Books with author Colleen Doran

Are you ready to make the most awesome and fun bracelets EVER?Jump into Totally Awesome Rubber Band Jewelry! With this book and your Rainbow Loom(R), Cra-Z-Loom(TM), or FunLoom(TM), you can make all of the cool rubber band accessories that are driving this crafting craze! Inside you'll find:Crafty tips, tricks, and step-by-step instructionsClear, easy-to-follow loom patternsBracelets, necklaces, rings, earrings, and moreColor variations to suit every kid's styleEnjoy hours of creative fun with this ultimate guide to stretch band looms. Totally Awesome Rubber Band Jewelry is packed with 12 original projects, more than 200 full color photos, and dozens of clear, easy-to-follow loom diagrams.Rubber band jewelry is great for parties, sleepovers, recess, bus rides, and any other place you have a little time for fun! You can enjoy loom crafting alone or invite friends to join in.This book shows you everything you need to get the most out of your loom. You'll learn to create completely colorful and super stylish bracelets, earrings, belts, and more in just minutes. Step out in style with the Hippie Belt, show off your skills with the Zipper Bracelet, and embellish your journals, bags, and barrettes with Flower Charms. The possibilities are endless!"The leading craft text for a wildly popular craft craze for kids that is sweeping the country"—Children's Bookshelf

How to Draw the Hottest Shoujo MangaFrom the creative mind of superstar comic artist Colleen Doran, Girl to Grrrl Manga is your invitation to the drama, high romance and dreamlike settings of shoujo manga!Page after page of step-by-step instruction lets you get right to it as you learn the simple tricks to drawing different shoujo looks. Beautiful, glamorous girls in funky costumes. Gorgeous guys with smoldering, direct gazes and tortured storylines. Dazzling characters with supermodel-lean builds, voluminous hair and those enormous, liquid eyes that swim with emotion.Inside, you'll learn to draw faces and figures from different perspectives and to various dramatic effects. Discover the secrets to drawing hands, tearful eyes, fantastic costumes, and other fun and expressive facets of shoujo art. You'll see how the smallest details, like extra-long eyelashes or a highlight on the lips, can make the biggest difference!So you want to draw like CLAMP (Cardcaptor Sakura and CLAMP School Detectives), or Mineo Maya (Patalliro), or Fuyumi Soryo (Mars) ... or (best of all) uniquely like YOU?! With Girl to Grrrl Manga, you'll learn to recognize and replicate authentic shoujo styles—classic, contemporary, retro, children's, aesthetic, modern, illustrative—on your way to achieving your own, fabulous, one-of-a-kind style.

The author of Totally Awesome Rubber Band Jewelry is back with 15 more super-cool projects for sensational rubber band jewelry!15 awesome projects include stylish bracelets, necklaces, headbands, accessories, and action figuresStep-by-step instructions for each project are kid-friendly and easy to followOver 200 color photos and numbered diagrams to guide you through every stepTips, tricks, and ideas to make your own epic rubber band craft projectsLearn how to connect multiple looms so you can complete bigger projectsPacked with original ideas for both girls and boys, Epic Rubber Band Crafts shows how to use a Rainbow Loom, Cra-Z-Loom, or FunLoom to make stylish bracelets, necklaces, headbands, accessories, and action figures that will have everyone in school saying WOW!Whether you have made rubber band loom accessories before, or are brand new to the craze, this book will be your ultimate guide to creating the coolest and most colorful gear around. Discover how to put two or more looms together for fabulous results on bigger projects. Kid-friendly step-by-step instructions, hundreds of color photos, and easy-to-follow numbered diagrams make it a snap to get great-looking results. Plenty of fun sidebars, tips, and tricks are provided to keep any loom enthusiast occupied for hours.Epic Rubber Band Crafts is the ultimate guide to rubber band loom fun! The 15 super-sweet projects for sensational rubber band jewelry will take your rubber band skills to the next level with more bands, more techniques, more looms, and more awesome!

Get real! Open this book and step inside the "real world" of creating professional-looking, publishable comics.Since landing her first professional gig at age 15, superstar cartoonist Colleen Doran has accumulated more than 500 credits to her name as an artist, writer and designer. In this book, she shares the firsthand lessons she's learned along the way, giving you a genuine, real-world understanding of how to create polished, publishable manga comics and graphic novels using the same methods the pros use!This is the kind of valuable insider information you won't find in other how-to books ... stuff that Colleen wishes she knew when she was starting out, including how to:Develop stories in the Japanese manga style versus a traditional Western style of comics.Turn your everyday experiences and observations into viable characters and plots.Use backgrounds to enhance characters' thoughts and actions.Perfect the art of lettering and word balloons.Convert a script into a comic or graphic novel, step by stepLay out dramatic and expressive pages.Create a cover for your manga.Submit a book package to a publisher.Explore alternative publishing options, such as self-publishing, blogs, fanzines and mini-comics.With step-by-step instruction and "assignments" throughout, this book will help you tailor classic techniques to suit your own unique style, and guide you toward your creative destiny.

