Mastering Manga 2: Level Up with Mark Crilley

You can't go wrong with this book, yet another useful, fun to read book by Mark Crilley! This book not only contains a lot of reference but other than the reference pages every single drawing in this has plenty of steps that take it slow so you don't lag behind like many other books. This is extremely useful for a beginner like myself, when I finished a drawing and shaded it i felt very satisfied that the steps made it much easier to draw than other books. Ontop of that every page has plenty of explaining on the steps and what you will be drawing. For a beginner you CANNOT go wrong with this book I'd get it as soon as you can, with the very useful addition of the environment page and many new additions to the previous book. Mark Crilley manages to make every page seem fresh and not like he is repeating himself from the previous book which is nice since I know I'm getting my monies worth. I thank Mark Crilley for writing this it has helped me a lot with my drawing!

My 12 year old son is very artistic and has recently gotten into manga in a big way. This book has really helped him develop his manga style of drawing. It is very noticeable how much his drawings have improved having learnt from the book. The book itself is very well designed and presented, with lots of illustrations and easy to follow lessons. Other similar books can be a bit on the basic or simplistic side, but Mark Crilley's is entry level but done well. He covers many aspects of manga style drawing and is both encouraging and inspiring. If my son is anything to go by, it works. My son is now a Crilley fan and if he becomes a successful artist himself, I'm sure he'll cite him as an early influence!

This is an absolutely brilliant book. It really helps you tell your story for comic drawing, putting things into perspective, how to colour things correctly, add drama and more importantly how to build your story board from scratch through to the finished product. My favourite book of the 3 so far. Just wondering if & when there'll be a Manga4. I do hope so.

I bought both this and the first edition in order to gain valuable insights into how exactly to create decent looking manga characters. There's plenty of good tutorial, tips and examples in this book to get you started, beginners need not beware, it is easy to understand and starts off slow and simple, how to draw eyes, how to draw a basic head at various angles etc. Eventually it progresses quite naturally into more in-depth lessons, literally, as it teaches you the basics of perspective, foreshortening and creating 'space' in which to place your action. It will teach you how to give your creations more character, more depth to the environments you put them in, and how to add details like wet clothes, rain, and other tricks of the trade. It is by no means a fully comprehensive guide on everything you need to know, for instance it seems to be geared towards traditional pencil and paper art, if you are creating digitally you will need further instruction on how to do line art, colour, and add effects as this features nothing on such things at all. As a guide to the fundamental design and creation of characters and environments in this particular style though it has been of great help and I still refer to it regularly when embarking upon a new project.

This book really helped me get better at drawing. You really get some good hints, tips and instructions on how to "level up". What I also really like is that Mark Crilley also goes more in depth on how to set up a manga from start to finish. Well worth the money

My daughter, who is Manga-Mad, says it's perfect. I must say it looked very good when I was able to see a few review pages when I looked on Amazon. This is a great feature and gives you an idea of what you are buying. So, to sum up, both my daughter and I can recommend this book to anyone who is interested in developing their Manga drawing techniques.

This book is great for teaching you the tips that most people would either ignore or give you extremely lengthy explanations for. Helps to give you a more solid drawing rather than a character you've drawn and it's floating in a blank page, my drawing now have a good scenery to them now rather than just the character. Keep up the good work mark crilley

Bought his and the first one. They seem to have a perfect learning curve, just enough to stretch a bit at each stage. I am now gaining some fluency. Very clearly laid out in a step by step fashion. Disagree with this one being too similar to the first. It is a natural progression with the extra level of detail and subtlety that is introduced.

The title "Mastering Manga 2 level up with Crilley" describes this book very well. With this book, Mark Crilley delivers a most anticipated second lesson on Mastering Manga. For some manga aficionados, this is the Manga 102 that they wished the first book were. As in the previous iteration, this book is divided into 3 main parts, with some introductory and final sections: Introduction What You Need Putting Your Materials to Work: Making the Manga Eye Anatomy of a Manga Panel Part 1: Head and Faces Part 2: Proportion and Poses Part 3: Bringing it all Together Conclusion Index About the Author Like in the previous book, several sections of this book are introduced with a comic-book-style page. The introductory sections provide the basis of what you need to know to draw manga which makes this book a stand alone how-to-draw-manga book. Part 1 to Part 3 also cover similar material as in the first book, with more detailed drawings, but with less reference material. Part 1 focus on the head and faces. This section includes 7 to 8 steps tutorials on how to draw detailed female and male heads in front, profile and 3/4 views, bird's eye, worm's eye views and even a fantasy cat girl character. There is also reference material for 16 female and male hairstyles for female, 7 facial expressions, various samples of real and manga styled eyes (3), ears (2), noses (3) and mouths (4), various samples of glasses (4) and hats (4). Part 2 focus on the body. This section picks up with body proportions for various ages, 7 steps tutorials on how to draw female and male bodies in front, bird's eye, worm's eye and foreshortening views. There is also 7 step tutorials on how to draw the hand, sitting pose, fighting scene and kissing scene. There is good reference material on arms (4), hands (7), legs (2) and feet (3), various poses (16), various clothes (4), folds (6), styles (8) and footwear (6). This section finalizes with Chibis (5 samples) and a 4 steps tutorial on how to draw one from a full-sized character. Part 3 focus on drawing the manga. This part starts with a 4 to 5 steps lessons on perspective, drawing a forest or a desert, and cover common elements such as rocks grass, rivers and rain. There is also reference material on water effect (3) and surface detail (4). This section includes a brief demonstration of Crilley's process of drawing a single Manga page. It also includes thoughts on planning panels, composition, inking and layouts. This book feels brief, but this is expected of a 128 pages book. In summary, the first book was a better resource for reference material with a plethora of hairstyles, eyes, hands, feet … while this book is a better resource for demonstrations. Well, not exactly true, but that was the intention as we are constantly reminded to go to impact books to download a free bonus demonstration. Unfortunately, at the time of this review the link was not available. So, which book is for you? For reference material and basic instruction, the first one. For more advanced instructions, this one. However, once you pick either book you may end up buying the other one book as well.

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Very informative and adds new and related tips beyond what is in the first mastering manga. This master of the craft explains things in easy to understand and non pretentious manner. For example important tips about: Footwear, chibis, hairstyles, hands, high and low angles of the human figure, useful poses, Kissing, backgrounds, weather, paneling and creating manga itself, and more! Upon use of this and the first book I've already pre-ordered Mastering Manga 3! I highly recommend all of Mark Crilley's books.

This book teach as how to draw manga, infant to adult, cover perspective view, poses, clothes, its a beginners friendly, I would suggest for beginners, buy mastering manga 1st and then go for 2nd .Book received in good condition,worth the price. To learn manga, Mark Crilley is one among the other best manga artists.

This is an excellent book, everything is useful and well explained. I'm a beginner and this is perfect for me