Book Review: How to Draw Manga: Sketching Manga-Style: Volume 3 Unforgettable Characters

How to Draw Manga: Sketching Manga-Style: Volume 3 Unforgettable Characters

Volume 3 is more of a figure drawing book than on character design. Figure drawing is taught in volume 1 and 2 but is given more focus here. It teaches posing and drawing the body from different angles, studying the neck, shoulders, arms and legs through full figure drawings.

There are a couple of step-by-step guided tutorials, including a coloured tutorial on creating the cover. The artists whose work are featured are Hikaru Hayashi, Takehiko Matsumoto and Kazuaki Morita. As usual, the examples are accompanied by loads of drawing tips. Unfortunately, most of the characters look rather similar because of their face shape, with only the most visual facial difference being the hairstyle. The section on clothing and composing the characters within manga panels are thin.

It's a good book that expands on what the previous two books covered on figure drawing. The goal here is to help create more lively poses.

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This book is available at all Page One bookstores, and should be stocked by Basheer Graphic Books also. ISBN: 9789812459336

If you know German, they have the whole series in German and available on Amazon.de

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It seems that the series was originally published by Graphic-Sha Publishing but now out of print and selling at crazy prices on Amazon. Page One is now publishing the books now.

This book is available at all Page One bookstores, and should be stocked by Basheer Graphic Books also. ISBN: 9789812459336

There's a German edition How To Draw Manga: Manga-Figuren entwickeln selling on Amazon Germany.

Comments

...should be stocked by Basheer Graphic Books...
I wonder when(I hope it'll be really soon ;) )

been looking for this book for a long time now, no one has it in stock and the the only places that do sell it for over 100 meseta :( even ebay

I asked Basheer Graphics Books. They selling these books for 38 Singapore Dollars (~31$). I wanted to order 2 of them but shipment to central Europe costs 50 SGD(~41$) (The Freight Charges).
I'm asking for FedEx or sth cheaper now besause when I bought another book from Japan I paid only 1000JPY(~12,5$) for shipment ... and Singapore is closer to Europe ...

regarding purchase of this parcticular Vol, I've checked out Page One's website but only Vol.1 seems to be out.

I'm from Australia and I really want to get this. Did daemonofpain email them or something? (Basheer books) and is facebook apperently the best way to or through Basheer books or something?

Looking forward to your reply.

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