Draw Manga: How to Draw Manga In Your Own Unique Style by Bruce Lewis
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Book Summary Author: Bruce Lewis Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published) Published: 2005-06-28 ISBN: 1843401886 Number of pages: 128 Publisher: Collins & Brown |
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Book Reviews of the Draw Manga: How to Draw Manga In Your Own Unique Style
Customer Review: For Thoughtful Manga-ka in Training
Summary: 5 Stars
What this book is not: a trace-this how-2 for drawing Princess VaVoom of Planet Whoopee.
Lewis' "Draw Manga" promises to show the reader "how to draw figures, create believable characters and develop stories." And the book delivers.
Back to Princess VaVoom for a moment: addressing the interests of hormone-addled male teenagers, the author does devote four paragraphs on page 57 to cheesecake.
Not everyone will find the brief history of ukiyo-e and Hokusai-san's best seller, "Hokusai Manga" as interesting as I did: but I found it useful in setting up a sort of mental cargo pallet to hold the book's other thoughts.
That pallet got pretty full after reading this book. Lewis covers obvious topics, like drawing eyes and hands, discusses workspace design, the importance of research (and how to avoid it), props real and imaginary, how to shamelessly swipe plots and characters, and how to create your own unique style of art, characters, and plots.
The edition of the book I bought had a howler in it. On page 101, four balloons march across the top of the page, illustrating two good, and two not-so-good choices for digital lettering. Problem is, all four balloons contain the same sans-serif font.
However, in the same section Lewis gives a pretty good introduction to leading, size, kerning, and other aspects of making lettering legible.
That's the only glitch I can recall finding in this book's 120-odd pages, which is pretty good for something as content-rich as this.
Someone could learn to create a manga with engaging characters and good plots without reading this book, but that person would be missing a fine resource.