Let's Draw Manga: Sexy Gals Paperback – September 30, 2000

This book would have been good if it would show the woman's genital without underwear. Because I cannot find a drawing manga book that will show this part of the body, I am forced to use pornography as a reference. The reason that is a problem for me is because I am a christian, looking at pornography is forbidden.The book shows exposed breast, it shows how woman accidentally expose themselves with skirts on. The book goes as far as showing a man with he's head between a woman's legs, but will not show the vagina area except with underwear hiding it. It doesn't even talk about the convex shape that woman have in this area.The book is useful, except, unless you have a reference do not expect to be able to draw what is between a woman's legs with this book, unless being forced to show only underwear in all your renderings is ok with you.

#1. THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR CHILDREN!!!This book has very "desciptive" pictures. If you need examples of how to draw the female body, such as breasts,hips,thighs and bootys this book has plenty for you. There are many pages which shows pictures that could be considered PG-17. This book is good for examples of hair,eyes,lips,and the body. There isn't much "step-by-step" instructions but there are plenty of pictures which makes up for that. If you are looking for sexy outfits and sexy gals you won't find too many.... BUT if your looking to learn to increase your overall knowledge of how to draw the female body and provocative situational pictures this is the book for you. I can say if you practice drawing what you see in this book, you will be very good at drawing females.This book had many pictures which helped me alot.

Before I say anything, NOT FOR THE CHILDREN! This book will teach you a lot about the anatomy of seductive girls, I am a pretty experienced artist and normally I go for more modest approach, but this book was the perfect tutorial for me as far as this genre goes. Not a beginner book, but if you know your material and can produce good pieces then this book is for you. And there was this very good mini comic through out the book, Anyone who is mature in the "field" will enjoy the story the comic tells as well

This book was really helpful, but this book is not for those how don't already know the basic skills and structure. This book shows a bit much mature content, so this book is recommended to those in the appropriate age group. Overall this book can help you draw all the basic components into drawing sexy women, if you didn't know how to do already, and other mature content. Again if you do not have the right skill and drawing structure needed, then this book is not for you but if you do then I recommend this book.

So based on the other negative reviews, I assumed that their primary objection was the lewd content: that there were sexually explicit poses and gratuitous depiction of female genitalia. And I was okay with that; I am a grownup adult person and I'm not going to be scandalized by cartoon sex happenings, I was interested in this book because I could stand to be better at drawing idealized pin-up ladies. And so I downloaded it to my iPad's Kindle app.Lesson learned? Preview everything on Kindle before I pay for it. This book is a crime.The artwork in this book is terrible. And I don't mean the content is terrible, I mean the technical execution of the drawings is just fundamentally flawed. You will learn nothing useful about how to draw women from this book. Legs are jointed oval shapes, breasts flat circles, the construction is slovenly, and none of the artwork in this book is informed in any meaningful way by actual human anatomy.Avoid Let's Draw Manga: Sexy Gals. It will damage your drawing ability.

Purchased this book because I've been impressed with others from the series, though the subject matter for most of the other titles I've purchased has been more of a kids style anime, like giant fighting robots and pet monster stuff. Figured I'd try and flesh out my collection, so I bought it, think it would be like some of the other series I've purchased and discuss the methods of how to draw the female form in an appealing way.But when the book arrived, I opened it up and found an basic discussion of how to draw sex and masturbation. None of the preview material I viewed on Amazon mentioned this part of the book. Found out afterwards I should have read the customer reviews. This book was disappointing, and I would not recommend if for anyone, and definitely not it's target audience of 13-18 year olds. Its just misleadingly designed, and should have been more appropriately marked.

I have several different books of Manga drawing, some great and some not so great. I put this one near the upper third on that scale. Not much in the way of new techniques or insights, but solid stuff never the less. I would say if you can get this book for a good price (under $13 or so) it is worth the investment.

Kindle edition. Somewhat helpful, moreso just shows examples rather than any instructions.