How to Draw Manga, Volume 29: Putting Things In Perspective

How To Draw Manga #29

by K's Art

Explains perspective and provides examples on how to draw manga style backgrounds and crowds.

Genres: Manga, Art, Drawing

136 pages, Paperback

First published December 15, 2002

Reviews

[Danielle Freeman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Learning to draw in perspective can be a daunting task for beginning and intermediate artists. Along with drawing the human hand, it is one of the hurdles that can leave the budding illustrator yanking out great hanks of hair from their scalp as they attempt to master it. Luckily, this book gives you everything you need to know in order to become comfortable with drawing in perspective all wrapped up in the unassuming and unintimidating candy shell of manga-style art.

In How To Draw Manga: Putting Things in Perspective, the author takes you through everything from the dirt basics of horizon lines and vanishing points to multi-point perspective, crowd scenes, the "fish-eye" lens effect. Are you having trouble drawing an imagined space in perspective? This book describes how to plot out settings from a top-down floor plan view first to make the task a whole lot easier.

Some people might be quick to dismiss this book because of the fact that the title says "How To Draw Manga" or because of the cute anime girl in shorty-shorts and a belly blouse on the cover, but don't be fooled. This book is a straight all-in-one course on perspective which outlines the exact same technical know-how that you would learn in a formal classical drawing class. So, if you are having trouble with perspective, but find books on the subject which deal with it mainly in the classical Western style intimidating, I recommend that you give this title a whirl. You'll be glad you did!

[Ahmawan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have grown up looking at "how to draw manga" books with a sort of reluctance. I prefer more realistic styles that manga drawing books don't have a tendency to convey. But I was surprised with how helpful it was to have perspective drawing broken down in such a clear step by step matter. When I drew before, i had a tendency to get guidelines confused with each other, but the methods of this book helped me find new tips so that I wouldn't have to struggle with that as much. I liked using the "slide" concept for drawing a composition with multiple characters, its simpler to me than drawing with different vanishing points as most books suggest. I found the books method of drawing crowds useful, and also the way it suggested drawing past the view window to size things properly to the same scale.

All in all, the book had many useful tips that addressed some common problems I have in my attempts to draw.

[Ana · Rating 3 out of 5]

A goos book with good advice and some gorgeous art, but it should be more explicit at times, and more into exercises.

[Evin · Rating 2 out of 5]

There is nothing really propelling you to want to draw what they offer. They make it really tedious.

[Alessandro Pirrelli]

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