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| How To Draw Manga: Sketching Manga-Style Volume 3: Unforgettable Characteristics | 
 enlarge | Author: Graphic-sha
Publisher: Graphic-Sha
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (3 reviews)
Sales Rank: 40944
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 184
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 4766118227
Dewey Decimal Number: 700
EAN: 9784766118223
ASIN: 4766118227
Publication Date: November 14, 2007
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Product Description
Sketching as an art form concerned with the quality and volume of information requires three skills: skill in communication, skill in composition, and skill in visual portrayal. The artist taps into these three skills while carrying out a clear plan. Manga sketching, which goes one step further, involves the skill of making the fantastic seem plausible. It also involves skills in determining the quality of the information to be conveyed and how much of it to convey. These last two skills form the focus of this book.
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Good addition to the sketching series. December 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I browsed this book in a comic store. I like it enough to pay retail for it, specially for the demonstrations, but not so much for the interview. It wasn't available in Amazon at the time, otherwise, I would have bought it here.
This book is organized into five chapters:
Chapter 1: Drawing Faces In Any Direction.
o Close-up Compositions as drawn by Kuzuaki Morita
o Mastering a Face 3/4 View
o Mastering Faces Composed at Low and High Angles
o Practice Composing Faces from a Wide Assortment of Angles
Chapter 2: Kazuaki Morita's Dojo Sketching
o Experimenting with Manga Sketching 1-5
o Developing a Single Character
Chapter 3: Mastering How to Draw a Dynamic Figure
o Studying the Neck and Shoulders through Close-ups
o Studying the Torso and Arms through Medium Close-Ups
o Studying the Hips and Legs through Full-Figure Compositions
Chapter 4: Portraying Emotions through the Body and Facial Expressions.
o "The Nitty-Gritty of Planned Sketching"
o Profiles of Takehiko Matsumoto and Kazuaki Morita
Chapter 5: Bring Your Own Style To Each Composition.
o The Manga Draft Production Process
o Actual Manga Production
o Color Based on the Planned Design
o Revealing the Character's Personality through the Costume
o Eleven Artists, Each with a Different Vision
Chapter one starts with a demonstration of a close-up to a character's face. Chapter two covers demonstrations of how to make appealing characters. Chapter three follows your typical how-to-draw set up without demonstrations or interviews. It moves to other body parts. Chapter four is a long interview of Matsumoto and Morita by Hayashi. It includes useful sketches along the interview. Chapter five starts with a demonstration of the production process of a manga. Then it shows how the artist created the front and back cover illustration. And finally, how to add personality through costumes.
The demonstrations in chapter 1, 2 and 5 are quite good. They definitely entice you to do your own work. These chapters and the how-to-draw chapter 4 are the reason I bought this book. I didn't care much for the interview in chapter 3, but it wasn't that bad. However, I would have loved to see more costumes in chapter 5. I understand it was not the focus of this book, still...
If you had bought other books in this series, this is a good addition to your collection. However, it doesn't stand alone so well, unless you have some foundation on how to draw manga.
I Think it's Pretty Good. November 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book is filled with pictures and explanations and stuff like that(which is why one would buy it). They're pretty clear explanations in fact.
One issue is that there are a lot of sketches of topless ladies in there, So I wouldn't recommend it for little kids.
Once you get past that, there is a quite large variety pf poses to look and choose from, which is pretty cool.
It gives you tips on coloring/shadowing too.
What I found pretty helpful is the chapter about Mastering The Dynamic Figure. This is because when I draw, and don't have a plan, the resulting image can be really static, and boring aside from little aesthetics I might add. This will help me improve. I know there's a good artist in me. This should help me cultivate it...him?
Uh... Anyway, I really enjoy this one. If you're a beginner-intermediate type looking for a way to improve, then go for it.
Great for breaking from beginner/intermediate August 30, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I cant believe Amazon does not have this voWhlume in stock. I own the first volume of the Sketching series and I can tell you I use Volume 3 more than the former.
Where Volume 1 gives you a general feel of the central styles and themes of Manga sketching and its basic concepts and methods, volume 3 goes into one central direction and never looks back.
What makes this so different than its counterparts? Well to begin - over 90 percent of the examples/sketches are of female characters. Just a word to those looking for an action oriented book - you are not gonna find it in this volume.
Now with that being said - you can learn so much from this book because it can help you draw characters that are bursting with life, or conveying peace and serenity.
This is a great book for those who want to show a character's inner self without having to resort to another action or drama scene.
The main focus on this volume is posing your character and techniques for projecting emotions. Heavy emphasis is placed on joint movement and importance, perspective of the character vs. scene. A lot of the examples have the sketches in every day movements; waiting, sitting, standing for effect, kneeling laying down etc. etc. The early section also contains different facial views for the scene, close ups versus total view, and also a small section on coloring.
Id like to say again that most of the book is focused on the female form, because like so many art and media teachers have taught me - men are easy to draw, but to capture a woman's spirit on paper is another matter entirely.
Add the techniques from this book and I guarantee you that you will never be the same artist again. Highly recommended if you want to take the next leap.
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