CATDOLL: America's weird comic textbook sparks heated discussion. The scary designs are really not meant to ruin people?

Many anime fans have thought about becoming a cartoonist, right? Even if you can't become a cartoonist, being able to draw some relatively simple characters is a very good skill. However, for people who have no basics, it is really not easy to choose an introductory tutorial. Fortunately, there are many books such as comic tutorials now, and this kind of book is particularly important for beginners. If you don't choose well, you may train yourself to be a soul painter. Recently, netizens found that there is such a "cheating" textbook in the United States.

The book is called "Draw Manga for Kids", and the author is Peter Gray. This is a comic tutorial for European and American children. From the cover, we can feel that if we really follow this book to learn, we will definitely become a superb soul painter...

As you can see from this set of pictures, in the sketch stage, there was no big problem with the facial lines, but the eyes started to go off track from the weird triangle. Thanks to the triangle, the eyes drawn later were all severely droopy, and even the side angles were extremely droopy. The only time they were not droopy was probably when the character was staring in surprise. In the stage of more detailed processing, even the face shape began to go off track and was concave into a strange shape.

After that, the book goes on to teach how to draw human postures, but the posture and figure of this character are really intoxicating.

Okay, let’s take a look at another character’s drawing tutorial. This time it’s finally not the enchanting drooping eyes, but these simple eyes and distorted face shape are really hard to complain about.

It is reported that the author of this tutorial, Peter Gray, was originally a cartoonist. He started drawing comics around 2005, and later became well-known and published works. Netizens believe that his tutorial forced the painting of European and American cartoons into the style of Japanese comics, so such distorted characters appeared. Some netizens who are curious even compared this author's tutorial with the Japanese tutorial. However, this style of painting is definitely a broken image of the characters. Whether it is American comics or animations from other countries, this kind of image generally does not appear.

Seeing this, I always feel that the author of this book used the collapse of Japanese animation as a reference? But the picture below is just a collapse of the painting, which is definitely not a common form in Japanese animation.