Customer Reviews

How To Draw Manga: Ultimate Manga Lessons Volume 1: Drawing Made Easy (How to Draw Manga (Graphic-Sha Numbered))

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The Good:

Compared to the other How to Draw Manga series, I would say this book was a summary of every book in the series. With multiple artists and varying styles, it offers a beginning artist a definite edge and foundation for drawing manga. Not only does it show a more stylized version of manga, and also shows a more realistic version. This was one of the more useful books for head angles. The heads are a variety of , high, low, and side angles. This is very useful for a beginning artist so that their work doesn't look dull or monotonous.

The Bad:

I somewhat felt a little ripped off when I saw the price for such a small book. Also, it seems as if this book doesn't go deeply into each specific section. It's more of a 'general' help book. For instance, if you want to know more about anatomy, I recommend buying the 'Bodies and Anatomy' book in the How To Draw Manga series. This book is more of a 'overall' book.

In conclusion, I'd recommend buying this book if I was a beginner or intermediate. You can always improve as an artist. Hope you found this helpful.

okay this is my first review ever so hang in there with me alright? Now I purchesed this book "How to Draw Manga: Ultimate Lessons vol. 1" mainly because I like the other HtDM books and I wanted to see what this had to offer me. When the book came I was expecting it to be as big as the other HtDM books. Boy was I wrong! it was as thick as the others but the hight and with were 'shorter' none the less the content of the book itself prooved to be of some help. The book itself starts off with the begining mini comic or 'manga' if you will then the table of contents, and then the actual material. The first chapter is all about the basics, starting with "practice by starting with copying" then it moves onto how to go and create your own charatures by showing you the basics of drawing (start with a rough general outline of blah blah blah then refine it and add detale blah blah blah). First they start with the head and face the move down to the torso, arms, and legs. In the book they also show examples of expressing emotions, depicting 'cool action poses', a little bit of sceanery, and how to properly hold your drawing tools. IN the book itself it says these are the goals it's trying to teach you:
1) The Basics of Faces
2) Basics of Figures
3) The ABC's of Tools ans Materials
4) Basic Background and Special Effect Techniques
and
5) Producing and Original Draft of Manga

In all it's a pretty helpful book; however it'll do you jack if you don't put it to use.. in other words keep on drawing. The book is only there to help you get ideas on how you may want it to look. It's not going to do it for you, or magically you'll be able to draw "manga" the instant after you read it.

Now I gave it 4 stars because for some reason I felt that it was lacking a little something in it.. other then that it's a great refference book for anyone, not just people who want to draw manga/anime, who wants to improve their drawing technique.

This was my very firt book my daddy bought me and let me tell you, he made a smart decision on buying How To Draw Manga: Ultimate Manga Lessons! This book is great for the basics of Manga.

My personal favorite was the deep detail the author went into when drawing the head. I also liked how the author clearly showed the differences on age of the child, protagonist, younger adult, mother, and an elder.

I would recommend this book to all ages, only one page with minor, let me repeat, MINOR nudity. Overall, this was a pretty great book.

How to draw Manga: Ultimate Manga Lessons Volume 1 is a good book to start with if you are trying to learn the art of drawing manga. This book covers almost all the basics and helped me alot. It tells you how to use different drawing materials and how to start drawing your own manga. It also showes you the differenses between male and female cheracters. Also as to be acspected in any how to draw manga book there is some mild nudity (but nothing that detailled). So alaround I think this is a very good book to start drawing manga with.-_-

This is a great book to start off with if you're new to drawing manga. It covers all the basics in a small travel-size package!

Objectives of this volume:
"The basics of faces, the basics of figures, the ABCs of tools and materials, producing an original draft of manga, and basic background and special effect techniques."

Get this book if you are new to drawing manga or you need something to refresh your memory. I'm going to list the contents so that you can get a better idea of what's in this book.

Contents:


Introduction
Objectives of This Volume

Chapter 1: Manga Basics
Part A: Learn by Copying
-Practice by Copying I
-Practice by Copying II
-What Can Be Learnt from Copying
Part B: The Basics in Drawing Faces
-The Oval Human Head
Part C: The Secret to Lines
Part D: Pen and Ink
-Holding the Pen
-Inking
-Drawing Pointy Lines
-Drawing with a Straightedge
Part E: The Basics in Paper Size
Part F: Other Tools and Materials
Part G: Steps to a Completed Manga
- 1. Devising a Story
- 2. Designing Characters
- 3. Deciding the Panel Layout
- 4. Sketching the Under Drawings
- 5. Inking the Artwork
- 6. Drawing Backgrounds and Special Effects
- 7. Drawing Effect Lettering
- 8. Erasing
- 9. Spotting Blacks
- 10. Doing Touch-ups
- 11. Attaching Tone
- 12, Final Touches
Wrap Up

Chapter 2: Basic Techniques in Character Depiction
Part A: Character Fundamentals
-Male vs. Female Characters
-Differentiating Age
Part B: Drawing Faces
-Distinguishing Age
-Making Characters Distinct
-Basic Techniques in Facial Expression
Part C: Drawing Figures
-Use Boxes and Spheres for the Body
-Skeletal Structure and Joints of the Trunk
-Differentiating a Male Figure from a Female Figure
-Posing Figures
-Drawing Figures in Action
Part D: Backgrounds
-Learning from Photographs
-Activity Settings
Part E: Special Effect Lines and Tones Basics
-The Two Common Types of Special Effect Lines
-Tone Effects
Wrap-up

Chapter 3: Manga Techniques Learnt from the Pros
Smiling Face/Happiness
Grinning/Making Eye Contact with the Reader
Unruffled, Dashing Face
Crying/Looking Back
Shut Eyes/Facing Down

After purchasing nearly every "How to Draw Manga" book in existence, I've finally found a series that delivers. The "Ultimate Manga Lessons" (UML from here on) series books may be smaller in dimension to their contemporaries but don't let that fool you, these books are packed full of useful materials for prospective and professional Manga artists.

Instead of focusing on a pornographic perspective often seen in other "How To Draw Manga" series, the UML books offer a refreshing view of the art itself.

"Drawing Made Easy" is excellent for beginners and a worthy companion handbook for intermediate-to-advanced artists. From describing the application and practice of varied-width lines (for internal details vs. external "contour" lines) to the differences in Manga-style gender features, this book presents a multitude of useful art techniques.

If you're serious about learning to draw Manga and wish to purchase a book that actually has useful advice in a well compiled and written fashion, the UML series is for you. There are currently six (6) books in this series (as of this writing) and I'd suggest purchasing them all.

"Drawing Made Easy" serves as a kind of "taster" that samples all material covered in the later books of the UML series.

Your Manga art will greatly benefit y by reading every book in this series in succession and referring to them when you're applying pen/pencil to paper.

This is the most amazing drawing book I have ever purchased. This book is extremely helpful, especially towards the end. It shows characters in different poses to help you learn how to draw them. It does suggest in the beginning to copy some of your favorite artists' work. I copied pictures out of my manga books and then tried to do something original, and I have improved greatly! GET THIS BOOK!!

This book is decent for what it has BUT i felt a little ripped off spending 60 bucks for a used book that was half the size of books half the price. on the back of the book it even says 13.95$ US too and somehow this book is now 100+$?