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Yishan Li
Search Press
August 2011 / 9781844486373
How-To Books/Drawing
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Reviewed
by Rachel A Hyde
If you are a regular visitor to this site you might remember my
reviews last year of Yishan Li’s six-book Mini Manga series.
If small is not your idea of beautiful, or you would prefer a larger,
single volume work on becoming a mangaka then here is a book that
fits the bill.
User friendly and pretty exhaustive, this book gives a crash course
in getting to grips with the manga style. After a brief outline
of what manga is, there is a quick description of the basic items
you need and it is with the lessons. First up is heads and faces
so you can start by getting those trademark eyes just right. This
sets out the pattern all the chapters follow, with lots of staged
examples to work through, which give the artist a hands-on approach
to getting the style right which is worth any amount of words. Other
chapters deal with other body parts as well as hair, then clothing,
weapons, vehicles, animals, equipment and mecha by which time you
ought to be quite proficient. Learning how to draw strips and put
a story together is dealt with in other books in more detail –
here it is not part of the course- but if it is the drawing part
you want to study then this is an excellent book to buy. I like
the fore edge with its colored page edges so you can find the right
section as long as you know what color to look for, and the wonderfully
direct way of teaching by examples. A good book for any wannabe
mangaka’s shelf.
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