Learn to Draw Manga: A Fun and Easy How-to Draw Guide for All Ages

by KRITZELPIXEL

Bring out the artist in you with Learn to Draw Manga, an easy step-by-step guide to creating manga art.

Do you have a fascination for manga or anime? Have you been excited to draw your favorite characters but unsure how to conjure them on the page? Welcome to the creative universe of Learn to Draw Manga, where you’ll learn to turn your doodles into masterpieces in no time. Best-selling author of Learn to Draw in 5 Weeks, Isabel B. Zimmermann, aka KritzelPixel, brings you this user-friendly book that’ll get you or a manga fan inspired to learn, grow, and succeed in the art of manga. 

Learn to Draw Manga offers: 

• Easy step-by-step instructions with tips and anecdotes from the author’s own experience as a manga artist and creator 
• More than 60 easy-to-follow templates of various levels to meet you where you are 
• Helpful illustrations so you can learn to draw details like eyes, noses, expressions, hairstyles, and more 
• Fun learning techniques that emphasize the joy and satisfaction in creating art rather than focusing on innate talent  

Go beyond reading manga and become a creator yourself! Whether you're a beginner just venturing into drawing or an experienced artist looking for practice, Learn to Draw Manga is your friendly guide to the exhilarating world of manga art.

• ISBN10: 0593886496
• ISBN13: 9780593886496
• Publish Date: 16 July 2024
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Imprint: Zeitgeist
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 96
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780593886496

Reviews

[annieb123]

Originally posted on my blog Nonstop Reader.

Learn to Draw Manga is a tutorial and style guide for beginning artists for drawing anime and manga figures by KritzelPixel. Released 16th July 2024 by Penguin Random House on their Zeitgeist imprint, it's 96 pages and available in paperback and ebook formats. 

This a fun and accessible tutorial guide aimed at beginners to slightly more advanced readers and usable for all-ages. The author has an engaging and encouraging style of teaching and writes clearly and enthusiastically. I love that she says that the way she saw improvement was simply by practicing and refusing to give up! She says: "Art doesn’t require talent; it only needs to bring you joy".

The book's tutorial chapters include step by step instructions for different characters from beginning rough sketches, step-by-step through refinements to a finished sketch. The chapters build on one another: introduction - faces - bodies - drawing from references - through to the principles of manga. It's a wide ranging surprisingly information rich tutorial primer and includes several styles of anime/manga, including kawaii (cute) manga.

This would make a good choice for public or school library acquisition, home use, or gift giving (perhaps bundled with some basic drawing supplies). It's a very simple and abbreviated guide but there's a lot of good basic information here.

Four and a half stars. Anyone could use the tutorials to make a credible manga style drawing, and her style is so fun and encouraging.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

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