---
product_id: 286250
title: "Mastering Manga with Mark Crilley: 30 drawing lessons from the creator of Akiko"
price: "HK$183"
currency: HKD
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 13
url: https://www.desertcart.hk/products/286250-mastering-manga-with-mark-crilley-30-drawing-lessons-from-creator
store_origin: HK
region: Hong Kong
---

# 101 eyes & 40 hairstyles gallery 30 step-by-step lessons Advanced inking & layout tutorials Mastering Manga with Mark Crilley: 30 drawing lessons from the creator of Akiko

**Price:** HK$183
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🎯 Unlock your inner manga master and join the creative elite!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Mastering Manga with Mark Crilley: 30 drawing lessons from the creator of Akiko
- **How much does it cost?** HK$183 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.hk](https://www.desertcart.hk/products/286250-mastering-manga-with-mark-crilley-30-drawing-lessons-from-creator)

## Best For

- Customers looking for quality international products

## Why This Product

- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Master the Manga Formula:** Learn precise facial feature placement with expert grids and guidelines.
- • **Diverse Character Creation:** Draw all ages and body types—from kids to elders—with tailored proportions.
- • **Dynamic Storytelling Skills:** Master action poses, romantic scenes, and high-drama page layouts.
- • **From Sketch to Professional:** Step-by-step demos plus advanced inking and sequencing techniques for polished manga art.
- • **Inspiration at Your Fingertips:** Access 101 eye styles, 50 hand poses, and 40 hairstyles to customize your characters.

## Overview

Mastering Manga with Mark Crilley offers 30 detailed lessons from a top YouTube art guru, guiding you through authentic manga drawing techniques including facial features, body proportions, dynamic poses, and professional layouts. With extensive galleries and advanced tutorials, this book is a must-have for aspiring manga artists seeking to elevate their craft and create compelling stories.

## Description

It's THE book on manga from YouTube's most popular art instruction Guru! There's more to manga than big, shiny eyes and funky hair. In these action-packed pages, graphic novelist Mark Crilley shows you step-by-step how to achieve an authentic manga style—from drawing faces and figures to laying out awesome, high-drama spreads. You'll learn how a few basic lines will help you place facial features in their proper locations and simple tricks for getting body proportions right. Plus, you'll find inspiration for infusing your work with expression, attitude and action. This is the book fans have been requesting for years, packed with expert tips on everything from hairstyles and clothing to word bubbles and sound effects, delivered in the same friendly, easy-to-follow style that has made Mark Crilley one of the "25 Most Subscribed to Gurus on YouTube." Take this opportunity to turn the characters and stories in your head into professional-quality art on the page! Packed with everything you need to make your first (or your best-ever) manga stories! • 30 step-by-step demonstrations showing how to draw faces and figures for a variety of ages and body types • Inspirational galleries featuring 101 eyes, 50 ways to draw hands, 40 hairstyles, 12 common expressions, 30 classic poses and more! • Tutorials to create a variety of realistic settings • Advanced lessons on backgrounds, inking, sequencing and layout options

