Manga Mania Bishoujo: How to Draw the Alluring Women of Japanese Comics

by Christopher Hart

Book Overview

This books shows aspiring artists exactly how to handle anatomy and muscles, hands and nails, seductive outfits, extreme hairstyles, body language and facial expressions -- everything you need to draw... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823029751
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

It came with pages not attached and it’s missing pages 132-141

My daughter was happy to get it but she is disappointed that a few pages are not sewn int the rest.

a good book for under 18

if you what to draw female but do not what the nude in your book this is a good book most manga books are R rate this one is pg-13 at the most

manga mania bishoujo

This book came with another one that I ordered. It's another great book to have.

Another hit by Hart

I must say, that looking at this cover is exactly what you will get throughout all of this book, well almost. Hart put his drawing in their as well, but it's not alot of it. Anyway, This book gives you examples of hair styles, facial expressions, clothes, and girl type. Although Hart's simple so called manga style is in some of the pages,the book is still very good. The contents of this book includes: The details of the head Character types Bishoujo hair The bishoujo body Advanced poses Bishoujo clothing Drawing characters in costumes Creating glamour Creating chemistry (only very little images of this section.) Magical girl effects. (Only a small portion of effects in this section) This book is a good start to giving you the basic idea of giving your girl character a appealing standing pose, as well as attractive hair. I definitely recommend this book for those who are having a slight problem with giving their female characters sex appeal, and if this book isn't your cup of tea, then I would recommend "More how to draw manga Volume 1: The basics of character drawing." That is another great book. Other than that Hart picked some good artists' for this book, so it's definitely worth buying.

Great Book!

This book is adorable. The art is stunning (That's because Christopher Hart only drew about 22 illustrations out of the whole book.)Christopher was never a good artist in the style of manga. I'm was never a fan of his art and still isn't. But this book is great to have for refrence, most of the book is not for beginners, But it might be useful for them to buy it anyway. It does has some simple steps for them in drawing the heads. It starts you off drawing beautiful eyes. Then the many lips and mouths and their expressions. Then drawing the head in different poses. And then it goes to teaching you how to draw the Cheat between the Pretty Girl (only two pages though.) It shows you 9 pages on hair, when wind is blowing, between short, long, medium, and wild hair. The many curves of hair and style. Also "When you change a hair style, you change a character" page. It gives you 12 pages on body expressions and poses and Body Language. 3 pages on the poses of hands and (2 pages) on feet (note all feet pictures except one, is wearing some kind of shoe.) It also tells you between a Stylish Figure and a Seductive Figure,a Cool Figure, and Warrior Figure(4 pages.) It also have Advance Action Poses (11 pages.) It also has Bishoujo Clothing from Primitive to Techno Soldier to School to Professional Uniforms to Magical and non-Human costumes (11 pages.) They have Drawing Characters in Costume (17 pages)(the following is in order); Futuristic fighter and in medieval Futuristic Fighter, Fantasy Elf Princess and Rich Elf Princess, Traditonal in Country and Tropical, Athlete in Gymnast and Runner, Villian is Fantasy and Sci-fi, Scientist in Pretty and Beautiful, School Girls and their many uniforms. Glamouring up a Character (9 pages) shows you how you can make a character more glamourous by changing the hair, outfit, or pose. But afterwards it's Creating Chemistry (7 pages). And last but not least "Magical Girl Special Effects" (on the last 7 pages.) I'll give it 5 stars cause it was a very good book and most of the illustraions were amazing. It was worth the money. A Super Good Book for Kids. Cause it contains no nudy at all. But I think that this book is better than Christopher Hart's Shoujo Book.

Great Book

Manga Mania was actually not bad. Chris Hart's books are rather hit or miss for me, but this book was very comprehensive. It covers the female figure in great detail in Japanese style. The contributing artists were wonderful and did a good job of showing the female figure and face from various angles. The sad thing about Chris Hart's books is that his own artistic style is so very poor. Frankly I could've done without his own illustrations, which is really too bad since he is the author. I think the couples illustration at the end, and the drawings of the face from various angles were worth this book's price alone. 5 stars. A book I'll use again and again!