For a book that talks about manga styles and modes give How To Draw Manga: Getting Started by Graphic-Sha. This uses the old school Disney style, but the lessons it teaches are equally valid to more modern styles. His website is a great place to visit.Ī good book on cartooning style is Animation by Preston Blair. Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist by James Gurney. Good books on overall illustration techniques are: (BTW, you cannot learn to draw the figure without a model.
The Artists Complete Guide To Figure Drawing by Anthony Ryder.įigure Drawing For All It's Worth by Andrew Loomis.įigure Drawing Without A Model by Ron Tiner. The books of George Bridgeman, there are several and then there is an omnibus volume that collects them, Bridgeman's Complete Guide To Drawing From Life. Good books on human figure drawing/life drawing are: You will forever be doomed to copying other peoples ideas. Trying to skip this step and working from a method that teaches nothing but a simple system or formula, like most "how to draw" books, will result in weak images and limited abilities. It's impossible to be an effective who artist or illustrator, who deals in representational images, without learning to see.įrom there, if your goal is illustration, you can move on to more specialized texts, though you will never give up on observational drawing any more than a musician gives up practicing scales or their method books. No matter what style or mode you are going to work in this is essential. In order to draw, you must first learn to see, something humans are not particularly good at. Start by observational drawing, the book I'd recommend is Betty Edwards Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain. The best way to learn to draw manga, anime, or anything, is to learn to draw.
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