Awe-inspiring pen and ink artBritish artist (1946) is best known for his gothic and macabre style. Combine that with meticulous pen and ink technique, you have a visually striking image with details that hold your attention, inviting you to pore over each area of the artwork.This book contains artworks from his career of over 40 years. He has illustrated for magazines, books, and also created concept art such as for Warhammer 40,000. You'll see both his commissioned works as well as personal pieces.There aren't any chapters but the artworks featured are grouped by subject matter.

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You'll see dragons, ghoulish warriors and soldiers, fantasy creatures, mechanical contraptions, castles and landscapes, and other nightmarish subjects from his imagination. You'll notice that he's inspired by fishes, robots, and mechanical things.

Ian Miller presents his own twist to those subjects and they often look surreal. He also has commentary for selected pieces of work.One highlight of the book besides the subject matter is the pen and ink technique used. The illustrations when you look closer are created with lines carefully hatched.

The form, light and shadows are all created by the amazing line art. Each illustration must have taken an insane amount of time to finish. Many are full page artworks in this book.It's a great book.-This book was borrowed from Basheer Graphic Books for review purposes. You can order the book from them. Check with.The Art of Ian Miller is available at Amazon ( ). This is a large 334-page hardcover collection of Italian drawings at the. It was published as a companion to the exhibition that's running on 25 Jan to 11 May 2014 at the museum.Included in the book are over 100 drawings, many printed at full pages.

The book takes a more academic approach, not surprising, analysing the images, talking about the technique, function, and connoisseurship.There are works from artists Luca Cambiaso, Guercino, and Giambattista Tiepolo, as well as masterpieces by Carpaccio, Michelangelo, and Modigliani. Many are rarely seen. You'll see a lot of sketches as compared to finished paintings commonly associated with some of these.If you want an in depth understanding to how old masters draw, this is the book.-This review copy is provided by book seller and distributor APD Singapore ( ). You can get the book from them and major bookstores in Southeast Asia.Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum is also available at Amazon ( ). Geometry of Design is an insightful book that looks at design with geometry in mind.It has technical information such as all the diagrams of golden rectangles, circles, and then there are the ratios and analysis of artworks, and even furniture and architecture and other things.It's quite fascinating to read about how these techniques are used in artworks. I wonder if the artists who painted those artworks actually thought about all these technical stuff.This is not a book you can go through quickly because to truly appreciate geometry, you have to at least understand a bit of how those diagrams are constructed, and how you can use them yourself. I think the book does a good job with the examples and explaining, and for some pages there are overlays that you can put over the drawing to see how the areas are divided.You might look at things and design differently after reading the book.Geometry of Design, Revised and Updated (Design Briefs) is available at Amazon ( ).

Surprise, surprise. This is a very popular book that has over 200 favourable reviews on Amazon.It's a colouring and treasure hunt book by illustrator who is know for her intricate black and white ink drawings.Besides adding colours to the illustrations, you are also invited to find hidden images on every page (answers revealed on the last). The artworks are of beautiful gardens, mazes, trees, insects and interesting looking flora and sometimes insects.The paper is more suited for coloured pencils rather than coloured ink because they will bleed through.It's a fun book for children. Actually, I had a colleague who has this book as well so I guess it's not just for kids.Check out the to see how others have coloured their books.-This review copy is provided by book seller and distributor APD Singapore ( ).

You can get the book from them and major bookstores in Southeast Asia.Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Coloring Book is also available at Amazon ( ). Here's another artbook on Hatsune Miku. There are quite a few artbooks relating to Hatsune Miku and it's getting a bit confusing so let's recap first.First, there's the Hatsune Miku Graphics: Character Collection series of artbooks (CV01, CV01, CV03) which are fan art books. Then there's the Hatsune Miku Graphics: Vocaloid Comic & Art series which is sort of a fan art book plus some pages of comics.Mikucolor is the artbook that features the artwork from the official Vocaloid character illustrator KEI. Publisher Udon translated this book from the original Japanese edition that was released in 2012. Anyway, there's not much translation because the text comes from only the index pages with artwork titles and credits.This is a beautiful illustration book of Hatsune Miku art in KEI's usual dreamy style. They are more painted rather than in the typical anime and manga line art style.

The artworks are huge pin-ups featuring mostly the main girl with the turquoise hair, with a bit of Luka, Rin & Len. These are illustrations used for books, magazines, discs and other promotional materials.You might also remember that KEI also has a personal artbook called.

