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Alternative housing ideas.......2002-02-25
I have been casting about for alternative housing ideas for a few years now and have read several books concerning building your own. This book covers, not in great depth, several related building techniques that are valuable for those of us interested in other than stick (wood) construction. I highly recommend this book as a good starting point to those who prefer NOT to pound nails in wood!
EARTH SHELTHER.......2001-06-23
Of the few books on earth shelter in circulation, Bill, Athena, and Paulina have provided us with a Gaudian Prairie style home for today. The experience of reading this book is like getting to the roots of our earthly existance in regards to needs and desires. All we need is shelter, made from the earth, with the help of the community.
Book Description
Everyone loves chibi, the newest, hottest manga style out of Asia. Chibis—characters that range from hypercute miniature people to bizarrely sexy furry characters—come in all varieties, all roles, including chibi teenagers, faeries, schoolgirls, nurses, mermaids, devils, angels, and everyone in between. Now Christopher Hart, the world's best-selling author of cartoon and drawing titles, shows readers exactly how to darw chibis, infusing them with personality and creating authentic costumes for them. Cute chibi-style monsters (small yet powerful), appealing cat-girls (humanlike, but with feline traits), superdeformed manga/chibi characters (used to make funny wisecracks)—every type of chibi character is shown here in crystal clear, step-by-step drawings. Manga Mania Chibi and Furry Characters will get every manga fan in on the chibi fun.
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Chibinate me Capin'.......2007-06-22
WARNING: This book is not for beginers. There are few step by step instructions, the rest you have to figure out on your own. (you lazy people)
For those who are not beginers, this book goes fairly deep into the world of Chibi characters. It shows basics in body structures and facial expressions.
It also touches bases on many catgirl body types.
I feel this book gives you a wide variety of ideas that you can use to create catgirls.
All and all this is one of Mr. Hart's better books. One of the facts is that he put less of his style into this book. Which causes it to become more manga, not americanized/manga that he usually draws.
Which is a good thing.
I really like the section in the back about stylized chibi's from Japan.
Manga Mania's Chibi and Furry Characters is really a must have for Manga Arists........2007-06-08
I myself personally have difficulty drawing chibi character's. This book is very thorough with the basic how to's of drawing chibis. IT even teaches you to think outside out the box when creating fantastical little monsters. I highly recommend this book.
Awesome and Helpful BOOK!!!!.......2007-03-19
OMG! This was the best how-to book i have ever READ!!!!! It is so thorough. I could draw everything, and it came out near perfection. My friends loved, I loved, and heck, my GRANDFATHER loved it! He thought it was really, really good, in terms of teaching you how to draw! I loved it, and recommend it to everyone! The book shows you step by step how to draw cat-girls (beautiful) and cute tropical girl/chibi/cat-girl and other adorable creatures. It teaches you when to use super-deformed characters, and uses cute drawings (eg, questionable little angel (my fave!) to enable you to use different, effective techniques! This is chock-full of great things!
Great for artists' of all age groups!.......2007-01-05
Chistopher Hart has truly out done himself with this book,as well as his other book fantasy worlds. In this book, Hart gives you examples of teaching you how to draw chibi characters as well as telling you what makes a chibi a chibi. A great thing about this book is that they have a large section of how to draw a variety of cat girls!!! That was my most favorite part! I really enjoyed this book alot, and as a bonus I will give you the run down of what to expect in the book....
Chibi basics
What makes a chibi a chibi?
The chibi head
Drawing the chibi head step by step
Full figures: Standard manag versus chibi
Turn any character into a chibi
Personality pointers
The chibi size size chart
Drawing the chibi face and body step by step
full body views
Chibi characters and costumes
Costumes
Mischevious chibis!
Making eye contact
Girl costumes and popular japanese roles
Stupid chibis!
