Fantasy Costumes for Manga, Anime & Cosplay: A Drawing Guide and Sourcebook (with Over 1100 Color Illustrations)

Fantasy Costumes for Manga, Anime & Cosplay: A Drawing Guide and Sourcebook (with Over 1100 Color Illustrations) - Paperback

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Fantasy Costumes for Manga, Anime & Cosplay: A Drawing Guide and Sourcebook (with Over 1100 Color Illustrations)
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Fantasy Costumes for Manga, Anime & Cosplay: A Drawing Guide and Sourcebook (with Over 1100 Color Illustrations) - Paperback

Fantasy Costumes for Manga, Anime & Cosplay: A Drawing Guide and Sourcebook (with Over 1100 Color Illustrations) - Paperback

by Junka Morozumi , Tomomi Mizuna
$18.99
$18.99

Book Overview

Create one-of-a-kind outfits with this essential guide to Japanese-style fantasy fashion!

Using the authors' unique Costume Matrix, you will learn how to develop new and daring designs for your anime and manga characters and cosplay creations. First, choose a look to serve as your fashion foundation. Then select an alternate style and fuse it with the first fashion theme to create an unexpected ensemble combining elements have never before been seen together!

Mixing and matching basic themes and styles in this way results in one-of-a-kind mashups and hybrids, for example:
  • School Uniforms & Military Apparel
  • Casual Basics & Gothic Formal Wear
  • Japanese Fashion & Folk Costumes
  • Plant Motifs & Animal Motifs
  • Nature Motifs & Mechanical Objects
  • Seasonal Motifs & all of the above!
  • Using the Costume Matrix, the fashion mashup possibilities are endless!

Here are just some of the unique combos made possible by applying the Costume Matrix technique:
  • A Folk Costume crossed with a snake motif that results in a Scheherazade vixen with veils transforming into slinky scarf-like vipers!
  • A Gothic Lolita paired with a Rabbit for a fun and furry character with fuzzy paws for boots and a crazy carrot-top hairdo!
  • A Sailor Girl School Uniform combined with a Female Ninja fighting outfit--with a throwing star as the perfect accessory!
  • A mashup of Casual Basics and Plant Motifs creates a head-turning Sunflower Girl complete with a green-leaf collar and flared-petal skirt

Fantasy Costumes for Manga, Anime & Cosplay presents over 55 fantasy fashion mashup examples and provides you with the key to designing your own totally original characters and styles!
ISBN9784805317495
Author Junka Morozumi , Tomomi Mizuna
PublisherTuttle Publishing
GenreArts
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2023
LanguageENG- English
Pages160
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Fantasy Costumes for Manga, Anime & Cosplay: A Drawing Guide and Sourcebook (with Over 1100 Color Illustrations)

Fantasy Costumes for Manga, Anime & Cosplay: A Drawing Guide and Sourcebook (with Over 1100 Color Illustrations) - Paperback

Fantasy Costumes for Manga, Anime & Cosplay: A Drawing Guide and Sourcebook (with Over 1100 Color Illustrations) - Paperback

By Junka Morozumi and Tomomi Mizuna
About Junka Morozumi
Tokyo-based manga artist Junka Morozumi is the author of the Cloud Heaven and Fantasy Matrix manga series. She also writes books on drawing manga and on costume design for manga characters, and lectures on illustration at the Amusement Media Academy in Tokyo. This is the first of her books to be translated into English.
About Tomomi Mizuna
Tomomi Mizuna is a popular Japanese manga artist who is best known in her home country for her Fantasy Matrix manga series. She is known to Western readers for the English-language version of her children's manga series The Big Adventures of Majoko, published by Udon Entertainment. Her drawing style is influenced by many different genres, but often has a pop-art feel to it. Her colorful work has been exhibited from California to London.

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