More of a guide to diversity in anime/manga styles than a how-to-draw book. But by no means bad! This is more for intermediate drawers as you’ll need a basic idea of how to draw (and color) before going into this. The hairstyle(s) portion was very well done! This book focused on drawing Black/people of African descent, which I absolutely love. A nice change of pace as black people are often under-represented in most mainstream art books.

It’s very minor but there were still a few typos in the final published version, which reflects a bit poorly on Rockport/Quarto because didn’t you all have proofreaders? But it’s nothing that takes away from the quality of the art or teaching.

Overall, this is a good companion to another how-to-draw book. Get one for the basics, then use this to finetune and diversify your characters. It could benefit from a second volume where it goes more in-depth with tutorials, drawing and coloring on different skin tones, and features more races, ethnicities, and cultures.

I’ve been following Whyt Manga for a little while now and his videos have been a tremendous help to me, so I was happy to support this book.