Kids Draw Anime

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Summary: How To Draw....Well Crapy
Review: Hmm... lets see here, I saw this book lying around a friends house and after thumbing through it and came to the conclusion that this book teaches young children how to draw poor, disproportioned, unimaginative, trite, and frankly crapy manga or anime. I myself am an artist having taken Art AP for two years (this year is my second :P) and sold a number of pieces while still in high school so I do know what I am talking about. I paint realistic watercolors mostly (I love Alan Lee's art) but I do enjoying drawing manga let us face it, its fun. However, manga art can be extremely creative and individual if you just learn the basics and then let your own artistic skills and creativity developed a unique style. Books such as this one that put children in a box and teach them to draw cookie-cutter manga should be burned Fahrenheit 451 style. Instead, for the aspiring young cartoonist a broad guide likes how to Draw Manga vol.1 and let your mind run wild from there.

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Summary: Not anime, not at all
Review: I found this book at my local library and decided to see what this book was about after seeing all the reviews on amazon about this book. When I got home I starteded reading it, I realized that this book was not anime. I am a big anime and manga fan so I could tell. Christopher Hart can't draw anime correctly, his drawings are to american and not the japanese type ( like anime or manga is supposed to be). If you want to buy this book let me just tell you that you aren't drawing anime, you're drawing a cross between anime- and american cartooning. Which isn't really anime at all, so if you buy this book and give it to your kid, they'll think they're really drawing anime but aren't. for kids who just want to draw go ahead and buy this book. But if you seriously want to draw manga or anime i suggest a book by Hikaru Hayashi in his how to draw series which are accurate but somethimes not for younger kids.

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Summary: a misnomer
Review: im sorry 4 those who like this book, and thats ok, but this name is a misnomer. this is not anime, but an american recreation of it called animerican. if u want real anime, may i suggest How to draw Anime and Game characters, vol. 1

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Summary: Not bad..................
Review: It was'nt that helpful to me, but the book is specificly about teaching YOUNGER kids how to draw. I am SO sorry if the book dosn't teach you how to draw REFINED manga, becouse once agian the book if for younger kids. I dunno, I just had to blab about that.
This book is good. It tells you how to draw manga eyes, exaturated emotions, manga noses, hands, feet, alittle bit on the body, "action line", good guys and bad guys, little bit on anime robots, anime animals, little bit(very small)on the martial arts and some more advanced characters with how-to-draw steps and subsections for all that. 3 different artists drawing in this book and it's 64 pages. Theres nothing immoral in this book, and I think its a good primer. I recomend this book for people ages 7 to 10.

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Summary: Great for getting started!
Review: My kids loved this book. It kept them occupied for many hours and they really liked the style and the drawings. They followed tasks step by step and they really improved. They loved the section on how to make the eyes shine and drawing hands and feet. I loved the animal section. This book is highly recommended.

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Summary: Great instructional book
Review: My kids loved this book. It kept them occupied for many hours and they really liked the style and the drawings. They followed tasks step by step and they really improved. They loved the section on how to make the eyes shine and drawing hands and feet. I loved the animal section. This book is highly recommended.

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Summary: Budding Anime Artists Start Here
Review: Nice and simple, without too much information all at once, this how-to-draw book is a great start for younger kids, 6-10. It sets up the right drawing habits, starting from basic shapes and lines and "building out" the image from rough to polished. Much like writers have several drafts, so do illustrators and animators. This progressive process is essential to good drawing. If you are older than 10, or if you have finished this book and are ready for the next level, I recommend the Tezuka series 1 and 2 Animation books, if you are interested in animation or Christopher Hart's Anime Mania for more drawing techniques.

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Summary: Great for getting started!
Review: This book was great and I learned how to do a lot, but there are still many books to teach me stuff I don't know.