Review: His method just works! - Crilley provides clear step by step instructions for the beginner. In the book, he emphasizes the importance of precise placement of facial features in order to achieve manga facial structure. He provides concrete suggestions as well as various grids/guidelines to help you learn the proper distances between eyes, eyes to nose, eyes to chin, etc. in an easily understandable way. As an added bonus, since Crilley has a strong youtube presence, you can watch his videos where he demonstrates a lot of what is in the book. At first, I was frustrated a little (as expected when you are learning new skills) that the faces I was drawing had an "almost" manga, but not quite right appearance. I'll add that I'm also new to digital drawing so I was learning two skills at the same time. Anyway, in case this tip helps someone else, I'll describe what I did to get over that bump. I copied Crilley's guidelines right into my digital program, then repeatedly traced over them to get a feel for his guidelines (I was especially having trouble drawing chins). Right next to my tracings, I would also draw equal sized guidelines (without tracing) and draw in the features. I learned two things. (1) for some reason, when I'd been marking the center line (horizontal) on my circles, I was drawing my line too low. I don't know why, I mean I'd been going for the "center." (2) when I put the manga features on Crilley's guidelines, or on the guidelines I drew next to his, I was succeeding in getting my drawings to look like real manga. Basically, his formula (feature placement) works, but you have to do it right or figure out where you are going wrong and fix the problem. I should add, while there is a formula for feature placement (and even that "formula" changes to age up/age down a character, etc), each character looks different because you draw the eyes/expression/hair in different ways. I'm really enjoying the lessons, and mostly seeing progress. I highly recommend the book and have purchased his two subsequent books as well. I'll review them once I've got a good grip on the lessons in this book and graduate to those books.
Review: The BEST "How-To Draw" Book - I'm not usually one for writing reviews, but this book is definitely worth writing down a few sentences for. Unlike many others who enjoy Mark Crilley and his work, I had never seen his tutorials on YouTube or read any of his comics. I'm a self-taught comic artist and it's just something I like to do for fun. I'm a huge fan of the manga style of art, and I've tried in vain to learn from other "How-To Draw Manga" books. They were always either way too vague about the techniques they used or too advanced for my level of drawing. Sufficed to say, I made do with teaching myself a lot of techniques, until I reached an impasse. Mark Crilley starts you with the basics, giving you exact details on how to draw faces and proportions for full-body figures (something I'd always struggled with in the past). The chapters progressively get more advanced, covering still and action poses, romantic scenes, and even a few tips on how to compose a page in a manga. He also supplies a TON of examples of eyes and hairstyles, something very handy to get started in making a character. Each chapter builds on the previous one, and not only does this book show you how to draw males and females, but it also covers kids, middle-aged parents, the elderly, and heftier characters, all going into detail about proportions and construction of the face. I've only had this book a few weeks, and I've already made huge improvement in my drawings. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone who has never picked up a pencil before and wants to give drawing a shot. Many things in this book require at least some background in art, but at a very basic level. As someone who was just looking to self-improve, this book did wonders. I have never found a book to be so helpful and give such good tips! I'm already considering buying the other "Mastering Manga" book that Crilley released.

## Features

- closeouts
- Arts & Crafts

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #118,944 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #35 in How to Create Manga #71 in Comics & Manga Coloring Books for Grown-Ups #173 in Figure Drawing Guides |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 2,646 Reviews |

## Images

![Mastering Manga with Mark Crilley: 30 drawing lessons from the creator of Akiko - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91bjNY4Oj+L.jpg)

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ His method just works!
*by H***T on August 29, 2016*

Crilley provides clear step by step instructions for the beginner. In the book, he emphasizes the importance of precise placement of facial features in order to achieve manga facial structure. He provides concrete suggestions as well as various grids/guidelines to help you learn the proper distances between eyes, eyes to nose, eyes to chin, etc. in an easily understandable way. As an added bonus, since Crilley has a strong youtube presence, you can watch his videos where he demonstrates a lot of what is in the book. At first, I was frustrated a little (as expected when you are learning new skills) that the faces I was drawing had an "almost" manga, but not quite right appearance. I'll add that I'm also new to digital drawing so I was learning two skills at the same time. Anyway, in case this tip helps someone else, I'll describe what I did to get over that bump. I copied Crilley's guidelines right into my digital program, then repeatedly traced over them to get a feel for his guidelines (I was especially having trouble drawing chins). Right next to my tracings, I would also draw equal sized guidelines (without tracing) and draw in the features. I learned two things. (1) for some reason, when I'd been marking the center line (horizontal) on my circles, I was drawing my line too low. I don't know why, I mean I'd been going for the "center." (2) when I put the manga features on Crilley's guidelines, or on the guidelines I drew next to his, I was succeeding in getting my drawings to look like real manga. Basically, his formula (feature placement) works, but you have to do it right or figure out where you are going wrong and fix the problem. I should add, while there is a formula for feature placement (and even that "formula" changes to age up/age down a character, etc), each character looks different because you draw the eyes/expression/hair in different ways. I'm really enjoying the lessons, and mostly seeing progress. I highly recommend the book and have purchased his two subsequent books as well. I'll review them once I've got a good grip on the lessons in this book and graduate to those books.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The BEST "How-To Draw" Book
*by E***E on August 17, 2014*

