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Summary: A Great Resource
Review: I bought this book hoping that it would be a very detailed step by step book... well it isn't exactly what i thought it would be.. but after having a very few hours of buyers remorse... I picked up a pencil, grabbed my sketch book and realized that after just a few days my own characters were in proportion and my facial expressions improving.... I would recommend this book only to the devote anime fans... if you don't have any dedication this book isn't for you because you have to really work at it.... I do believe that once I have thoroughly worked through the whole book my skills will have improved... then on to volume number two!
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Summary: I feel like an artist!
Review: After a quick review of this book, I was able to draw some very interesting anime characters. The instructions were clearly defined and well drawn. Such fun!
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Summary: Lo mejor para pricipiantes (The best for beginers)
Review: Es la opción exacta que un principiante necesita para dibujar esos personajes japoneses que nos han cautivado.... lo recomiendo a todos los que quieran comenzar a dibujar buenos personajes con una muy buena guía de parte de Ozawa San....
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Summary: Excellent illustration instruction
Review: Far and away the best of the English "How to Draw Manga" books. The art style is clean and the layout is well-done, with no issues of whether you should be reading left-to-right or right-to-left (a definite problem in some Japanese conversions).Best of all, Ozawa starts from the very basics, and urges you to do the exercises from the beginning. Sure, drawing cubes isn't exciting, but even for a non-beginners, it's a useful warm-up that improves technique. With the reassuring statement "if you can hold a pencil and draw straight lines, you can draw, " he skillfully leads the reader to develop or improve drawing skills. He also includes something I've never seen in a comics manual before: Drawings from different ability levels. He shows stuff by absolute beginers, intermediate, advanced and professional and critiques the problems and positives. Personally, I found this extremely helpful and reassuring. He also marks the time it took to create some of the professional drawings: Again, very reassuring that these things took time and weren't dashed off in minutes. Finally, Ozawa covers a broad range of character styles, from generally realistic to the SD (simple deformed) type. For each, he includes plenty of detail on what makes such characters work and why. These books can be hard to find, so if you're interested in this subject, don't wait. Get your copy now.
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Summary: Excellent illustration instruction
Review: Far and away the best of the English "How to Draw Manga" books. The art style is clean and the layout is well-done, with no issues of whether you should be reading left-to-right or right-to-left (a definite problem in some Japanese conversions). Best of all, Ozawa starts from the very basics, and urges you to do the exercises from the beginning. Sure, drawing cubes isn't exciting, but even for a non-beginners, it's a useful warm-up that improves technique. With the reassuring statement "if you can hold a pencil and draw straight lines, you can draw, " he skillfully leads the reader to develop or improve drawing skills. He also includes something I've never seen in a comics manual before: Drawings from different ability levels. He shows stuff by absolute beginers, intermediate, advanced and professional and critiques the problems and positives. Personally, I found this extremely helpful and reassuring. He also marks the time it took to create some of the professional drawings: Again, very reassuring that these things took time and weren't dashed off in minutes. Finally, Ozawa covers a broad range of character styles, from generally realistic to the SD (simple deformed) type. For each, he includes plenty of detail on what makes such characters work and why. These books can be hard to find, so if you're interested in this subject, don't wait. Get your copy now.
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Summary: Great Book but...
Review: First of all, I think this book is great, and it will be very helpful to many people. This book gives you many types of anime characters and examples. Very detailed, such as different chars' facial expressions, hairstyle, view from different angles, and body type, custom, etc. It also has many different learners' drawings compared with pro's revised versions, which is very helpful, I think. It gives you pointers about where you should watch out for... However, although this book has some instructions on how to draw face, body and other parts, they are not very detailed, not like step by step as the "How to Draw Manga 1." I would assume that this book is not for absolute beginners. So... Overall, it's a very good book. Recommended: "How to Draw Manga 1"
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Summary: Lots of good tips but a steep learning curve.
Review: How to Draw Anime & Game Characters is a very good reference book with many "professional" examples of Manga / Anime art. Although the order of the lessions seems a bit back to front. In general the information is very good and a lot better than the learn to draw manga titles and is certainly very good value for money. Those with some drawing ability will find the tips a valuable source of information to help their own drawing ability. All that said it is a steep learning curve for the complete beginner. Hence 4 stars.
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Summary: A Descriptive Guide to Manga without having to spend much
Review: How to draw Anime & Game Characters is my favorite book for beginning Manga artists. Regardless of the ... pictures on the front cover, this book really does look like authentic Japanese anime. Not like that other book by some American artist (I can't remember the title). And the series is much shorter than How to draw Manga - which looks like an older style anyway. This shows you the outlines and how to proportion everything properly while using generic anime & videogame characters for example. It also shows common mistakes that most novice artists make and than corrects them on the side. I have vol. 1 - 3 and some others, and these are my favorites. Ofcourse, if your not a beginner, you might wanna skip this volume (or even this entire series) because they don't go into as much detail as How to Draw Manga. Tadashi Ozawa makes everything short and simple, but How to Draw Manga has a book for each facet of anime. E.G. Male bodies, female bodies, expressions, battle scenes, occult and horror, bishoujo women, proper equipment to buy, pen and pencil techniques, ETC. ...
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Summary: Lots of good tips but a steep learning curve.
Review: How to Draw Anime & Game Characters is a very good reference book with many "professional" examples of Manga / Anime art. Although the order of the lessions seems a bit back to front. In general the information is very good and a lot better than the learn to draw manga titles and is certainly very good value for money. Those with some drawing ability will find the tips a valuable source of information to help their own drawing ability. All that said it is a steep learning curve for the complete beginner. Hence 4 stars.
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Summary: Not just the book for Anime artist wanna-be's everywhere...
Review: I am a relatively new artist to the Anime world, and my pencil drawings are not what you could call, 'Up to scratch', forgive the pun. This book made my drawings better, and taught me how to draw sketches in a totally original way! This is too good to ignore!
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