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How to Draw Anime & Game Characters, Vol. 2: Expressing Emotionsx$7.17
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Best Price: $7.17
In this series, the author who has helped new talent to develop, including GHIBLI and MAD HOUSE, explains character design step by step using his own expertise and teaching materials. In the second volume, learn to master character's emotions and facial expressions!
UPC: 824869000137
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Another top title from Ozawa
By A1NEI36ZQL17ZK on 2001-06-17
For anyone interested in drawing characters (not just Manga style), the Tadashi Ozawa books are a real find. Volume one of the Anime and Game Characters (Basics for Beginners and Beyond) series was an amazingly useful book on drawing the human figure in many styles. Now he follows it up with Expressing Emotions.As with the first book, he walks you through the techniques he's featuring for a range of different character types, from the very simple to the very realistic. He also includes extensive annotations with most of the drawings explaining why things work and pointing out the small but important details he's used. He focusses both on facial expressions and using the whole body to effectively convey feeling. And again, he's included a section of drawings that don't quite work, with full annotations alongside revised drawings that fix the problems. While not as extensive as in volume one, it's still a great resource for the learning illustrator. Once you study these "before and afters", you wonder why more books on drawing don't use this technique. It allows you to spot your own flaws more easily, while encouraging you by showing you how to repair the problems through practice. This book is definitely a 5 star read if you already have Volume 1 of this series (currently a bit hard to get, but keep checking for the reprint that's scheduled for release sometime). If you're already quite competent at drawing figures, this book will be of great use. If not, you'll still find it useful, but it doesn't cover how to draw figures, only how to give them more life and emotion. If you're interested in drawing, especially Anime and Manga, grab this book while you can. And watch for the release of volume 3 (Bringing Daily Actions to Life), tentatively scheduled for this Summer 2001.
Great for a budding anime artist
By A23GFTVIETX7DS on 2002-10-23
I bought this book for my teenage daughter, who has become obsessed with drawing manga. It was worth every penny! By demonstrating the particular stylistic quirks of Japanese animation (anime) and graphic novels (manga), it has helped her drawings gain the expressiveness she desires. After just one week of studying the examples, she improved dramatically.This book does not have extensive text and thus is perfect for middle school children and older to learn by copying the examples. Unlike some of the volumes in this series, the pictures are not risque. I recommend this book for anyone who has mastered the basics of anime style and is looking for ways to improve facial expressions.
Expression both face and body
By AE8OE1NSB5IBF on 2000-09-28
I own the Japanese text version of this book, but the language barrier matters little. How to Draw ''Anime'' & ''Game'' Characters: Expressing Emotions, it full of self-explanatory drawings. A series of six different characters (both men and women) are used to show facial expressions of almost every conceivable emotion. The same sets of character are also use to display a wide variety of body language that express emotion. A must have resource for anyone wanting to draw anime/manga. Those interested in drawing superheroes and realistic; this is a great companion book to when pair with a facial anatomy book.
If you want to get feeling into your characters get this!
By AEX7B4UZKSNE5 on 2001-08-21
Although this book didn't blow me away quite as much as the first volume it's no less an important book in your character drawing techniques library. This books explains drawing emotion in your characters along with guidelines on the hows and whys of emotions in anime characters. Starting with the simple schematic emotion faces the author shows how those emotions come through in the various styles of anime characters. Like the last book the author gives examples of where beginning (and amateur) artists make mistakes with character emotional expression so that you can learn from your own (mistakes).
A great book for givng your chacters emotions!!!!!
By A5126LD7E8QIM on 2002-08-10
Not only does this book show to draw various emotions, it shows u how certain types of characters express each emotion. it even goes into how u express it with the body position. It's a great refrence material even if u dion't need help w/emotions. I use it for drawing emotions, hands, feet, etc. I also use it for ideas. This is a must have book!!!!! Drawing emotiond have been easier since I bought that book.
- Excellent book
By A30RA36THKXTMX on 2004-02-26
The second book in the series, this one goes into detail on how to bring your characters to life through their facial expressions and body position. They show many different facial types for various types of characters and genders; many emotions that they go through including joy, anger, smug, embarressment, and much more; and the positions their bodies would be in while executing these emotions. At the end of the book there is a chapter on perspective and how to choose the right perspective to convey the emotion your character is going through. An excellent book for any anime artist.
- Ozawa does it again!
By A3NPLA19LD5E23 on 2004-11-22
If you have problems drawing expressive characters get this book immediately! I can't begin to tell how handy it is to see a variety of characters (young to old, male and female) with their own unique manner of displaying an emotion (fear, smugness, unease, etc). The book goes a bit further and helps you how to translate that emotion into a panel or animation scene for maximum impact which I find quite useful.
This is the most comprehensive book on emotions from facial to full body expression regardless if you're into realistic or more simplistic drawings. Get your hands on one if you can.
- A GREAT book for drawing faces and expressions!
By AY4HOYYL7V1JW on 2005-01-03
My feelings towards this specific "How to draw manga" book is that it was well worth the $$$. I'd highly recommend this manga volume to ANYONE how's looking for a good facial expression book. It's detailed, direct, simple and yet well illustrated. I highly recommend this to any and all manga book fans. Just one look and you'll be hooked on this totally original manga book! Hope you enjoy it! *_* YOU'LL BE STAR STUCK.
