Paperback: 118
Publisher: Graphic-Sha Publishing (2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 4889960422
ISBN-13: 978-4889960426
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This book is a wonderful start-to-finish guide for drawing manga. (What
this book is *not* is a step-by-step guide for drawing anime/manga
characters -- for that, get the related Drawing Anime and Game
Characters series.) It goes over the processes of professional mangakas
gdtting published, usings pens and tones, planning a story, designing
characters, drawing faces and bodies, creating a manga-type mood,
drawing dynamic scenes, all with the aid of a mini-manga of "Mr.
Mangaka" and all his assistants acting everything out for your personal
enjoyment. I have never, ever encountered any book, online or in print,
that covers so professionally such a wide range of topics. (Someone
noted correctly that this book requires a little bit of talent and
practice on your part -- after all, it's a "how to draw manga" book, not
a "how to draw halfway decent" book, so supposedly you already have
some interest in drawing and anime to even take a second look at this
book.)
The rest of the How to Draw Manga series is specilization; this
book was all-encompassing. If you get no others from this series, get
this book, if you seriously want to draw pro manga right away.
However,
this book has one weakness, and, unfortunately, it's huge: the
translation. I happen to have access to the Japanese version and all I
can say is... dang, the English version hurts. The diction is off on
every page, the grammar has shadows of Japanese syntax, the fonts
(Chicago and Arial, everything!) and the spacing are horrendous, and
most rules of layout and white space management are thrown out the
window -- making that aspect of the book look amateurish. They didn't
even doctor the SFX correctly -- in some places they are whited out with
no attempt to clone the background, leaving ugly white holes, and the
English SFX they replace them with (if any) are bizarre and stilted, and
usually in a stupid font like Chicago.... In other places the SFX are
left completely untouched -- left in Japanese, so those who can't read
katakana can scratch their heads in confusion. (As stated in the book,
SFX contribute heavily to the mood. In this case, they fracture it .)
Conclusion:
Would have been a 5 star if the translation was done better...even
slightly so. However, the content is sooo good that it's still
completely worth getting the book -- unless you know Japanese and can
easily get the Japanese version, in which case, go for the original by
all means.
(Warning: there is some mild H (perverted) content on
less than half a dozen pages -- nothing much, PG+ or PG-13 tops, and
nothing at all compared to the nudity and more offensive poses that can
appear in the other books of this series.... In any case, just a heads
up.)
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