Reviews for Handmade Graphics: Tools & Techniques Beyond the Mouse

The average rating for Handmade Graphics: Tools & Techniques Beyond the Mouse based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-04-09 00:00:00 Sammy Mcph (More pictures at parkablogs.com) This isn't a tutorial book that teaches you how to draw, but more of a guide to the process of creating comics. Its goal is to help readers understand what it takes to create them, and the various storytelling techniques employed. It's sort of similar to Stan Lee's How to Draw Comics but presented differently. The topics covered are the basics such as reading scripts, page layout, camera angles, character acting, pacing, inking, coloring and other stuff. They are covered well, but in some instances it could do well with more in-depth explanation and more examples (even though there are plenty enough). There are a couple of one-page artist profiles which are interesting to read. If you want to learn how to draw, you've to find some other books. This book is recommended to beginners. For more advanced guidance, you can check out Bryan Hitch's Ultimate Comics Studio.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-02-11 00:00:00 Silvestre Sumbo Not impressed. Felt narrow in terms of examples/people shown (felt very much like the 'old boys club' of superhero comics with all that implies), while missing out on the staggering world of international comics that quite frankly, do everything better. Lotta 'well duh' advice that may or may not be applicable depending on experience level - I can see a middle schooler glean some useful hints, but would rec quite a few other books before this one.