That book is more of character design while for Mikucolor you'll see the characters with background art. So the artworks here have more mood and atmosphere.There is no significant duplication of content for all the books mentioned. In Mikucolor, you'll notice three pieces that appeared as the cover art for the Hatsune Miku Graphics: Character Collection fan art books.So overall, it's still a nice book for all Hatsune Miku and KEI fans.Mikucolor: KEI's Hatsune Miku Illustration Works is available at Amazon ( ). This is a very beautiful artbook of American Impressionism paintings. This style is related to European Impressionism and was practiced by American artists during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.The book features more than 60 paintings from well know and also less familiar artists. 14 American artists are featured, and just to name a few there are Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, Theodore Robinson, William Merritt Chase, and Childe Hassam.It's quite fascinating to see how the loose brushwork and vivid colours work together to form beautiful paintings. Many paintings are printed large so it's joy to study the brush strokes.Besides the art, there are also expert essays discussing the Impressionism movement, and the inspiration these artists drew from contact with French artists such as Claude Monet and Edgar Degas.

There's plenty to read to provide the context to these wonderful paintings.-This review copy is provided by book seller and distributor APD Singapore ( ). You can get the book from them and major bookstores in Southeast Asia.American Impressionism: A New Vision, 1880 - 1900 is also available at Amazon ( ). Here's the second Hellboy artbook. It's not the sequel to The Art of Hellboy that was released in 2004 though.Hellboy: The First 20 Years is a 20th anniversary artbook to celebrate the character and title that Mike Mignola created.So unlike that 2004 artbook, this one features just art without any commentary. What you'll see are mostly cover art for Hellboy, B.P.R.D, and some from Abe Sapien, Witchfinder and others.

Selected pieces have sketches provided, not a lot, and there also also some comic partially inked comic panels.There are about 20 pieces or pages of art from before 2005, and the rest are from the last ten years.The art is fantastic of course. The style is very recognisable Mike Mignola. Striking and bold. Lovely use of blacks that really suits the mood of the comic and character. Even Peter de Seve who wrote the introduction also drew in similar style for his guest art.

There are a few watercolour pieces that look really different from the others.It's a nice hardcover artbook. Large and tall format to fit the typical comic book dimensions so that the covers can be reproduced big, and they are reproduced very well in this book.It's a fantastic book for fans of Hellboy and Mike Mignola.Hellboy: The First 20 Years is available at Amazon ( ). This book is a mixed bag. Looking at the preview pages that Amazon has provided, I would not have bought the book. But I managed to browse through the whole book at a bookstore and like it enough to buy it.The book features the artworks of several contemporary artists. I only know two out of the 21 artists featured so it's great to check out other new artists.What you won't see are the typical traditional watercolour painting style.

Instead, we have a nice variety of artworks and subjects being tackled by the watercolour medium. There are artworks of desks, childlike drawings of vegetables, ink and watercolour sketches, fashion illustration, abstract, Ultramarine blue portraits, book spines, fantasy illustrations and other stuff.It's quite cool to see how the artists use watercolour for the different subjects in their own styles. This is the main reason why I bought the book. It's delightful to look at all the examples and to get a bit of inspiration for experiments that I might personally try.By the way, I won't describe more than half of the artworks featured as paintings. Paintings implied a finished piece of work.

There are some finished pieces, and there are those that feel unfinished, there are the illustrations, and then there are some paintings.The only text are the artist profiles. There's no mention of the techniques which would have made the book even better.Who this book will appeal to, I feel, is quite subjective, so I recommend browsing before buying if possible.The artists included are. John Norman Stewart.Watercolor: Paintings of Contemporary Artists is available at Amazon ( ). Rage of Bahamut reminds me very much of another digital card game called. I guess the common point is the slightly more Asian style art.

Those who have not played the game before can probably treat this as a fantasy character artbook.Rage of Bahamut is the popular card battle game on Android and iOS devices released in 2012. There was also a Japanese artbook released later that year called. And this is the English edition of that book as translated by Udon. It's a 144 page large format paperback.The artworks are fantastic, detailed and beautifully coloured. They are split into three groups, women, men and creatures.Two-thirds of the book are human characters.

I prefer the creature artworks though as I've always enjoyed looking at.Maybe because the artists are Japanese, or the game was released for Japanese, the have the familiar manga and anime style.Overall, it's a delight looking at the heavily decorated illustrations. At the back of the book are some process shots of the creation progress, basically from the sketches, to basic colour filling, and the finish coloured version. There's also a brief section that shows how two similar cards are redesigned into two different cards, e.g. With the same character but in different setting.There are more than 120 cards featured. Each card only has the title and the artist, but there's nothing about the card itself such as the profile or its rarity. That's the downside because I certainly wanted to read the story behind each character and creature.The only text in the book are the two pages of interviews, one with the junior artists Ponzu, Soji Hisakata, Mushimaro, and the other page with the senior artists Ryosuke Aiba and Tricky Agura.Even if you have not played the game, you should still be able to enjoy the art.It's a good artbook.Rage of Bahamut: Official Art Works is available at Amazon ( ). Map Art Lab is a fun art activity book for those interested in art and cartography.The 52 projects included involve mixed media, and uses all the different elements of the map to create art.

