How to draw anime for beginner Vol 1 is designed to show how one can change their current cartoon style into anime style. It will teach you the basic concepts of drawing anime characters. This book is divided into three parts to make it easier for anyone to understand. The three parts are Anatomy, Basic and Advance Drawing, which contain over 150 pages of helpful hints and tips. It contains tutorial with both male and female chacarters. The "How to draw anime for beginner" video is based from this book, which can be downloaded free from the publisher's website. The book is written as simple as possible, therefore a beginner artist can easily learn the tricks of the trade. This book is 2nd printing.
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Le, Trung was raised in Omiya, Japan. He had spent most of his times drawing anime characters when he was younger.
Currently, he is working for anime game company.
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17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
An Abomination of an Art Instruction Book,
By Gary Chang (Placentia, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: How to Draw Anime for Beginner, Vol. 1: Male and Female Characters, English Edition (Paperback)
What I don't understand is how this book even got published...Sure, even if Trung grew up in Japan and worked "professionally" as an animation cel painter, that does not qualify him as a professional animator or manga artist in the first place. Even his cel painting portfolio does not demonstrate him as a proficient cel painter. His works exhibit every mistake that a "fan artist" would in their works, such as the misalignment of the eyes, the crooked facial shape, the part of the back of the head in three-quarters view looking as if though it had been lopped off by an unfortunate accident. If Trung wants to demonstrate the differences between the male and female body proportions, he needs to make the proportional differences more prominent. The female pelvis is larger than her torso, and does not look the same as the man having his male torso larger than his pelvis. As for the lines, he should at least demonstrate some confidence in his drawings by having them cleaned up instead of having them so sketchy (or hairy). His lines don't deomonstrate weight (where the soft skin is pressed against the hard surfaces of a chair or the floor) and the figures start looking like they are floating in midair. His hand drawings should follow the natural proportions of a human's hands, the lines should follow the natural logic of the muscles and bones that weave in and out to form the hand. The clavicles (collar bones) don't follow the body logically at the angles that he is drawing his figures. The figures look like they are half posing straight towards you and half posing at three-quarters angle. He needs a lot more work on drawing the pelvis and how the waist and legs are grafted onto the pelvis. They look like some 2D paper cut-outs from the South Park series. Trung's drawings lead me to conclude he is the type of artist that des not take criticisms from others well. He would have definitely shown some kind of maturity in his style otherwise. I can go on forever about everything that is wrong about his drawings but I only have a limit as to how much I can write. I can recommend would-be artists to pick this book up from an outside retailer and peruse through it; see for yourselves if this book is worth your [money].
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
good for beginners only...,
By Jonathan C Mann (Decatur, Ga. USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: How to Draw Anime for Beginner, Vol. 1: Male and Female Characters, English Edition (Paperback)
when i opened this book, i was dissapointed to find that my skill surmounted that of Trung Le (the author). This book is reccomended for beginners only, but for those it would be extremely helpful. here's what this book will teach you: how to draw eyes, and all other facial features. How to make heads and hair, from several angles. it;s got a pretty in-depth section on drawing bodies, really everything you'd need to know. the body section was very useful to me. there is also and extensive clothing section about folds, which was also helpful to me. it has a section of emotions, and a very brief lesson in shading. the biggest problem in this book is the way it teached you. it's like being tuaght addition by only knowing that 2+2=4. the book tells you what to do, but not why. overall, i suggest you buy this book only if you are both a complete beginner and a good learner.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
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By Keith (his house) - See all my reviews
This review is from: How to Draw Anime for Beginner, Vol. 1: Male and Female Characters, English Edition (Paperback)
Ok, I'm not a real anime enthusiast, though I was into it when I bought this. It gives you an ok grasp of the basics, but it seems a bit out-dated.If you're begginer, get it, if your not, don't, because you'll probably be above this books level. Also, warning to those few... There is a warning in this book which I think I should tell those few who think they can be an anime artist over night... The book says that it can take years to be good at this stuff, so, just feeling like warning you...
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