The submissions ed at North Light said they didn't want to consider another book unless I sent them a whole manuscript, and I'm not interested in writing a whole book for a maybe $5,000. advance for a book I'll probably have to redo.
Now, part of my interest here is that the market is still being abused with books by artists good and bad who can't draw "anime" and "manga" style for shit, who came late to the party and can't get past surface crap. That's-a making me nuts. The field needs more good books, and yeah, I think I can make at least one more!
I want to do another book on drawing costuming. This is stuff lacking in almost all manga how-to. Not just how to draw clothes that look like clothes (instead shapes defined by elective slashes), but how to show a character at a glance with hair, clothes and attitude. Plus, a few stern lectures on what's Been Done To Death.
So, who'd hit that? Speak up, and by all means spread the word around so I can get feedback from all over.
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Yes, I would buy that. I would come to your house and slap money down on your kitchen table in order to buy that. Especially if you can show how "Manga Style" is just that: a style, an aesthetic choice.
I have been in anime and manga fandom for... well, way to long, and a couple of weeks ago I picked up a French comic and was dazzled by it's exoticness. (Melusine-- It's cute. ^_^) Once upon a time, the US could not fathom a comics industry outside it's borders. Now it's married to the idea of Anime, but not the heart-- and it STILL ignores everywhere else. Anything you can do to help fix that is a good thing, in my book.
.... The "heart" part first, maybe.
As someone who loves manga, I wouldn't see it as repeating what he said, more like re-enforcing it. The number of books out there that repeat the wrong lessons is growing every day, someone needs to bring back the right ones.
The way I see it now, the local book store has a choice between two major "How to Draw Manga" books: Those by The "Society for the Study of Manga Techniques" and those by Christopher Hart. Do you really want modern comics to have only those two as influences? Oh, wait, it already is. ^_^
(And that's the hardest and last I'll push on that, I promise. ^_^)
So, yes, not only would I hit that, but tap it hard.
CB
Drawing.
Also, your original Manga Secrets made my 'one box/two shelves' of books that didn't go into storage for 6 months. Yes, I'm keeping it near, so I can put it under my pillow and wait for the manga secrets fairy to come and whisper even more sweet things in my dreams. ;)