When I first saw the book, I was like 'Is this for real?' This book is huge! It's almost A3 size, and it's 272 pages thick. This is the IMAX of artbooks.If you look closely at the cover, you'll see the actual killbook attached in chains to the belt of Gabriel, the protagonist that artist has created for his story.Gabriel is a super soldier who was framed by a military corporation with global power.

The story isn't really original, but it's still quite interesting to see this world that Gabriel lives in. With the help of a secret agent, he managed to escape the prison and is now back for revenge. This killbook collects all the bad guys on his hit list.The book is presented as a scrapbook, with photos, artworks, documents and notes. The writing style is like snapshots from what Gabriel still can remember.

Basically, there's no actual flow to the story. The book starts off with the introduction and background to the world, and then moves on immediately the the hit list, and ends with a gallery of concept art from children who still believe in the innocence of Gabriel.While the writing isn't as good as it can be, the idea is fantastic. There are lots of bad guys with profiles and interesting analysis. Since the genre is sci-fi, you get characters that are not humans.

There is a lot of content to read through and digest.The last part of the book is quite creepy. It features fan art of Gabriel and other characters by children, fictitious of course, mostly under the age of 10. The artworks are look great, and there lies the creepiness because the kid's photos are shown beside their art. It's difficult to imagine young kids creating such accomplished pieces of work.

Imagine a 5-year-old with an almost 3D painting of a muscular man-shark or shark-man with teeth that looks like it can bite through your neck like french fries. Interestingly, when you follow the websites of these kids, you'll be brought to the actual artists who created them.This is a visually wonderful book and could be more awesome with better editing.Last Man Standing: Killbook of a Bounty Hunter is available at Amazon ( ). Wonderful character design bookThis is the for the Japanese mobile game that was released in 2012.It's essentially a book featuring the characters that are shown in the game.The book is quite big, almost A4 size, landscape, hardcover, and at 208 pages is quite thick. The illustrations are printed huge and it's quite a joy to look at. You can now see all the details clearly as compared to them on mobile devices.The Japanese style characters are wonderful, with beautifully designed costumes and settings. Some of them have the whole scene drawn together, others have accompanying monsters, animals and spirits, and there are beautiful effects like flames, lightning, water, etc.

The art looks dynamic even when the characters are not striking any action poses.Most of the pieces have sketches and alternate versions included. So in all, there are probably close to 90 characters featured.Great book.If you like Puzzles and Dragons, there's also another artbook for the sequel called which is a background design book.パズル&ドラゴンズ イラストレーションズ (Puzzle & Dragons Illustrations) is available at. This book is bigger than I expected. It has 176 pages, and the size is about A3 size, similar to artbook which is also published by Pie Books. The two books would make a good set.Besides creating comics and animated movies, Otomo Katsuhiro also designs many of the posters and graphics.

This book consists of the work created for promotional purposes, display posters, books, advertisements, designs for video discs and packaging.There are over 50 pages of posters devoted to Akira. The artworks are created for the various different releases, from laser discs to DVD to Blu-ray, and for different publications and events. You'll see a mixture of Japanese and English posters.For anime, there are also works from, (a live-action film) and (another live-action film).After anime, it's followed by the books section which has the graphics for his own publications as well as others. You'll see, a book relating to biking, and many more.That's followed by the section for advertising artworks.Lastly, there's an interview with Otomo that talks about all his animated films and projects, and also an illuminating essay about all the promotional art featured in the book. The text is in both Japanese and English (PIE Books usually have two languages for ).There are a lot of works I've not seen before, but there are also some that have appeared in his other artbooks such as in.

I would consider the artworks in other books to be the raw form, in POSTERS they are adapted to be used in posters and other promotional materials. Personally, I think it's still worth getting if you already have.Great artbook.POSTERS - OTOMO KATSUHIRO × GRAPHIC DESIGN is available at On the left is the promotional poster for the bookHere there are the posters for and.A large Akira poster is included with the book. This is the concept artbook of Japanese artist and sculptor 竹谷 隆之 (Takayuki Takeya).It's a 160-page paperback.This book consists mainly of and the concepts for his sculptures. From what I can see in the book, he's been involved in a lot of projects.

