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Manga for the Beginner: Everything You Need to Start Drawing Right Away!

Author: Christopher Hart
Brand: Random House
Category: Book

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Seller: CRC Family Books
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

12 reviews
Sales Rank: 17021

Media: Paperback
Pages: 192
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 8.4 x 0.5

MPN: GKW40935
ISBN: 0823030830
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.51
EAN: 9780823030835
ASIN: 0823030830

Publication Date: August 5, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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•	ISBN13: 9780823030835
•	Condition: New
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Product Description

Super size, super value! Complete tutorial packed with Chris Hart's step-by-steps. Top-selling subject, top-selling author more than 600,000 Manga Mania copies sold!

Christopher Hart's got manga, and he wants to share it with all his millions of readers especially the beginners. With Manga for the Beginner, anyone who can hold a pencil can start drawing great manga characters right away.

Using his signature step-by-step style, Hart shows how to draw the basic manga head and body, eyes, bodies, fashion, and more. Then he goes way beyond most beginner titles, exploring dynamic action poses, special effects, light and shading, perspective, popular manga types such as animals, anthros, and shoujo and shounen characters.

By the end of this big book, the new artist is ready to draw dramatic story sequences full of movement and life.

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
978-0-8230-3083-5

Customer Reviews:

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good for manga fans, not good for serious beginners August 29, 2010
lin
this book has a lot of information on different genre of mangas, which lead me to believe its good for manga fans..but it offers little actual teaching of techniques on how to draw them..it was useful but somehow i wish the book talked a little less about animals and vampire mecha fighters and more on how to draw a regular manga person

3 out of 5 stars

Not for the beginner August 27, 2010
Sebastiao

This is a very good book for someone who mastered the basics and now want to spice up his/her drawing skills. But don't be fooled into thinking it will teach you how to draw, it won't.

5 out of 5 stars

Perfect for all levels July 14, 2010
kitten
This book is good for all levels. I have
other books on the subject but this one
is one of my favorites. The drawings
are well done and the instructions are easy
to understand. And it covers many different
areas of drawing manga not just one. I recommend
this book to those who are learning to draw and
those who want to get better at it.

4 out of 5 stars

Good book July 10, 2010
Veronica Vallarta (Laredo, TX USA)
The book didn't have exactly what I expected but it starts out with some really great tips. It also shows you the difference between beginner, intermediate, and advanced artists for some poses. Only reason it's missing one star is because it wasn't what I expected but it is great and it offers a lot. I glanced through the book but I don't use it myself, my little sister does. She says it has helped her in her manga. It's given her new ideas aside from tips on improving her art.

5 out of 5 stars

Impressive resource. For beginners and more advanced illustrators June 15, 2010
J. J. Marino (Rochester, New York)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

A big fan here of Manga and just about all of the Japanese styles of art. I watch several shows regularly from Full Metal Alchemist to Bleach. When I was younger I watched tons of _Anime_ programs too. So, its been a dream of mine to draw Manga in some form or another for quite some time. When I bought this book I was unsure how it would be helpful.

On my own drawing Manga has been less than successful. With this book I have improved my faces, bodies and hair more than I could have through practice alone.

The book covers the basics all the way up to perspectives in scenes and more. If you are even a little bit interested in drawing manga and like self help books then this book should not be passed up. It is a true treasure for the beginner up to the more advanced illustrator.

Accessories:
If you are going to be drawing on a tablet on your PC I recommend Manga Studio EX 4 (Win/Mac) for software and Wacom Intuos4 Medium Pen Tablet for the tablet. Don't bother with the Debut program of Manga Studio if you think you are going to get into this at all. I use Manga Studio to draw all of my line art sketches and illustrations.

If you are going to be drawing on paper, do yourself a favor and go to a real art store. Get good paper, HB or harder pencils and a VERY good eraser. Also get a set of .01 up to 1.0 pens. It will help you with your illustration.

Thats it, good luck with this great art form!

Thanks for reading my review.

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