 Welcome back to another product review. And today I'm going to take a look at design your own anime and manga characters 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 having 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 from the 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 pronounced 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 anything. Exercise design and draw a character. So we got the intro, constructing a character. 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 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 he has simplifying forms for 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 I 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 fascinating. 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 will 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, start with the basics to a bouncing ball, but don't just do a bouncing ball once. You got to go through it and animate that a couple of times in a bouncing ball with a tail and you have a 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 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 is already more form than I can muster in my scribbles. It's cute though. I do like this there. It's like a character's backstory. It's cute too. It's great. It'll 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 aniliform 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 procession 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, something massively overwhelming for myself. I thought this is a pretty cool one 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. Was that helpful? Did you, when you got this, you feel like that's a cool design book, but I prefer another one. Maybe 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 destruction, the form. Leave me a comment. Let me know. What would you recommend so that a complete novice like me could get into practicing drawing and just learning the form and all that stuff. I'm curious. Do you draw? Let me know. Comments. To learning how to draw and all that good stuff. I'm Eric Hears. 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'll like these and you like other stuff on my channel. So browse through. If you like it, you can subscribe. Help my channel grow. And that is that with the page at the end. 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