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Summary: The Firefly Review
Review: As the cover suggests, this book has a very mature theme. This book does not show you how to draw pretty girls; rather it is a book for those who already know how to draw them. There is a very useful series on a comparison between the adult and girlish figure, a page at the end of each chapter. However, there is nudity (you will see nipples) and many shots from underneath a short skirt so that you can get a good view of the underwear. Like the other titles in the how to draw manga series, this is a high quality book, with an excellent translation job and great pictures. This is not a step by step book.
This book has five chapters:1. Roundness and Curves: A short chapter on presenting a female character in an alluring way. 2. See-through Garments and Suggesting the Body Under Clothing: Pretty much what the title suggests, this long chapter covers all sorts of materials and how they appear on the body. This section covers a detailed section on how to express transparent clothing with screen tones, or wet clothes clinging to the body. It also has some odd things like wrapping the body in ribbon, and oiled or metallic skin. The fetish and bondage fashions aren't so bad, just weird. The best part is that they show you materials like leather, rubber and stretch, and how to draw them on the body. 3. Accentuating Particular Body Parts: Starting with a sexy picture of a gorgeous manga girl titled: women are beauty incarnate; this section goes through all the parts of the body and how to express them with their own particular accessories.( Hands, arms, the nape, the back, feet etc..) This is my favorite part! 4. Attention-getting Poses and Situations: Goes through all sorts of poses and ideas for drawing characters in striking ways. This part covers jumping over fences, kissing or biting things, putting on make-up, etc. There is, of course, a part on the ever popular sailor suit, and its styles. Also, a not so useful part on what to wear under a bathing suit is also included. 5. Learn From the Pros: This last chapter has four complete artworks with a commentary and the rough sketch included. They are not cutesy pictures, but I like them al the same. The FETISH FRIENDS picture is beautifully drawn despite its controversial theme. It is a picture of two girls, one girl with her hand on the other girl's nude breast both of them with veeeery happy expressions on their faces, if you know what I mean. This book is for advanced artists. If you don't get any use from it immediately, it will come in handy in the future as your skill improves.
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Summary: Excellent Resource Book For Those Experienced In Art Basics
Review: First off, do not, I repeat, DO NOT let the nudity turn you off to this book; most of it is in the vein of Playboy rather than hardcore skin flicks. Let's be realistic, when a book's main focus is the female form, seeing a girl's birthday suit is expected. All of the naked bodies are not gratuitous, but necessary for learning the subject. But, to each his/her own. For the mature, knowledgable artist, this book has many wonderful sections dedicated to drawing such difficult clothing materials as leather, rubber, jeans, and others. Hayashi also goes over the subtle, sexy things about drawing a pretty gal: the nape of the neck, the back, etc. Works from well known artists are displayed in the back of the book (including "Fetish Friends") which show the genesis of the drawing all the way to the finished product. In short, I would not recommend buying this book for a young teenager, but for the grown up artist who has the desire to improve their skills for creating sexy women (even it involves looking at a set of breasts or two.)
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Summary: More good than it is bad..
Review: I bought this book in October and when I'm having difficulty drawing some body part or another I can always refer to this book. It covers ways to make the hands, feet, back, neck, breasts, and waist look good. i've always found hands and feet to be two of my trouble spots when it comes to drawing manga, so this was helpful. I do have to say that there is quite a bit of nudity in the book and a few things that would not be appropriate for someone under age 13 (bondage fashions, see through clothing...) So if you're thinking to buy this as a gift, be sure the recipient is at least 13.
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Summary: Very helpful book
Review: I found this book very useful for shading and drawing various parts of the body. I also liked the section on hands, because I'm not very good at drawing them. The section on drawing backs was also helpful. by the way, I AM a girl, and yes I found every aspect of this book helpful in some way or another. I don't believe that the other female reviewers I noticed had a very good idea of how much you can learn from this book...
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Summary: Not a good buy
Review: If you actually want to draw pretty females, then find some other book: this one is just an excuse to leer at the naked girls printed, not a real handbook to actually learn to draw.
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Summary: Not recomendable
Review: Im a 15 years old girl that wants to be a manga drawer (I'm amateur). Anyways, if you are a "How to draw manga" books fan, I REALLY DON'T recomend this book. This book teaches you some good stuff (like poses and things). But it's really a book to look at, and has a lot of nudes that arn't really necessary. And the worse of all is that at the end of the book comes a "Fettish friends" ilustration thats has nude girl doing... "you know what". So, dont buy the book, it's the worse of all the manga books I have (I have over 15). Keep your eyes safe and buy "How To Draw Manga: Bishojo/Pretty girls". That one IS recomendable ^_^
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Summary: About the book
Review: The book is very useful and a good follow up from the book before it. It does contain ALOT of nudity, but it helps to show body figures and movement. It also goes into detail what different textures of fabric would look like. It shows leather and rubber, and cotton and light fabric. It also shows you what clothes look like wet. A bit reavealing yes, but it does explain how the clothes look.
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