Product Description: "I understand the design, but I can't figure out the actually how to portray my character in the costume." Many have likely experienced this dilemma when trying to develop a character's costume and reached for a book on fashion as a reference. In this volume, manga characters appear as models, and the book illustrates aspects that serve as fashion points showing the characters in various poses and angles. This volume boasts more than 4,000 images. With this as reference, the reader should be able to design an original costume with ease by combining the collars, sleeves, cuffs, and other dress details provided.
REALLY GREAT I bought this for my daughter. I got 5 hugs ! She says that it has really helped her with her drawings and is well worth the money ! If your child loves manga - this book is essential.
Excellent Resource for Any Artist If you're like me and you like to draw, sometimes the character and the pose come to you long before you finally think about the costume. This can be a problem, especially when your reference files don't contain the exact items you need. For those times, look no further than The Costume Encyclopedia (just the first in a line of helpful costume encyclopedias). Within you will find almost every article of clothing you'll need to create the costume you desire.
The benefit of this book is that it is obsessively detailed. There must be nearly 1,000+ illustrations (black and white) within, all of them exceptionally helpful. The authors seemed to have spared no effort in producing a work that has as many examples of as many articles of clothing as possible, from pants to capes to shirts to skirts and beyond. This truly is an invaluable resource. My only quibble with it is that its organizational schema could have been better thought through - it can sometimes been difficult to find the exact item you're looking for in the great mass of information, so I'd recommend invensting in some of those little sicky note flags so you can mark helpful areas. That said, an excellent effort. How To Draw Manga Volume 34: Costume Encyclopedia Volume 2 (How to Draw Manga), How To Draw Manga Volume 35: Costume Encyclopedia Volume 3: Sexy Sports Wear (How to Draw Manga), and How To Draw Manga Costume Encyclopedia Volume 4: Kimono And Gowns (How to Draw Manga (Graphic-Sha Numbered)) are also exceptionally helpful volumes and perfect additions to your reference library. Enjoy!
Great Reference Book! Well, my wonderful daddy bought yet another great book for me. This costume encyclopedia is a great reference for dressing my characters in costumes. I do wish they would add at least a bit more apparel for the men, I mean come on! Just underwear isn't enough and besides, it's just plain creepy.
On the other hand, the clothes included are: Pants, Shorts, Capris, Skirts, Shirts, Jackets, Dresses & a brief lingere section. The other chapters are just collars, necklines & such.
Overall, this book was spectacular! You should totally get it. & it's a kid-friendly book. I know some of the other how-to-draw-manga books contain nudity, this on the other hand doesn't.
Good reference, but could have been better. This book provides lots of reference drawings, sorted by type of clothing. What I didn't like was the emphasis on some clothes, that don't really differ from others pictured on the book. The other thing I didn' like was the incomplete drawings. Only the first pages have complete drawings, while the rest have only upperbodies, legs, or fullbodies, but without faces. Given the talent of these artists, it would be very easy for them to provide complete drawings, with faces and expressions that match the poses. Summing up, a very good book, very useful for the manga artist that already knows how to draw bodies, but needs some help getting them dressed. Special note on the final secction, about folds.
The Best refence yet! This is one book I ever wondered what I did without. It takes a complex idea, such as drawing clothing, and makes it simple, easy and clean. The book is a treasure chest of examples and ideas that can help you define and polish your outfits. Often I flip through random pages and point, and whatever my finger falls on I design an outfit from, using other elements from the book. As a previous reviewer started, a men's addition would be very nice. Instead we get a simple, half-page how-to on making a female form look more male. There is one page on men's undergarments, but that's the brunt of it. Otherwise, just use your common sence; a man is not going to want to wear a Medici collared, puffy sleaved shirt unless he's auditioning for Bishonen of the Year. Still the lack of male content dose nothing to curb my enthusiasm for this book. It's a great buy for anyone studying art and fashion.
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