Regular chibis versus super small chibis
Super small chibis
Fantasy chibis: Angels, fairies, and princesses
Chibi Expressions, emotions, and attitudes
Emotions
body language with special effects
Magical effects
Chibi cat girls and furry characters
Furry-style ears
Chibi cat-girls:full figures
Boxing cats
Chibi cat girl types
In-space adventures
Standard-size cat girls
Standard-size cat girls: the basics
Drawing the cat-girls head step by step
Drawing the cat-girl versus human head
drawing cat-girl bodies step by step
From tame to wild
Cat-girl hand and foot markings
Cat-girl prsonalities
Cat-girl poses
Cat-girl scenes
Foreshortening
A world of cat girls!
Chibi and magical creatures
Standard monsters versus chibi monsters
Creating chibi monsters from basic shapes
Creating chibi monsters from inanimate objects
Pterodactyl chibi monsters
Chibi monsters with magical powers
Magicalchibis without owners
Super stylized chibis
Little lady
Super stylized chibi boy
Super stylized chibi cat girl
Super stylized chibi rabbit girl
Chibi trouble maker
Witch in training
Little angel
Wishing on a star
Candy girl
Serious student
Chibi hero fighter
Tropical girl
The rest of the pictures are basically sample images showing you that you can use a chibi in certain scenes of regular sized characters, like when they are emabarrassed or mad. The chibi form of that person shows great expression, as well as hillarity. Plus chibis are ultra cute! This book is a perfect add on to any how to draw collection. I definitely recommend this book to any artist, whether beginner or intermediate, this book is extremely helpful. A must buy!
Great Book For Aspiring Little Artists!.......2006-08-05
The young lady I bought this book for just loves it.
Average customer rating:
- Cute Book But Not Worth Buying
- Great Coloring and Illustrations
- For Completists
- parents really don't get it!
- Very Kawaii!
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How To Draw Manga Volume 15: Girls' Life Illustration File (How to Draw Manga)
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- Sporty Girl: The most physically active character appearing in the book. She has a strong sense of
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The book is in English with 132 pages, (80 in full color) measuring approximately 10 inches long by 7 inches wide. Girls: You gotta love 'em. But when designing or drawing a female character, an artist--especially a male artist--may have trouble pinpointing the specific qualities that make young women so, well, unique. For instance, what is it about a young woman's room that makes it so inviting? What secret weapons do they keep hidden in their purses? Do they really lie asleep in that sultry manner so seductively portrayed by actresses on television? And when you pass them on the streets, why do they smell so darned good? This book answers those questions and many more as it takes an intimate look at the private lives of six very different young women. The information within serves as a reference and inspiration in your own character design. You'll meet the following cast of characters: Author: Kazuko Tadano Manufacturer: Graphic Sha
Customer Reviews:
Cute Book But Not Worth Buying.......2007-08-28
Honestly, I found the book to be very intersting. It illustrated the different girl's lives. "Perky" girl, "Precocious" girl, "Uppity" girl, "Dreamy" girl, and "Shy" girl, and "Sporty" girl.
So it generated on those six types of girls lifestyles. It was pretty cool. It gave an insight on how each one of their bedrooms would be, what clothes they wear, what undergarments they wear, what their bathrooms would be like and the list goes on.
It does also show what Nude positions they would be on, based on their personality. But whatever, I mean come on. That's how we all start out when we're born right. If someone's complaining about that, just make sure you send a slip to your teacher not to be assigned to a health class. It goes MUCH more into detail. A health class will not hide anything. This book only shows the nude body, keeping all private parts hidden.
Anyway yeah like I said it's pretty cool. But i wouldn't buy it. I mean all I had to do was read over it and I had a general understanding of how to set up the different types of girls. I suggest if you have a friend who already has this book, you ask them if you can borrow. You can buy it, but I feel like it would be a waste after a bit.
