Well only if you’re old enough, probably.

Anyway, working from another Japanese “How to draw manga” book, and as before, I can’t tell if it’s a Japanese publication, or a reprint from China, or if the authors are Chinese showing you how to do Japanese manga, or… oh well. For credit sake, here are the front and back covers, to show their origin, and again, I’ll try to include these in some way on future posts that involve these publications.

Either way, it must be done by the same authors as the book from my post last week. The models and format, are practically the same. One of the things they included, was something I don’t see American “How to…” books do enough, and that’s to encompass various styles. For example, the photo below was in the book, and the authors displayed how you can take the same image, and use it as reference for realistic and stylized illustrations. 

Here is their “realistic” rendering—

While this shows a more “manga” stylized version.

I think it’s useful to see how you can utilize references, without being a slave to them. I on the other hand was this photo reference’s bi… er, I stayed pretty close to it. In my defense, I’m usually sketching from the photos as a poor replacement for life drawing, and my goal is to focus on getting as exact of a likeness as I can, in as short of a time as possible. 

This edition also had the occasional alternate angle of a pose. This is the same shot as above, but from a lower (“worm’s eye”) view. Again, I didn’t venture too far away from the source.