Forum - View topicINTEREST: How to Draw Manga Artist Katy Coope Redraws Cover Illustration After Almost 20 Years
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Kyo Hisagi
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Now this is just wholesome.
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Cain Highwind
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Like many people in sure, I thought the artwork was done by some amateur trying to cash in on the manga/anime craze but didn't actually KNOW about manga/anime. It's sort of the same thing as some of those anime parodies you'd see in Western animation/shows that felt painfully generic.
But the fact that this was a young 16yo girl getting this book out there is really impressive. I'm glad she's doing well now. |
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Whitestrider
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Well, that (and many other "how to draw manga" books) was terrible, good thing I never bought one of those!
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Oggers
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I had a copy of this book when I was much younger, as I'm sure many other young weebs did. It's nice to know that the author is doing well these days.
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here-and-faraway
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I remember this book fondly. I used lessons from it to help my middle school students learn to draw. They were simple and my kids generally did well with them. It was released in the era of Slayers and Saber Marionette. Its style definitely reflects the time. ^_~
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Juno016
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I definitely own the book and it isn't exactly what I'd use for actual instruction in art, but I genuinely appreciate the author's personal story, especially since I had a huge misconception (in no small part thanks to Chris Hart) that these books were always illustrated by adults just trying to line their pockets by dominating the "How to Draw" shelves with absolute garbage meant to look appealing to budding amateurs as they out-perform their more well-rounded, good-intentioned, and more-skilled competition. Katy Coope is from an entirely different thread, having been so young at the time.
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marshmallowpie
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This was the first HTDM book I ever read, always loved it more than the more "authentic" ones translated from Japanese, or any CH type book. Even though I had no idea the artist was so young, it seems like that fact helped with making it appealing and accessible. Before I found this book (in my elementary school library, which never had manga, which always disappointed me) I never thought I could draw manga style art, so it really changed my world. It's sad that the artist got hate for it, but I'm sure the amount of people with fond memories of it is even bigger than the amount of haters.
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Thaumana
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It was fun to take part on this.
It was one of my first How To Manga non-fiction books that I owned. I never would have guessed that the author was about the same age at the time. This was a nice surprising throwback.
I don't mean to discredit the author by any means, she has my utmost respect considering the fact that she was able to create a tutorial book at such a young age, but I remember that even back then I thought, while the book was nice for beginners, the drawing style was too chibi-focused for me. In fact, from a practicality standpoint, the translated tutorial books from Japan usually helped me more because the drawing techniques, terminology, and examples were closer to what I've always been used too from manga. I still own all the volumes of a How To series by Graphic Sha from the early 2000s, and I consider them still useful until this day, except that many tool tips are kinda 'outdated' by the predominance of digital work. |
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PandaXs1
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"I also had to fight pretty hard to keep HTDMM as emphatic about “There are lots of ways to do things, here are some options, now go find your own style” as it is. That’s always been important to me. Even as a kid, I only ever really wanted to be a springboard for people."
I had this book, I liked how it was open and trying to encourage kids to draw their own stuff. I hate how much people hated the book on the grounds that it was just a "how to draw manga" book by some supposedly American artist (yes I know she's British lol). I also remember running into some blog claiming to be her, the bio made her out to be some pretentious teenager who managed to get a book published, I'm glad this book didn't get published today or she'd probably have to go through worse. |
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PandaXs1
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okay like, I remember back when I followed her on deviantart she actually brought up how she was told repeatedly to simplify her art for the sake of the book, so that's all by design. actually I'm not sure what you mean by "chibi-focused", there was the chibi tutorial at the beginning of the book but it goes over things like face guidelines and shapes for drawing bodies in specific detail. |
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TomSands
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Where can I find that book? I am looking to start drawing. Talent is all I have for now, and I look to learn drawing animes. I have done some illustrations, and I managed to make some money from it. I was surprised that someone wanted to buy from me when they can buy stock illustrations better than mine.
The person who bought it from me knew me, and I think that's the reason they did it. Support like that still feels nice, but I want to go to another path and start drawing Anime. Anime is something I loved since I was a kid. I used to miss school because it was the time for my favorite show... |
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