Now there s a way for students to practice their grammar skills, enhance their overall grammar proficiency, and have fun at the same time! Grammar Minutes Grade 6 provides students with practice in the following areas: nouns and pronouns, verb forms and verb tenses, adjectives and adverbs, prepositional phrases, contractions, compound and complex sentences, appositives and clauses, word usage, synonyms, antonyms, and homophones, pronoun and noun agreement, subject and verb agreement, prefixes and suffixes, Greek and Latin roots and more!Grammar Minutes Grade 6 features 100 Minutes. Each minute consists of 10 grammar questions for students to complete within a short time period. This unique format offers students an ongoing opportunity to improve their own grammar proficiency in a manageable, nonthreatening manner. The quick, timed format, combined with instant feedback, makes this challenging and motivational assignment students will look forward to each day. Students become active learners as they apply grammar skills to a variety of question formats in key areas of sixth-grade grammar instruction.

Stretch the Boundaries of FashionAre you ready to make the most awesome, fun accessories EVER? Then jump into Totally Awesome Rubber Band Jewelry! With this book and a Rainbow Loom®, Cra-Z-Loom™, or FunLoom™, you can create completely colorful and super stylish bracelets, necklaces, earrings, and other accessories in just minutes.Hours of Creative Fun!Rubber band jewelry is great for parties, sleepovers, recess, bus rides, and any other place you can think of, and you can enjoy it alone or with friends.12+ Awesome Projects!Step out in style with the Hippie Belt, show off your skills with the Zipper Bracelet, and embellish your journals, bags, and barrettes with Flower Charms. The possibilities are endless!Inside you'll find:- Crafty tips, tricks, and step-by-step instructions- Clear, easy-to-follow loom patterns- Bracelets, necklaces, rings, earrings, and more- Color variations to suit every kid's style

Are you ready to make the most awesome, fun bracelets EVER? Then jump into Totally Awesome Rubber Band Jewelry! With this new book and your Rainbow Loom®, Cra-Z-Loom™, or FunLoom™, you can make all of the cool rubber band accessories that are driving the hottest crafting craze in years.Enjoy hours of creative fun with this ultimate guide to stretch band looms. Totally Awesome Rubber Band Jewelry is packed with 12 original projects, more than 200 full-color photos, and dozens of clear, easy-to-follow loom diagrams.Totally Awesome Rubber Band Jewelry shows you everything you need to get the most out of your loom. You’ll learn to create completely colorful and super stylish bracelets, earrings, belts, and more in just minutes. Step out in style with the Hippie Belt, show off your skills with the Zipper Bracelet, and embellish your journals, bags, and barrettes with Flower Charms. The possibilities are endless!

Josh Miller, sixth grader at Demarest Elementary School, has a secret. Everything that happens to Mascot, the superhero sidekick in the Captain Major comic books, also happens to Josh. So when Josh finds out that Mascot is slated to die in the next Captain Major adventure, he knows he has to do something—and fast! A budding comics artist and writer himself, Josh and his new friend, Kelsey (aka Large Lass), take off to find Stan Kirby, the creator of the Captain Major series, so they can save Mascot—and Josh's life.Comic-book legend Peter David teams up with the renowned comics artist Colleen Doran in their first book for young readers.

"Manga Pro Superstar Workshop" begins by giving readers a brief introduction to what Original English Language (OEL) manga is, then covers how to develop stories in the Japanese manga style versus comics or graphic novels, while using tools manga artists use for professional results. Readers will also benefit from such insider tips as how top manga artists really work in collaboration to produce over 100 pages of finished art a month; how to create a cover for their manga; how to develop their own authentic style that also suits the tastes of other manga readers; and how to submit a book package to a publisher.Adapted to the needs of beginners with step-by-step instructions, these topics are not covered in any other manga how-to books.

Readily available and inexpensive materials make Shoujo Manga easy and fun to create. This book gives artists the skills they need to get started. Readers will discover how to create the emotional content that distinguishes Shoujo Manga (strong female characters in adventure yarns or stories focusing on love and relationships) as well as how to draw completely authentic looking art. Step-by-step instructions teach readers to both recognise and create the different Shoujo styles including classic, retro, modern, ladies' contemporary, children's and more.

East meets West in this innovative and very smart graphic novel by Barry Lyga, illustrated by Colleen Doran.Sci-fi adventure meets love story—and East meets West—in Mangaman, an originalgraphic novel for teens.Ryoko, a manga character from a manga world, falls through the Rip into the “real” world—the western world—and tries to survive as the ultimate outsider at a typical American high school.When Ryoko falls in love with Marissa Montaigne, the most beautiful girl in the school, his eyes turn to hearts and comic tension tightens as his way of being drawn and expressing himself clashes with this different Western world in which he is stuck in. “Panel-holed” for being different, Ryoko has to figure out how to get back to his manga world, back through the Rip . . . all while he has hearts for eyes for a girl from the wrong kind of comic book.Barry Lyga writes a metafictive masterpiece as manga meets traditional Western comic book style, while Colleen Doran combines manga techniques and conventions with Western comic book