Customer Reviews

How To Draw Manga Volume 13: Super Tone Techniques (How to Draw Manga (Graphic-Sha Unnumbered)) (v. 13)

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As an aspiring artist of manga style, I bought this addition to the How to Draw Manga series. It was helpful in many places, considering before I didn't really understand what tone was. The tips and tricks are quite nifty, and the book comes with a few sheets of tone to practice with. Unkaku Koyama does a great job explaining the hows and whys.

But my main gripe with the book is in someplaces, it appears to be a How to Draw Hentai. He often shows tone as applied to extremely detailed ... female bodies. The section on how to apply tone to simulate leather is downright dirty. I guess the tip-off should be the flash of [underwear] on the cover, but I didn't notice that when I bought it, and was extremely surprised when I started reading.

Overall, highly recommended for people who need help with tone and don't mind somewhat explicit images. Also, those looking for tips on applying tone to male characters had best look elsewhere. There are three male figures in the entire 135 pages, and what appears to be a man's hand shoving a young girl onto the floor. For all of you who need help with tone and do mind explicit images, I'd suggest avoiding specifically pages 45, 51, 52, 84, 85, and 87.

This book is very helpful in explaining the use of tones for dramatic shots, overlapping techniques, etc. However, this books is definitely not for the younger aspiring artist. As the previous reviewer mentions, the book presents some very graphic and risqué imagery that is reminiscent of hentai. I would highly recommend the other book in the How To Draw Manga series (Pen & Tone Techniques) if this book is meant for a younger audience, or if you are offended by such material.

I got to preview this book from a friend before buying it myself. I can draw manga well, but I have no experience with tone, and I want to use it in my work efficiently. My one problem is there are maybe 2 dudes in the whole book, and all the rest are girls. Plus, some of these girls show way too much skin, and in frightening detail! The author even quotes how to do nipples properly, naming the different parts or whatnot. Plus, there's some times when it looks like footage was taken from an extremely dirty adult doujin (fan-work). If you can get past all of the panty shots and topless girls galore (plus an entire page spread on shower scenes) it's a decent way to learn some good tone techniques to give your manga extra sparkle. But DEAR GOD is it graphic! I can only assume the artist had a lot of fun while doing this volume...

been using tone for 2 years now, and even living here in japan. i can tell you i have yet to see many tone books, well maybe 2 others under i.c. screen. and they were not really that good either. but this book tells you how to do some sweet effects, picks up where how to manga vol.3 left off, so if you use tone, and want to have a look like the japanesse comics, i would say not getting this book is a mistake.