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How To Draw Manga Volume 29: Putting Things In Perspective (v. 29)

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This is the book to get if you want to learn perspective. It doesn't just teach you 1st ,2nd, and 3rd point perspective but also shows you how to draw slopes (up & down), forked roads, indoor and outdoor scenes, stairs, and the very important how to draw the relative size from one object to another.More specifically, it touches on the basics - standing on the earth, drawing the outdoors, distance of natural objects, drawing indoor scenes, how to draw backgrounds, and special effects and character representation using perspective.

I noticed an error in one of the examples but other than that, this book is highly recommended for budding or intermediate artist's whether you're interested in making manga or not. Getting your character to fit with the surroundings is key even when making pin-ups.

..Other than what other reviewers have mentioned, I was a little disappointed the style of the inside manga had more of a butch 80's feel - the faces were uneven; didn't have wonderfully clean lines. The cover on the front gives you the impression (unless you know better) that THAT is the artist, or at least the drawing style.

But like what everyone has mentioned, it is a good book on teaching you persepective. It's just some things may distract you from the lesson at hand (if you're picky).

This is an overall good book for learning perspective except unless you happen to be a professional some of the tools they suggest to create various effects and your supplies consist of a paper and a pencil it doesn't do you a lot of good. One example is when they tell you how to clouds which requires scratching away at your tones. It was greatly helpful in one way in that there was more than I expected on the various point persepectives. For example, when drawing characters of different height, it shows you how to make people not "float" or "sink" on the perspective plane when drawing them. It was also very specific on the relative height of someone to the door or rail, etc. giving exact heights in cm. It's one of those that's very specific for several things so more than likely there'll be a section that's just what you needed: forked roads, bushes..
Most of it wasn't overall wasn't real useful but would have some specific section what was greatly so. I particularly liked the section on where they talk about dividing all people according to a specific head length and "then" dividing it by six or seven head lengths you wanted which is something I would have never thought of.Well, you'd have to see it probably to understand what I'm talking about. The book tells you how to draw peerspectives outside, of stairs, classroom desks inside furniture, streets, below and above buildings etc.
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Having trouble with that woodland scenery? Is your metropolis going crooked with the horizon? Then this book shows the easy tricks of the Manga world to get you going on the right track and in no time you'll be amazed at how easy it is to create those effects that manga fans drool over on the screen!

The team that put this perspective book together needs to get an award. I have read and gotten several perspective books and by far this book is the most easy to understand. You're not overburdened with tons and tons of word explanations, just visual examples which are easy to follow. Any young or amateur artist will GAIN from this book...period.

I love this book because it talks about perspective and gives detailed examples and advice on composition.
It even gives you info on the placement of characters in a scene. It's the best book out of the entire How to Draw Manga series. It's even useful for people who don't care for manga. I couldn't recommend it enough.

This is a very practical look at perspective construction as often seen in comics.

There's little to no theory here; it's pretty much just hands-on, how-to, examples & info. I like the visual style & design. Here's my breakdown of the contents:

*Likes... It gets right into common comics scenes & views, outdoors & indoors. One-point, two-point, and three-point perspectives are covered, with an emphasis mainly on single-point views. A few methods of perspective distortion are included here for a stylized effect. I especially like the vertical two-point view on page 57. Putting figures in perspective is constantly emphasized.

*Dislikes... One-point perspective dominates here. As mentioned, other views are depicted, but single-point construction is clearly the main emphasis. Maybe this keeps things simple, but in my opinion, it's somewhat visually repetitive. I was also surprised that little to no info is provided in drawing vehicles in correct perspective, something most books will at least somewhat briefly address.

It features both pencil & ink drawings, with a few cityscape photos, and it's entirely black & white. I think it's worth checking out, if you can find a decent price.

I really enjoyed reading this drawing book. It was very helpful in teaching me how to draw from different perspectives. I believe that both novices and experts could learn some things from this book.

But it does little to get you involved other than showing you examples and the style isnt very charming. In fact the style is kind of blah. The backgrounds you learn in this book though with the perspective make it worth the purchase.

Excellent book, teaches all the camera angles, and the horizon with vanishing points and different type of perspectives (mostly buildings) it even shows how to draw props for backgrounds, like trees, clouds, water and so forth. It also has a section for drawing character props and how to place them in scenes with characters, and it even has manga symbols that are seen in manga books or tv shows to depict action, a must have book for any aspiring artist even tough it says how to draw manga.