I was drawn in by the cover of the book. I think this book is great for people who would like to build on their drawing skills.
ARC provided by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Although this book had good inspiration and some helpful tips I found it useless as a "step-by-step" guide. I'm a complete beginner so maybe for someone more advanced it would be helpful but for me there wasn't enough steps. The parts that said "Step-by-Step" went from a complete drawing to being coloured, and then details added. I had no clue where to even being with my drawing. If you are looking for inspiration you might find it here but if you are looking for help drawing skip it.

I received this book in exchange for my honest review.

This was a short and on point book. It starts from the basis then offers you some step by step projects on cliche characters in mange, which is great. It's heavy focused on character design, but not enough character interaction - fighting scenes, action scenes, or anything, and manga is nothing if not movement. Sorry it lacked on it.

My daughter really enjoyed this book as she loves creating Manga characters and even writing stories about them. No matter what your Manga drawing abilities are, this is a great book for expanding your knowledge.

I liked this one but didn’t love it. I feel like there’s a lot missing. If you’re unfamiliar with manga or how to draw some of the types of characters here space Marine, angels, etc) this won’t help you much. There are few to no tips for creating such characters.

What this book does well is explain why layering colors is important, but even there the steps could be confusing as there’s usually a handful of steps and a lot of lines and colors being added in each one.

It also has some sample character for drawing or adding clothing to. For me this is more around coloring your images well or adding to existing ones.

If you’re already pretty proficient in the Manga art form, you’ll probably like this. If you’re not and are looking to get into drawing in this style, I think you’d want to start elsewhere.

I enjoyed this book because it made it easy to learn about drawing Manga. Sonia Leon goes step by step making it easy for me to emulate the work (my own lack of talent isn't their fault lol). Leon also walk you through digital art work and color. There are sections for specific types of characters found in Manga and scenes where more tah one person is included; that helps me tremendously with spacing.
I would recommend this book for anyone interested in drawing manga.

Definitely for a more advanced artist, as the step-by-steps are not broken down as much as they would be in a novice book. Great, though, for someone looking to learn more about appropriate shading, different coloring techniques (markers, pencils, digital). Quick refresher on tools. Overall, not bad but not great.

Overall, Drawing Manga Heroines and Heroes is a pleasing volume. It begins with several overview pages looking at things like proportion and shading, before proceeding to a wide range of character examples. I particularly appreciate the fact that Leong uses different media in her designs, so there are good examples to follow whether your preferred medium is digital colouring, pencils, or markers. The only thing I would have liked was to have had a few more overview pages looking at drawing facial features and other aspects. However, what is present is shown well and this book will certainly be useful to budding manga artists.

In love with this manga book. The drawings are incredible. I love the real life solutions of transitioning from a drawing to a rendered digital model. The tips on coloring and shading are invaluable. I highly suggest this book for any manga fan even if you don’t want to draw them the characters are beautifully depicted and the tips for realistic chapters is relatable and inspiring. I received this book from NetGalley for an honest review. This will hands down help inspire my artwork.