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Japanese Comickers: Draw Anime and Manga Like Japan's Hottest Artists

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This is great for the artist who already has a working knowledge of their own style, but needs a little help and inspiration to get their coloring and composition techniques down. Instead of trying to shove formulaic anime style down my throat, it exposed me to fourteen distinct styles and let me see the process of these artists, instead of urging me to draw and color exactly like them. It's only flaw is it assumes the reader already has a working knowledge of artist tools and programs - but it was probably aimed towards a serious student of art, not people that need help learning how big to make their anime-eyes, or how their cat girls should look. Oh, and another plus-side: No cat girls. Thank you!

This book is not making any assumptions about whether you are a complete novice or supposed expert. It is a book illustrating the artwork from Eastern artists within a certain framework of style.

This is not one of those faux anime/manga ripoff books, so appreciate it as that. Any artist or aspiring artist should embrace originality and shun those forms of plagiarism.

The book contains varying art styles from various artists and delivers with it a complete tutorial. If you have taken an art class in high school, this should be a fine extension in learning and expanding your knowledge on how to capture and achieve similar ability. If you are only old enough to be in elementary or middle school, then this may indeed be slightly vague.

You cannot get much simpler than seeing the following: rough sketch, final sketch, fill colors, highlights/shadows/contrasts, colorizing, and then to fine tuning. The only way you'd get more is from actually watching video. This is a book and it delivers.

Get the Japanese Comickers and Comickers Art series books for some great tutorials and displays of genuine NON rip off art.

This book allows you see the awesome pictures of Japan's artist and see how they do a picture step by step,The steps are simple and i think anyone could do it. I recommend it if your an amurture artist or pro. Also wanted to say the pictures in this book are beautiful and shouldnt be missed, great book to have on the shelf! I havent found one like it yet!

14 young talented artists showcase a brief selection of their works in different mediums. The books features mainly the anime/manga style, of which character design and/or fantasy theme is the key inspiration.

If you are planning to purchase this book 'cuz the title declares 'Draw anime & manga like Japan's hottest artists', and you are a beginner artist or step-by-step learner or plain want to copy the form exactly, be prepared for disappointment. This book may offer some insight to the artists working processes, but very general tutorials are given, it takes seasoned artists to be able to somewhat mimick the steps. Good for reference or if you wanna poke your nose about the 'how-to's... seriously which artist/designer will so willingly offer their trade secrets to the public? Of which, the glossary sometimes baffles me because the entries are either redundant or don't carry much interest.

However, I like this book, its a good reference for inspiration, especially for the various ways to experiment with the anime genre; as well as full colored graphics on glossy pages. Sadly there are no descriptions for the artworks done but oh well it is reasonable for the $16 price tag amazon.com offers I guess.

I bought this book with the intention of knowing more techniques with regard to the coloring process, something I'm struggling with. And indeed it seems to be what this book focuses on. If you you buy it because you want to learn how to draw, this book will NOT show you how to do that. This book assumes that you already finish your preliminary drawing and want to know more tips with coloring and polishing. And honestly, even if the tips shown are not useful, I still love the book because of the beautiful gallery for each artist included. So, if you are a beginner who wants to learn more about the basics, this book is probably not for you. Overall, I think it's worth buying if you're interested in learning more about artist's style and working flow, or just to have a book with beautiful illustrations.

I was maybe expecting more in-depth or explicit explanation of the process the artists used. It's not really as bad as I might be portraying it but I was hoping for more.

Certainly a good selection of artists and methods. It's still neat to see the process from start to finish.

The illustrations are great, but the so-called step by step, is actually from black and white to coloured. If you are looking for a book to learn how to draw Japanese style animation characters, keep looking. But if you are looking for a cool Japanese animation art reference book, this will be a good choice.

this has some beautiful art in it. it also has some ugly art.... if thats what you can call it. but it does show you each artist's technic if not how they did each peice. so if you like anima and photoshop look into it. oh, thats what you are doing? well i gave it 4 stars didnt i. maybe three.... but i have had a good day.

An avid Manga and Anime fan, I'd do anything to be able to create beautiful Manga characters, or even practice the technique used to eventually create a more personal character style. I had hoped this book would sort of "take-me-by-the-hand" and teach me how to start sketching manga characters before anthing else. But, it's more or less copying rendering and coloring techniques.

the artwork published is neverthless impressive.