Join Chie to draw faces, eyes, hair and more… all in manga style!
These videos were produced by the Lakes International Comic Art Festival as part of their Make Mine Manga exhibition and workshop project – more information below.
CHIE’S FILMS INCLUDE…
>> How to draw a manga face with Chie
>> It’s all in the eyes! Step by step tutorial with Chie
>> Style it up… Chie shows you how to add hair styles to a manga face
>> A step by step guide to drawing a chibi girl
Chie Kutsuwada
Chie Kutsuwada was born and brought up in Japan. After graduating the printmaking Department of Royal College of Art, London, she is now based in Brighton, working as a professional manga artist. Her work is deeply influenced by Shojo/Yaoi genre but she enjoys drawing many other genres, such as Samurai fighting to horror.
Chie creates stories as well as illustrations by herself, like King of a Miniature Garden (2007 collected in The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga 2, Constable & Robinson), her first manga, and Moonlight (2008 collected in The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga 3, Constable & Robinson), which was shortlisted in Manga Jiman competition organized by UK Japan Embassy.
Chie also works with storywriters, such as As You Like It (2008 SelfMadeHero, London) by Shakespeare and The Book of Five Rings by Musashi Miyamoto (adopted by Sean Michael Wilson, 2012 Shambhala, Boston & London). One of her projects is the every two month illustrated columns for Mainichi Weekly, published by one of the major Japanese news paper companies, about life and culture in UK.
Her books are available at the most of English speaking countries and Japan. Also some of them are translated in Turkey, France, Italy and Spain.
Besides creating manga comics, Chie attends many manga-related events in and out of UK and run manga workshops at schools, libraries, and museums, such as the British Museum, the British Library and Victoria and Albert Museum.
She has also worked on projects for Channel 4, CNN, Wagamama and Sejuced, among many others.
Make Mine Manga: Background
Make Mine Manga is a free touring exhibition for anyone curious about manga, as well as the avid fan. It offers the opportunity to explore the origins of manga in Japan, the creative techniques behind the art and discover the wonder of manga and anime.
The exhibition features artwork from incredible creators from Japan and discover today’s generation of award-winning British talents making manga in their own way as part of a truly global comic language.
First touring in 2023, the Make Mine Manga exhibition and associated workshops, funded by Art Council England, was led by Bolton Library and Museum Services running in several North West libraries, including Barrow-in-Furness Central Library and Manchester Central Library and produced in partnership with the Lakes International Comic Art Festival and Manchester City of Literature.
The exhibition was curated by Paul Gravett (author of, among other titles, Mangasia: The Definitive Guide to Asian Comics) and designed by Steve Kerner of Curious Road and the project owes its existence to many artists and publishers for their support to make it exhibition possible: Junko Mizuno, Jiro Taniguchi, Eldo Yoshimizu, Takayo Akiyama, Fumio Obata, Kiriko Kubo, Ilya, Yukiko Kai, Hatsu Haru, Hideko Mizuno, Eiko Hanamura, Ueda Toshiko, Matsumoto Katsuji, Kyoto International Manga Museum, Titan, Fanfare and Aquira.
In addition, Ed Hillyer (aka ILYA) designed signature idents for the project, used within the basic exhibition materials, largely existing images culled from his MANGA DRAWING KIT: Techniques, Tools And Projects for Mastering the Art of Manga (2006, AmazonUK Affiliate Link), which has also been published as MANGA ART: Toutes les techniques pour maîtriser l’art du manga (in France), and MANGA ZEICHNEN: Das komplette Set für Einsteiger (Germany) – and from a much earlier exhibit he curated for Whitechapel Ideas Store in 2010 – MANGA UK! MANGA JIMAN! (which means “having pride in Manga”).
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.