Mad About Manga is a Manga drawing resource ebook that shows you how to draw Manga. The ebook itself is a basic one for beginners with factual information on drawing Manga from the ground up with a few advanced methods to drawing this popular art form.After you buy the ebook, you get two small bonus ebooks that show you how to draw specific things and they are:-
How to draw Manga hair – Drawing hair and how manga hair should look.How to draw a Chibi Character - Chibi a Manga cartoon character that you can learn to draw, a Chibi is just a Manga cartoon character with a big head and there are loads of variations that you could potentially draw.
The main book itself is over 130 pages long with step by step drawing tutorial information that describes all of the basics, from drawing the eyes and features of Manga characters and then also a section about drawing figures in motion and dynamic figures which is a useful section in the ebook.
Lets take a run down of each individual chapter;
Chapter 1 – Introducing MangaThe first chapter introduces you to the art of Manga and what you’ll be expected to learn, which will be the basics as this is a basic look at drawing Manga art. The process of setting yourself your own learning goals and targets is the key to this introductory chapter.
Chapter 2 – What You’ll NeedThe pencils and the tools to draw Manga are equally important and these are explained briefly here, including erasers, ink pens and rulers to name a few. This section could have done with being fleshed out as there are distinctions between good quality Manga illustration pens and the cheap ones.
After a tiny page on adding color and one on planning the drawing we come to…
Chapter 3 – Drawing BasicsWe learn about using shapes as the developing ideas to build our Manga drawings, sketching a 3D cube, and learning to draw Polygons and using them in your figure drawings is the very foundation of Manga drawing or any other drawing for that matter and so these beginning sections are the most important.
Chapter 4 – Drawing Heads And FacesThis is a small chapter considering other books out there, but it fits in nicely with other chapters of the book and you can learn the design differences from youth, teen and adult Manga faces in this section.
Chapter 5 – From Sketch To DrawingThis section shows you the step by step process of sketching and then the finished manga head drawings, a couple of examples which help you understand how to draw the head of anime characters.
Chapter 6 – Drawing Eyes, Portraying Gender Age And CharacterThis chapter is an important one as you learn to draw male and female eyes and the other facial features such as mouth, nose, ears and the hair and once you’ve gone through them sub sections you can learn how to add emotion into your Manga drawings to really help bring a sense of humanity to your anime characters through facial expressions.
Chapter 7 – Drawing Your Manga CharacterThis chapter deals with trying to sketch and draw your own
Manga character, an example of a female ninja has been created for you to follow and study, so that you know and understand each step when creating your own characters. and also a small bit about coloring your characters also helps too to add depth to your creations.
After a short look at east and west manga styles we come to…
Chapter 8 – Anatomy DetailedThis one looks at the structure of Male and Female bodies when drawn and the comparative heights using side by side comparisons, also there is a small section on foreshortening which then runs into a tiny page on Perspective which also could have been expanded slightly, but then this ebook is a basic drawing book.
Hands and action poses also get a brief mention too….
Chapter 9 – Drawing StagesThis chapter helps you go back to the beginning and start to add clothes and other design elements to your characters and drawings, it reminds you to go back to the sketching process and think about including clothing or adding to the structure of the figures, a useful chapter with a few examples to guide you.
Chapter 10 -Different Types Of MangaThis chapter leads nicely into
drawing manga comic strips and working out the placement of all the elements that make up a manga comic, such as dialogue and panels. From working out the script to adding humor in your characters speech bubbles.
Chapter 11- Bonus Weapons chapterThis section shows you a few fun weapons to draw and really just adds to the Manga worlds and figures you just learned to draw and realise from Phaser Rifles to Drawing a Laser Pistol and Rocket Launchers,Martial arts weapons,Futuristic Weapons and Modern Day weapons.
So if you want to know
how to Draw Manga then this ebook is definitely for you.
