 | Figure Drawing for All It's Worth by Loomis
Buy used from: £48.99 Absolutely THE best book I own on figure drawing. This guy KNOWS what he's talking about. Get it if you can!
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 | More How To Draw Manga Volume 1: The Basics Of Character Drawing by Go Office
Buy used from: £44.28 The 'More How to draw manga...' series is an improvement on the originals. This one covers pencilling and designing your characters. Probably the best of its kind
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 | More How To Draw Manga Volume 2: Penning Characters: Penning Characters v. 2 by Go Office
Buy used from: £9.26 This has been a great help with improving my inking and line thickness. Also it has a lot of good (mainly female) character poses.
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 | More How To Draw Manga Volume 3: Enhancing A Character's Sense Of Presence: Enhancing a Character's Sense of Presence v. 3 by Go Office
Buy used from: £12.92 Another 'More HTDM' book. Describes how to give your characters that little something extra. Well worthwhile.
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 | How To Draw Manga Volume 29: Putting Things In Perspective: Putting Things in Perspective v. 29 by K's Art
Buy used from: £38.40 Brilliant for understanding perspective and how to fit your characters into backgrounds
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 | How to Draw Manga: Compiling Characters v. 1 (How to Draw Manga)
Buy used from: £10.19 The first in the original series. Gives a good grounding in the main manga techniques.
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 | The Monster Book of Manga by Estudio Joso
Buy new: £10.36 / Used from: £8.00 Contains good drawings to use as a springboard for your own ideas. Some are slightly risque so not suitable for your kids or granny! The photoshop tutorial at the end is very useful.
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 | Creating Manga Superheroes: & Comic Book Characters
Buy used from: £4.54 Covers several styles of 'hero' character, not just manga. It has a friendly style, and I found the section on inking useful.
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 | The Art of Drawing and Creating Manga Advanced Techniques (Art of Drawing & Creating) by Peter Gray
Buy new: £4.86 / Used from: £1.10 I like Peter Gray's style. He has some good ideas for backgrounds, inking and colouring.
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 | The Art of Drawing and Creating Manga Mechas and Monsters (Art of Drawing & Creating) by Peter Gray
Buy used from: £0.99 Another Peter Gray book. I haven't used this one much yet except for drawing the cute kitty.
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 | Digital Manga Techniques: Create Superb-quality Manga Artwork on Your Computer by Hayden Scott-Baron
Buy new: £8.74 / Used from: £0.99 The layout of this book is very attractive and has helped me with using photoshop for colouring scanned lineart. The actual drawings aren't all to my taste, but the techniques valid nonetheless.
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 | Manga (Draw) by Sweatdrop Studio
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.33 Another book with a nice, clear layout. I like the way these guys colour their characters - simple and effective.
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 | Manga for Dummies by Kensuke Okabayashi
Buy new: £8.36 / Used from: £6.66 I really like Dummies books. This one covers an awful lot of ground and is a good 'one stop shop' for understanding manga. It is perhaps a bit cluttered in its layout though.
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 | How to Draw Manga: Female Characters v. 20 (How to Draw Manga (Graphic-Sha Numbered)) by Hikaru Hayashi
Buy used from: £8.63 Not sure about this one. It's all well drawn as usual and the anatomy stuff is good, but there's rather too much gratuitous nudity, and an odd fixation with the female crotch!
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 | The Art of Drawing Manga by Ben Krefta
Buy used from: £10.00 One of the first manga books I bought. Ben Krefta's tutorials are so easy to follow that even I made some decent looking pictures from this one.
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 | How To Draw Manga Volume 4: Casual Wear by Various
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £3.00 This one is OK for showing how clothing folds etc. but the actual styles are fairly dated and the illustrations not very 'manga'
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 | Dynamic Figure Drawing: A New Approach to Drawing the Moving Figure in Deep Space and Foreshortening (Practical Art Books) by Burne Hogarth
Buy new: £8.74 / Used from: £7.25 Not a manga book, but presents a novel approach to figure drawing without a reference, and foreshortening. A useful book.
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 | How to Draw More Manga by Katy Coope
Buy new: £3.66 / Used from: £0.01 This one is NOT worth the money! Very superficial and I don't think the art is of a decent quality.
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 | How To Draw Anime & Game Characters Volume 4: Mastering Battle and Action Moves v. 4 (How to Draw Manga) by Tadashi Ozawa
Buy used from: £92.65 This is a bit like HTDM. Martial arts... I haven't found it useful at all.
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 | How to Draw Manga (Bishoujo Around The World): Bishouju Around the World v. 22 (How to Draw Manga (Graphic-Sha Unnumbered)) by Hikaru Hayashi
Buy new: £12.74 / Used from: £1.50 Shows physical differences between women from different continents. Quite useful but maybe a few too many bare breasts!
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 | Manga Mania Bishoujo: How to Draw the Alluring Women of Japanese Comics (Manga Mania) by Christopher Hart
Buy new: £8.89 / Used from: £5.76 Seems to concentrate on one style - large breasts and eyes! Good pictures though, most of which AREN'T drawn by the author.
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 | How To Draw Manga Volume 6: Martial Arts and Combat Sports v. 6 (How to Draw Manga (Graphic-Sha Numbered)) by Hikaru Hayashi
Buy used from: £6.24 Not very good!. The illustrations aren't very 'manga' (i.e. nothing like the cover!) although they do show a lot of traditional martial arts poses. A bit of a wate of money.
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