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Summary: A Good Investment
Review: When I had the urge to want to learn how to draw anime, I searched everywhere on the internet for tutorials. When I just couldn't get a good amount of information, I decided that I needed to have a book with everything I needed to know. I looked around a little and finally came upon this book, which I had thought I had seen before. It dismayed me when wherever I looked it was on back order and wouldn't ship for a month or more. I finally found it somewhere in stock, so I bought it. I've only had this book for a couple days so I can't say my drawing skills have really improved, but they are steadily building. (I plan to write a manga, so I need all the help I can get.) Before I bought this book, my skills were okay but very inconsistant. I was hesitant before to get a drawing book because I didn't like to be told what to do and how to do it. When I got this book by Tadashi Ozawa, however, it allowed me to be free in what I drew, and suggested simple guidelines to follow. For your information, this book will NOT teach you how to draw. It only suggests techniques that will help you draw. The ability to draw cannot be taught; it comes naturally. All in all, this book is worth the price and will help you. Get it while you can; it's awfully hard to come by! :)
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Summary: Disorganized
Review: While I enjoy the information in the book and much of the steps brought new perspective to me on how to draw, I found myself confused a few times until I continued on and found the answer later in the book.I do encourage people to use this book if they are trying draw anime and game characters, however be warned that the organization in the book isn't the best.(in my opinion of course). All unpleasantness aside, I enjoyed the special section for game characters and groups, I Never really thought about why I was attracted to some posters and not to others. Buy this book, but be warned of its disorganisation. If it was more organised, I would give it Five stars.
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Summary: Just as the title says.
Review: Yeah, as the title says this is a book with just the basics. It's not a step by step "how to draw" book as you would first think, it's rather a book on "test and learn", for example it shows a variety of characters and tells things like "separated eyes express lonelines, the small mouth expresses a delicate nature", so this book will only teach you how to design plain characters and it's wonderful for beginners like me; In no way must be considered a complete "How to Draw Anime" lesson, but its perfect for start cooking, even if you don't even know how to hold your pencil (that was my case some months ago when I bought it). If you're a complete beginner buy this book, I gave it 5 stars because it helped me a lot, but keep this mind: drawing characters is one thing, to give life to them is something else... for that buy the Volume 2, or do some research.
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Summary: HUGE help
Review: You definetly want to buy this book before the 2nd one (Expressing Emotions)This was very helpful. I had just learned a little about anime when I got this book and was already a little experienced with drawing. Not only did it help with body structures and different angles, it also helped with basic character ideas. I totally reccomend this book to people who are interested in learning how to draw anime, or manga. It's a great reference book and very helpful for beginners. Hail to Tadashi!
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Summary: The How-To Book That Lets You Teach Yourself
Review: You won't find step by step tutorials on faces, nor bodies really. This book is indeed for beginners, but solid-base beginners. It will improve how you draw as well as what you draw, often you'll find yourself drawing out of this book instead of designing your own characters with it's help, but after a few of those your creativity will be liberated. If you are a total stranger to manga, get Manga Mania (Christopher Hart), which is actually a lot like this book, but it does begin with what you need and you can see how what you learned can be adapted for other bodies&faces. Finally, I find this book amazing, because it educates so efficiently that it is easy to tell the importance of what you're learning the moment you do.
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Summary: Learn to make your own anime/game drawing fun!
Review: You're a beginner. You draw your favorite anime/game character. It doesn't look right. The pose is wrong. All your lines are crooked. You get angry. You feel drawing is too complicated and don't want to do it anymore. Wait!! Hold on!! You've got to make drawing fun. This book teaches you how--by seeing what you draw! It's true. Crooked lines? No problem! Look at where you want the line to go rather than the pencil when you draw. Not the right pose? Use cubes which are easily drawn at angles to arrange the pose then draw the features. The secret of the pros is to see what you draw. When you get to the end of the book you'll have learned how to make drawing fun--EVEN when it didn't look right!
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