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>The /ic/ Torrent
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>I don't know how to use these links!
>Are they magnets? Infohashes?
>What the hell do I do with them?
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>Have you seen them?
https://pastebin.com/UxwtuAzp

... and before some dumbass asks, here is the book from the OP image:
>もっと魅せる・面白くする 魂に響く 漫画コマワリ教室
>Akira Fukaya's Make your manga more captivating and interesting - A class on manga paneling that touches the soul
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>>7643740 (OP)
Last time, on "Artbooks" (>>7589981):

>Naoki Saito's Cheat technique! A book that makes you better at drawing (Hobby Japan technique book) ENGLISH MACHINE TRANSLATAED
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>Naoki Saito's Mottainai! Illust Tensaku Kouza
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>Elden Ring Nightreign Digital Artbook
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>[Hachinokonosato] KOU YOSHINARI Original Design
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>[PULLTOP] Haruka ni Aogi, Uruwashi no Visual Fanbook
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>Create Authentic Kemonomimi Characters
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>>7643740 (OP)
What are some must have japanese books for begs and ints? Translated ideally. Looking to branch out as I have only done stuff like keys, loomis etc

>>7643939
No such thing imo. Unless you consider Japanese edition of Loomis? Morpho books sell well to in Japan.
I guess you want something like kawaiisensei. Toshi or Junichi Hayama is better and definitely Japanese, but not translated.
Imo, mangas about drawing are also on purpose educational. Especially in the earlier chapters. Examples:
- Blue Period
- Blank Canvas
- Animeta

>>7643939
リアルなキャラクターを描くためのデッサン講座 (漫画の教科書シリーズ)

New edition: 増補改訂 リアルなキャラクターを描くためのデッサン講座

Chinese translation: 日本超级漫画课堂:人物素描与写实

In an older thread, someone recommends this as one of the books Japanese pros learn from.

Is it still possible to deDRM amazon art books purchased for kindle in 2025?

>>7644023
>books Japanese pros learn from
Japanese pro animator though. And probably older ones. That book has an older anime style.

>>7644050
Nice try, amazon intern. I won't tell.

>>7644083
Guess I won't bother sharing it here then if I find out how to.

>>7644112
Nice try, Jeff Bezos. I won't tell.

>>7644159
This is why 'chan culture is dying, the nuchanner pretends to 'gatekeep' with surface level stuff but can't secure any value longterm. I'll share it with a limited amount of people and post low quality thumbnails here.

>>7644170
No one is buying your larp, SEAnigger.

>>7644173
You might as well be a Yiddizon sales rep because the 'culture' you're trying to create will cause someone to give more money to it due to less desire to post things here.

Anyone have Gashi Gashi's artbook? I'm pretty sure its digital too

>>7644298
>I'm pretty sure its digital too
Proof?

>>7644050
yes just convert the file to a PDF
https://cloudconvert.com/azw3-to-pdf

>>7644023
Got any links?

>>7645119
The chinese translation is on the usual sites. Annas, etc.

Anyone has this book?
https://kr.world.taobao.com/item/903683005890.htm

>>7647200
and this book too?
https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/%E9%9B%B6%E5%9F%BA%E7%A1%80%E7%BB%98%E7%94%BB%E8%87%AA%E5%AD%A6%E6%8C%87%E5%8D%97-%E7%94%BB%E4%B9%85%E4%B9%85/dp/7115651558

>>7647200
>>7647202
Pretty random Chinese books. Did some Chinese recommend these to you or something?
You most likely need to import them from China. Like using those forwarding services.

https://www.amazon.co.jp/stores/%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%97%E3%83%96%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B6%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89/author/B0DF27HN7F
Requesting Deep Blizzard's from 0 (0 kara) book or the Ru-ru book
Sankyuu!

>>7647256
Rejecting the request.
Fakyuu!

>>7647261
It's over before it even began...

>>7643740 (OP)
I figure I'll ask here instead of making a thread about it. What are some good methods for translating Japanese art books? Yandex and Google translate are terrible. I found an AI pdf translator but it took 20 minutes, got stuck at 100% and refused to complete after an hour. Tried again and same shit happened.

So far I've resorted to using Yandex to give me the raw moonrunes and then asking gemini to "explain this excerpt from an anime artbook in english: (moonrunes here)" It's the only thing remotely effective, it's able to accurately explain and actually make sense. But it's painfully fucking slow having to screencap the pdf, drag it to yandex, click japanese because it always picks chinese, click raw text, decipher where the text I want begins, then go to gemini, paste it, copy from gemini, put the text in the image and try to make it fit, all for like half a page at a time.

>>7647375
Why should I tell you lol? You just gonna use my knowledge for grifting. Or at the very least spamming e-hentai, 4chan, pirate book sites with MTLs.

