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Summary: Pretty good..but WAY too american
Review: Well...it was a pretty good book, but it's way to european. Like, half the pictures in it were really anime. Most of it was just...amercian and NOT japanese at all. I mean, it wasn'y totally bad, it had SOME helpful tips, but it wasn't really anime or manga.
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Summary: Right on.!
Review: I'm in the 8th grade and our teacher is having a dynamic drawing class. I have NEVER seen a how to draw manga guide before. And i'm not sure what the other readers think or agree with me on this one but from my exsperience of looking for these stupid things i give this five stars. Because i had to go from Borders to ... & ... where i finally found it in a comic humour section. I havn't started drawing from it yet but i looked through it for a good two hours or so. And it is so detailed and awesome. And the girl on front cover looks like me to. And since i am trying to make a new manga aged american type thing for teens and really sick of the ditz's turning into princess thing or the people from space saveing the world. nah, new generation. But the one i saw on the picture on here is poorly done. The book i have looks nothing like the poorly picture. For the only one i could find i'd give it a 1,000 stars. O.o
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Summary: The American POV
Review: I agree with a lot reviewers who say that this is not best on the subject, for instance this book speaks to you as you already know how to draw well, it just tells you how to change the features an make them look manga-like, but some drawings are not even manga-like! I compared the drawings of this one with the ones on How to Draw Anime Basics for Begginers and Beyond and the Manga Mania drawings would be in the Begginers class with a lot of the same mistakes.Those were the low points, which fortunately were on beginning of the book, the mecha section is nice, as the camera angles treat and the theory of the comic style, as I said this book is made for those with experience with American comic drawing who want to be introduced in the Manga style, this could help them but in my humble opinion the are better books for that.
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Summary: If you can only get one book
Review: Most of the Reviews are close to the mark. What I didn't like was a lack of "step by step" Drawing instructions ( Which, to be honest, is missing in a lot of "how to draw magna" style books). What I did like is that Hart covered a wide range of genres and presents what it is that makes magna "manga". Why three stars? While It's good solid book, I would have like more tutorials, IMHO.
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Summary: Well put together starter book
Review: This is a good manga book for beginner artists. Nice pictures and cool robot section.
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Summary: Pretty good, concise book...
Review: Honestly, this is probably the best book on manga drawing technique published in the West for a variety of reasons: a) it's concise and to the point; b) it showcases DIFFERENT styles of manga art by some VERY good Western artists; and c) it manages to do all this in one book... If you listen to the Hart-bashers, you'll be spending well over $200 in books (I think there was something like 7, 8, or 9 "How to Draw Manga" books translated into English at last count when I checked) and probably won't be getting full coverage of the basics. Is the book perfect? Of course not -- no book is! There are admittedly some low-res pics in it at the front of the book (NOT because of the lack of Adobe Streamline, but because someone at the book publisher DIDN'T scan in some artwork at a high enough res) and some of the artists aren't as good as others. Most of the pencil art (which tells you more than the finished art at any art) is reproduced well and shows off the caring attention put into the art. For a relatively low price, you ARE getting coverage of a lot of the basics and good explanations on WHY things are drawn in certain ways. The same cannot be said for many other artbooks published today -- including the "How to Draw Manga" books. This book is a fairly good place to start for cartooning in a Japanese style.
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Summary: An amazing book
Review: Christopher Hart personally asked me to write an reveiw for this book, so here it goes. This book is worth the 20 bucks, and a little bit more. I am actully improving my art skills because of this book (and I'm also taking art lessons). This is actully the first "Hot to" book I bought for my self. It gives you tons of tips on what goes where. I did'nt like it when they did'nt give enough detail on how to draw. But I guess that "It's all about attitude" section sorta explained it. Overveiw: i love this book and I'll never leave home without it.
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Summary: thank you mr. hart!
Review: This review may be somwhat bias since i am an artist and a fan of manga, but then this is probably the audience that the author was aiming for. The book talks about different techniques that can be used to draw and illustarte manga characters and comics. Things like believable clothing, communicating a characters persona through suttle details (such as the infamous giant eyes of manga)and he explains it all with step by step figure drawings and subtext. In addition to this, there is also a section in the book that talks about the different jobs one can get in the field of cartooning and how to integrate yourself into the industry. I highly recommend this book for any serious comic artist whether your into manga or not.
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Summary: A interesting Western point of view
Review: As many people know, both anime and manga are gaining an increasingly stronger and broader fan base in America. With this increase have come How-To-Draw books and the like. Chris Hart brings a Western to manga. Yes, there are books by Japanese artists out there, but I think that Western take should be given just as much respect. Hart did an excellent job in the chapter on fantasy which included tips on shadowing and drawing folds in clothing. Also, he gave some extra attention to drawing males. I know there are books on drawing bishoujo (pretty girls), but where are the books on bishonen (attractive guys) then? I found this book to be helpful and would reconmend it to beginning and intermediate manga artists.
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Summary: Great book!
Review: I think that anyone who cannot afford the "How to Draw Manga" series should get this if they want to draw manga. It even helped me, someone who has been drawing manga for a few months now.
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