The Master Guide to Drawing Anime: Amazing Girls: How to Draw Essential Chara...

Grand daughter loved this. Drawing is her favorite pastime and this has it all. Great Ideas, templets and it teaches them how to draw!

⭐ 5 stars – Perfect gift for anime lovers! This book is amazing! I gave it as a birthday gift to a girl who absolutely loves anime — she literally jumped with joy and said it was the best present ever. I highly recommend it! Shipping was also fantastic — it arrived as a surprise within a day, straight to the hotel where she was staying on vacation. From every angle, this was a total success!

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Overall this book is great. However I personally consider it more of a reference book than a how to book. It doesn't really "teach" you anything. It just shows pictures of anime girls along with the construction shapes and then basically expects you to draw it yourself. Which is okay for Advanced-Beginners and intermediate artists but I wouldn't recommend it for absolute beginners. I find all the art to be top notch however I find the examples in the first part of the book(up until page 86) significantly better than the second part of the book. You can tell that the artists that Mr. Hart commissioned for this book are experts in drawing anime and know what they are doing - I am very impressed by their work. In fact out of all the american made how to draw anime/manga books This one and a few of Chris Harts other recent Anime books, feature Anime characters that are the closest to the type of you'd find in actual Japanese anime. Many other american made how to draw manga books(including some of Mr. Hart's older books) feature art that is Americanized and/or poorly drawn and doesn't compare well to authentic anime. The authors of these books often think all you need to be "Anime" is big eyes. It is refreshing to get a book that features anime character's that look very close to the ones you'd see on TV or Crunchyroll. Again this is in excellent book for references and for practice but to learn the basic techniques and skills of drawing for absolute beginner's I'd recommend Mark Crilley's "The Drawing Lesson". Overall I consider this to be an excellent book and earns my recommendation. The artists who did the art for this book did an amazing job and I commend them on their work.

I really like this book, it can be a good kick start to drawing anime. I used it to learn proportion. Im an intermediate artist, still learning. But this is a great book to learn how to draw anime girls, the instructions are easy to understand an follow. This photo I attach is something i drew, not from the book, but from what i learned from the book about facial proportions.

Just look at how good my daughter’s skills have gotten, this book is great! Even for beginners

This is an awesome book. Really high quality pages and examples, the pictures and colors are amazing! This is my first manga instructional book and it will not be my last. In fact, I received another Christopher Hart book just yesterday, even though I still have much more to learn from this book too. I went from not being able to draw manga, to using the tips provided, and now I am just starting to sketch out my own characters based on what I’ve learned. Which is why I bought the book in the first place.

This is great, and it really helped me draw. I already posted a review, but apparently it won't let me only write "yep". Point is, great book, you should buy it.

Very good my girl likes it

Bought for my anime fan’s daughter, and she loves this.. Thanks, seller and Amazon

J'ai lu à peu près tout et son contraire sur cette collection de livres. Sur Amazon, les avis sont généralement excellents mais sur les forums les avis sont beaucoup plus mitigés. Il faut savoir que l'auteur présente chacun de ses livres sur youtube, aussi on peut le feuilleter avec lui, ce qui est vraiment génial pour avoir un bon aperçu de ce que l'on s'apprête à acheter. Je suis un dessinateur adulte. Je maîtrise déjà les figures de bases et les proportions et je cherchais un livre qui pourrait me servir de références pour les poses, les coupes de cheveux, les vêtements.... Pour cet usage, cette série de livres et celui-ci en particulier dédié aux personnages féminins en particulier est excellent. Les modèles sont vraiment très beaux, inspirants, les poses sont variées. Les artistes contributeurs sont vraiment très doués. Là où je comprends les avis négatifs que j'ai pu lire, c'est sur le côté étape par étape. Si vous n'avez jamais dessiné un personnage de manga, appris les proportions, les rudiments de l'anatomie... vous aurez toutes les difficultés du monde à vous rapprocher de ces modèles car la première étape de chaque dessin est déjà très avancée et nécessite déjà de solides bases pour pouvoir les reproduire. Autre critique lu et que j'ai compris : ce livre vous présente des personnages dans des poses préétablies et ne vous explique pas vraiment comment créer ses propres poses ou variations d'anatomie ce qui aurait permis d'acquérir par la suite une autonomie et se détacher progressivement des modèles. Aussi, je pense que ce n'est pas un livre ou une série adaptée aux débutants complets, il faut d'abord acquérir de bonnes bases. Mais il est parfaitement adapté à un public qui les as déjà et qui souhaite progresser en s'inspirant de ces références qui je le redis, pour cet ouvrage, sont vraiment superbes. Pour ma part, je suis conquis et j'achèterai sans hésiter d'autres ouvrages de la série par la suite.

I recently got this for my 11th birthday, and have been drawing from it ever since. I was a total beginner (and I still am) and getting this really helped me learn. I've been watching myself improve because of this book. The author has a very witty and entertaining style of explaining things, which makes the drawing a lot more fun. The drawing templates are very easy to understand as well. Overall, this is a brilliant book and I highly recommend it.

Excellent book for someone wants to learn how to draw anime