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Tadashi Ozawa

How to Draw Anime & Game Characters, Vol. 1: Basics for Beginners and Beyond Paperback – July 5, 2001

by Tadashi Ozawa (Author)

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If you are anime/manga collector or fan, you have had a burning desire to learn how to draw the popular characters by yourself. However, you may be worried that you cannot draw as well as people in art clubs or in cartoon clubs because drawing is difficult - don't worry, many people feel the same way. This series was written to help those who are interested in drawing, but are worried about the challenges involved with it. If you change the way you look at an object - even just a little, you can succeed.

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Graphic-Sha
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July 5, 2001
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7.25 x 0.5 x 10 inches
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4766111206
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978-4766111200
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Graphic-Sha (July 5, 2001)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 152 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 4766111206
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-4766111200
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.25 x 0.5 x 10 inches

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TerrestrialMartian

A great supplementary item

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 12, 2013

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To the ambitious and aspiring manga artist,

I understand that you are interested in an all encompassing "how to guide," that painstakingly goes through all of the theory of creating manga. I would say that if you are in this category and have little prior experience in art that this book will probably be something of a disappointment to you. This book at heart has an ambitious title and in some ways can be misleading. From the start the artist uses a "connect the dots," format to articulate how the human form can be broken down piece by piece into a series of lines and dots. While as a more seasoned artist, with something of a background in the drawing of human anatomy, this may seem basic it can be daunting and hindering to a young "would be artist," simply wishing to master the basics. My suggestion is as follows. get this book! But also purchase Mark Crilley's how to draw manga book as well. He will provide you with all of the theory behind making a basic manga character. The reason that I also suggest this book is because while Mr. Crilley does a phenomenal job with teaching one who has never done this before how to begin in manga his characters tend to be a little two dimensional as a result. This book will take you one step beyond and having mastered the basics of Mr. Crilley's book Mr. Ozawa will teach you how to take that two dimensional drawing and turn it into something that looks more three dimensional and professional. I am hoping that this will be of help to people that are reading these reviews good and bad spanning many many years. I know when I started with so much blind positivity and pessimism all I wanted was a fellow artists perspective on what I should get and why. here is my two cents from one artist to another, hope it helps

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Erik N

Excellent illustration instruction

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 13, 2000

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Far and away the best of the English "How to Draw Manga" books. The art style is clean and the layout is well-done, with no issues of whether you should be reading left-to-right or right-to-left (a definite problem in some Japanese conversions).
Best of all, Ozawa starts from the very basics, and urges you to do the exercises from the beginning. Sure, drawing cubes isn't exciting, but even for a non-beginners, it's a useful warm-up that improves technique. With the reassuring statement "if you can hold a pencil and draw straight lines, you can draw, " he skillfully leads the reader to develop or improve drawing skills.
He also includes something I've never seen in a comics manual before: Drawings from different ability levels. He shows stuff by absolute beginers, intermediate, advanced and professional and critiques the problems and positives. Personally, I found this extremely helpful and reassuring. He also marks the time it took to create some of the professional drawings: Again, very reassuring that these things took time and weren't dashed off in minutes.
Finally, Ozawa covers a broad range of character styles, from generally realistic to the SD (simple deformed) type. For each, he includes plenty of detail on what makes such characters work and why.
These books can be hard to find, so if you're interested in this subject, don't wait. Get your copy now.

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TW

Bought "Sight Unseen" and am GLAD I DID!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 12, 2000

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I bought this book from Amazon, without so much as a picture of the cover, because there aren't many "how to draw manga" books out there, and I need as much reference as I can get!
Unfortunately, this still isn't the "Ultimate How to Draw Manga" book, I don't think it exists yet, but this comes very close. I've been drawing for over 20 years now, so I don't need some steps that I think beginners would benefit from, that never seem to make it into these "how to" books.
I felt a twang of discomfort seeing the pictures in this one, going by it's ratings, my style falls somewhere in between "intermediate" and "very close but..." levels and not the "pro" level, but perhaps with some of the lessons in this book, I'll finally cross that threshold!
The art is beautiful, looking like a cross between Disney and manga, it illustrates several different genres, and has pages and pages of examples of each "type" of character. Lots of "how to draw guys" too, which is a subject often ignored in "how to" books and tutorials.
I highly recommend this book, even for the "non-beginner," it has lots to show!

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Anthony Redfield

As long you are able to draw square boxes, you are able to draw characters.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 22, 2008

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How to draw anime & game characters vol. 1 was an excellent how to draw book. I was surprise on how the author tells you how to start from a cube to a 3-D anime or game character.

Tadashi provides examples and practice drawing right from the start. He tells you to draw cubes and provides clear examples on what not to do, how to fix it and improve your drawing. The book also shows how to draw as a beginner, intermediate, and advance drawing. As you progress, Tadashi also shows you how to draw the face, ears, hair, hands (I had a hard time drawing the hands, but ever since Tadashi shows you how to step by step to draw a hand. Drawing hands is easier than ever!), body, motion and eyes. He also provides drawings from other artist and shows them how to improve on their character.

The book was very easy to understand and i reccommend to anyone who wants to start drawing or better themselves as a artist.

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Rui

Different book cover, great non the less.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 3, 2016

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The book cover is different, but the content is still good. The book is easy to understand has effective tips for starter and draws out the common problems of novices would had along with bad habits. In addition, the book focus on the basics such as 3rd dimensional, full body figure, and the basically 3 style of drawing.

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BS

This book fixed that and it's actually helping me get better. I've been practicing the drawings in the book ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 27, 2017

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Really helpful and well explained. I've always wanted to try to draw anime but could never really find the motivation to do so. This book fixed that and it's actually helping me get better. I've been practicing the drawings in the book almost everyday. Although it teaches an older anime style, it will still help in establishing a foundation of universally useful drawing principles.

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E. D. R. Jones BSc (Hons)

How to Draw Anime and Game Characters: v. 1 Review

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 9, 2009

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This was a truly gr8 book to read and learn from and has realy helped me alot I give this 4 out 5 Star. Some the technics are some wot hard to get your head around at first but I find most stuff quite simple for the most part there alot in the book from things rangin from how to do basic drawing to detailed and more complex tasks and even some bonus stuff like the charter diffrence between villins and heros body shapes wot I realy liked too :)

all in all one best books to start learnin how to draw from.

Veronika Baranovska

Lovely book!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 8, 2013

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A lovely book that explores the basics of geometry and then moves on to sketching 'for real'. I especially like how many times a drawing is drawn in 4 different ways, starting from basics and moving on to a comic book artist. These really show the amount of details one should pay attention to their drawings :)

Gregers Sode-Pedersen

Great but not perfect

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 9, 2019

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What I got was great but not perfect.
A missing papir cover, some bumps on the top of the book and it took a little over 2 weeks to get to me but other than than I was happy about the price and books condition