Comickers Art: Tools and Techniques for Drawing Amazing Manga

by Comickers Magazine

The first book in the Comickers Art series, Comickers Tools and Techniques for Drawing Amazing Manga explores the various drawing tools and art techniques necessary to create successful and authentic manga. This book will teach you how to use pencils, markers, brushes, and software to create all styles of manga, and features the manga artists who best use each of the key techniques. Four color finished work from each of the featured artists is also included to inspire.

Genres: Art, Manga, Sequential Art

128 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2008

Reviews

[Parka · Rating 5 out of 5]

(Picture source: parkablogs.com)

For anyone who's just starting out drawing manga style, this book provides useful information on colouring.
Different colouring tools are introduced. Each are explained on their characteristics and tips on using them.

The featured artists in this series are Saya Iwasaki, Hiroki Mafuyu, Ayumi Kasai, Hamlet Okinawa, Renji Murata, Kim Jyung-Tae and Houden Eizo. These artists goes through tips on their colouring process with their tools: markers, coloured ink, water colour, acrylic paint and digital colouring. These are step by step tutorials with detailed captions.

Additionally, there are Q&A interviews with some of the artists.

Right at the end is a gallery containing illustrations created from a variety of medium. These are from other manga artists.

This book is a great book for beginners. Experts might learn something new too, especially on exploring new colouring techniques and medium.

If you like this book, check out other Comickers books too.

This review was first published on parkablogs.com. There are more pictures and videos on my blog.

[James Ater · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quite good, not particularly in the notion of information about art but more in the vain of an artbook. Due to this I discovered the name of an artist whose work I have loved for years, Range Murata. I loved the illustrations and was inspired to begin work on a comic I have had floating in my brain space for years. I enjoyed the interviews and the art from newer rising stars towards the end.

I had a psychological epiphany which had already been in the back of my brain. Art is quite subjective, one may love a piece while another struggles to find beauty in it. This should be common sense but it did not click until a student a few years under me made comments about sexualization of characters in certain illustrations. This prompted an entire discussion upon the freedom of speech and the inherently mental side of sexualization especially towards images which are simply showcasing the human form. I realized that I should do what I am capable of and strife for greater heights instead of sulking about not being able to portray something in the ideal fashion even after countless hours of work only to throw away my work.

I do not consider art to be a primary profession of mine as carpotunnel highly limits the time which I can actually draw, but I can still say that this is one of the most gratifying art related books I have checked out from my library

[lol feet · Rating 4 out of 5]

AMAZING !!!!!!!!! IM ONLY 12 AND I BEEN COMPLAINTED BY SO MUCH PEOPLE ABOUT HOW AMAZING MY REALISIC AND MANGA ART IS ITS BETTER THAN A PROFFISAL THANK YOU SO MUCH.