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myOtaku.com: Adam

Saturday, August 27, 2005

Adam Goes to Barnes and Nobles
I went to Barnes and Nobles today. I casually strutted over to the information desk, smiled brightly, and asked where to go to learn how to draw anime.

The woman pointed me to the basement and my journey began.

I arrived at a long shelf crammed tightly with about two dozen titles, ranging from the familiar "How to Draw Manga" series to some clear copycats.

I proceeded to fill my arms with a single copy of each title and stumbled to the designated reading area. More than once I had to stop and awkwardly pick up stray books that had fallen to the floor.

I sat down and proceeded to painstakingly go through every single title available.

Since I'm going to be publishing Art of Otaku, I thought it'd be good to see what others are doing.

An hour later, my notes were complete and I breathed a sigh of relief.

I definitely admired what these companies had done, but I also had a lot of complaints that I knew we could rectify.

The main thing I liked from the guides were their production value. You could tell they spent a lot of time laying and designing the book itself. I also liked how they often had like 10 pictures per page displaying different angles.

What I didn't like was the structure and lack of content. I would have preferred a more step-by-step format to drawing anime. Too much of the guide was just pictures of finished drawings. How am I supposed to work with that? Also, while the guides were all 150 pages, it seems that 50-75% of the pages were filler.

Art of Otaku will be many times longer than 150 pages. We'll also focus more on step-by-step drawings and won't have any filler at all.

I just have to work on our production value :-).
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