Hi. Today I'm here to tell you about American Mangaka Wanna-bes.
I have seen a lot of the American 'How to Draw Manga' books in bookshops, and once glance at it sends me running to the toilet.
I mean, how can they even sell something so Marvel-looking under the name of 'Manga'?
They're spoiling manga's reputation!
Have you actually seen their drawings?
On top of drawing terribly, the colours they use are so glaring it doesn't even look like manga at all!
The way they use colours is all wrong!
It's like those people have been drawing Marvel stuff all their lives and suddenly decide that they want to draw manga, turn up for a job interview, and POOF, get their ugly drawings on the shelves.
Ugh.
I already don't have a good impression of Americans, and now they intend to ruin my image of them even further.
My goodness. So terrible.
I've been drawing manga for only a year (well, 11 months, that is) and I already know what are the key points in them!
Well, I can't list them out. It's just that I can differentiate what's Japanese Manga, Korean Manhwa (they're quite good, actually), and lousy, immitation American Manga that aims for those who have never seen a single anime or manga before.
Who'd buy those books? Such strange drawings. Only a novice would stare at them like they were drawing heroes or something.
I think I'd much prefer copying Japanese mangakas works from the net.
Bleagh, I can't believe those Americans actually got their books published.
In the first place, I don't see how anyone (who knows what good quality manga is) would be attracted by their colour pages. The colouring is...how'd you say it...just one opaque colour with no highlights at all.
On top of that, all their characters have SUPER BIG EYES and SUPER HUGE CHESTS (for the ladies, that is) and SUPER HUGE HEADS.
That's so stereotypical, but manga has evolved beyond that.
Usually for shoujo manga, they use pale, milky colours like purple, pink, and the likes. The colouring usually makes you want to stroke the hair because it looks like silk.
But in some strange American 'How to Draw Manga' books, the colours are, as mentioned above, glaring, even though what they're trying to create is a shoujo style.
I wouldn't mind the colours for shounen style, but to go as far as to use those strange colours for shoujo? Even though I don't especially love the shoujo style or know it very well, I can tell you that no one in their right mind will buy that book.
I wonder if they released any of those American 'How to Draw Manga' books in Japan yet.
I'm interested to see how the originators of manga will react...
I'm not saying all Americans are terrible at drawing manga, I'm just saying that the publishers need to pick better artists to feature in their books...
