Design Your Own Anime and Manga Characters (by TB Choi) - Review (Book Flip Through)

Welcome back to another product review and today I'm going to take a look at design your own anime and manga character step-by-step lessons for creating and drawing unique characters. I got this about a week ago and I got a ton of how to draw books and I should look at them more because I still can't draw and haven't to be honest I love ordering them I love going through them but do I go and practice every day I don't I should but anyway this is the book front back spine let's take a look at this here first page got your contents constructing a character simplifying forms for gestures and poses drawing hair clothing and accessories conveying dimension emotion and character pets chibis and sidekicks I don't know if I pronounce this correctly a lot of these words I'm pronouncing for the first time out loud there's a lot of words I'm reading but I'm never pronouncing anyway exercise design and draw a character so we got the intro constructing a character the basics of line see the thing is what I love about these type of books is that I look at them and they're fascinating I love them especially when you have comparisons between muscles and form and structure especially simplifying things like this it gives me the illusion that if I go through this that I will actually be able to draw now I don't think I can't I just have to go and do it every day and practice just like I do it with animation but for some reason I haven't really gone into it but I love stuff like that when you have really the simplification and showing different perspectives and how you would approach it I think what I am missing is definitely being able to visualize in my head you know the the structure how the bones and the joints and muscles and how all of that is constructed but I think I just need to practice to be able to visualize everything in 3D in my head kind of like this you know in blocks I just I'm not there for me I don't even know if I could draw this I'm not thinking in three dimensional form and planes maybe yet I really need to get into this but you know stuff like that is to me just this will not happen anytime soon but I love it especially stuff like this I really should start with just blocky shapes like here simplifying forms with gestures and poses it says simplifying but I would already have a problem with that so I should really technically go back to basics and just go through these sometimes also get kind of into like a how to start paralysis like I have so many books these are cool I love it but am I you know I need something that's just this for like 100 pages I feel like should I start with this is that going to be too advanced for me so then I end up getting another one and then never drawing anything I do love this though it's fast and it's funny how you can draw your folds I love this how and where it wrinkle it's great I think the presentation is really cool lots of cool details here stuff like that is neat especially since that would be quite a pain in CG if you just want to animate it but I think that is very cool and I would love to be able to do it now just like I tell my students well you start with the basics do a bouncing ball but don't just do a bouncing ball once you got to go through it and animate that a couple times in a bouncing ball with a tail and you just squash and stretch and everything it's kind of the same thing that I am not applying to my drawing practice I'm not like oh I want to do step one and then I want to be able to do this that's just not quite how this works and I know this and I should really practicing this visualizing the 3d form in my head so I know that you know this is a three-dimensional form and these are how the forms go around the lines and everything but I'm not even like I'm barely here but I'm not even here this has already more form than I can muster in my scribbles it's cute though I do like this there creating a character's backstory it's cute too it's a great little pose and then you got pets sidekicks it's awesome super cute I mean I can't even do humans let alone animals but yeah stuff like that just tubes I should really just get into this and draw every day you got your animal form and humans these are kind of cool though look at that cool hand poses and then you have your exercise list what to do and how to proceed like I wouldn't even take me years just to get this I love it but I thought this is cool it looks cool the presentation is cool it's not huge as you can see you can page through it fairly quickly but I think it would be really cool refresher for some intro for others uh something massively overwhelming for myself I thought this is pretty cool want to take a look at it there you go design your own characters that is it and if you got it let me know in the comments it was that helpful did you when you got this you feel like that's a cool design book but I prefer another one maybe you leave a comment with if you really want to start learning just general characters not just you know anime characters like something that's more general to learn the structure and the form leave me a comment let me know what would like me could get into practicing drawing and just learning the form and all that stuff I'm curious you draw let me know comments let me know what is what is your preferred book how did you get into learning how to draw and all that good stuff I'm very curious hope that was helpful for the page through hope you like it hope you buy it and that is it from me thank you for watching and if you're still watching thank you and maybe you like these and you like other stuff on my channel so browse through if you like you can subscribe helps my channel grow and that is that with the at the end thank you for watching and I'll see you in my next upload