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Two impulse purchases today:

1) Comickers: Color Marker Start Up Guide Series. Japanese text, but I've seen Comicker books in English before and the text itself doesn't have a *whole* lot of stuff to add to the photos - they never tell you exactly how to do it anyway - and it had two sets of magic words: "Using top anime and manga artists' works, such as Saiyuki, you can see how the pros do it" and "On sale: $10.00."

I would so pay $10 just for the page with the photos of the marker going on to a Saiyuki pic. And I expect I can work out some sort of deal with some of the Japanese-reading people here to translate a couple of pages for me in exchange for art or books or something they want. *looks inquiringly at

homasse*

2) Action Pose Book #4 - Hands. Kind of expensive at $36.80, but duuuuuude! It's a book of haaaaaaaaaands! In normal, everyday poses, doing normal, everyday things, and not in those weird Art! poses you get in normal pose books. And the marker book only cost $10, so it was worth a splurge.

Will hit Borders today - the website claims that it doens't have Blade of the Immortal, despite it just having flipped from "Not yet published" to "In print," but there's a How To Draw Manga book on digital tones out. I don't care much about the book, but it comes with a CD of 100 tones, and I WANT THAT.

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Dude, you are going to be so good at hands by the time this thing is done.

I purchased a book on hands at lunch today, as well. BY GOD, I WILL CONQUER THE HAND.

We'll have to start calling you "Manos: Hands of DOOM!"

* I really hate the "helpful" advice people give me of "Just look at your own hands!" I mean, in your average comic book, how many times do you see hands drawn from the POV of the person who *owns* the hand? Same with using a mirror - I can't get my hand comfortably into the positions I need and keep them there for long enough to draw it. Not to mention my hands are small and a bit pudgy, and the hands I need to draw are long, slim, often much bigger in the joints, and all-in-all different from my hands in ways that I can't compensate for when drawing.