How To Draw Manga [Paperback]

Katy Coope (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 7 and up

Edgy Janpanese manga style of art jumps off the pages of this dynamic step-by-step drawing book written and illustrated bu a manga super-fan, teenage Katy Coope.

Sixteen-year-old author and illustrator Katy Coope has turned her love of Japanese comic art into a super-cool, step-by-step process for kids. Easy-to-follow with its oversized format and accessible text and pictures, this how-to-draw book will find an audience with fans of anime, manga, and all building comic-book artists. Includes chapters on Getting Started, Faces, Expressions, Bodies, Finishing Touches, and Materials.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 7 and up
  
• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Tangerine Press (July 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0439317452
• ISBN-13: 978-0439317450
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.9 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (54 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #653,603 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #73 in Books > Children's Books > Arts, Crafts & Music > Art > Cartooning

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61 of 67 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Please don't buy this book for your children., August 31, 2006

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Tish T. Doolin "i draw, okay" (Georgia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How To Draw Manga (Paperback)

If your children are in any way serious about being good at drawing manga - or drawing, period - this is NOT the book to buy for them. I can only assume books like this come about because some clueless publisher has a 13 year old daughter who "draws anime", because this is not up to what any sane person would consider publishable "how-to-draw" book standards. Anatomy? Not important here, not even stylized anatomy. Proportions? What are these "pro-por-ti-ons" you speak of? This book sure doesn't know. It disturbs me that so many how-to-draw manga books are illustrated by people who, frankly, need one of these books themselves. Don't doom your children to hours of failure and frustration.

This book is absolutely awful. Look elsewhere.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars ..., April 4, 2009

A Kid's Review

This review is from: How To Draw Manga (Paperback)

Okay, this book, is just awful. The characters are just TOO demented, and you do not draw blush lines on every expression of a character. There's a reason why it's called BLUSH lines.
Next, this book lies. In manga, color pencils are NOT the main untencil for coloring. Geez, don't tell people incorrect things.
And so, today, I watch my "How to Draw Manga" Collect dust on the shelves. Serves that book right. Don't waste your money, people. ._.''

16 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not typically for beginners, December 23, 2005

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cube (St. Louis, MO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How To Draw Manga (Paperback)

There are only two American artists in the profession that are great at mastering the japanese style of manga and Katy Coope is not one of them. If you are serious of wanting to draw manga or you want to learn the correct technique of drawing manga then I suggest you focus more on the Japanese "How To Draw Manga" books. Don't go in a panic...they are not in Japanese but in English. So I would look up "How To Draw Manga" or go to howtodrawmanga.com for better books than this because this book is a BIG diappointment to maga and anime.