Your manga career starts with that first line.

Manga is built on fundamental art principles. If a book dedicates the first 20 pages to perspective, vanishing points, and basic shapes,

Walk into any major bookstore, and you’ll find an entire shelf dedicated to How to Draw Manga books. From Mastering Shoujo Eyes to Giant Mecha Design , the options are endless. But here’s the secret: owning these books isn’t enough. You need to know how to learn from them.

Now, open your book to page one. Draw the sphere. Draw the cube. Draw the cylinder.

After finishing a book, do not draw from memory. Go outside. Draw real people sitting in a café. Draw your shoe. Draw a tree.