LitPick Review
The Manga Artist's Workbook is a mix between a How-to-Draw book and a Sketch Pad. It goes over head positions, eyes, eye expressions, hair, body form, hands, clothing, and more. In the midst of informing you on basics and essentials to this style of drawing, it has tracing paper and graph paper to help you learn the lining and spacing. Often times the book gives you an example drawing and asks you to either recreate it or recreate an aspect of the drawing on a partially finished example. It has mini-lessons to complete to help you to learn this type of drawing that are comprehensible and fun.
Opinion:
Before I read this book, I didn't know anything about Manga, and couldn't draw it. Now if I use a picture of whoever I'm turning into a Manga sketch, and this book as a reference, I can draw a half-decent person. As I can't draw people whatsoever, this is as good as I'm likely to get. I expected to learn how to draw a happy person looking straight at me, aka. a basic character, nothing special. But I learned different views, emotions, and the whole deal! This book exceeded my expectations; it was the best How-To-Draw book I've read.
