Girl to Grrrl Manga: How to Draw the Hottest Shoujo Manga

Most how-to books tell you how to do things in the style of the person writing the book. This one goes into detail over the different subsets of manga, and how to achieve each look. Anyone that thinks it all looks alike is mistaken! The author knows her history and her art genres :-)There's a lot of good solid advice in here, not just a bunch of tricks and shortcuts. You can create those yourself later, once you get the basics down. And that's what this is, a book of the basics. Each one of them can take up its own book, but this is a good overall base-covering primer on manga. And not just for advanced or professional artists. If your just starting out and want to start out right, you need reference books you are going to want to use and refer to over and over. I keep finding new things I didn't catch the last time I read it through. I'm glad I bought this (and the companion Manga Pro Superstar)

This books is so awesome with excellent detailed instructions for how to draw! The pictures are also super beautiful and there are pages explaining different styles of manga throughout the decades. Definitely love everything about this book! 😄💞 100% satisfied! Thanks so much!!! 💙

I held this book hostage from the library until my renewals ran out. It's helpful in techniques for face angle placement, learning little (but important) basic like frills and drapery--I find it a helpful reference in my own work.

this book goes into how to draw different styles of shojo manga. such as modern style shojo, children's style shojo, illustrative style shojo, Aesthetic style shojo, Retro style shojo, and classic style shojo. It also shows how to draw hair, faces, figures, eyes, and clothes (folds in fabrics too). Over all it is a pretty good book. It seems a bit out of date though but that shouldn't matter too much because you can still incorporate what Colleen Doran teaches in this book.

I read this book in libraries a lot and I have to tell you this is an amazing book. I for one like to practise my art by mimicking. Trying different art styles and finding a way to make it my own style. This book covers a good amount of different artist styles and give very detailed step by step instructions and even have full coloured images.

My eldest grandson is very interested in general art and Manga art, and is a very talented young man. This book gives him an opportunity to expand his skills in drawing Manga, and other related styles.

great book to learn Magna. Especially Girl manga. the pictures are beautiful in the book. Go buy the book now.

Excellent condition. My daughter loves the book and has learned lots of new things already!

The instructions look detailed and thoughtful, I bought as a Christmas gift so there's nothing more I can say.

This book is well written and presented. Too many books of this sort seem to just focus on copying according a style, and ignore proper drawing techniques. Colleen Doran really does try to teach, and also has an engaging and readable writing style.