Anime Mania: How to Draw Characters for Japanese Animation

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Summary: okayyyyyyy
Review: This book teaches you almost nothing about the way to make the head shape- just exepects you to be able to make a perfect egg shape. Then it expects you to be able to magically draw perfect features. Then somehow it gets colored with perfect highlights and shading. I don't recomend this book at all for beginners or people with intermediate skills. ...

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Summary: Draw Anime in only three almost impossibly hard steps!
Review: This book teaches you almost nothing about the way to make the head shape- just exepects you to be able to make a perfect egg shape. Then it expects you to be able to magically draw perfect features. Then somehow it gets colored with perfect highlights and shading. I don't recomend this book at all for beginners or people with intermediate skills. ...


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Summary: Anime Mania Review
Review: This is another great bok from Christopher Hart. He shows you basics, advanced drawing techniques, and not only a Japanese phrase section on how to speak some japanese but how to act. For example, if you want someone important to have your buisiness card, you dont throw it in there faces you bow and extend it with both hands Another great book.

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Summary: Best book on the subject
Review: This is by far the best book on the subject of drawing anime. I am a big fan of Anime and Manga and Christopher Hart's books on these topics are phenominal. I have a much greater appreciation for the artistry and creativity that goes into anime films after reading this book.

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Summary: Chris Hart is a genius!
Review: Watching Japanese animation on my TV with my kids more than I want to admit, I had always wondered "how do they do that?" And while I am by no means a professional artist(in fact, if I could pick a subject I was worst at in grade school it was "Art"), Chris Hart gives you all the tools to draw Anime. I am a huge fan of Chris' work...as are my kids...and this book just adds to a great library of work by this animation genius. I highly recommend it!

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Summary: It gives Anime a bad name!
Review: Well I havn't bought the book, but from first glance, it looks pathetic. The art style is horrible for Anime. I have been drawing Anime for about 2 years or so, and observed tons of anime, and this is nothing like it. I know it is Americanized, but some children have WAY better skills then the artists in this book. (I havn't bought it, but the cover says a mouthfull) Some people say it is good for kids, well they don't know the beginning of how much I see wrong with it. Not recommended for anybody acept maybe someone who knows squat about anime.