Japanese how to draw books

[Anonymous No.6092662]

I like many others who come to this board want to draw in a anime/manga style, tho there are few books that teach this in English, but a lot of what we’re looking for is in Japanese language, Is there a way to translate these books, just learn form the images given to us, or just learn Japanese to read it?

[Anonymous No.6092738]

Loomis

[Anonymous No.6092740]

>>6092662

[Anonymous No.6092792]

It's the same way you'd study from Bridgman: get a manga and copy the images in the book. That or you can learn Japanese, only to realize they teach the same things that Loomis does.

[Anonymous No.6093630]

>>6092662
it's up to you, really. the contents aren't that different from western books in principle, so you should be able to get there either way if you actually pay attention to your own work. it amazes me how a lot of people seem to be oblivious to the western cartoon influence their style has and end up in an uncanny valley where it's kind of japanese style but obviously drawn by a westoid. it might be an overkill to learn the language just to read art books, but then again the vocabulary to read them isn't that wide so you'll get there pretty fast, and if you're seriously invested in weeb stuff, it's going to be worth it so you'll never be dependent on translators ever again. i guess people use on-screen readers and machine translation to read books but to me it seems like an awful amount of hoops to jump through to avoid learning a language

[Anonymous No.6094394]

>>6092662
Get an OCR like Capture2Text and a texthooker + yomichan and look up the most frequent words you see. If you need to, get a flashcard SRS program like anki and brute force learn words.

While you won't be able to comprehend a huge amount of nuance in the language, you'll pretty quickly get a sense of the specialised terminology (likely specific body parts, words like 後頭部 and probably camera angles as well). You should eventually be able to understand what the books are broadly referring to, and since they're so visual you don't really need that much comprehension to understand.

Repeat until there are no more words to learn. If you absolutely need to understand full sentences, rote transcribe that shit into deepl. If the OCR doesn't work (they're still a bit glitchy) then the radicals explorer on Jisho is a good last resort for finding kanji.

[Anonymous No.6094959]

>>6092662
if you can find any, the old english new types went into fairly good detain in the drawing process. and at least in the english version gave detailed enough photos you don't need to know the language to follow along.

[Anonymous No.6095253]

>>6092662
were just out of luck

[Anonymous No.6095640]

>>6092662
is this book even ripped/scanned and uploaded to english internet yet?