>>7647375
DeepL is a bit better for Japanese. It handles context a bit better, and Japanese is very context dependent.
I use Translation Aggregator, it automatically translates the text in your clipboard. it can show you many different translations at the same time. You can also hover over the Japanese text to see what each words means too.
NotebookLM can auto OCR whole PDFs, and can translate stuff too I think, might wanna try that out.

>>7647386
Um okay? Take your meds?
>>7647390
Thanks anon I will check these out

>>7647375
Learn Japanese. Japanese art can only be fully understood if you know the language.

>>7647525
But how do I learn Japanese, anon?

>>7647587
I don't know what the best beginner resource today is, but when I was starting out I used Tae Kim's grammar guide and then started reading VNs and using Anki to maintain the vocab I learned.
This is the current guide on /jp/'s DJT, don't use the thread itself or the s*rver because it's highly cancerous. https://learnjapanese.moe/guide/

>>7647602
What’s wrong with https://djtguide.github.io/?

>>7643740 (OP)
requesting this art book. thanks

>>7647618
Both are probably the same general quality, I've just used the other site for some resource links so it's on my radar more.

Has "Dongho Kim's Character Drawing" ever been scanned? His space drawing book was fantastic

>>7643740 (OP)
Requesting this art book

>>7647728
Either learn Korean or get a job.
>>7647736
Rejecting the request.

I found a pretty good anatomy/muscle book that is actually exercise focused. It might help some people yo see some of the muscles in action.

Male: https://e-hentai.org/g/2573838/14689e144a/
Female: https://e-hentai.org/s/df81544857/2572145-177

>>7647930
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Surprised the 3rd volume hasnt put put online yet but does anyone have the art of klk vol.3

Hey guys, does anyone know any artbooks that tackle the subject of measuring & proportion in specific? Or perhaps any that have chapters talking about it in length? I find myself pretty content with every other aspect of my art but proportions in specific are beating my ass. Thanks in advance

>>7648268
>Surprised
More like “entitled”.

>>7648388
i want that pete the cat book

>>7648388
Is this a veiled ad for Dorien Iten's stuff?

>>7649054
Read your morpho books first, anon.

>>7649130
They hardly have texts. Mostly strange pictures.

>>7649130
i dont wanna, the cat looks happy, i want that

hey guys, does anyone could get a hold of this one last thread?

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>>7648268
All the trigger artbooks are absurdly expensive unless you bought them when they came out.

>>7643740 (OP)
>Thread recap file (last updated 12-JUL-2025):


the following link is dead:
>Uldis Zarins - Anatomy of Facial Expression
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>>7650269
Good. You guys need to get a job and buy the book legitimately. It's still in print.

>>7649777
>hey guys, does anyone could get a hold of this one last thread?
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>>7650269
>Uldis Zarins - Anatomy of Facial Expression
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>>7650704
>Uldis Zarins - Anatomy of Facial Expression
thank you kindly

>>7647736
>Introduction to Digital Sketching デジタルスケッチ入門
It's available on Anna's Archive under its Japanese title.
https://annas-archive.org/md5/fccf9f28a3bf455d36659d3a8d6e4409
I tried to translate it but the result is quite underwhelming. It'd be great if someone with more knowledge could provide a better translation.
https://gofile.io/d/8RDOEX

>>7650778
>Introduction to Digital Sketching デジタルスケッチ入門
The translated text says "cat" on almost every page. Unsure what it means.
>If you use analog paint, you will have to one-shot cat.
>The layers make it cat. You can adjust it.
>I've never had a cat.
>When you use log art supplies to make a cat
>cat scraping marks with brush
Not complaining, just curious.

>>7651013
描 draw can kind of look like cat 猫 depending on the font. So the OCR is confused.

>>7651013
Wow, you’re lazy, anon. Compare it with the Japanese text, input the character in google translate with stroke input, google further.

>>7644023
Thanks anon but I wasn't clear that I was referring to japanese anime, I already have tons of fundie and anatomy books

>>7644023
>someone recommends this as one of the books Japanese pros learn from.
I just did a deep dive in the Japanese side of learning art and that anon is right, not only that book is widely used in the anime industry, but Loomis and Jack Hamm is used by both anime and manga industry.
Those 3 guys were rec by 2ch for years like picrel that's from 2017.

>>7651013
For some reason, the program I used detected the word ‘cat’ on every page of the book, and the result was downright hilarious.
I saw a bunch of AI translations on e-hentai that were really good. I don't know what software they used. Here, I used a small Python script I found on GitHub but it’s not very good, it uses the Google Translator API.

Question (I figure since it's artbook related, I shove it in here):
They never released an artbook for the Animatrix did they? I've only been able to the "Making of Book" for the og movies. Not even any settei (at least that I could fucking find). Happy to be proven wrong though cause that shit was amazing. Hit me like a truck rewatching it again after all these years.

hello guys, anyone has "Framed Environment Design"? I'm not sure if there is a digital version

>>7651027
Thanks, I'll remember that.

>>7651139
No sweat, I'm sure the characters for cat and draw will be useful at some point. Thanks for uploading.

