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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Reading updates
- 19 July, 2024: Started reading
- 19 July, 2024: Finished reading
- 19 July, 2024: Reviewed