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How To Draw Manga Volume 42: Drawing Yaoi (How to Draw Manga) (v. 42) Paperback – August 7, 2007
- Print length144 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherGraphic-Sha Publishing
- Publication dateAugust 7, 2007
- Dimensions7.25 x 0.5 x 10.25 inches
- ISBN-104766117816
- ISBN-13978-4766117813
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- Publisher : Graphic-Sha Publishing (August 7, 2007)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 144 pages
- ISBN-10 : 4766117816
- ISBN-13 : 978-4766117813
- Item Weight : 1.2 pounds
- Dimensions : 7.25 x 0.5 x 10.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,694,449 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #353 in How to Create Manga
- #54,992 in Graphic Novels (Books)
- #719,544 in Literature & Fiction (Books)
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It contains in depth construction tutorials on the youthful male figure, with great attention to hands and feet, with one of the "How to Draw" series better examples of under drawing and figure construction for proportion and foreshortening. An added bonus are a few guides on how to incorporate or depict interactions with objects in the hand, more elaborate clothing section, and a great amount of detail on shoes. The glove and glasses pages are nice, and overall the book is more about constructing a character's appearance and mannerisms for use driving a story. Also giving examples of how to utilize the same information in a broad range of graphic styles.
There is a cute little history lesson on stylization too, which is sort of fun.
If you were looking for something sexually explicit, this isn't the book for you, there is one diagram to show how licking should work (with ice cream) and one page showing how faces interact when kissing, but that is it besides the normal figures depicted in underwear you always see for anatomy lessons.
If you want a book on specific male romantic interactions there is photo reference and a tutorial on how to incorporate that in the Drawing Bishonen book that can get more explicit ~ How To Draw Manga: Drawing Bishonen
If you are interested in yaoi for yaoi's sake, pick up both as a set.
Over all if you're more in it for learning to draw males better get the how to draw young men book. It's much better in that perspective. Though they both seem to offer about the same instructional insights.
There's very little offered on the side of anatomy and actual posing and interaction between a couple.
Otherwise it's a very basic manual coupled with a few costumes, poses and an odd manga-short at the back of the book instead of the usual illustration gallery.
I wouldn't recommend this book to aspiring manga-ka, it'd be better to get a drawing young men and couples book instead of this one. You'd get a lot more information out of the two than this one.
All in all, if you want an excellent book on drawing pretty boys, and a cute bishonen-themed side-story, this is the book for you. But if you want to learn to draw two men together, you'd be better off with "How To Draw Manga: Drawing Bishonen", which features a LOT of yaoi, despite not being a book meant for it. Or even "How To Draw Manga: Portraying Couples", and I haven't yet purchased it, but Botan Yamada's "Let's Draw Yaoi!" looks promising.
Cheers!
But good book none the less.
After all, if you can't draw guys in the first place then drawing BL is even more difficult. Which makes all the great drawings this has and the instructions that go with an absolute must-have. And if you think of those six pages as stepping-stones or starting points to give you a little inspiration then you're good to go!
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Es werden verschiedene Typen von Charaktären, sowie diverse Posen aufgezeigt. Alles in allem weiß der Autor mit einem sehr guten Zeichenstil zu überzeugen!
Daher: Klare Kaufempfehlung!







