personality.

More than 20 step-by-step demonstrations

Hundreds of examples for every occasion

casual styles, fancy formal wear, uniforms,
seasonal looks, kids clothes and more

Accessories galore, including backpacks,

sunglasses, shoes and electronic devices
Draw modern looks
Expert tips for matching clothes to your
characters personalities, dressing different
body types and ages, making clothing move
naturally with different poses and more

F L O RES & M C SPAD DE N

A fashionable follow-up to the bestselling Shojo Fashion
Manga Art School, this book will help you create an endless
variety of current, cutting-edge looks. Use it to give your favorite
characters attitude, and inject more expression into your stories.

US $22.99
Y1789 (CAN $23.99)
ISBN-13: 978-1-4403-1080-5
ISBN-10: 1-4403-1080-7

52299

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 Table of contents

Introduction 4
Tools & Techniques 6

1 | Around the Home 14 5 | School Uniforms 80

2 | Hanging Out 32 6 | Work Clothes 102

3 | Prom 54 7 | Sports 118

4 | Weddings 64 8 | Seasonal 128

Index 140
About the Authors 142

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 Introduction
When creating Shojo Fashion Ma
nga Art School Year 1that is to say,
the first book!we hit upon som
ething that we felt was underre
p-
resented, not only in the world
of art guides, but manga and com
ic
art in general. Clothing. We fou
nd it difficult to find manga or
comic
books with colorful, unique, cre
ative, realistic clothing. Clothes
that
change every day, because most
characters have more than one
outfit. Clothes that get ripped or
dirty in realistic ways. Clothes
that
say something about a character
s personality.
For Year 2, weve created a manga
-style how-to-draw book
centered entirely around clothes
. In the following pages you wil
l
find information on casual clot
hing, clothing for going out, wo
rk
clothes, school clothes and eve
n how to design your own school
uniform. From prom to weddin
gs, and sports to seasonal, we hav
e
covered the basics for manga in
a modern-day setting. Youll find
tips on every step of the proces
s and hundreds of pieces of art
to
use for your own reference.

While this book is by no means

exhaustivehow could it be? It
would take thousand of pages!
we have done our best to create
something worthy of a spot on
your shelf. And with any luck, this
expedition into the world of clot
hing in manga/comic mediums
will continue in Year 3.

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 rs
Know Your Characte
char-
manga to create every
There is a tendency in
ent a
autiful, so try to repres
acter young, fit and be
re to your
aracters to appeal mo
wider spectrum of ch
rs exer-
w much your characte
audience. Consider ho
appear-
genetics affect their
cise and eat, and how
elves to
ss to represent thems
ance. How do they dre
rs of
aid to include characte
the world? Dont be afr
apes in your manga.
different ages and sh

MATCHING CLOTHES AND

PERSONALITY
How you dress your characters accentuates
their personalities. Putting the same woman
in different outts gives you a vastly different
assumption of who she really is.

CLOTHING ON DIFFERENT
BODY TYPES
Bodies dont come in only one shape.
People develop muscle differently and
put on weight in different areas. Here are
the basic outlines of chubby, skinny and
muscular male body types. Consider what
sort of body type you are dressing, as it
will affect the way the fabric lies.

10

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 Tykes and Tots
ture ver-
ds to resemble minia
Childrens clothing ten
rability and
th an emphasis on du
sions of older looks, wi
themselves,
ren too small to dress
bright colors. For child
ate the
a popular way to navig
onesies and dresses are
dlers.
pers and unwilling tod
hurdles created by dia

18

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 DRAWING DIRT ON CLOTHES

1 When you want to make clothes

look dirt smudged, pick a few spots
and start drawing groups of lines.

2 Crosshatch the lines going in sev-

eral directions. The crosshatching
should be very messy. The more lines
there are, the more dirty it will look.
Leave fewer lines for lighter patches of
dirt.

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 3 | Prom
up
to get really gussied
For most people, calls
ents
t they make great ev
are rare occasions, bu
ts, but
as momentous even
for manganot only
s
off how your character
as a chance to show
to
lly put some effort in
would look if they rea
d
ters focus on prom an
it! The next two chap
dress-up events that
weddings, two major
to attend. Formal
most people are likely
posite end of
clothes fall at the op
al dress.
the spectrum of casu

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 Scenes From the Nig
h t
After the dancing and
revelry has worn eve
ryone down,
that much excitemen
t has an equal amount
of down-
time to balance it out.
As the night comes to
a close,
dances slow down, the
king and queen are cro
wned, and
girls are grateful for the
chance to take off tho
se heels.

