/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3321256
Not the other anon but
I used to own the Scholastic manga book as a kid, but as I got older I realized that it was actually really shit, so I got pic related on my birthday. I don't read it anymore but there's a surprising amount of good detail in 200 pages - history of Japan and art, the introduction of manga, manga layouts, character archetypes, etc.. And the actual how-to-draw-manga-characters thing is at the very end of the book.

It's hard finding books like mine but like the other anon said there are some professionals out there who don't make garbage like the Scholastic one