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How To Draw Manga: Pen & Tone Techniques

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Great book for basic information on materials and how to use them for the beginner manga/anime book illustrator, not for actual caracter creation.

The drawings inside the book looks scratchy to me at times. This book is basically about tone and pen techniques, like the book suggests. I personally don't think it's all that interesting. I think that a person would get pretty frustrated and annoyed with looking at this book for very long. If you really want to learn tone techniques, I would recommend Manga techniques" tone techniques for beginners vol 6. I think this book would be better suited for teaching someone tone techs, and it's easier on the eyes. All in all, I really wouldn't recommend How to draw manga pen and tone techniques for beginners or for those who are intermidiate. This book isn't all that great. For intermidiate to advanced manga-ka's, I would also recommend How to draw manga super tone techniques. As a warning, super tone techniques has alot of nudity and sexual content.

I had very low expectations for this book after reading some of the reviews, but I am pleased to say that this book is a great addition to an artist's reference library. I am a mostly digital artist, but was curious about the traditional technique of toning and had to start somewhere. This book goes about explaining traditional inking and toning in detail (shows the different tools used, how to hold the pens to achieve different stroke, .etc), but it goes about it in a simple, easy to follow way. For those who expect this book or any book to instantly make them excellent inkers and/or toners, please keep expectations to a realistic level; only practice and time will do that.

This installment in the How to Draw Manga series is another awesome edition in the series and really helps you in your desire to learn how to be a manga artist.

I like this artist and yeah I know that most of the time there are annoying characters that pop up in the book but jesus christ. This whole book is like a manga, not even a good manga, more like a retarded picture book with picture and people with odd proportions. There are some good info in there...somewhere but i really DONT recommend this book.