Anime Mania: How to Draw Characters for Japanese Animation (Christopher Hart Titles): How to Draw Characters for Japanese Animation (Christopher Hart Titles)

As a reader of the full series and an aspiring artist of great depths, I found even the one book by itself most helpful.


So much for drawing manga/anime   December 3, 2002
 4 out of 4 found this review helpful

This book is to put a word to it: poor.
I bought it expecting it show how to draw anime/manga characters in at least some detail. All it shows are a few simple characters, and then it goes into about different manga genres. It would be fine if it was meant to be a book dealing with the various types of anime/manga genres and explaining them in context,but it's supposed to be a book to help you learn how to draw this sort of artwork! Poor content and poor value.


Anime mania   September 25, 2002
 3 out of 3 found this review helpful

This book can be described in several ways there is a good half and a bad half.
The good half consists of showing you how to draw a few characters and some facts about anime art but the bad half about this book is that, yes it does show you how do draw a few characters but only the simple ones. The book does not tell you how to draw half the characters it shows it gives a bare minimum of the facts and techniques needed to create good anime. A poor attempt in my view.