Bøker av Christopher Hart

A guide to creating anime characters and scenes, offering all the secrets of anime drawing that make characters look complete. The instruction is in-depth and accessible.

The Master Guide to Drawing Anime is a must-have book for all aspiring anime artists. This comprehensive guide by Christopher Hart, a renowned author in the field of art and design, provides a step-by-step approach to drawing your favorite anime characters. Published in 2015 by Sixth & Spring Books, this book has become a staple in the libraries of many anime enthusiasts. The book not only teaches you how to draw, but also provides detailed insights into the genre of anime itself. So, whether you're a beginner or an experienced artist, this book will surely enhance your drawing skills. Don't miss out on this master guide by Christopher Hart, brought to you by Sixth & Spring Books.

This volume combines curated content from each previous `Manga Mania' book (`Girl Power!', `Romance' and `Shonen') into one giant volume.

Beginning with heads and facial expressions; this title moves on to full figures - male and female, ideal and average, some in fashion poses and others in dynamic action. It provides practical advice and examples that help readers achieve results.

With easy-to-follow steps and techniques, learn how to draw popular characters of Japanese anime.

This guide helps artists learn to draw natural-looking figures. Hart portrays everyday, real-life gestures on human-looking foundation figures: standing, sitting, kneeling and reclining, with arms folded, ankles crossed, hands on hips and more, all shown from various angles.

This is a great guide for anyone aged 12 and up interested in beginner-level figure drawing.

This book includes 100 templates for aspiring fashion designers to draw the designs of their dreams. A sequel to Hart's bestselling how-to-draw book 'Fashion Design Studio'.

Appeals to both manga and colouring fans. Fun-to-colour illustrations. By bestselling how-to-draw author Christopher Hart. Bestselling how-to-draw author Christopher Hart celebrates 'grrrrllll' power with a wildly entertaining colouring book featuring manga's most popular female characters.

The sixth book in the bestselling 'Master Guide to Drawing Anime' series focuses on using principles of figure drawing to create anime characters and scenes.

When you start with simple shapes, who knows where you might end up? They're key to drawing just about anything--including full-fledged, expressive anime characters. This book, geared to teens and tweens, features more than 100 step-by-step demonstrations created by Chris Hart. He explains how to draw everything from dramatic hairstyles to a comic kitty: faces, figures, emotions, gestures, poses, fashions, and more. A cute mascot leads readers through the book, helping them enjoy these fun, effective, and easy techniques.

From young love to heartbreak, this fourth book in Christopher Hart's bestselling Master Guide to Drawing Anime' series focuses on the hugely popular romance genre.

An introduction to design that opens the world of style to budding fashionistas. It gives step-by-step instructions on drawing figures from many points of view and in varying poses. It also explains the tricks of the trade: how to "dress" your figure; render colour, texture and print; and create accessories, hairstyles and makeup looks.

This compilation of lessons brings together the simplest characters from the' Master Guide to Drawing Anime' series for beginning anime artists.

This manual offers a complete course in creating a repertoire of cartoon characters. Among the topics covered are: how to create your own characters; the basic cartoon body shape; popular cartoon expressions; developing your own style; cartoon backgrounds; and comic strip technique.

Christopher Hart has come up with cartoons to make you happy! From the important milestones in ones's life (graduation, falling in love, scoring the winning run) to adorable pets and unlikely animal buddies and from trips of a lifetime to everyday moments.

Most artists whose work features the human head and figure don't have the time or opportunity to draw directly from models, so it's essential that they acquire the skills and tools to draw them accurately without using direct reference. This follow-up to the bestselling Figure It Out! includes step-by-step demonstrations and lessons.

Politics is an inherently symbolic practice. This innovative book advances a framework for the critical analysis of political texts and talk based in cognitive linguistics. Through detailed analyses of attested semiotic practices, it provides a current, comprehensive and authoritative statement on the paradigm of Cognitive Critical Discourse Analysis (Cognitive CDA). The ideological effects of dominant conceptualisations and their implications for the legitimation of social action are explored with reference to political topics that have defined the last decade, including immigration, the rise of nationalism, the right to protest, Brexit and Covid-19. A range of conceptual phenomena are addressed, including image schematic patterning, attentional distribution, viewpoint and metaphor, as they feature in various contexts, genres and modes of political discourse. In a major advancement of the paradigm, the book extends Cognitive CDA to images and gesture to consider the role played by multiple semiotic modes in the discursive performance of politics.

