If you’re looking to dive into the world of manga art, *Learn to Draw Manga* is a fantastic starting point. It’s approachable, inspiring, and packed with helpful tips that make the process feel fun and achievable. I love how the book focuses on enjoying the journey of creating art rather than fixating on natural talent. With clear instructions and plenty of templates to practice with, it’s perfect for beginners and a great refresher for more experienced artists.

A great book for those wanting to draw manga. Each chapter focuses on a different part of the body and gives various ways to draw them.
I thought it was interesting that the book was set up like a comic book with speech bubbles explaining the steps.
Would make a great gift for a budding artist.

The book is titled "Learn to Draw Manga," making it easy to identify the target audience. Any manga enthusiast would benefit from the advice provided to create their own characters. I appreciate that the book serves as a general guideline, making it suitable for anyone looking to improve their human body drawing skills. The author focuses on important details that make a difference. And when going through this guideline, you feel like having a skilled friend next to you.


Thank you NetGalley and Zeitgeist for a free digital review copy. This is my honest review.

Im giving this book 2⭐ it was nice to know how to draw some stuff i didn't know how but im not really into manga other maybe will like it more then me i think but it was nice to know the

Learn to Draw Manga is a tutorial and style guide for beginning artists for drawing anime and manga figures by KritzelPixel. Released 16th July 2024 by Penguin Random House on their Zeitgeist imprint, it's 96 pages and available in paperback and ebook formats.

This a fun and accessible tutorial guide aimed at beginners to slightly more advanced readers and usable for all-ages. The author has an engaging and encouraging style of teaching and writes clearly and enthusiastically. I love that she says that the way she saw improvement was simply by practicing and refusing to give up! She says: "Art doesn’t require talent; it only needs to bring you joy".

The book's tutorial chapters include step by step instructions for different characters from beginning rough sketches, step-by-step through refinements to a finished sketch. The chapters build on one another: introduction - faces - bodies - drawing from references - through to the principles of manga. It's a wide ranging surprisingly information rich tutorial primer and includes several styles of anime/manga, including kawaii (cute) manga.

This would make a good choice for public or school library acquisition, home use, or gift giving (perhaps bundled with some basic drawing supplies). It's a very simple and abbreviated guide but there's a lot of good basic information here.

Four and a half stars. Anyone could use the tutorials to make a credible manga style drawing, and her style is so fun and encouraging.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

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I've been a fan of Manga for a while now and I was so excited to see a new how-to-draw book released! This book does a great job at breaking down some of the cutest drawings into manageable, easy-to-do steps. Very cute and perfect for anyone wanting to emulate this style!

Thank you so much to the publisher and to NetGalley for the e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

I think this is a good book to learn to draw this specific manga style, there wasn’t many variations in style in this book. The style matched the cover though so a viewer / reader would know ahead of time what they would be getting into but I wish there was more variety when it came to that. Overall it has step to step comments/ instructions and images to give an idea on the steps to follow as well which is a big help. I would recommend thing as one of the many manga books to read and use while learning to draw in an anime or manga style!