I'm not usually one for writing reviews, but this book is definitely worth writing down a few sentences for. Unlike many others who enjoy Mark Crilley and his work, I had never seen his tutorials on YouTube or read any of his comics. I'm a self-taught comic artist and it's just something I like to do for fun. I'm a huge fan of the manga style of art, and I've tried in vain to learn from other "How-To Draw Manga" books. They were always either way too vague about the techniques they used or too advanced for my level of drawing. Sufficed to say, I made do with teaching myself a lot of techniques, until I reached an impasse. Mark Crilley starts you with the basics, giving you exact details on how to draw faces and proportions for full-body figures (something I'd always struggled with in the past). The chapters progressively get more advanced, covering still and action poses, romantic scenes, and even a few tips on how to compose a page in a manga. He also supplies a TON of examples of eyes and hairstyles, something very handy to get started in making a character. Each chapter builds on the previous one, and not only does this book show you how to draw males and females, but it also covers kids, middle-aged parents, the elderly, and heftier characters, all going into detail about proportions and construction of the face. I've only had this book a few weeks, and I've already made huge improvement in my drawings. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone who has never picked up a pencil before and wants to give drawing a shot. Many things in this book require at least some background in art, but at a very basic level. As someone who was just looking to self-improve, this book did wonders. I have never found a book to be so helpful and give such good tips! I'm already considering buying the other "Mastering Manga" book that Crilley released.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Consistent, Informative and Insightful
*by W***N on February 29, 2012*

I've been a fan of Mr. Crilley's work for some time. My Daughter loved his work Miki Falls, and I have to admit I enjoyed it, too. I have to say without reservation, Mr. Crilley's book is better that 95% of what's out there. He's also one of the few artists who actually has recognizable work when it comes to comics, manga and graphic novels. I think the only other one I'm aware of is the Shojo Fashion Manga Art School by Irene Flores (She's one of the artists for Windstorm's Welcome to Tranquility.) I'm sure more than a few of us might have purchased other Manga how-tos from author's like Christopher Hart and been extremely disappointed at the quality of the artwork. I didn't get a sense of anything like that with this book. First of all, he's not trying to mimic anyone else's style. The drawings are done more so to illustrate technique then they are to look like someone else's work. I think he purposefully kept it that way so that people can use his lessons to develop their own style. He keeps the depictions simple and consistent throughout the book. It doesn't matter if you're looking at page five or page eighty five, all of the pictures are done by the same artist and its a good thing. One of the chief drawbacks of those other manga books is that they ricochet back and forth from one artistic style to another, confusing anyone who's trying to develop because instead of concentrating on one style, they're trying to do ten different anime styles. In addition, Mr. Crilley does an excellent job of giving little tips that are truly useful like the way he suggests laying out the hair when drawing. I hope that he makes a few more of these kinds of books. There were some things I would have liked to have seen covered that he didn't. Mostly, I wonder if he uses any tricks in particular to manage consistent proportions between characters. I wish that someone would touch on things like perhaps laying out facial expressions that concentrates more on maintaining consistency for one character, rather than illustrating a hundred different faces. All in all, though. I think this is one of the better guides to Manga for us beginners. I wish other books took these kinds of things into account. As it stands now, I keep two books in my bag next to my sketch pad. This is one of them, the other is the one I mentioned by Ms. Flores.

## Frequently Bought Together

- Mastering Manga with Mark Crilley: 30 drawing lessons from the creator of Akiko
- Mastering Manga 2: Level Up with Mark Crilley
- Mastering Manga 3: Power Up with Mark Crilley

---

## Why Shop on Desertcart?

- 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016
- 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories
- 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price
- 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members)
- 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection
- ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews

**Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.hk/products/286250-mastering-manga-with-mark-crilley-30-drawing-lessons-from-creator](https://www.desertcart.hk/products/286250-mastering-manga-with-mark-crilley-30-drawing-lessons-from-creator)

---

*Product available on Desertcart Hong Kong*
*Store origin: HK*
*Last updated: 2026-07-06*