How to Draw Manga: Next Generation features exclusively created art, step-by-step guides, designs, and comments from the hottest rising stars of manga.

• We have heaps of 'how-to' manga and comic art guides, including the pocket-sized series 'How to draw manga', and how to draw everything from bodies & anatomy to bishonen, fantasy females and battle scenes.
• Have a look round the 741s on the teen and adult shelves for this topic. Note that some 'how-to's' might be shelved with the graphic novels.

Nothing makes a fantasy fan's imagination catch fire like the dragon, one of the most enduringly popular beasts of legend. Now, with DragonArt, readers can learn how to bring these mythical creatures to life, with more than 30 lessons broken down into simple color-coded steps, from basic shapes, to details including claws and wings, to spectacular finished dragons and beasts. Additional step-by-step demonstrations covering other fantasy creatures, such as wyverns, basilisks and gargoyles.

The world of wearable art is the second edition of this inspirational and truly original visual design sourcebook. Completely revised with all new photographs, it features the best garments that have been entered over recent years in the New Zealand Wearable Art Awards in a remarkable celebration of the diversity and creativity of wearable art.

A maestro of disguise, Joanne Gair is widely recognised as the world's foremost make-up artist and body painter. During a career spanning 23 years, the New Zealand-born artist and image-maker has worked alongside the world's leading photographers, directors, celebrities and supermodels to create some of the most unforgettable images in the modern media age. Her work has graced international magazine covers, fashion campaigns, music videos and motion pictures.

• Body art is at 391.6 on the shelves.

One of the highest paid positions in photography is that of the professional fashion photographer. This book examines the various aspects of fashion photography, from high-end beauty and fashion photography to catwalk, swimwear, and lingerie shots.

• For more on fashion photography, look for the 770s.
• There are plenty of books out there to give you new ideas for your digital photography, from composition to choice of subject to editing tips and tricks. You can find them many of them online by searching for the subject "Photography - digital techniques", or search the 770s on the shelves. Here are a few:

Photographers who need help getting in the mood and expanding their creative potential will find the guidance theyve been seeking in this beautiful reference book. Using his most breathtaking work as examples, photographer Joseph Meehan demonstrates how to take photos that go beyond mere representation to make a statement, convey a feeling, or capture an emotional atmosphere.

Nancy takes readers on location and reveals how she makes the most of her subjects and their surroundings. Learn the insider secrets of a top lifestyle photographer.

Moving from tips on the basics, such as the rule of thirds, to the more advanced, including in-camera compositions and cropping-in software, this guide provides all the information needed to make digital photography more attractive, as well as easier.

'The Photographer's Eye' shows how anyone can develop an eye for 'seeing' great digital photos. It explores all the traditional approaches to composition and design, but crucially, it also addresses the new digital technique of shooting in the knowledge that a picture will later be edited.

Created by two top professionals, this generously illustrated nuts-and-bolts guide is the first of its kind to treat these units as genuine cameras instead of novelties, and the only one to include a full-color photo-essay demonstrating the full capabilities of the latest camera phones. In five easy-to-read chapters, the book explains how to choose good equipment take better pictures and store, print and send the best images. Readers will find practical tips on preventing or repairing water damage, protecting easily-scratched lenses inside pockets and purses, and retrieving accidentally-erased images.

Whether you're a beginner looking to manage your metadata and play with tags, or a programmer in need of a detailed reference of Flickr API methods, you'll find what you're looking for here. In addition to getting under the hood of some of the most popular third-party Flickr toys already in the wild, you'll learn how to: post photos to your blog directly from your cameraphone, mash up your own photos or others' public pictures into custom mosaics, collages, sliding puzzles, slideshows, or ransom notes, back up your Flickr library to your desktop, and save the comments too, set random desktop backgrounds and build your own Flickr screensaver, feed photos to your web site and subscribe to custom Flickr feeds using RSS, talk to the Flickr API using your web browser, Perl, or PHP authenticate yourself and other users and build custom API applications and much more.

Digital scrapbooking is an exciting fast-growing hobby that's taking the craft scene by storm. Instead of cutting and pasting your pictures into an album, you use digital photos, clip art, graphic textures and embellishments to make mementoes on your computer screen. They can then be printed out onto paper, fabric and ceramics - multiple times. Now for the first time a New Zealand book that teaches you everything you need to know. -- Back cover.

Visions of future worlds have always exercised a powerful fascination. At the heart of 'Digital Sci-Fi Art' is a detailed survey of the key techniques involved in creating these visionary masterpieces, with step-by-step workthroughs showing in detail how science fiction art takes digital form.

This book covers the ins and outs of digital art. It begins by discussing what digital art is and how it is different from and similar to traditional art. Then it presents the history of digital art, how it has changed over the years, how it works (pixels, DPI, resolution, etc.), the different kinds of digital art, and the many careers available in digital art.

"Everything is beautiful," raved Andy Warhol, in raptures at the glamour of modern life, consumer society, the world of the media and its stars. And in so saying, he was expressing the feelings of a generation who felt their age was dawning, an age of "love" and "freedom." In art, too, a new attitude towards the present was making itself felt. The author gives us a detailed account of the styles, themes and sources of Pop Art, investigating its development in different countries and providing biographies of its leading exponents.

• Looking for inspiration or information about historical schools of art? Browse the 709s, or hop into Oxford Art Online, our online reference source for the Arts.

Graffiti artist Banksy decorates streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cities throughout the world. His identity remains unknown but his work is witty, subversive and prolific. And now, he's put together the best of his work in a fully illustrated color volume.

This volume surveys the work of female graffiti and street artists, with approximately 1,000 color illustrations making up the bulk of the book. Often ignored, these women have had to fight against the idea that graffiti is a male realm. Ganz briefly discusses the trend in all parts of the world, and shows the work of many artists around the globe, with some background on them accompanying photos of tags, characters, and other art. Includes from some of the world's most prominent artists, including Brazil's Nina, Japan's Sasu, Mexico's Peste, and the Americans Lady Pink, Swoon, and Miss 17.

Learn how to draw landscapes, buildings, still lifes, animals, flowers, trees and prople through taught example, with over 550 photographs. It covers all the traditional techniques: understanding composition, drawing outlines, line and wash, shading and tonal work, sketching and blending.

This book will inspire and instruct readers on how to handle today's acrylics in innovative and individualistic ways. Learn how to create lush textures, vibrant colors, and sensuous surfaces with acrylic paints and mediums. In addition to traditional techniques such as glazing and staining, The New Acrylics demonstrates fresh applications, including soft sculpture, printing, and mosaics. A selection of fine art is featured to provide artists with further creative insight and inspiration.

• We have plenty of 'how to' books about more traditional forms of painting, from acrylics to oils and watercolour. Have a look around the 750s on the shelves for more.
• For more on drawing technique, look around 741 on the shelves

The first truly comprehensive look at contemporary art in Australia and New Zealand in this century. It explores the particular regional uniqueness which comes from a mix between Indigenous, Western and Asian cultures. Featuring 80 artists, the book shows Australian and New Zealand art to be diverse in culture, medium and theme.

Taiawhio: Conversations with Contemporary Maori artists, now in its third reprint, has proven invaluable to art lovers, students, teachers and those with a passion for New Zealand art. This new volume profiles a fresh range of contemporary Maori artists.

Interviews with nine leading New Zealand children's illustrators, about their work, how they began, what inspires them and what they hope to achieve. Recorded in the artists' own words.

A visual introduction to, and brief biographical notes about, sixty of the many artists who are working throughout New Zealand.