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Comickers Art: Tools and Techniques for Drawing Amazing Manga

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For anyone who's just starting out drawing manga style, this book provides useful information on colouring.

Different colouring tools are introduced. Each are explained on their characteristics and tips on using them.

The featured artists in this series are Saya Iwasaki, Hiroki Mafuyu, Ayumi Kasai, Hamlet Okinawa, Renji Murata, Kim Jyung-Tae and Houden Eizo. These artists goes through tips on their colouring process with their tools: markers, coloured ink, water colour, acrylic paint and digital colouring. These are step by step tutorials with detailed captions.

Additionally, there are Q&A interviews with some of the artists.

Right at the end is a gallery containing illustrations created from a variety of medium. These are from other manga artists.

This book is a great book for beginners. Experts might learn something new too, especially on exploring new colouring techniques and medium.

(More pictures are available on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)

For the title of my review...I believe it helps to know who this is good for. This is based soley on my own personal view of my ability, so that you may gauge it for yourself.

I am a self taught artist and believe I need no further skill development in many areas of artistic creation. That said, Comickers Art is a great book and worth the money I paid for it.

This book covers the basics of many materials, styles, procedures and methods. It is great information for those who already have a good foundation in artistic talent but are always on the lookout to learn the ways of others in hopes of being more efficient, or just learning new ways.

Comickers Art books are for refining skills and knowledge and is not meant to teach you how to draw. These books showcase beautiful and genuine artwork and talent from the east.

This amazing book increase artists' knowledge by informing them of varies materials that artists can use. It provide wonderful instructions and illustrations. I'm speechless at the detail. I recommend this to anyone who is interested in art (or generally anyone).

It has nice printing of all the works bot is not actualy TEACHING something, good to look at, but not quite what I was looking for, I wanted more intructions, tecnical knowlage, not just looking at the nice work someone else acomplished.
It gives a good advice on what to buy do... unusual material and popular one in the artistic medium.

I was very excited to get this book, hoping to learn to color better. However the instructions were pretty useless considering how bad the translation was... I can only guess from the picture what the artist is doing..... this is quite frustrating... very.... The only redeeming quality is the beautiful artworks contained in these pages. My advice is - if you're seriously trying to learn to color don't get this book, or if you can decipher the cryptic english get it! I really wish I know Japanese! >sigh<

This is a great work. It is not a how to draw book, but a good introduction to some tools used in color art by various artists. I like this book.

I was surprise to find the book in great condition.This book have wonderful Asian illustrations and it guides you with what art mediums to use. This book is truly for artist and fans of Manga art.