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Summary: BUY!
Review: I took one look at this book at the store and bought it right away! Amazing drawings. It's a need to buy. If you want to brush up on your drawing skills then you'll love it. I bought this for son, and he suddenly started to enjoy drawing. I feel that buying this book will only give you posotive results.
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Summary: You want to draw better?
Review: I'm a begining artist and I must say this book helps a lot. I would recommend you start with Hart's earlier book on human anatomy made easy to get you started. This book is for advanced artist looking for that extra something. This book will definately help with that.
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Summary: i know this
Review: if you know how to draw.. and even folkswho don't know you say you can draw.. you don't need this book. It shows you how to drawstuffthat's trendy in comic books but if you wantto learnto draw. don't draw trendy.. ask yourself where is rob liefeld andallthoseartistwho copied his art style ..?
they're gone or they're copy who ever is in style now.. but those like jimlee.. and dan jurgen.. and such artist had there style and never tried to change it.
so stay original:) if you like to draw.. email me ..always into chattin with fellow artist.
as you can tell drawing is my thing not typing :)
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Summary: Babes [and] heros w/ giant muscles--cutting edge?
Review: Sorry. It's rather typical, I'm afraid. It's a collection of obscenely-muscled male hero stereotypes, and barely-clothed babes with [a]giant [chest], skin-tight outfits and bare midriffs and absurdly-low pants (starting right at the cover). No doubt they're sexy, but I wouldn't call it "cutting edge." Rather, it's dead-center in the middle of comic cliches that abound on any comics store shelf. While it's fun to draw and gaze on such hypersexed creatures, there's a weird feeling of adolescant bedroom horniness about it all. When are we going to see truly "cutting edge" characters who aren't all imitations of the same body with different heads and costumes?
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Summary: Good compliment, but can't stand on its own
Review: The good thing about this book is that most basic drawing ideas are covered: faces, basic anatomy, and perspective. One of the articles I particularly like is the drawing comparison between different top artists (from using the same reference). It gives an idea of how to develop your own unique style rather than copying someone elses. The focus in the "cutting edge" comic market today is to give a "dark" feeling. Hence inking is exaggerated and skin tones are darker (compare Witchblade to Wonder Woman and you'll know what I mean). If you're interested in these aspects of drawing, then this book will give you a taste that no current other book can offer. Despite the uniqueness of this book, the problem is that book is NOT a stand-alone (all-in-one) guide to drawing "Top-Cow" and "Chaos" style comics. If you are a newbie in drawing, then this book is more eye-candy than an aid to help you. You will have difficulties reaching Al Rio's level of quality on this book alone. There are little step-by-step instructions or diagrams. Since there are different artists contributing to different sections of the book, it can be a distraction. No offense, but I don't really think Chris Hart's artwork is "cutting edge." It looks rather cartoony as another reviewer said. Hence, I think this book can be better streamlined and edited. In addition, there should be more about shading, more about anatomy and poses, and more about creating impact. I think Andy Smith's "Drawing Dynamic Comics" has better basics than this book. In fact, it would be good to pick up that book as well because it gives a different perspective from another author. In any event, this book tries to do too much. I would rather have this book dump all the "basic stuff" and dig deeper into the advanced stuff.
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Summary: Good compliment, but can't stand on its own
Review: The good thing about this book is that most basic drawing ideas are covered: faces, basic anatomy, and perspective. One of the articles I particularly like is the drawing comparison between different top artists (from using the same reference). It gives an idea of how to develop your own unique style rather than copying someone elses. The focus in the "cutting edge" comic market today is to give a "dark" feeling. Hence inking is exaggerated and skin tones are darker (compare Witchblade to Wonder Woman and you'll know what I mean). If you're interested in these aspects of drawing, then this book will give you a taste that no current other book can offer. Despite the uniqueness of this book, the problem is that book is NOT a stand-alone (all-in-one) guide to drawing "Top-Cow" and "Chaos" style comics. If you are a newbie in drawing, then this book is more eye-candy than an aid to help you. You will have difficulties reaching Al Rio's level of quality on this book alone. There are little step-by-step instructions or diagrams. Since there are different artists contributing to different sections of the book, it can be a distraction. No offense, but I don't really think Chris Hart's artwork is "cutting edge." It looks rather cartoony as another reviewer said. Hence, I think this book can be better streamlined and edited. In addition, there should be more about shading, more about anatomy and poses, and more about creating impact. I think Andy Smith's "Drawing Dynamic Comics" has better basics than this book. In fact, it would be good to pick up that book as well because it gives a different perspective from another author. In any event, this book tries to do too much. I would rather have this book dump all the "basic stuff" and dig deeper into the advanced stuff.
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Summary: Drawing Cutting Edge Comics
Review: The minute I saw the cover on this book I KNEW I Wanted it went to the bookstore to check it out and ordered it off Amazon for a much better deal.It would be worth the retail either way I love to draw dynamic women and figures this is the best book on body perspective and animation I have bought But Hart is a great illustrator in my book.I got another of his books as a companion with it.
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Summary: Does not deliver
Review: This book is a ... , trust me when I tell you that you will learn very little out of it , it has lots of pretty samples but it is not enough to teach , there are no tutorials , no step by step and hardly any informative text . For example the coloring section shows the inks and then the finished colors next to it - that's it . You can learn just the same by looking at comics , I was very disappointed from this book . ...
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Summary: THE BEST OF THE BEST
Review: This book was written for comic afficianodos who want to look at comics, not draw them. Get "Draw Comics the Marvel Way" and "Understanding Comics" by Scott Mccloud if you really want to learn how to create stories using a comic format.
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Summary: Cutting Edge Cliches
Review: This book was written for comic afficianodos who want to look at comics, not draw them. Get "Draw Comics the Marvel Way" and "Understanding Comics" by Scott Mccloud if you really want to learn how to create stories using a comic format.
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