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Summary: Great book!
Review: This book is great! It tells you so much information about things you should know if you wanna make some manga! This book REALLY improved my manga drawings! My drawings looked like..., and after I read this book, I got a better understanding of manga.The only bad thing in this book is that it couldv'e been more step-by-step. Most things only have 3-4 steps! But even so, I greatly appreciated this book! At first I was a little skeptical about this book, because it was from an American guy. Chris Hart may not be Rumiko Takahashi, but he is really skilled in drawing! I think that you should get this book!
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Summary: Little explaining
Review: Though from what I've seen of Christopher Hart he is o.k. Though when it comes to manga ....he is a bit too western style. I got this as a gift and after looking through I was disappointed. I mean he hardly explained anything!Though it is all right if you want to see anime not draw it,but for me some pictures had a mix of too much western style in it.If you have the money can't find Official books buy it otherwise stay away.
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Summary: Actually, I thought it was great!
Review: I've been looking for a good manga book for a while, having an obsession with anime, manga, and the like. After searching in vain for Ozawa Tadashi's books, I gave up, and wandering around NYC one day, I came up on this book. I had looked at it on Amazon before, and was less than excited by the reviews, so had eliminated it from my prospectives list. But when I looked through it, I found it to be much better than I had thought-totally awesome! Some of the other reviews stated the drawings were less than good, but this is probably because a few of the pages had a low resolution. It has alot of variety, introducing one to many styles. It has awesome sections about fantasy, Elves (my favorite section), clothing, and even dragons. It illustrates the difference between Western comics and manga, and includes a few Japanese sayings in the back. Overall, I really liked it.
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Summary: Needs a Little improving...
Review: First of all,this is a great book,but if you're a beginner you won't find much on how to draw what's staring you in your face. If you're just beginning I would reccomend " How To Draw Manga " by Katy Coope.It was my first manga book and I learned a lot from it.One critisisim I have for Hart's book is that it doesn't include much on how to draw the hands and feet(yes it does include a little of 'how to draw').Otherwise this is a great book if you have a little experience.
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Summary: Unnecessary
Review: I kind of wonder who this book was written for. Inexperienced artists seem to get frustrated with the lack of step-by-step instructions (if you're one of these people, I would encourage you try tracing instead -- you'll achieve the same result). More experienced artists would do better to check out Tadashi Ozawa's 'How to Draw Anime & Game Characters'. It's hard to find, but worth the effort.
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Summary: Mediocre Manga Mania
Review: This was a decent help with progressing ability for average artist's. It did not however have the step by step format that the title would suggest. It was useful to me, but there are better manga how-to books.
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Summary: they forgot something...
Review: This is a really good book with only one flaw, (which I'll tell you in a second). It has hundreds of very good drawings, some which are in full color. It has examples from all different kinds of anime comics, but they're missing one thing......
HOW TO DRAW THE DARN THING!!!!!!! This book has like 2 step by step instructions in the entire book. I recommend this book to experts and people who just want to look at a book. Not a beginner like me.
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Summary: Review of Manga Mania
Review: I've been waiting, and waiting, and waiting for the past week and a half for this book, Manga Mania by Chris Hart, and I was absolutely enthralled when I received the box in the mail today. The box wasn't in the best shape, but the book was fine- and after reading through it, I decided it was more than fine- it was one of the best drawing books I've seen in a while. I've never liked drawing books that show, step by step, how to draw a certain thing... drawing like that is barely a step above tracing. This book isn't like that- this book is more for inspirational purposes. It does show wire frames of people to get the basic gist of things, but doesn't make you copy the drawing step by step, you're allowed to implement your own style. People who have never tried drawing manga before, or people that simply haven't had much drawing experience may want to try another book before this one... it's more of an intermidiate level book than it is an instructional book for begginers. But if you have had even a little practice with manga, and just need to perfect your technique, you're in luck. I've only had the book for one day and I've already had tremendous success with some practice sketches. Finally my characters' bodies are in proportion, finally I have people looking more professional and clean. I'm really enjoying this book, and for those who have some experience with manga already, I highly suggest it.
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Summary: Really awesome, but...
Review: This book is a must-have for any manga artist, whether a beginner or pro. The only thing not-so-great about it was that the eyes weren't explained quite enough. But it is otherwise really amazing, and covers everyhting from elves to Shojo and Shonen manga to samauri drawing and drawing dragons and robots.
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Summary: A thorough book and necessity for any Manga Artist!
Review: This is a great book that covers everything the human figure to dragons. This book is a great reference for beginners as well as old pros!
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