Learn to Draw Hooky

I wanted to review this book for my daughter, who loves the Hooky series. She loved it! She liked the review of the characters at the beginning and of the book. The instructions gave lots of details to complete the characters. Now she knows how to draw her favorite Hooky characters! She can't wait for the next installment!

My 10 year old daughter is a huge Hooky fan and had tried drawing the characters previously. With limited success. She used the book to draw them again and the difference was incredible. On her first attempt you could clearly see who they were supposed to be. The book is concise and easy to use, she used it by herself successfully with no adult guidance. Thank you for the opportunity to use this book

My teen daughter and I ADORE this book! My daughter is a wonderful artist and a long time fan of Hooky. As soon as she saw this book, she set to following the instructions and produced some gorgeous Hooky-themed pieces of art. I also gave it a try and feel proud of my Hooky art! I love how fun and accessible this instructional book is for everyone. We will definitely be purchasing a hard copy when it’s available!

Hooky is a wonderful webcomic, I really like the story. This gives you information on each of the characters, giving you a little bit of their backgrounds. This art book gives you step by step to draw both their kid and adult characters, and even how to grow up your characters. Excellent book to learn some drawing tips.

Learn to Draw Hooky is a tutorial technique guide for drawing the characters from the very popular webcomic in their familiar style. Due out 10th Sept 2024 from Quarto on their Walter Foster imprint, it's 96 pages and is available in paperback format.

The layout has a fresh and unusual (for Walter Foster) format. It's set up very much like a webcomic, with breakaway panels and a comics layout and flow. A beginning chapter introducing the characters in colored panels is followed by a surprisingly thorough step-by-step tutorial section. There's also a QR code which links to online content/the latest episode of the webtoon.

The author/publisher have included colored full page panels with the hexadecimal values for the shades used in the pictures to help with color selection. The tutorials are moderately advanced, but do-able for a determined beginner, and will give artists enough accomplishment to keep going, which is the most important part.

This is a beginner to advanced booklet but full of good technique for anime style art/cartooning and will provide some useful takeaways for the majority of readers/artists who are interested in the style. The pages (and there are many) dealing with positioning, emotional expressions, and facial features are especially detailed and useful (not just for drawing these particular characters).

Five stars. This would be an excellent choice for public or school library acquisition, home use, activity/makers' groups libraries, home studio, or gift giving, maybe with a sketch pad and markers/pens.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

Learn to Draw Hooky gives you all the tools you need to recreate your favorite graphic novel, Hooky. It includes hex codes, step-by-step guides, two different versions of the main characters, and one of them together. I feel confidant that anybody who gets this book for themself or somebody will be able to draw the characters from Hooky with ease.

First of all, thankyou to netgalley for giving me a copy of 'learn to draw hooky' early in exchange for a review. As a lover of the webtoon I was interested to look at the drawing of this book, and I loved it, it was so cute and I enjoyed my time looking through it.

I originally got this for my daughter, she is a huge fan of the Hooky series, and is an avid artist. She loved the portion that it goes over the characters, so if you are not familiar with the series it is still enjoyable to learn the characteristics of them, their quirks, and personalities. I appreciate the variations of the characters and how many they were. The poses of them breaking them down by part by part making it less overwhelming, the different poses which help it remain a very human-like art style that is not stiff. I myself am not an artist not even close, but these I was able to do many of them in 1-2 takes without it being anxiety ridden and be able to do something my daughter enjoy along side her was nice. We will be using this throughout her 8th grade homeschool year.