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Title: How to Draw Anime & Game Characters, Vol. 1: Basics for Beginners and Beyond by Tadashi Ozawa ISBN: 4-7661-1120-6 Publisher: Graphic-Sha Publishing Pub. Date: 05 July, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.66 (35 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Just as the title says.
Comment: Yeah, as the title says this is a book with just the basics.
It's not a step by step "how to draw" book as you would first think, it's rather a book on "test and learn", for example it shows a variety of characters and tells things like "separated eyes express lonelines, the small mouth expresses a delicate nature", so this book will only teach you how to design plain characters and it's wonderful for beginners like me; In no way must be considered a complete "How to Draw Anime" lesson, but its perfect for start cooking, even if you don't even know how to hold your pencil (that was my case some months ago when I bought it).
If you're a complete beginner buy this book, I gave it 5 stars because it helped me a lot, but keep this mind: drawing characters is one thing, to give life to them is something else... for that buy the Volume 2, or do some research.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent illustration instruction
Comment: 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.
Rating: 3
Summary: While good, this is not for complete beginners.
Comment: To begin, this is a good book. On first glance, it has a lot of detail and reference. It has excellent models, and wonderful in-depth descriptions.
It has a few big shortcomings, tho. Seeing as the title is "Basics for Beginners and Beyond" I thought that this would be the perfect book for me, seeing as I couldn't draw at all. After I got the book and started reading it, I realized that this is not the first book I should have bought. While this book does give great reference, it does not give step by step instructions. For those of you who are like me and cannot draw at all, you're going to want something a little more simplistic and instructive. This should be the *second* book you buy. (Three stars because this is NOT for complete beginners, as the title belies.
Fot total and complete beginners, I'd recommend that you buy How to Draw Manga by Katy Coope, ISBN 0439317452. It's extremely cheap, short and to the point. While it has it's own flaws, it was just what I needed and recommend for those of you who are just starting out. NEXT I'd recommend this book. Once you've gotten the simple skills from Katy Coope, then Tadashi Ozawa will show you a where to go with it.
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Title: How to Draw Anime & Game Characters, Vol. 2: Expressing Emotions by Tadashi Ozawa ISBN: 4766111745 Publisher: Graphic-Sha Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: How to Draw Anime & Game Characters, Vol. 3: Bringing Daily Actions to Life by Tadashi Ozawa ISBN: 4766111753 Publisher: Graphic-Sha Publishing Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: How to Draw Anime & Game Characters, Vol. 4: Mastering Battle and Action Moves by Tadashi Ozawa ISBN: 4766112547 Publisher: Graphic-Sha Publishing Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: How to Draw Anime & Game Characters, Vol. 5: Bishoujo Game Characters by Tadashi Ozawa ISBN: 4766112768 Publisher: Graphic-Sha Publishing Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Techniques for Drawing Female Manga Characters (How to Draw Manga) by Hikaru Hayashi ISBN: 476611146X Publisher: Graphic-Sha Publishing Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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