Great Coloring and Illustrations.......2007-07-11
This is a great book to give you an idea of various girls of variours personalities ranging from a perky girl to a shy girl. This shows some of the most loveliest illustrations that are both black and white and color. It's mostly in color though which is absolutely amazing and great! I recommend this book for those who like to draw females to kimonos to various other things. Perfect if you want to make your female character come out great
For Completists.......2007-04-04
This makes five of the "How to Draw Manga..." series I own, and I have browsed others at the bookstore. I also own a fair smattering of books about the art and architecture of modern Japan, and have visited (briefly) myself. Thus my reaction to this book is that it basically duplicates information you can get elsewhere, but it is nice to have it collected in one place.
The best part is the actual floor plans of several girl's bedrooms/apartments, although these would be even more useful if they included a little more of the complete house/flat/apartment floor. Annoyingly, these are not duplicated by floor plans of locker room, classroom, sento...these are annoyingly difficult for a westerner to get right, in the detail needed to draw a complete manga scene in one of those settings.
The details of bedroom and entry-way furniture are a handy reference, as are the cosmetics, and some of the handbag and other contents give tantalizing glimpses into activities (like blotting paper or mini-photo books) that could be worked into great little bits of on-stage business in a well-drawn manga.
As with many of the books in this series, I could do with a smaller font that would allow at least twice the text. Too often the captions or explanations are too brief to be informative.
This book contains essentially nothing on anatomy, perspective, manga drawing conventions, or how to draw. It is strictly a reference, and a very specific reference at that. If you are building up the books to draw your own shoujo manga (or something very similar), this fits on the short shelf. If your interests are larger, look elsewhere in the series.
parents really don't get it!.......2006-12-03
im 11, and i found NOTHING provocative because im a manga artist and sometimes when i draw comic or a pic you need to draw them putting on make-up, or taking a shower!
aleast its not show there private parts!
and i found it very useful, sometimes you need detail like that.
and i have a brother who draws too and he being a boy he dosen't know all about girls like i do, so it was helpful.
so if you need a book to help you draw girls and things like their rooms and stuff. its a VERY good book!
and all the revews that kids wrote found nothing wrong with it! only the parents found something wrong with it! and its not going to wreck your childhood anything!
Very Kawaii!.......2006-11-30
When I saw this book, I knew I had to have it! The illustrations are wonderful, and packed full of ideas you can use for a girls manga. This book contains info about the kind of things young women like to buy. It gives you examples of different kind of girl personalities, what that specific girl would wear, how she would behave, and what she enjoys doing. If you're looking for a book that shows some Yukata's, as well as how young women put on makeup, then this is definately a book for you! I think it is very adorable. If you are looking for more than what the title suggests, then you will be sorely dissapointed. This book is not misleading at all. It depicts exactly what the title advertises, girls' life illustration file. I would definately recommend this book if you would like to have a reference on girls activities.
Book Description
From the creative mind of superstar comic artist Colleen Doran, Girl to Grrrl Manga is your invitation to the drama, high romance and dreamlike settings of shoujo manga!
Page after page of step-by-step instruction lets you get right to it as you learn the simple tricks to drawing different shoujo looks...Beautiful, glamorous girls in funky costumes. Gorgeous guys with smoldering, direct gazes and tortured storylines. Dazzling characters with supermodel-lean builds, voluminous hair and those enormous, liquid eyes that swim with emotion.
Inside, you'll learn to draw faces and figures from different perspectives and to various dramatic effects. Discover the secrets to drawing hands, tearful eyes, fantastic costumes, and other fun and expressive facets of shoujo art. You'll see how the smallest details, like extra-long eyelashes or a highlight on the lips, can make the biggest difference!
So you want to draw like CLAMP (Cardcaptor Sakura and CLAMP School Detectives), or Mineo Maya (Patalliro), or Fuyumi Soryo (Mars) ... or (best of all) uniquely like YOU?! With Girl to Grrrl Manga, you'll learn to recognize and replicate authentic shoujo styles--classic, contemporary, retro, children's, aesthetic, modern, illustrative--on your way to achieving your own, fabulous, one-of-a-kind style.