- excellent character designer's crib book
By A30CP38EFZPW4I on 2004-02-12
This book focuses directly on character design. Its best feature is that it shows various features and demonstrates precisely how, in the stylistic language of anime, these features interact to form believable character traits. Invaluable for those times when your generic cute girl character needs just a touch more strength, or needs to express a little more shyness.It's possible to complain that the archtypes they show are too generic, but I feel that's one of the book's strengths. It explains the rules and conventions, using neutral characters so that the lesson shows clearly. It expects you, the character designer, to apply these lessons with whatever degree of subtlety you prefer. The book is somewhat expensive for its content (especially compared with such great values as /the animator's survival kit/, by richard williams,) but it's quite useful, and still recommended.
- Just can't put my finger on it
By ANBCMH3PR8WHO on 2004-08-26
Maybe it's the fact that some of the expressions were pretty obvious, or maybe that there weren't enough types characters in this book, maybe it's that there really was no lady with pink hair wearing a furry yellow dress like on the cover. All I know is that this book was not COMPLETELY helpful. Overall it was good, but, I don't know, maybe I'm just picky. I would reccomend this book to people interested in anime, who know how to draw a basic body. I would NOT reccomend this book to complete beginners, you have to know at least a little bit about the basic body structure. OKAY, maybe a little more than just the basic body structure, but you get the idea. It's a good book to just have around for references and ideas, not much else.
- This book helped a lot!
By on 2005-12-01
I am 14 years old, and I got this book a year ago. It really helped me to figure out how to draw some of the basic expressions for people. I have been drawing manga for about 2 years now, but for a while, all of my characters had the same poses and basiccaly the same faces! And another note: not every character will express the same emotion in the same way. This also helps you to think about your character's personality and what kind of facial and body expressions they will use. I recommend this book for anyone who has the basics down, because it doesn't explain any of that. It will help anyone from a novice level, even experts could use the tips.
- So close to being the perfect resource for facial expressions...
By A1D1MF30C7X1KR on 2007-07-31
I took a chance on this book because its title, "Expressing Emotions", promised to reveal the content I've been seeking for so long: a book that shows how to create facial expressions for a range of emotions. And this book really does that, and does it well.
Another book by the same artist, Tadashi Ozawa, offered a similar promise, but failed to deliver. Let's Draw Manga: Bodies And Emotions doesn't focus on faces at all; it focuses only on expressing emotion by posing the body in certain ways. Indeed, half the drawings don't have faces at all. Another book, Manga Moods, shows a huge range of emotions, but with only a single picture for each emotion and no advice on drawing.
Half this book is dedicated to facial expressions, and the other half gives corresponding full-body versions of some of these expressions. Everything is very well-annotated, with a number of notes on each drawing explaining exactly what was done to achieve the emotive effect. The drawings are clean and well-done, and the text is very clear.
But what could be a strength for this book turns out to be a weakness as well. Fourteen characters are used, a broad range of male and female characters typical of various styles of anime and games. Each character is shown with 14 facial expressions, then later with eight full-body poses. But pretty much the same 14 expressions are used for all the characters, and it just doesn't feel like it's enough to express the full range of emotions. Consider that Manga Moods has 40 expressions, and very few of them are redundant.
It's a nice touch to see the differences between how the emotion of anger is expressed by the young male detective and by the catgirl, or how smugness is expressed by the schoolgirl and the male giant-robot pilot. But I really rather would have seen more emotions reflected in this book, even at the expense of showing fewer characters.
This is still the best book I've found for learning how to draw emotions, and I'm sure I'll use it for reference quite often. I only wish there was more focus on a wider range of emotions -- how to differentiate between gloom and discomfort rather than just "unease", or defiance and confidence rather than just "smugness", for example.
- Anime Freak!!!
By on 2003-09-05
This book is all about finding the best expression for your charaters. For people who bought the first volume this depends on how well you listened and did when you were drawing. But it has been the best allowence money I spent. It has greatly aproved both my best's freinds drawing and mine. So if you HAVE THE FIRST VOLUME GET THE SECOND ONE.
- Invaluable resource book!!!
By A1S8NJZIF9MSHE on 2003-10-23
This book deals with how to breathe life into your characters by teaching you the proper techniques through eye-candy illustrations. You are definitely going to get the correct facial expressions on your characters that accurately suggests whatever and however forms of emotions that these characters harbour. Cool book, A MUST HAVE. I generally prefer the HOW TO DRAW ANIME AND GAME CHARACTERS series to the HOW TO DRAW MANGA series simply because I feel that the former is harder to acquire(at least in my fabulous home country Singapore), thereby making it as rare and precious as diamonds. Ok enough about the good part. Here comes the complaint. All the volumes in this series are printed in mediocre paper quality, like those paper quality of all the japanese comic books'. Secondly, it is not in coloured print. I wouldn't mind paying more for colour if I am going to keep this book on my reference-book shelf. But I still love this series, the drawings are sooooooo cute(main reason why I am into manga and anime in the first place)!!! To sum it up, I just love japanese art especially manga and anime and this book helps you have a sound starting point so that you would minimize mistakes later on. In short, GO GET IT ... WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!
- not a 2 star yawn like vol.1,(yea, that was me)
By on 2005-06-04
Vol.2 is ALOT better and more helpful than its predecesser.the emotions are varied and there are no more clich'e characters too,they are in fact, believable.The drawings are nice and you wont find typos or any engrish,nor will you find bits of info paired with tons of pics.You wont find much trouble applying the examples's emotions to your own original creations.I couldnt give this book 4 stars though because I just couldnt get into it for some reason,maybe cuz i'm still trying to get rid of that bad after-taste that was volume one(yea,i was the one person who didnt like vol.1).This is one of those books you have to read to really judge.....
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