Let’s Draw Manga: Bodies And Emotions
Why doesn’t my character pose the way I want it to in my drawing? Why does my character’s face look like she’s crying when I want her to smile? How do I get my drawings to look like it was illustrated by a manga artist from Japan?
If you are faced with these common problems and have no where else to turn, we have the solution for you.
LET’S DRAW MANGA –
Bodies and Emotions!
This invaluable instructional guide will teach you the do’s and don’ts of drawing the huma
Rating: 
(out of 6 reviews)
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Review by Horse Gal for Let’s Draw Manga: Bodies And Emotions Rating:
I really liked this book a lot, the majority of this book is how to draw TONS of different poses! i didn’t even think about drawing some poses that i do in everyday life.And she shows the difference between the anatomy of a human body, and the manga body! which i thought was a total plus! One of the only things i was dissapointed with was the facial expressions, it didn’t show how to draw them at all, and thats what i really struggle with! It’s a great book for learning all about different poses, anatomy and posture, but not a great book for expressions.
Review by Quin for Let’s Draw Manga: Bodies And Emotions Rating:
This was my first purchase outside of the official How To Draw Manga collection, and I chose this book because of the promise of emotions and facial expressions. But despite the official description and even the text on the book cover, this book did not live up to that implied promise.
This book focuses heavily on how to draw bodies, and the advice it gives is sound and helpful. The tone of the text is occasionally arrogant but generally constructive. But almost all of the “emotion” shown in the book is through body language and posture; indeed, half the drawings don’t have faces at all.
If you’re looking for simple anatomy lessons or an assortment of poses, this book could be helpful. But if you’re looking for a reference for facial expressions, this is not suitable; you would find more facial expressions by picking a random book from the How To Draw Manga series.
Review by for Let’s Draw Manga: Bodies And Emotions Rating:
This book is pretty good, except it as a huge part on girls but barely anything about boys. Don’t get me wrong the girl part shows a lot of different poses and there really good. Its just if your looking only for boys you shouldnt by this book.
Review by Novelista for Let’s Draw Manga: Bodies And Emotions Rating:
When I bought this book I was expecting to see an explanation on how to create different emotions and body frames. Well…not exactly. The emotion information they shared wasn’t really helpful. Just showed a bunch of odd faces.
As for the body. It had many different poses to put a “female” character in that I have to admit were really cute. But it would’ve been nice to get a detailed explanation how to get all the different positions. They didn’t have any on males, but they did draw out the different sizes of a male’s body. Not really helpful.
Then they gave a little info on the hands and feet and the other pasrts of the body and yeah. That was pretty much it. They did have a few pictures of different kind of men and women in the back. But it really wasn’t helpful.
But hey, if you’re wondering about doing different poses for your character. This is the book for you. They have different pages of positions for miles.
Review by David Diamond for Let’s Draw Manga: Bodies And Emotions Rating:
Let’s Draw Manga Bodies & Emotions is for Fine Art figure artists, as well as for Manga artists.
No book covers everything, but this book supplements the other books in your library with some very important, unique material.
A key focus of this book is body language — how to communicate emotion and attitude with posture and gesture. In addition to providing drawing guidance, this material can also trigger ideas for how to pose live models.
The author’s illustrations, showing ball-jointed croquis and their corresponding completed forms, simplifies and isolates the gestures and postures, and illustrates the relationships between the croquis and the finished forms.
Other sections of the book focus on hands (which many artists find quite difficult to draw) and feet, and on the relationship between croquis, muscle, skeleton, and finished form. Cube and cylinder drawing techniques are included.
Head and face angles are another important area that the book focuses on.
A unique contribution of this book is its discussion of body proportions. Most figure drawing books address the normal human proportions of seven or eight-head high adult figures, and variations for younger figures. This book shows how to deviate from those “normal” proportions in order to obtain alternative graphic drawing styles.
The book ends with some material on fashion and on a variety of character types, styles and ages.
I would recommend this book for any figure artist’s library.