How to Draw Japan

About this book

> 100 JAPANESE SCHOOL-LIFE DESIGNS. 6 STEPS EACH. 600 STEP-BY-STEP DRAWINGS. > > Made in Japan, by a Japanese author and a Japanese publisher — a drawing book about Japanese school life, created in Japan itself. > > A sailor collar is not a blazer — and a classroom is not just a room. This book draws real Japanese school life, step by step. > > Every design starts as a plain circle and grows one honest layer at a time: construction guides, face outline, features, hair and uniform shape, then the school layer — a place symbol, the collar detail and the club prop — then a clean coloured finish. Nothing moves between steps — the face you draw in Step 2 is the exact face you colour in Step 6, and the school only appears in Step 5, exactly where it belongs: around a student who already exists. > > Inside: 20 uniform designs (sailor, gakuran, blazer, summer uniforms, cardigans) · 20 classrooms and school buildings (blackboards, library, science lab, entrance shoe lockers, the school gate) · 15 sports clubs (soccer, baseball, kendo, swimming, kyudo…) · 15 culture clubs and lessons (literature, brass band, tea ceremony, manga club…) · 20 school events (entrance ceremony under sakura, culture festival, sports day, graduation) · 10 chibi school days with randoseru and school lunch. All uniforms are generic designs — no real school names, no emblems, no logos. > > And after every design: a practice page. Trace the faint guide, then draw your own version in the empty frame — change the uniform colour, the club or the season. 100 designs, 100 practice pages. > > The companion volumes teach characters, fashion patterns and the shops of everyday Japan; this volume is 100% school life. All you need is a pencil and an eraser.