How to Draw Manga: Male Characters

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Summary: Finally! A HTDM book on males
Review: Finding a How to Draw Manga book focusing on males is quite hard to find and gratefully, this book is comprehensive. What it covers by chapters:

Chapter 1: Approaches to Drawing the Male Form
Chapter 2: The Male Body - Parts and Connectives
Chapter 3: Basic Poses - The Figure Clothed and Unclothed
Chapter 4: Male Clothing and Accessories
Chapter 5: Representation Techniques Used By Manga Artists

Chapters 1&2 covers the male anatomy from skeletal structure, body types, head, neck, shoulder, torso, arms, waist, legs, feet, hair, and hands. It even covers how to draw older men which is useful to know. The remaining chapters focus on clothing and offers an array of perspective when drawing a guy from sitting, walking, laying down, and so forth. It also shows various occupational uniforms, the traditional male kimono, and a nicely laid out reference of various hand gestures, footwear, and glasses.

Overall, once you learn the male anatomy, you can keep this book as a reference.

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Summary: VALUEBLE
Review: great book!
assuming that you have basic knowledge, this book is great! it shows you how to draw you young people, old people, faces, hair styles , cloth styles good book

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Summary: Agreed
Review: I agree with the first reviewer. You have to have a basic knowledge of drawing to use this book, but once you do, it will be very helpful. It runs over various body types, poses, facial features, hair, some clothing styles, etc.

Most of the books in this series are not for beginners in drawing, so keep that in mind.

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Summary: its not great
Review: I do not own this book... I barrowed it from a freind of mine. It had almost the same thing on every page! i learned 1 skill... how to draw the torso.

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Summary: Finally, I can draw men!
Review: I've Always had trouble drawing male characters. In fact, Before I got this book, the faces and heads were good, but the bodies looked like cilenders with arms attatched. This book covers every aspect of drawing the male form from the basics of figure drawing, to little details like adding age to a characters features. There is so much to learn about art, but this book simplifies things to the extent where an artist with enough familiarity with the style can refine her or his art many times over.

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Summary: A Worthwhile Book
Review: This book is great for any manga artist who wants to improve their skills at drawing male characters. Although some basic knowledge is needed for you to use this book it includes information on poses, form, clothing and representation techniques. The book is easy to use with clear diagrams and a good easy to understand lay out. This book is also great value for money, in the UK you'd probably have to pay about $26 for a book similar to this. A must buy!!!

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Summary: Excellant!
Review: This book taught me how to draw the sometimes complex techniques to drawing the muscles and torso. At last, I can draw men! As far as drawing faces on them, My male characters all end up wearing hockey masks for some reason, lol.

As it has been said before, this book is not really for a beginner.

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Summary: An excellent suplement!
Review: This book, like most in Hayashi's "How to Draw Manga" series, is a fabulous suplement to his introductory books. It's not meant to show every detail of drawing, as that's what the basic books are for. However, it does help clearly define the differences between the male and female figures, and goes into detail about male body structures, common design styles and builds.

Excellent reference material, a must have for the anime/manga artist! I know I've inproved since getting it!

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Summary: An excellent suplement!
Review: This book, like most in Hayashi's "How to Draw Manga" series, is a fabulous suplement to his introductory books. It's not meant to show every detail of drawing, as that's what the basic books are for. However, it does help clearly define the differences between the male and female figures, and goes into detail about male body structures, common design styles and builds.

Excellent reference material, a must have for the anime/manga artist! I know I've inproved since getting it!

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Summary: Hey, this isn't half bad!
Review: This is a book for anime fans everywhere. It isn't the best book beginners. This is a book about evolution, not revolution. This will enhance your drawing skills but won't create them. Otherwise, this book is great! It has tons of great tips on drawing youthfull males.