Customer Reviews
Great learning book - By: Nipponized, 31 Jul 2007 
I came across This book & it had a very refreshing & experienced way of approaching manga, & creating images. It is very detailed even tho it is a smalll sized book, & I realllY like the use of storytelling to help you keep interested in learning & practasing.
One main thing that impressed me is that it not only tells you how to draw Manga, but also sheds light on common pitfallls & habits.
All the volumes together cover almost every aspect of creating Manga, but I find that each book tries to cover alll these things on higher levels as the volumes progress.
These are the chapters in volume 1
* Chapter 1 Manga Basics (copying,faces,secret to lines,pen&ink,holding pen, papersize,tools materials,stes to completed manga,devising a story/characters,Panel layout,sketching underdrawings/inking, backgrounds/special effects,effect lettering,touch-ups,attaching tone, final touches).
* Chapter 2 Basic techniques in character depiction (character fundementals,maleVsfemale, defferentiating age,making characters destict, basic tecg/facial expression, drawing figures, boxes/spheres for body, skeleton/joints,defferentiating male/female figure,backgrounds,learning from photographs,activity settings,special effect lines/tone basics,two common effect lines).
Chapter 3 Manga techniques lernt from the pros (smilling face haapiness, making eye contact with reader,unraffled dashing face,crying/lookingback,shut eyes facing down).
To summery the series, I think it is a reallly great thing to have to help you as an artist, but the things it teaches are more ways to approach drawing manga, & ways in which you read & then try things out & practice. Also the book is rather smalll (but not thin) & each aspect is covered in only two or four pages, so maybe people will not like this, but the quality makes up for it.
Hope this has helped! (^-^)y
