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| How To Draw Manga: Sketching Manga-Style Volume 1: Sketching As Composition Planning | 
 enlarge | Authors: Hikaru Hayashi, Takehiko Matsumoto, Kazuaki Morita
Publisher: Graphic-Sha
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (6 reviews)
Sales Rank: 230573
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 184
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 10 x 7.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 4766117093
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.51
EAN: 9784766117097
ASIN: 4766117093
Publication Date: May 23, 2007
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Product Description
This volume offers a brand-new "sketching to plan" tin can crammed full of sketching fundamentals for you to use when creating your own manga, as well as suggestions and ideas to help your artwork improve. This book is a brilliantly condensed can of artwork, jam-packed with a wide range of styles, ranging from renditions that are realistic without being slavishly naturalisitc to stylized "abstracted" and "exxagerated" renditions.
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 Not appropriate for teens! December 12, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
I purchased this book for my teenager (girl) for Christmas. She requested a book on how to draw manga/anime characters. I returned it because there are several nudes drawings - not your average "this is how to draw a body", but sexy poses of teenage looking characters. There were also several drawings of girls in mini-skirts doing high kicks with a close up of the crotch area. Very anatomically correct, inspite of the skimpy undergarments. Parents (and lovers of modesty) beware...
 The best drawing book I've ever bought. September 30, 2008
It's no exageration. I own dozens of books on sketching, Manga, artistic anatomy, etc. But this one book is almost all inclusive. You can't go wrong with buying this product.
I must point out, however, that it's not for beginners. It expects you to have some basic knowledge of anatomy and proportions, so that you can be thought to stylize them, or even deform them.
A part I really enjoyed is the step by step drawings shown by the hand of the experts. Also, at the end, they provide guidelines on how to properly color your finished pieces.
Overall, this is a must-have for any artist, or sketching enthusiast, regardless of his/her taste for Manga.
awesome help for beginners and great reference for internediate April 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
[this is NOT helena! it is her daughter jackie! haii!!!]
when i first bought this book i luved it as soon as i first flipped through the pages!!!
this book helped me improve A LOT and also taught me things i never noticed before!!!
this book is great for beginners who are just starting out on the manga drawing experience!!! it gives some basic anatomy [not the boring useless stuff just the essentials :)] and also explans [with both pics and words] how the body moves!!! <---- nessecery for drawing [no matter wat style!!!]
it is also great for intermediate artist who already no the basics and have some experience with manga style art [like myself i guess]!!! it provides lots of references and also explains anatomy and muscle structure and the way it affects the bodys movement...
it helped me to greatly improve and u have no idea how important it is to be familiar with the muscle and bone structures and how they move [no im not saying that u need to be able to draw a skeleton and then all the layers of muscles on top! just now how the spin bends and wat happens when u raise ur arms...etc...]
i would recomend this book for any artist no matter wat level u r at!!! its a wonderful book and is great especially if ur poses look strange, unnatural or stiff [haha just like mine DID]
along with drawing the body, poses, balance, and face and all that wonderful stuff there is also a section on clothing [which i needed very badly] and one on colouring
overal this was just a fantastic book!!! it was extremely helpful to me and still is!!! i highly recomend getting this book as soon as u get the chance!!! u wont regret it!!! :]
[on one of the other reviews someone listed all the chapters included in the book, i suggest look through the list because i didnt list everthing that is covered!!! thank you (srry i dont remember who posted that review):)
sections i found extremely helpful:
haha well pretty much the whole book but especially the section on;
~balancing pose
~how the bones and muscles move and effect the body [shoulders, elbows, legs/hips...etc...]
~backbone [how it effects...well pretty much EVERYTHING]
~clothing [folds, thick/thin fabric, ...etc]
~shoulders [movement and blah]
~hands [movements and blah]
~feet [movemetns and blah]
~legs [movements and blah]
haha im like naming the whole book XD
well there is much more but thats all im saying for now :]
plz buys this book i promise it will be much help to u [well i hope it will be as much help to u as it was to me(if not more)!!!] :]
A great drawing book regardless of style. March 5, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Over the years I've slowly put together a sizable library of these How to Draw Manga books without even realizing it.
That being said, I'll be the first to admit that the usefulness of some of these books is kind of hit or miss. But the Manga Sketching books are fantastic drawing resources regardless of whether you want to draw in a Manga style or not.
This book is really more grounded in basic figure drawing techniques than other How to Draw Manga books that are largely caged in by the conventions of Japanese comic art. It's also a heftier book at being almost 60 pages longer than some of the other books in the series.
A major section of the book is dedicated to a broad survey of human anatomy, and I would say it does a better job on the subject than many books that focus strictly on anatomy for artists. There's 9 pages dedicated to the head & neck alone. And all of the examples feature the body in motion, which is far more helpful in seeing how the body fits together than a bunch of stiff poses.
Much of the rest of the text is about design tips to solidify the body type you're shooting for or "enhancing a sense of presence" as the manga books often put it, which boils down to creating more interesting, dynamic poses.
Good figure drawing has many basic principles, no matter what style is laid on top of it. "Sketching Manga Style" is a fantastic resource to have around.
Good Mid-Level Reference October 20, 2007
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
This book covers a modern technique used by professional artists. If you have no drawing experience whatsoever, this might not be a good place to start. Those who have spent some time learning basic techniques and can produce basic figures could will definitely profit from this book.
The brilliant part is complete sets of images showing pros creating a new drawing from scratch, with detailed notes on each step. Given sufficient talent, you could eliminate some steps and duplicate what the artists are doing to finish drawings faster.
However, by skipping directly to what the pros apparently do now, the beginning artist misses the building blocks of learning that those same pros went through to get where they are today. Generally a beginning book starts with simple shapes, basic anatomy, perspective, etc. Mastery of fundamentals gives an artist the freedom and capability to create any character and pose.
The analogy to this is the first impressionist master painters. Every one of them was first trained as a classical painter. Picasso could paint in photographic realism if he wanted. His mastery of the fundamentals made his cubist work great.
If you have the basics already, this is a wonderful reference, and I would recommend it to beginners as well so long as they also get references that teach fundamentals.
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