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STYLE SCHOOL VOL. 3 (ADVANCE REVIEW) |
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Wednesday, 08 October 2008 |
 | | ▪ | RELEASED BY: | | DARK HORSE | | | ▪ | AUTHOR / ART: | | VARIOUS ARTIST | | | ▪ | FORMAT: | | JAPANESE/ COLOR | | | ▪ | PAGES: | | 260 | | | ▪ | RELEASE DATE: | | 11/19/2008 | | | ▪ | REVIEW DATE: | | 10/08/2008 | | | ▪ | REVIEWED BY: | | HOLLY ELLINGWOOD |
This is the third installment of the Dark Horse English translated edition of Japan’s popular instructional manga and anime magazine. Done with a thick cover stock and boasting nearly two hundred pages of instructions on illustrations as well as hundreds of actual full color images, it looks and feels more like a book than what we Westerners consider a magazine. Like the previous volumes, the latest covers a wide range of various manga illustrative techniques along with example images and material reviews. In the third volume the How-To book covers a wide variety of coloring techniques including watercolor, acrylic gouache, photoshop, copic markers, screen tones, crow quill pens, and an extensive look on how to draw people and backgrounds. The various how-to sections are copious and give a good rudimentary feel for beginners. The book is thick with many illustrations as examples from a large variety of artists to both give readers something to strive for as well as to be inspired by. However it would be nice to have a more detailed nitty gritty attention in the steps for many of the more generalized instructional sections. Basically if there were fewer illustrations collected, which are several pages, and more instructional content would be best for a well fledged out instructional book. The exceptions are the how-to draw people and backgrounds. The book goes quite in depth for people to be able to draw well fleshed out figures and offers instructions on perspectives. The book even has a section on testing paper of various sorts to give burgeoning artists an idea of what to try and how. Therefore if you want to work on your figure and backgrounds this is an excellent purchase as well as if you want a basic look over at how to approach various coloring techniques. It’s a good starting point that offers enough information for a reader to branch out on their own and experiment with different techniques.
IN SUMMARY:
The latest how-to volume of the instructional manga magazine covers various coloring techniques as well as figures and backgrounds. |