61

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 Ties
Bow Ties

Mary Janes

Socks

Dress slip-ons

Oxfords
Loafers
85

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 Two-Point Perspecti
ve
You can force perspect
ive to create a worms-ey
that will turn an intere e view
sting pose into a dyna
mic and
memorable one. To for
ce perspective in this
example,
draw the lower parts
of her body larger tha
n they
should be, so they ap
pear closer in the for
eground.
Birds-eye view is wh
en the action is viewe
d from above
instead of below.

straight on worms-eye view

97

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 Running

Hockey Wrestling

Swimming

Basketball

Gymnastics 121

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 125

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 126

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 Sunglasses
accessory.
intessential summer
Sunglasses are the qu
fun, sexy,
colored, wild, weird,
They can be brightly
tion thereof.
simple or any combina

134

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 Padded Fabric
warm, and
popular way to keep
Puffy outerwear is a
n coats or fur-
ase than thick woole
its cheaper to purch
, but people
ats come in any color
lined leather. These co
y wear them
neutrals because the
tend to buy them in
winter months.
almost every day in the

DRAW A PADDED COAT

1 Sketch the body. Keep the

form tight to ward off the cold.

2 Outline the clothing. Note

that the big coat makes him
look a lot thicker than he is.

3 Clean up the outline. Create

wrinkles that pinch around the
seams of the padded coat. Add
some dark lines to convey depth,
but not too thick or the coat will
look at.

4 When colored, the inked

seam lines disappear though
their shape is still conveyed. The
shading is at and two-toned,
because this fabric isnt prone to
shine.

DRAW A PADDED SLEEVE

1 Sketch the padded surface of the

jacket over the arm. The outline
will come up away from the arm. The
stretchy, cuff fabric should hug the skin.

2 Draw the stitching lines of the cuff

and sleeve.

3 Clean up the outline. Pinch the

seams and add a few wrinkles
around them.

4 The darker lines in the seams

convey the depth of the padded,
stuffed fabric. Add a few wrinkles in the
middle of each fabric segment but keep
the focus on the seams. Long, straight
lights with a few straight creases will do
for the cuff.

137

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 ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Irene Flores is an illustrator, part-time framer, occasional
author and full-time coffee drinker. She is the co-creator of
the manga trilogy Mark of the Succubus with writer Ashly
Raiti published by TOKYOPOP. She has also worked for
DC/WildStorm and Marvel Comics, and has been featured
in TOKYOPOPs Rising Stars of Manga volumes 3 and 5.
Irene posts on deviantART under the name beanclam.
Growing up in the Philippines, she was heavily inuenced
by both Japanese animation and American comics. In 1994,
Irene and her family moved to the United States, and she cur-
rently resides in San Luis Obispo, California. Visit her website
at beanclamchowder.com.

Krisanne McSpadden was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and has

been having vivid fantasies of rain ever since. She is currently
working on a BA in psychology, and hopes to use it as a gate-
way to traveling all around the world and teaching in many
countries. Her passions are writing, world design, characters
and story, and her preferred medium is manga. This is her rst
book. Contact Krisanne at mcspadden.k@gmail.com.

Shojo Fashion Manga Art School Year 2. Copyright 2012 by Irene

Flores and Krisanne McSpadden. Manufactured in China. All rights
reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by
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Blue Ash, OH 45242. (800) 289-0963. First Edition.

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 ART TECHNIQUES/DRAWING

EVERYTHING you need to know to

DRESS, STYLE and ACCESSORIZE
MANGA ART SCHOOL

SHOJO FASHION
your characters!
What you wear (and how you wear it) reveals
as much about you as what you say and do.
Same goes for the characters you create. This
Year 2
book will help you visualize whats in their
closets, from t-shirts and sleepwear to
work clothes and school uniforms. With
Shojo Fashion Manga Art School, Year 2

MANGA ART SCHOOL | YEAR 2

whatever the scenariofrom bumming
around the house to high-styling at
promyoull have a wardrobe full of
options for dressing your characters with
style and personality.

More than 20 step-by-step demonstrations

Hundreds of examples for every occasion

casual styles, fancy formal wear, uniforms,
seasonal looks, kids clothes and more

Accessories galore, including backpacks,

sunglasses, shoes and electronic devices
Draw modern looks
Expert tips for matching clothes to your
characters personalities, dressing different
body types and ages, making clothing move
naturally with different poses and more

F L O RES & M C SPAD DE N

A fashionable follow-up to the bestselling Shojo Fashion
Manga Art School, this book will help you create an endless
variety of current, cutting-edge looks. Use it to give your favorite
characters attitude, and inject more expression into your stories.

US $22.99
Y1789 (CAN $23.99)
ISBN-13: 978-1-4403-1080-5
ISBN-10: 1-4403-1080-7

52299

Irene Flores
EAN

and Krisanne McSpadden

UPC
cnVlZ2VyAE6W5aYCMTMDMTAwATEFVVBD

35313 65184
JUYrVyBQdWJsaWNhdGlvbnMsIEluYyAo
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