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Manga Mania

by Christopher Hart

1,139 / 5,000
Die einzige jemals veröffentlichte Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung zum Zeichnen dieses äußerst beliebten Comic-Stils – perfekt für jedes Alter!

Schauen Sie sich die enorme Popularität von Shows wie Pokémon, Digimon und Dragonball Z an, und Sie werden den Manga-Stil der Comic-Kunst in Aktion sehen. Es besteht kein Zweifel daran, dass Manga angesagt ist. Und Manga Mania ist die einzige Anleitung, die Schritt für Schritt detailliert beschreibt, wie junge und erfahrene Künstler gleichermaßen Fantasy-Roboter, teuflische Monster, mythische Tiere und die anderen aufregenden Charaktere zeichnen können, die Teil dieses spannenden Genres sind.

In der Manga-Kunst gibt es viele junge Manga-Stile à la Pokémon und den reiferen Stil, der bei Teenagern und Erwachsenen beliebt ist. Manga Mania deckt beide ab. Große, spritzige Kapitel zeigen, wie man Kampfkünste, Spezialeffekte und vieles, vieles mehr zeichnet. Da der Manga-Stil den Charakter und nicht die Anatomie betont, sind Manga-Comics einfacher zu zeichnen. So kann ein Comic-Anfänger die Tricks des Handwerks leicht lernen.

Chris Hart, bekannt für seine sehr klaren Schritt-für-Schritt-Illustrationen und Begleittexte, beschreibt ausführlich, wie jeder ein echter Manga-Künstler werden kann, ohne die Kunst des Zeichnens neu erfinden zu müssen.

Genres: Art, Manga, Nonfiction, Drawing, How To

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

I started drawing character designs and storyboards for a small animation studio in while in High School. Cartooning and animation was a magical experience to me. I try to bring that experience, as well as art tips, to my readers. Their enthusiasm also motivates me.

Early in my career, my cartoon work got noticed by Watson-Guptill, a premier publisher of art books. They asked me to do a book for them on drawing cartoons. It sold 200,000 copies, which is a healthy number. So we kept going. I discovered that I enjoyed the art of creating books, which has its own special requirements. I also worked as an author for Random House, Quarto and Soho Publishing. In total, I have had 8 million books sold, and have been translated into 20 languages.

My book, "The Master Guide to Drawing Anime: How to Draw Original Characters from Simple Templates" has sold over half a million copies to date and is still very actively in print. An earlier book of mine, "Manga Mania: How to Draw Japanese Comics:" reached the number one art book in the country, according to Bookscan.

I've also been a cover story on the industry trade magazine, "Publisher's Weekly." And if you've read this far into my Bio, then I'm more impressed with you than you are with me!

Thank you so very much for letting me offer some inspiration to you in your art adventures.

Christopher Hart

Reviews

[Katza Verduzco · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cuenta con consejos bastante buenos para el dibujo básico de anime y manga con tips útiles para la elaboración de un bosquejo de calidad. Realmente bueno 👍

[Olivia Fowler · Rating 4 out of 5]

This helped me a lot with my drawing!

[Origihelm · Rating 1 out of 5]

The early-to-mid 2000s saw yet another boom in the popularity of anime throughout the UK and US, resulting in a huge number of "How To Draw Manga" books being released quickly onto the market. While some were written and illustrated by people who legitimately cared about the art form, some were clearly made as a quick cash-in by people with no real interest in it. "Manga Mania" falls into the latter. It's all so surface-level, this book is stuck in the mindset that anime is exclusively teens with spiky hair and robots and women built like a dumbbell placed vertically, like Christopher Hart watched a couple of commercial bumpers of whatever was on Toonami one day and decided that was all there was. The anatomy is super wonky in places- while anime tend to have a more stylized/exaggerated look, it usually retains rules and consistency- and the digital colouring is super crude, featuring horribly oversaturated and clashy palettes. There are multiple points where the art style completely leaves anything resembling anime or manga altogether, devolving into a heavily Americanized interpretation that looks cheap and nasty. Avoid this and look for better titles, or study your favourites instead.

[NickTSD · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good drawing strategies like the robot and kids

[Logan · Rating 1 out of 5]

During the anime boom that began about 15 years ago, these "how to draw manga" books exploded onto the market. Naturally, as a fan of shows such as Evangelion and FLCL, I wanted to draw something similar in style, so I found myself looking for these books, and to accumulate a small collection of them. When one looks for these books, ideally you want to find works written and illustrated by actual manga-ka, or illustrators of manga. Unfortunately, while I was lucky enough to snag a couple volumes of Sketching Manga, the best "how to draw manga" books have all but disappeared from the shelves. Now their place is held by one of the biggest charlatans of the art world, Christopher Hart.