'A glorious anthem to the hedge! The sleeping giant that is waiting to be nurtured back to life-giving health. This wonderful book fires the imagination and will change the way you look at a hedge forever.' Keggie Carew, author of BeastlyIn this joyous journey around the wild edges of Britain, Christopher Hart takes us through the life, ecology and history of the humble British hedge, showing us how this much-loved (but somewhat overlooked) feature is inextricably woven into our language, history and culture. Hedges - or hedgerows - have long been an integral part of the British landscape; a bastion of privacy for our gardens, a protective presence on winding country lanes and a vital hiding place for birds and beasts on farmland. This man-made marvel is finally getting its time in the sun. Recognised as an environmental hero and a powerful climate ally, hedgerow is now considered the greatest edge habitat on earth, offering thorny scrub, mature woodland, grassland and even wetland. It plays a critical role in carbon sequestration and provides essential protection against the elements. Hedgelands highlights the hawthorn and hazel of ancient hedges; the abundance of wildlife, from the elusive dunnock to the striking nightingale, the industrious hedgehog to the little harvest mouse; and the free pickings that the hedgerow offers, making it an essential - and delicious - element of any countryside ramble. Hedgelands will tell you everything you never thought you needed to know about this wild, diverse and rich habitat - and you might even look at your humble hedge in a whole new way. 'A wonderful history of the threads that stitch the British countryside together.' Jake Fiennes, author of Land Healer'A passionate celebration and exploration of our wonderful hedgerows. You'll be swept along by Hart's intoxicating enthusiasm.' Dave Goulson, author of Silent Earth

With over 8 million copies of his popular learn-to-draw books sold worldwide, Christopher Hart is everyone's favorite art instruction author. In How to Be Super Creative, he leads the reader on a journey through the inner workings of the imagination, and reveals how to find an almost limitless number of ideas, concepts, and visual images. Aspiring artists will no longer have to wait for inspiration to strike. Among the vital, creative techniques in the book, you will learn to: Identify your artistic strengths--even if you're a beginnerTurn your imagination into an idea engine Think and see like an artist Bypass common tropes about creative blocks Go deeper to be more creativeCommunicate emotions and feelings so others will get itGuide the viewer's eye where you want it to go This is a joyful treasure hunt into a professional artist's imagination. Following along is fun and funny, but the information is highly practical for those seeking to coax creativity from their pencils, brushes, and keyboards. It's the perfect gift for the artist or budding artist in your life.

Cartoonist Christopher Hart is known for making drawing easy and fun! In Drawing with Squiggles & Wiggles, he starts with a variety of silly shapes and transforms them step by step into dozens of original drawings. A spiral becomes an elephant's trunk. Three bumps evolve into a trio of adorable pigs. A wavy line is turned into a girl with a stylish hairdo. Children of all ages will be able to follow along to create these engaging cartoons.

Critical discourse studies is a multifarious field constantly developing different methodological frameworks for dynamically analysing evolving aspects of language in a broad range of socio-political and institutional contexts. This volume is a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary account of these theoretical and empirical developments. It presents an up-to-date survey of critical discourse studies (CDS), covering both the theoretical landscape and the analytical territories that it extends over. It is intended for critical scholars and students who wish to keep abreast of the current state of the art. The book is divided into two parts. In the first part, the chapters are organised around different methodological perspectives for CDS (history, cognition, multimodality and corpora, among others). In the second part, the chapters are organised around particular discourse types and topics investigated in CDS, both traditionally (e.g. issues of racism and gender inequality) and only more recently (e.g. issues of health, public policy, and the environment).This is, altogether, an essential new reference work for all CDS practitioners.

"Many aspiring artists want to create original characters. That's the fun of cartooning. But character design lessons can be challenging. This beginner's guide to character design shows cartoonists how to make small adjustments to basic forms and shapes in order to come up with unique characters they can call their own. The book focuses on six areas: head and body types, exaggeration, personality, proportions, poses, & costumes. Anyone who has wanted to invent an original character but doesn't know where to start will find the answers in this complete and accessible instructional book chock full of clear step-by-step illustrations, expert instruction, and tons of helpful tips"--]cProvided by publisher.

Manga 100 is bursting with the most popular and fun-to-draw characters found in manga and anime, including schoolgirls and boys, humorous kids, fantasy characters, exotic animals, and other fan favorites. The step-by-step projects range from very simple faces and figures to more complex characters and scenes. Many of the characters showcase big emotions, a hallmark of manga, and eye-catching action poses. While drawing these varied and appealing characters, artists will learn important basics of drawing manga faces and bodies, expressions, poses, and even simplified backgrounds.

Christopher Hart continues the best-selling Manga Artist's Coloring Book series with this collection that is bursting with eye-catching characters and clothes to color. The most fashionable girls and boys from the world of Japanese comics show off their sense of style in more than 40 full-page images printed on high-quality paper. Each image includes an intricate patterned background for maximum coloring fun. The Manga Artist's Coloring Book: Fashion! is a fun and challenging experience for anyone who loves to color.

This book uses clear step-by-step illustrations and instructions to show how to draw the head and facial features.

Aspiring artists can draw along with best-selling author and artist Christopher Hart as he takes them week by week through a fun and easy drawing course.