no

>>7864567
i bought one
Nope.
it's nothing but just 'draw a circle, draw the rest of the owl'

It is too advanced for literal newbs
But it is worthless, or even detrimental to someone who is starting to get serious

If you are a newb, i highly recommend that you just buy some anime coloring books.
it will teach the first, and most important lesson of all - how to have fun

>>7864567
This one is quite good:
https://archive.org/details/howtodrawanimegamecharactersvol.1basicsforbeginnersandbeyond.r

>>7864593
I always hated colouring.

>>7864567
some are fine.
some are just pose reference drawn by someone in the 70s-80s with bad proportions and bad anatomy (ESPECIALLY from the "how to draw MANGA" series)
some are pretty good.

overall? don't bother.

>>7864725
the f brought you to this board then? thats half the process isn't it

Man I'm fucking old. I mail-ordered the first of these decades ago. I remember the first book was like the first day of art class where they go over the syllabus and describe things you need to buy, but you've already paid and you have a pencil and paper so just fucking teach me.

If you want to learn a specific topic in a retro manga style they're probably pretty good, but at least the one I had was for a fully trad workflow so you may just have better results learning with any resource and just using cool old anime for your master studies

>>7865458
I don't mind painting, but colouring books always bored me. Maybe it was also my grade 3 bitch teacher who made me colour over the graphite shading of Beethoven I did for a project. The fat cunt. I really do love black and white, or nearly monochrome art, though.

For the longest time I thought these books were drawn by Americans and it was fake anime but that wasn't the case. Although who exactly is the artist of these books? I can't find his identity anywhere. It's weird he doesn't have a website or anything.

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>>7864567
Not as good as this one

>>7865538
Katy Cope was ahead of her time.

>>7864567
A lot of them are translated books so the information should be at least theoretically good but the drawings will be extremely old fashioned.

>>7866232
old fashioned is returning though

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>>7864567
The ones published by Graphic-Sha, yes, though very dated. A lot of the artists who worked on them were published mangaka so they know what they're doing, though it's a variety of artists from different genres, different skill levels etc. The books are also very 90s, so if you're doing that kind of work these are invaluable as a resource.
That also means that one of the volumes is about drawing using Flash, which was discontinued ages ago.
They're also VERY FUCKING hard to find. I've managed to find a bunch, some in better conditions than others.

Here's what I've managed to collect so far:

https://pastebin.com/XnMLMzFe

If you guys have any missing volumes somewhere online I'd appreciate you adding a link so I can update my list. Thanks in advance

>>7865521
They're by Hikaru Hayashi

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>>7864567
This one was very 'educational' to young me when I found it in the school library

>>7866852
Which one is this?

>>7865521
Same. Just because the art sucks. Even if you used the "old-fashioned" excuse. I would guess Hikaru Hayashi is just a pseudonym of a non-Japanese group. Or even if he was actually a Japanese animator, he wasn't a very good one.

>>7866858
Vol 23 Illustrating Battles

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>>7866237
by "old fashioned" he really meant "ugly" btw.

>>7866880
AI proof art.

>>7865521
One had art by the bastard author, based on the way they draw themselves

>>7864567
There's something about the way they drew the girl's hair that I really like

>>7870779
The older art is timeless. Nuanime must maximize cosplayability. You can't cosplay as 00s Nanoha without it looking too realistic but any modern anime character like some random Genshin character is easy because the hair is simplistic and doesn't bend rules.

>>7865538
I got this as a present when I was 13, and I was already better than her. Was she related to the publisher or something? Why was this made?

>>7870848
>and I was already better than her
No you weren't, because she was published and you weren't.

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>>7864567
Not really. Pic rel is better in my opinion. If you can get it in english, go for it

>>7870848

Iirc her mom worked at scholastic. Her art today still sucks btw.

>>7870779
That's 90s hair.

>>7871427
Post her current work

>>7871072
pyw

>>7864567
just watch Hide's video course

WHICH BOOK WILL GIVE ME THE ENERGY TO ACTUALLY DRAW AND NOT JUST SCROLL ALL DAY???

>>7865519
That sounds like unresolved trauma holding you back from enjoying colouring books, friend. Maybe you can work through that?otherwise you are just allowing that fat cunt to live rent free in your head, atop an ellegant marble base to boot.

t.bitter, unresolved trauma-bearing assburgeroid

>>7865519
A fat ugly food teacher in high school stuck her fat wrinkly finger into my chocolate cake, but I still bake. These awful people shouldn't be allowed to factor into your decision making one way or another.

>>7873447
good or bad your teachers shaped who you are today. They were impressionable enough to leave a memory behind. I don’t remember all my teachers, only the ones that stuck out.

>>7873452
>good or bad they shaped you
Yeah, lol, in the same way Epstein shaped his victims.

What a cucked opinion.
>ughh, shape me, teachers, pls, give me horrible life changing experiences

>>7873456
I think you’re already aware by now that we are all of Epstein’s victims if you’ve been on 4chan long enough. The culture here was shaped by him.

>>7873457
This has absolutely nothing to do what we're talking about. You're trying to save face.

I mentioned Epstein, because what you posted here, spinning our self reflection as being a lesson from these retards interfering in our lives, >>7873452 is the textbook language of well beaten victims of sexual abuse, regurgitating insensitive third parties.

Something bad happened, it sucks, but you really mustn't carry it around.

>>7873460
Anon, they won because you brought up the “fat ugly food teacher” rather than he/she fading into your distant memory. They left an impression and there is no denying that. Maybe you had a gym teacher that was mean but really drilled in the importance of stretching and eating healthy that carried over to your adult life without you realizing it. Like that.

>he's still going

>>7873462
you're stripping agency from multiple anons to try and say that abusers are responsible for self taught lessons. that anon was right that you're cucked holy shit lmao

>>7864567
no

>>7873465
If someone sticking their finger in your cake is abuse then you gotta be a fatty IRL. Maybe they were saving anon from being diabetic.

>>7873462
>maybe you had a gym teacher who drilled the importance of stretching and eating healthily
Do you really not see why you had to use this more normal and harmless example of someone intentionally teaching someone to be healthy, and not the examples that me and the other guy posted of teachers pointlessly jamming a finger into a finished cake to try it without permission, or forcing someone to colour in a picture that was not meant to be coloured in?

The gym teacher is doing their job, the other two are doing something for themselves, and the lesson comes from the people themselves when they feel disgusted as >>7873465 says. Some people, like you, would just take it in the ass in stride.

>>7873471
It ruins a kid's day.
>spend hours on cake
>whale comes along and ruins it with her unwashed fat finger

>Maybe they were saving anon from being diabetic.
kek, then why were we told to make cakes at all, and why was mine singled out? inb4 sending a message