I find this unfortunate, because amateur artists are now looking into Hart's work, even though his instructions aren't actually a useful foundation for illustration. Rather than showing how to begin a character illustration, set up a pose, and so on, Hart will just start with a pose and expect the reader to do the same. How is this helpful for a beginner that wants to learn how to create original works? It isn't. Instead, they learn how to draw the poses and illustrations that Hart has created. They've learned nothing on anatomy, abstraction, or just about anything that a fresh, naive, newbie artist needs to illustrate their own characters. His level of instruction is like that of an elementary school art teacher who has you do specific projects similar to what she's done, while not cultivating the style of the individual.

So let's assume that you actually do learn something from Christopher Hart's book. Congratulations! You've learned crappy art. If you've developed even the slightest eye for talent, it's really obvious that Hart's work is really low-tier. Just compare his art with the work of actual Japanese character artists, such as Yoshiyuki Sadamoto of Evangelion and FLCL, Toshihiro Wakamoto of Cowboy Bebop, and Takeshi Obata of Death Note and Bakuman. Compared to actual big names of Japanese animation and comic books, Chritopher Hart's work just can't measure up. If I were to learn art from a big name, I'd want advice from industry veterans, not a rank amateur. And while his recent works show a jump in quality, he's still not to the level where I'd want to learn from him.

Normally, I write reviews for myself. However, for Christopher Hart's books, I leave a warning. Before you decide to pick up his work, consider the question of whether or not there's something better, to which I'd say, "There is." If anyone reads this, I'll leave a list of artists and books on the subject of art instruction that are more useful.

Graphic-Sha's "How to Draw Manga" and "Sketching Manga" series
Will Eisner
Tom Bancroft
Andrew Loomis
Burne Hogarth
James Gurney
Betty Edwards

Artists to avoid:
Christopher Hart
Ben Dunn
Fred Perry
Arisa Suyama - I came across a book by her on Amazon. Strong voices tell me that most of the work is ripped off and her own work is crap.
Mark Crilley
Katy Coope

While I generally avoid telling people to torrent on the internet, I'll make an exception for the "Sketching Manga" series by Grpahic-Sha. They're my favorite books by that publisher, though it's unfortunate to say that the series was cancelled and no longer printed. The only place you'll easily find them is online, ranging anywhere into the hundreds of dollars. That's not exactly helpful to artists who are interested in the books. To that I say, "Torrent away!" After all, since you can't actually buy these books new anymore, you can't actually contribute to Graphic-Sha and its artists by buying them from resellers at extremely marked-up prices.

[Angela Blount · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great little instructional introduction to drawing manga. With the exception of a couple of boobie-fantastic sketch examples, I'd generally call this a good place to start for kids as young as 10+ who've taken an interest in replication this style of art (with parental discretion advised).

I'll admit, I still reference it form time to time when I'm working on a comic strip and need to work out a trickier figure angle. Granted, my skill level is still pretty rudimentary--which is why I'd describe it as a -basic- introduction.

[An Ru · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's just meh. Some of the anatomy in there (especially facial anatomy) looks really, really distorted, and the teaching method isn't very helpful. If you're looking for these kinds of books, I'd recommend Mark Crilley's "Mastering Manga" (seriously, this book taught me sooooo much and I actually wonder how my drawing skills would be if I never found it). This book I could live without.

[Antoine Land · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book will teach you vass styles of Manga drawing and teach you techniques that will be very useful to you when it comes to drawing. This book is so AWESOME, no its more then awesome its BeAwesome!

[Nanda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice book, a lot of examples, well explained, but sadly enough does not explain much about the real basics.

[Hailey · Rating 5 out of 5]

I learned ho to draw

[Christøpher Es · Rating 4 out of 5]

Homer Simpson says, "Irony"

[Kylia · Rating 3 out of 5]

It provided good instructions and pretty cool illustrations as well. I'll be reading it again.

[Rachel Vo]

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[Oscar]

Great Book, teaches much about Drawing Manga, and I must say I enjoyed it. You will really want to read this book, and any book by this author if you want to improve your Manga Artwork.