How to Draw Manga Volume 23: Illustrating Battles

by Hikaru Hayashi

Educational, entertaining and extremely constructive manual on the Manga's Art This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 4766111478
• ISBN13: 9784766111477
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Graphic Sha Publishing
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.3" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Get for a reference

More then anything, this book is a reference to various battle moves from major battles to the lesser slap scenes. Hayashi gives a lot of examples from different perspectives, angles, and methods of doing the same attack like punches, kicks, throws, and even dodging. He even covered bruises, rips, getting up, and crouches. The examples are practically all hand-to-hand combat. If you're into weapons, you could use the examples and substitute it for weapons but visually, you'll probably have a harder time putting it together. This book is more for the experienced artist who is already familiar with anatomy and as mentioned earlier, this book is for reference. It doesn't provide you with any step-by-step instructions, just pointers.

AWESOME!!!

I love this book, it is everything I was looking for and more!!It shows you so many different kinds of moves, and how to make them look the way you want. From kicks, punches, throws, grabs... aswell as showing how the attacker and the character being attacked should look, before, during, and after a move. I must say, I was very impressed with this book, I would definetly suggest this book to anyone interested in drawing manga or anime. I don't think there is a thing I would change, it gets 5 stars.

Much better than Hart's how to books.

This book is great for anyone trying to figure out just how the body looks durring a fight. I have found it not only useful in drawing comics but also using it for drawing realistic fight illustrations. I agree that it is not for the beginner, but anyone with a little experience drawing anatomy from books or life will be able to get a lot out of this book. It covers the physics of fighting very well in the actions of the attacker and the reactions of the one being attacked. I found the school girl fighting part amusing, although if I were a guy I probably would have spent more time in that section of the book. :)I feel that this is better book than Hart's manga how to book because it really gets in to the physics and the perspective instead of just spending one or two pages on these subjects as Hart's book does.

ZANG! (excellent)

This book is a lot oof help to those who can't quite get down the body formations of battle scenes. I myself needed a lot of help and this book helped out a lot. Took quite a while to get it shipped to me, but it was worth it!

Illustrating Battles--very helpful for martial arts scenes!

I started taking martial arts a couple of years ago just to help my cartoon characters learn to fight in a realistic way... this book can save you a couple steps (and dollars!)Beautiful pictures, very helpful, but I would not recommend this as a "how to draw" book for beginners... it's not good with 'step by step' stuff. If you can already draw, and want to figure out how to lay out 'speed lines' and dynamic action scenes, then this is a very good book for you!This book has shown me many moves I already know, but it puts it in an artists perspective, something my martial arts teacher lacks... It also has many other things I didn't know, it covers many styles of fighting.Being a Japanese release, it also has a big "Girls in Sailor School Uniforms Fighting" chapter, very helpful if you are drawing girls fighting in Sailor School uniforms.(?!) You have to love Manga to have an appreciation for that... heehee.In short, you don't have to sign up for Martial Arts lessons to learn how to draw realistic fighting scenes... this book WILL help. (I will continue to take my classes though!)The other books in this series are wonderful, as well, I can't wait for them to release more!