Manga

Manga is, literally, the Japanese word for "comic"; outside of Japan, or in Japan, it usually refers to Japanese comics or a style of art which originated in Japanese comics. This style of art is characterised by a wide variety of techniques, especially large, life-filled eyes and interesting hair-colours and styles.

Manga as an art-style is designed to bring out the emotions and feelings of the characters who are drawn in that style. For example, the direction of the character's eyebrows, the size or style of their eyes or mouth, and other changes in the character's face and body posture can easily tell whether they are happy, sad, angry, annoyed, hateful, or a number of other emotions.

To learn how to draw manga, see How to draw manga.