Style School Volume 1 [Paperback]

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Book Description

Publication Date: August 21, 2007

Japan's leading manga illustration instructional guide (titled SS Magazine in Japan) comes to America! Learn the techniques of Japan's top manga and anime artists in Style School, showing step-by-step methods to help today's up-and-coming illustrators master the use of pen, brush, paint, marker, screen tones, computer modeling and other tricks of the trade. Gain insight into the weapons of choice of today's top creators, especially those brands and tools that are so hard to find outside Japan. See for the first time the eye-popping art of tomorrow's manga and anime stars, page after gorgeous page of spectacular visual imagination. And find out how to submit your work to be considered for publication in upcoming issues of SS Magazine in Japan!

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Dark Horse (August 21, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1593076258
• ISBN-13: 978-1593076252
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #185,060 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars good tutorials but few tutoriales, January 7, 2008

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C. Nieto Ranero (Spain) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Style School Volume 1 (Paperback)

Its a good book in general. It has a good print quality and the tutorials, tips are good. But it only has 40 pages of tutoriales over 150 pages more or less. The rest of the book are illustrations from readers. I think the images of tutoriales are a little small.

Perhaps, the tutorials are too varied... I suppose people want to learn about photoshop o inkinkg more than watercolors...

11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Artist over load, November 20, 2007

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Black Dreamer "Black Zer0" - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Style School Volume 1 (Paperback)

This Book is FREAKING AWESOME! The frist time I pick up this book. I had artist over load. I mean this book is really freaking amazing. The first 44 pgs. are all on different types of Style using color. and how to do them in full detail.It also has 50 page of pure Illustrations.Plus, on top of that. there's section on black and white styles in the back. This book, is a how to draw and Ilustration book in one. trust me, save ten dollars.and buy this BOOK. It's wroth it. seven times over. with the information inside.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Tutorials, August 31, 2008

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That Darn Kat (USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Style School Volume 1 (Paperback)

This isn't really a "book," it's a high-quality quarterly magazine. I am so impressed with the tutorials! If you like dabbling in traditional mediums, this is the book for you! I've been inspired to try new things and I love the results I'm getting!! I don't think this is a beginner book though since the tutorials don't hold your hand all the way through. You have to have some idea how the paints/inks/markers/programs already work to an extent--Style School just gives you the nudge to try something new with it.

If you want to take your artwork to the next level, by all means, this is a great investment!