Customer Reviews:
Great book - it's worth the $$!.......2007-06-08
This is a truly wonderful book about how to draw not just shoujo, but all, manga. It gives great guidelines for all styles, not just manga! It also has helpful techniques to get you started on manga. THe only bad thing is it doesn't give great instructions for inking. But if you want a beginning manga book, get it!
Book Description
* ChristopherHart writes the world's top-selling art instruction books--more than two million in print!
* Strong girl characters empower girls everywhere
Sailor Moon. Card Captor Sakura. Magical Girl Rayearth. They're magical girls, and they're some of the biggest names in manga. Magical girls, ordinary schoolgirls given superpowers, are hugely popular in Japan and the United States. Now Christopher Hart shows fans everywhere how to draw these manga shoujo faves. Faces and body proportions, action poses, costumes, expressions, transformations, special effects--they're all here, all in Hart's distinctive step-by-step approach. So are magical fighting boys and everybody's favorite, the cute, furry manga mascots. Hart demonstrates how to create funny mascots, magical boys, fighting teams, and supporting characters, plus how to design layouts. Magical girls show us that we all have special powers deep inside--now Manga Mania: Magical Girls and Friends let those special drawing powers reveal themselves at last!
Customer Reviews:
Great for Ideas.......2007-08-24
This book is GREAT for getting ideas; the anatomy parts are not anything particularly spectacular, but it's great for getting ideas and concepts going, as well as what to DO with these ideas. I recommend it for those who like fantasy and/or the 'Magical Girl' genre
Outstanding book teach you how to draw cartons in detail........2007-07-03
An Outstanding book that teach you how to draw cartons in detail. I bought it for an 8 years old girl, she likes it too. (but, it seems a little bit hard for her) However, I borrowed the book and draw once and find out it's a great book. I highly recommend for teenagers who love Japanes Cartoon.
One of the best Manga Mania Books.......2007-06-12
This book has better Drawings and is more inspiring than most books in this series!
Another amazing book from Christopher Hart!.......2007-05-23
I am a big fan of Christopher Hart and his work. His books are the best manga tutorial books I have come across.
This one is no exception. The drawing are gorgeous, the instruction is easy to understand for beginners and is still useful for advanced manga artists who want to learn new techniques.
It has everything from cute chibis to the transformation of a regular girl to a magical girl. (step by step instruction)
My favorite is the cute little mascots which are also transformed into magical mascots.
This is worth every penny!
ONE OF THE BEST!!!.......2007-03-17
This book has some of the cutest manga drawings you will ever see. It teaches you everything you need to know about how to make a great manga. I would recommend this book to any girl who loves manga! ^^
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Como Dibujar Manga 7 Chicas Guapas / How to Draw Manga 7 Pretty Girls (Como Dibujar Manga)
Kikaru Hayashi
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Average customer rating:
- Warning: addicts beware!!
- great book
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How to Draw Manga Girls, Volume 1 (Japanese Text Edition)
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Warning: addicts beware!!.......2001-09-28
Okay, [...] if you are a mature artist you will probably benefit from the the techniques found in this book. I'd put it at an beginning to intermediate level.
great book.......2001-02-06
this is a great book for begginers and experts alike. it has tips on how to draw faces, bodies,and hands(wich are hard for me) but it got me drawing like a pro some of my friends even want to buy my drawings. i highly recommend this book
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How to Draw Manga: Beautiful Girls of the World
Hikaru Hayashi
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It's a pretty good book.......2001-05-15
It's a good book but I sagest you first read "How to Draw Manga Bishoujo Pretty gals". This book is more of a second part of "How to Draw Manga Bishoujo Pretty gals" But it dose a good job on all the deferent cultures all over the world (Even though Greenland is missing in the world map.)
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