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Draw Your Own Manga: All the Basics

This how-to-draw-manga book is probably the best one I've read. It specificallly shows you what tools you need, how to use them, how to draw characters, backgrounds, perspectives, profiles, etc., how to create special effects, techniques that professional manga artists use, etc. There are even interviews with famous artists, Takao Yaguchi and Toru Fujisawa. The only thing I didn't like about it was that it only shown stereotypical eyes of snime guys and girls. But that rule can be ignored. The point of this book is to show you how to make manga and that's exactly what it did. It showed me how to draw a proportional human body, how to make characters in sync with the background, and how to draw shading when the character is standing against the light. This book has the answers to every beginning manga artist's questions.

***** Stars - Review by Freeman TCK-Teen Advisory Board Member

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