>>7651046
>Those 3 guys were rec by 2ch for years like picrel that's from 2017.
Any 2ch list of books or links, anon?
>>7651775
Read it on youtube unironically.

>>7651046
>source: random tweet by 2chtard

>>7647736
>>7650778
Is this book famous or something? Looks like Mario Bucci's digital painting stuff.

Anyone has this?

https://wa-
ni.booth.pm/items/5522506

Is there an anime/manga equivalent of Loomis' Fun with a Pencil?

>>7647375
NotebookLM.

>>7652957
>freckles
>moles
The artist has an ugly soul. DRAW BEAUTY.

>>7653825
No.

>>7653837
That art screams tranny shit.

>>7653825
yes:
https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Andrew-Loomis-ebook/dp/B0BNCS1K9L

And in case it was not clear: Japanese people learn to draw with loomis, copying manga or anime only serves to understand the style but not to learn to draw human anatomy.

>>7655030
Shit link. Baseless info. /ic/ is dead

>>7643740 (OP)
https://gofile.io/d/zx1awJ
Akihito Yukimi - Guraman 1985~90 final edition

>>7655401
arigato sensei-domo!

>>7655401
Where did you get this?

>>7655401
Anon, you're a scholar and a saint.

>>7655401
oh damn this is some good stuff

>*download it and quickly reported it because it's not encoded*
does anyone do this just for lulz and giggles?

>>7657111
Always.

>>7657111
Gatekeeping is a community's immune system.

>>7655401
Why is it rare for anons to upload this obscure cool stuff? Are there any private trackers which have many books like this?

>>7657200
*desease of humanity

>>7657471
Lol, not gonna tell.

>>7655420
sadpanda

>>7643740 (OP)
just want to thank anons in art book thread, here is 1977 Mucha 37 plates coloring book, its cool just for checking Mucha's line works..

https://gofile.io/d/EAWlxL

>>7657499
You don't know shit. So how can you tell? I understand your predicament.

>>7658353
Thanks anon.

>>7658617
Lol, still not gonna tell.
>>7658353
This is not very nice. Looks like Dover still sells the newer version of this book. For a very affordable price.

How do you even learn paneling and pacing in manga/comics? Feel like it's 100% natural talent to know where to put the boxes, their sizes, their shapes, etc. Even published mangas sometimes have weird panels and pacing issues.

>>7660306
Just the way reading from right to left naturally ccreates interesting compositions.

>>7660306
Learn the basics about paneling and analyze works from mangakas that you like
Everyone have their own style.
https://exhentai.org/g/3281547/9e3f7a7ff5/
https://exhentai.org/g/3208637/5b5031c704/
https://medibangpaint.com/en/use/2021/09/mangatutorialforbeginners06/
https://ichi-up.net/2019/16

コマワリ

>>7660462
They look good, but I can't read french!

>>7660306
Get a comic book, preferrably a bad comic book. Open it to a page. Study it, and think about how you would go about fixing it. Then draw the corrected page. You don't have to do finished pencils unless you want. Even a thumbnail sketch is enough. The important thing is to get into the mindset of drawing page layouts.

>>7660462
damn this is really good.
Thanks do you know if the first link has been translated?

>>7643740 (OP)
I'll most likely be going to Japan later this year.
Any books I should pick up or be looking for?
(Apart from the Japanese staple: Figure Drawing for all it's worth haha)

>>7661353
Bookstores have shit selection. People buy online. Buy from amazon etc. and send to local convenience store. But I'm not sure if that's possible if you don't have a Japanese address.

Or go to used bookstores.

I would recommend books that are not available on pirate sites. Or books with bad scans.

I need to check my booklist to give recommendations. On top of my mind, Katsuhiro Otomo's recent-ish Akira books. Those will probably never be scanned. But not everyone like Akira.

>>7661376
Ive got a mate I'll be visiting for part of it, so I can always use his address if needed. Thanks, I look forward to hearing from your list!

>>7661376
>>7661383
Lol, I was going to link a youtube flip through of Otomo's book. And of course that youtube channel Halcyon Realms got terminated. I wondered why I didn't see new videos in a while. That was my main source of Japanese artbook infos. Fuck ghibli.

>>7661353
立中 順平, Junpei Tatenaka's books look interesting. He's an animator who studied Vilppu's stuff, would be useful to see how he applies it. The baseball one has been scanned already I believe.

OC = no
low effort = yes
[posting intensifies]

>>7661399
>Fuck ghibli.

Ghibli is noctoriously known for being litigious it's really silly that he didn't see this coming seeing how there aren't really channels uploading their music or anything. I don't blame them, they don't have many products and animation is a hell hole money pit. In the end AI won against them so there's that.

>>7661399
suggest him to upload ghibli fuck on rumble or oddysee

>>7661595
I have his quick sketch pose book and I really like it. Pretty easy to draw along the examples.

Anybody have a scan of Tatsuyuki Tanaka's book Ani Man LLust?