Books with author Christopher Hastings

Do you love manga? Now you can learn to draw your own! This book has everything the beginning manga artist needs! You’ll learn how to draw the basic manga head and body types…but that’s just the beginning! Over 100 manga characters—from magical shoujo girls and their super-cute chibi friends to mysterious ninjas and double-crossing villains— are broken down into easy-to-follow steps so you can start drawing all of your favorite manga characters right away!

One of today’s most popular trends in cartooning is the eye-catching teen adventure style—the type found in such major animated TV shows as Kim Possible. It’s fresh and new, decidedly humorous, and even relatively easy to draw. With this fun collection, bestselling author Chris Hart gives kids a chance to create their own. These cool stories feature ordinary teens thrust into thrilling situations—teens with dual identities, who live as regular students by day and become secret spies on weekends. The art straddles the line between comic book and cartoony; offers strong male and female heroes; and showcases a colorful cast of sinister villains and entertaining sidekicks. These exuberant characters will encourage readers to replicate every drawing in the book—as will Chris’s trademark friendly, personal, and thorough coverage of art principles.

The fun way to introduce coding with Ruby to kids If you don't have the chance to take coding classes at school or in camp—or if you just want to learn on your own—Ruby For Kids gears you up to expand your technology skills and learn this popular programming language. Written in a way that's easy to follow—and keeping the super tech-heavy stuff to a minimum—it quickly and easily shows you how to use Ruby to create web and mobile applications with no experience required. Ruby is considered one of the best and simplest languages to start with when you're learning coding. This fun and friendly guide makes it even easier. Broken down into simple projects designed to appeal to younger programmers, Ruby For Kids gets you up and running with core coding concepts in no time. Before you know it, you'll be tackling hands-on projects, enjoying the support of a vibrant community, and feeling a sense of accomplishment as you complete projects. Navigate the basics of coding with the Ruby language Use Ruby to create your own applications and games Find help from other Ruby users Offers tips for parents and teachers helping kids learn Ruby So what are you waiting for? Ruby For Kids has everything you need to get in on one of the most popular topics around!

Kids Draw Manga has sold more than 25,000 copies! Now here’s some monstrous manga fun.Where do all the kids hang out in the bookstore? By the manga titles! And if they're not by the manga...they're over in the section with the animal books, right? Now they can combine those interests to create their very own manga monsters! Christopher Hart's clear step-by-step drawings (hundreds of them!) and easy instructions let young people convert familiar animals into manga monsters complete with cool claws, horns, feet, and fur. Turn simple rabbits into atomic bunnies...transform ordinary mice into alien mice...make a plain old dinosaur into the mighty belchosaurus! These colorful, fun monsters appeal to everyone, and Hart's engaging process and laugh-out-loud drawings will have kids drawing right away. It's monstrously easy, monstrously fun!• Kids Draw Manga, Kids Draw Anime, and Kids Draw Manga Shoujo are top sellers• Simple step-by-step directions in Chris Hart's popular style• Hot author plus hot topic means every kid will want this book

From Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Breaking Dawn, the undead never get old. So, acclaimed author Chris Hart gives horror fans and aspiring artists something they can really sink their teeth into: step-by-step instruction in drawing their favorite night creatures. All of the most popular bloodsuckers are here in their cold, clammy flesh: Victorian vampires, otherworldly vampires, alluring lady vampires, cool postmodern vampires—as well as vampire hunters and blood-chilling beasts of the vampire kingdom. Less experienced artists needn’t worry about biting off more than they can chew because Hart breaks every drawing down into easy-to-digest morsels. The stakes are high, but the Drawing Vampires books ensures budding illustrators’ efforts won't be in “vein.”

Fionna and Cake are experts at the art of the quest. In this one-of-a-kind handbook, they cover everything from sword collections and dangerous flora and fauna to the many exotic locations they explore. Whether you re an experienced traveller looking to brush up on the latest adventuring techniques or a newcomer starting out with only a rucksack and a wooden sword, How to Warrior by Fionna and Cake has something for you!

The Official Continuation of the Hit Cartoon Network Series! Twenty-five years after the epic battle between Pops and Anti-Pops, Mordecai, Rigby, and the rest of their friends return to the park for a reunion, only to get mixed up with a Fairy King bent on taking Mordecai and Rigby's children. Twenty-five years after the epic battle between Pops and Anti-Pops, Mordecai, Rigby, and the rest of their friends return to the park for a reunion! Their crazy youth is nothing but a memory...or so Mordecai and Rigby think. It's not long before these two friends stumble across a secret fairy world, find themselves young again, and have their children stolen by Viceroy Alberich, the Fairy King. Now 25 years younger, Mordecai and Rigby must work together to reform Alberich's miscreant children if they want their own returned to them. Join writer Christopher Hastings (Adventure Time, Gwenpool) and newcomer artist Anna Johnstone in the official continuation of Cartoon Network's Emmy Award-winning Regular Show.

The characters from manga-or Japanese comics-have begun to dominate the world of kids' cartoons and comics. Now kids can learn to draw their own manga-style characters with Kids Draw Manga, the newest addition to the Kids Draw series. Young artists will find a complete introduction to the basics of manga style, from the well-known shiny eye to manga-style noses, mouths, and body types. Pages of step-by-step drawings offer a diverse range of cool manga characters with appeal to both boys and girls, including a basic manga girl and boy, a schoolgirl, a mysterious swordsman, a hero knight, a flying robot soldier, and a laser fighter. More elaborate manga characters, like a spaceship commander and a dark-magic sorceress, are offered for kids who are either older or have worked through the book and are ready for the next level. As in all Kids Draw books, each dazzling spread is easy to follow, fun to look at, and guaranteed to charm a new generation of artists!• The 10th book in the best-selling Kids Draw series• Follows the success of Kids Draw Anime, which sold over 20,000 copies in one year• Capitalizes on the manga craze for kids: from Sailor Moon to Yu-Gi-Oh!• Author has sold more than 1.5 million books• Packed with colorful, fun spreads

It’s hip to draw squares! And that’s all kids need to know to be able to create almost anything at all. It’s amazing to watch as children transform the humble shape into a boy astronaut, a robot, a knight in armor, an airplane, a witch, a dinosaur, a vampire, a fire-breathing dragon, even a zoo-full of wacky animals. There are 60 great ideas to kindle kids’ imaginations.