--- product_id: 286696 title: "Mastering Manga 2: Level Up with Mark Crilley" price: "€ 41.67" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.es/products/286696-mastering-manga-2-level-up-with-mark-crilley store_origin: ES region: Spain --- # Mastering Manga 2: Level Up with Mark Crilley **Price:** € 41.67 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Mastering Manga 2: Level Up with Mark Crilley - **How much does it cost?** € 41.67 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.es](https://www.desertcart.es/products/286696-mastering-manga-2-level-up-with-mark-crilley) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Level UP and master more manga with YouTube's most popular art instructor, Mark Crilley! It's here! The highly anticipated follow-up to the best-selling Mastering Manga provides everything you need, regardless of your skill-level, to learn how to draw manga like a pro. Graphic novelist and YouTube's most popular art instructor Mark Crilley is back to lead you on your artistic journey. No matter what your experience, Mastering Manga 2 will have you creating manga in no time. You'll master the basics of facial and body proportions as your drawing skills increase to the next level. Clear and easy step-by-step instruction will walk you through the mechanics of how to draw manga. You'll learn to create characters in diverse settings and scenes, as well as a variety of styles. Lessons on background and perspective will help you pull it all together into a full manga story panel. More than 30 step-by-step demonstrations! • Proportion. Learn to draw all types of bodies, faces, ages and ethnicities in profile, from behind, and more, including how to turn a full-sized character into an adorable chibi. • Clothing and body language. Reveal your character's personality through hairstyles, expressions, clothing styles and accessories. • Useful poses. Tweak 16 classic manga poses to make them your own, or follow along with specific step-by-step demonstrations on drawing characters sitting, fighting, kissing and more. • Environments. Create all types of habitats and moods using forest elements, rain, and the effects of water and weather. • Anatomy of a manga panel. Learn how to choose the correct composition, background, depth and balance to create the most effective panel layout for your story. Grab a pencil and learn all the secrets needed to bring your manga story to life! Review: A worthy sequel to Mastering Manga - The title "Mastering Manga 2 level up with Crilley" describes this book very well. With this book, Mark Crilley delivers a most anticipated second lesson on Mastering Manga. For some manga aficionados, this is the Manga 102 that they wished the first book were. As in the previous iteration, this book is divided into 3 main parts, with some introductory and final sections: Introduction What You Need Putting Your Materials to Work: Making the Manga Eye Anatomy of a Manga Panel Part 1: Head and Faces Part 2: Proportion and Poses Part 3: Bringing it all Together Conclusion Index About the Author Like in the previous book, several sections of this book are introduced with a comic-book-style page. The introductory sections provide the basis of what you need to know to draw manga which makes this book a stand alone how-to-draw-manga book. Part 1 to Part 3 also cover similar material as in the first book, with more detailed drawings, but with less reference material. Part 1 focus on the head and faces. This section includes 7 to 8 steps tutorials on how to draw detailed female and male heads in front, profile and 3/4 views, bird's eye, worm's eye views and even a fantasy cat girl character. There is also reference material for 16 female and male hairstyles for female, 7 facial expressions, various samples of real and manga styled eyes (3), ears (2), noses (3) and mouths (4), various samples of glasses (4) and hats (4). Part 2 focus on the body. This section picks up with body proportions for various ages, 7 steps tutorials on how to draw female and male bodies in front, bird's eye, worm's eye and foreshortening views. There is also 7 step tutorials on how to draw the hand, sitting pose, fighting scene and kissing scene. There is good reference material on arms (4), hands (7), legs (2) and feet (3), various poses (16), various clothes (4), folds (6), styles (8) and footwear (6). This section finalizes with Chibis (5 samples) and a 4 steps tutorial on how to draw one from a full-sized character. Part 3 focus on drawing the manga. This part starts with a 4 to 5 steps lessons on perspective, drawing a forest or a desert, and cover common elements such as rocks grass, rivers and rain. There is also reference material on water effect (3) and surface detail (4). This section includes a brief demonstration of Crilley's process of drawing a single Manga page. It also includes thoughts on planning panels, composition, inking and layouts. This book feels brief, but this is expected of a 128 pages book. In summary, the first book was a better resource for reference material with a plethora of hairstyles, eyes, hands, feet … while this book is a better resource for demonstrations. Well, not exactly true, but that was the intention as we are constantly reminded to go to impact books to download a free bonus demonstration. Unfortunately, at the time of this review the link was not available. So, which book is for you? For reference material and basic instruction, the first one. For more advanced instructions, this one. However, once you pick either book you may end up buying the other one book as well. Review: a great follow-up to the first book - In the intro, Crilley says he did his best to make this 'a real how-to-draw-manga' book, meaning an emphasis on conveying narrative rather than just drawing manga-style characters as art. There are sections that explain his process start to finish, planning a panel, composition, sequencing, inking, page layout and more. I especially liked the section on using point of view to convey narrative purpose. The bulk of the book focuses on drawing characters, both male and female. Some of the basics do overlap with volume I, like basic proportions of the body/face. However this book includes variations such as a worm's eye view, sitting, a standing kiss and foreshortened views. The harder poses are a good continuation as a level-up from volume I, but the instructions are clear enough that I think beginners could follow them if they take their time to get it right. I follow the author's Youtube channel and I've noticed that his style has evolved a bit since the first book was written. Lately he seems to be doing more traditionally realistic drawings, many of which are quite impressive. However, this book is more rooted in the manga style. I've read some criticisms of the first book that say it's not authentically Japanese enough, but personally I like that he portrays people of different ethnicities and ages, which I haven't seen as much in the Japanese books I have. Both volumes of Mastering Manga are good, but if you can only get one, consider what you want to learn. This book would be a better choice if you want to learn more about putting together a full story, whereas the first book had more examples of variations for details such as hands or eyes. Each book does stand on its own, so get both if you can. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #416,396 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #104 in How to Create Manga #12,385 in Manga Comics & Graphic Novels | | Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 717 Reviews | ## Images ![Mastering Manga 2: Level Up with Mark Crilley - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91qNqojNMHL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A worthy sequel to Mastering Manga *by N***N on October 24, 2013* The title "Mastering Manga 2 level up with Crilley" describes this book very well. With this book, Mark Crilley delivers a most anticipated second lesson on Mastering Manga. For some manga aficionados, this is the Manga 102 that they wished the first book were. As in the previous iteration, this book is divided into 3 main parts, with some introductory and final sections: Introduction What You Need Putting Your Materials to Work: Making the Manga Eye Anatomy of a Manga Panel Part 1: Head and Faces Part 2: Proportion and Poses Part 3: Bringing it all Together Conclusion Index About the Author Like in the previous book, several sections of this book are introduced with a comic-book-style page. The introductory sections provide the basis of what you need to know to draw manga which makes this book a stand alone how-to-draw-manga book. Part 1 to Part 3 also cover similar material as in the first book, with more detailed drawings, but with less reference material. Part 1 focus on the head and faces. This section includes 7 to 8 steps tutorials on how to draw detailed female and male heads in front, profile and 3/4 views, bird's eye, worm's eye views and even a fantasy cat girl character. There is also reference material for 16 female and male hairstyles for female, 7 facial expressions, various samples of real and manga styled eyes (3), ears (2), noses (3) and mouths (4), various samples of glasses (4) and hats (4). Part 2 focus on the body. This section picks up with body proportions for various ages, 7 steps tutorials on how to draw female and male bodies in front, bird's eye, worm's eye and foreshortening views. There is also 7 step tutorials on how to draw the hand, sitting pose, fighting scene and kissing scene. There is good reference material on arms (4), hands (7), legs (2) and feet (3), various poses (16), various clothes (4), folds (6), styles (8) and footwear (6). This section finalizes with Chibis (5 samples) and a 4 steps tutorial on how to draw one from a full-sized character. Part 3 focus on drawing the manga. This part starts with a 4 to 5 steps lessons on perspective, drawing a forest or a desert, and cover common elements such as rocks grass, rivers and rain. There is also reference material on water effect (3) and surface detail (4). This section includes a brief demonstration of Crilley's process of drawing a single Manga page. It also includes thoughts on planning panels, composition, inking and layouts. This book feels brief, but this is expected of a 128 pages book. In summary, the first book was a better resource for reference material with a plethora of hairstyles, eyes, hands, feet … while this book is a better resource for demonstrations. Well, not exactly true, but that was the intention as we are constantly reminded to go to impact books to download a free bonus demonstration. Unfortunately, at the time of this review the link was not available. So, which book is for you? For reference material and basic instruction, the first one. For more advanced instructions, this one. However, once you pick either book you may end up buying the other one book as well. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ a great follow-up to the first book *by M***. on October 23, 2013* In the intro, Crilley says he did his best to make this 'a real how-to-draw-manga' book, meaning an emphasis on conveying narrative rather than just drawing manga-style characters as art. There are sections that explain his process start to finish, planning a panel, composition, sequencing, inking, page layout and more. I especially liked the section on using point of view to convey narrative purpose. The bulk of the book focuses on drawing characters, both male and female. Some of the basics do overlap with volume I, like basic proportions of the body/face. However this book includes variations such as a worm's eye view, sitting, a standing kiss and foreshortened views. The harder poses are a good continuation as a level-up from volume I, but the instructions are clear enough that I think beginners could follow them if they take their time to get it right. I follow the author's Youtube channel and I've noticed that his style has evolved a bit since the first book was written. Lately he seems to be doing more traditionally realistic drawings, many of which are quite impressive. However, this book is more rooted in the manga style. I've read some criticisms of the first book that say it's not authentically Japanese enough, but personally I like that he portrays people of different ethnicities and ages, which I haven't seen as much in the Japanese books I have. Both volumes of Mastering Manga are good, but if you can only get one, consider what you want to learn. This book would be a better choice if you want to learn more about putting together a full story, whereas the first book had more examples of variations for details such as hands or eyes. Each book does stand on its own, so get both if you can. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ LOVE This series. I have seriously seen great improvements in my art. *by A***S on March 25, 2019* Love the product, the love the author. Seller was great, too. No complaints. Sorry it took me so long to review: I forgot. I'd buy from this seller again. The Mastering Manga series in general is great because it doesn't teach you to just copy the pictures: It details how to build the bodies/forms, as well as touching upon techniques. You're not just given a copy paste method, but the understanding of how the shapes connect and what they represent. In addition, the author/illustrator goes into details about paneling, composition, value, and other elements besides constructing figures. Great books all around, and the this first volume I actually READ through. 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