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Let's Draw Manga: Sexy Gals

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Well, I've reviewed this book since I got it recently, and I do have to criticize it a little. Overall, the layout of the book is decent, but it unfortunately assumes the the reader is already acquainted with art in general, and manga in specific. To be precise, the author starts out strong, but dumps the reader into the artwork with little to no explanation of the female body beyond some generalizations. He does cover structure of the female body, and the rear of the book covers guidelines as well.

The artwork inside is above average, but looks hurried. In particular, some of the pieces of art look slightly out of proportion to the rest of the body. The author seems to take a point of view on drawing sexy gals from a sexual standpoint. People, this book is NOT for those under 13. And I'd have some trouble suggesting it to anyone not mature enought to realize this is an ART book, not a HOW TO DRAW SEX book.

Otherwise, this is a laudable effort. It covers odd or hard to draw poses not ususally covered in other books, and it also has a section on drawing couples. Women are drawn in an unrealistic, but commonly drawn, style. A large number of more adult manga and anime are drawn using similar style, so this is a good introduction to the genre of Ecchi or Hentai artwork. It also has application in other genres as well, so don't take it as a cheaply made book about how to make forgettable storylines or how to draw over-developed scantily-clad women.

Finally, a word of caution. As I mentioned before, this book deals with sex and sexual themes. Definitely not for minors. For anyone who is looking to expand their range of poses, brush up on new ways of drawing women (and some men), or even those simply hoping to broaden the range of their potential, this book will do nicely.

Before I say anything, NOT FOR THE CHILDREN! This book will teach you a lot about the anatomy of seductive girls, I am a pretty experienced artist and normally I go for more modest approach, but this book was the perfect tutorial for me as far as this genre goes. Not a beginner book, but if you know your material and can produce good pieces then this book is for you. And there was this very good mini comic through out the book, Anyone who is mature in the "field" will enjoy the story the comic tells as well

So based on the other negative reviews, I assumed that their primary objection was the lewd content: that there were sexually explicit poses and gratuitous depiction of female genitalia. And I was okay with that; I am a grownup adult person and I'm not going to be scandalized by cartoon sex happenings, I was interested in this book because I could stand to be better at drawing idealized pin-up ladies. And so I downloaded it to my iPad's Kindle app.

Lesson learned? Preview everything on Kindle before I pay for it. This book is a crime.

The artwork in this book is terrible. And I don't mean the content is terrible, I mean the technical execution of the drawings is just fundamentally flawed. You will learn nothing useful about how to draw women from this book. Legs are jointed oval shapes, breasts flat circles, the construction is slovenly, and none of the artwork in this book is informed in any meaningful way by actual human anatomy.

Avoid Let's Draw Manga: Sexy Gals. It will damage your drawing ability.

This item is a good buy for drawing sexual and provacative anime and manga it is good for drawing echi manga.

I recently ordered (and returned) this book. As the title and cover art would suggest, this is a Manga drawing book. However, when it arrived there may have been one or two pages of actual manga drawings. The rest were drawings of old classic cartoon style work to something you'd see in a Batman comic book. If you're looking for a book on improving your manga artwork, then I would not recommend this book.

Purchased this book because I've been impressed with others from the series, though the subject matter for most of the other titles I've purchased has been more of a kids style anime, like giant fighting robots and pet monster stuff. Figured I'd try and flesh out my collection, so I bought it, think it would be like some of the other series I've purchased and discuss the methods of how to draw the female form in an appealing way.

But when the book arrived, I opened it up and found an basic discussion of how to draw sex and masturbation. None of the preview material I viewed on Amazon mentioned this part of the book. Found out afterwards I should have read the customer reviews. This book was disappointing, and I would not recommend if for anyone, and definitely not it's target audience of 13-18 year olds. Its just misleadingly designed, and should have been more appropriately marked.

I have several different books of Manga drawing, some great and some not so great. I put this one near the upper third on that scale. Not much in the way of new techniques or insights, but solid stuff never the less. I would say if you can get this book for a good price (under $13 or so) it is worth the investment.

While I did read this books previous reviews I still found myself quite surprised by it 's content; along side frequent nudity it contained groin shots, a chapter on drawing love scenes and even a short bonus manga about a couple having sex complete with mosaics. It's worst quality however is it's art which I would most certainly not consider to be above average but in fact amateurish at best the only time it really shined was in it's chapter on faces.

#1. THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR CHILDREN!!!
This book has very "desciptive" pictures. If you need examples of how to draw the female body, such as breasts,hips,thighs and bootys this book has plenty for you. There are many pages which shows pictures that could be considered PG-17. This book is good for examples of hair,eyes,lips,and the body. There isn't much "step-by-step" instructions but there are plenty of pictures which makes up for that. If you are looking for sexy outfits and sexy gals you won't find too many.... BUT if your looking to learn to increase your overall knowledge of how to draw the female body and provocative situational pictures this is the book for you. I can say if you practice drawing what you see in this book, you will be very good at drawing females.
This book had many pictures which helped me alot.

its a good book if your trying to make a hentai or ecchi manga, it covers the female body, facial expressions, drawing various erotic hard to draw angles, and love-making scenes..
its rated Mature, not for kids...
all and all i got some info out of this book like how to draw certain, err, parts of the female body and poses...
however its only useful if you wanna draw hentai or ecchi...