Product Description
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!
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Hard to find
If your really wish to learn how to draw anime and manga this is the book you are looking for. The vol 2 of the series “How to Draw Anime & Game characters” is all about emotions…
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Keep drawing!
This will keep you drawing at a professional level and will give beginners further understanding and methods of drawing
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So close to being the perfect resource for facial expressions…
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…
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.
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Wonderful
This is a great book that provides drawing instructions on expressing emotion in anime and game characters. Helpful illustrations.
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.
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i love this series, its sooo helpful!
excellent! i was very pleazed w/ the first volume, and couldnt wait to get the second…and now i cant wait to get the last 3, this set is just plain awesome!
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This book helped a lot!
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 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.
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not a 2 star yawn like vol.1,(yea, that was me)
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.
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A GREAT book for drawing faces and expressions!
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…
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Ozawa does it again!
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)…
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Just can’t put my finger on it
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…