<b>The ultimate guide to creating chibis!<br><br></b>They populate manga with chunky bodies, oversized heads, and huge expressive eyes. They're schoolgirls and schoolboys, magical girls and mad scientists, fairies and fighter princesses, cyborgs and sci-fi secret agents, bikers and bad samurais, robots and rebel leaders. They've even got chubby pets and zany monster sidekicks! They're chibis!<br><br>Excruciatingly cute, highly stylized, and beloved in all manga genres (fantasy, magical girls, shounen, anthro, sci-fi-, and more), without them, manga would barely exist. And now you can learn, step by step, how to draw virtually every chibi out there, how to "chibify" ordinary manga characters&mdash;and how to invent your very own designs! Covering facial expressions, those iconic manga eyes, costumes, character interaction, and story settings, <i>Manga for the Beginner Chibis</i> has it all.