Customer Reviews

Kids Draw Anime

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It was'nt that helpful to me, but the book is specificly about teaching YOUNGER kids how to draw. I am SO sorry if the book dosn't teach you how to draw REFINED manga, becouse once agian the book if for younger kids. I dunno, I just had to blab about that.
This book is good. It tells you how to draw manga eyes, exaturated emotions, manga noses, hands, feet, alittle bit on the body, "action line", good guys and bad guys, little bit on anime robots, anime animals, little bit(very small)on the martial arts and some more advanced characters with how-to-draw steps and subsections for all that. 3 different artists drawing in this book and it's 64 pages. Theres nothing immoral in this book, and I think its a good primer. I recomend this book for people ages 7 to 10.

I found this book at my local library and decided to see what this book was about after seeing all the reviews on amazon about this book. When I got home I starteded reading it, I realized that this book was not anime. I am a big anime and manga fan so I could tell. Christopher Hart can't draw anime correctly, his drawings are to american and not the japanese type ( like anime or manga is supposed to be). If you want to buy this book let me just tell you that you aren't drawing anime, you're drawing a cross between anime- and american cartooning. Which isn't really anime at all, so if you buy this book and give it to your kid, they'll think they're really drawing anime but aren't. for kids who just want to draw go ahead and buy this book. But if you seriously want to draw manga or anime i suggest a book by Hikaru Hayashi in his how to draw series which are accurate but somethimes not for younger kids.

I picked this up in hope that it would show me some simple anime techniques, IE chibi etc, but it's not only badly drawn and poorly explained, it's also nothing like anime. Do not get this book, it also teaches nothing. Get How to draw Manga, or for younger kids, The Art Of Creating and Drawing anime women/action series's.

My 8 year old daughter received this as a Christmas gift five months ago, and it is wonderful! It's challenging but attainable drawing. Too often, art books are WAY too "kiddy" and cartoony with too little flavor, or way too complicated and mature. This is great for my daughter- it's neither *kiddy* nor too mature. She is a self-motivated artist, and I have seen a definite improvement in her skill from her trying to emulate the style and forms in this book.

This is definitely for kids, but it's not too easy and cartoony, and I don't care whether it's true anime or not. If my daughter ends up caring what *real* anime is, then she'll pursue it seriously, and not in a kids' art book.

I just to a glips this book and I look at it and thought "anime?!" the answer was no. It was to cartoony.Yes it's a could book to draw cartoons but not anime. For instance look at Salior moon, Rayearth or Yu-gi-oh then look at this book do the look a like? If you want to learn real anime don't get this book you could get better ones for less. THIS IS A NOTE IF YOUR THINKING ABOUT GETTING ANY OF HIS MANGA MANIA BOOKS when you see the great art on the front it isn't his he hires people to do a whole chunk of the book and the front and back of the book for him then like only a small amount is his work and on the front of the book it says the book was by him. What did he do besides put no-anime charaters in it?! That's what I'm still trying to find out.
Back to this book if you can see the front of the book doesn't look good on the cover. If the covers bad isn't the book going to be the same? So If you want to learn anime I recemend
books that at least look like anime.

Nice and simple, without too much information all at once, this how-to-draw book is a great start for younger kids, 6-10. It sets up the right drawing habits, starting from basic shapes and lines and "building out" the image from rough to polished. Much like writers have several drafts, so do illustrators and animators. This progressive process is essential to good drawing. If you are older than 10, or if you have finished this book and are ready for the next level, I recommend the Tezuka series 1 and 2 Animation books, if you are interested in animation or Christopher Hart's Anime Mania for more drawing techniques.

in my opinion, this is too kiddish for anyone who wants to become serious. If you are a young (high elemntary are lower middle school) and are tying to start out with good instructions, i would sujust the books by katy coope, how to draw manga, and how th draw more manga.

There isn't enough step by step instuction. Its a goof-off and a terrible excuse for a instuction booklet. I think that it's okay if you had maybe one or two classes to learn to draw, but for a complete and total beginner...Let's just say I got better direction from free sites on the web.

This book was great and I learned how to do a lot, but there are still many books to teach me stuff I don't know.

First of all it should be titled "Kids draw Manga" not "Kids draw Anime" because Anime and Manga are different and what this book teaches is considered as manga but anyway this wouldn't even be considered manga or anime because it's just way to bad and crappy. I mean don't even waste your time or money with this book, better yet go find it at your local library. I love to draw manga and anime and when I flipped through this book me and my friends, we were pissed off because it's an embarrassment. So not beginners or anyone above that. This is mainly for kids under the age of 7 or something.