I can't read the project names which are in Japanese and the only ones in English are Final Fantasy, Alien and Predator.The artworks are created mainly using pencils. They are very detailed in terms of line work, shading and design.The fantasy character designs are fascinating.

He has also designed several non-lead characters for Final Fantasy, such as the creatures, the mythical beings. There are also designs that look like traditional Chinese deity statues. Some characters remind me of H. Giger's style but there's of course the Japanese influence mixed in such as when designed samurais or weird action superheroes.His drawings have a distinct 3D form, enhanced by the pencil shadings.

The book also has many drawings for the sculptures where the characters are designed to the base they stand on, or the setting they appear in.Takayuki Takeya has created a lot of awesome sculptures, but unfortunately in this book, there are only 12 pages dedicated to showing them. You'll see a lot more when you search for images online.It's an artbook that's definitely worth checking out.竹谷隆之精密デザイン画集 造形のためのデザインとアレンジ Takayuki Takeya Drawings, Arrangement and Design is available at.

This is the art and technique book of, Japanese concept artist, creature designer, digital sculptor all in one.His forte is in and this book showcases the many beasts, monsters, creatures, a few characters and even some mechas that he has designed. There's also some environment design. Overall, it's a mixture of 2D concept art and 3D sculptures.The level of detail in his work is astonishing.

Just look at the cover art and you get the idea. All the digital sculptures in the book are at that level.This is a 160-page paperback.A third of the pages are devoted to the art gallery, so it can be a bit brief but still awesome.The rest of the book features two tutorials, one shows you how to Zbrush sculpt that bony demon on the cover, and the other is a Beauty and the Beast concept sculpt overlay with background art behind.The tutorials are written in Japanese though. There are step-by-step all the way so you might still be able to get some insight from looking at the process.

I counted over 100 screenshots for the bony demon alone, and the screenshots of the Zbrush software in English.I'm not sure how to recommend this book. It would depend on how much you can get out of the tutorial sections.田島光二作品集 & ZBrushテクニック (KOUJI TAJIMA ARTWORKS & ZBrush Technique) is available at.

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エロ×メカ features Katsuya Terada's erotic illustrations.As a kid, Terada would practice drawing erotic pictures for himself to enjoy. As least that's what he said in his afterword in the book.

Since then, he has moved on to mixing fantasy and surrealism into his drawings.This is a 104-page hardcover artbook that comes with a thin cardboard slipcase.The images are explicit so this isn't a book you want lying around at home with kids or in the office on your table. There are naked women, and naked fantasy women, and making out scenes.The art is great. Terada really knows how to draw his ladies. There are the simpler pin-up style illustrations, and also many fantasy ones usually involving some kind of mechanism, such as a mechanic arms that appear from behind, wires, robot parts and other devices fixed onto you know where.The artworks are a mixture of sketches and full coloured paintings. The sketches are just as detailed, but without colour.

Selected pieces also come with commentary from Terada, in Japanese and English text, talking about his inspiration.Good book for those who like erotic art.エロ×メカ (Katsuya Terada's Erotic Engineering) is available at On the left is the slipcase. This is the video game artbook for and its sequel. It also includes art from the first game's expansion God Eater Burst.It's a thick 288-page paperback.Half of the book features character designs, and the other half is split between the creatures called Aragami, environment art, weapons and miscellaneous drawings.The wonderful anime style character designs are from Koichi Itakura and Sokabe Shuji. Main characters have a full page standing portrait and a close up, followed by the various other designs which consist the poses, sketches, weapons and notes.

The colouring is not just the typical flat anime style, but there's a slight texture overlay which makes the drawings look more interesting and beautiful.The creatures, the Aragami section, has the designs produced at medium and smaller sizes which is too bad because they have a lot of details. The graphics here consist of in-game screenshots in 3D and the concept art for those creatures.As all the 3D creature graphics are in a section together, you have to flip back a few pages to see the corresponding concept art for any particular creature.

It's quite inconvenient with all the flipping when compared to how they presented the characters. The other strange thing there's no anime style rendering of the creatures.The environment artworks are nice but I feel they lack a certain grandeur.

But well, they are from the game.Weapon and armour designs are pretty cool as usual. The last section of miscellaneous drawings are fan art illustrations, good but not as good as the 30 over pages of fabulous splash art that appear right at the beginning of the book.The book is sort of a mixed bag for me, but a good mixed bag overall because a good portion of art is devoted to character and creature designs, which are the highlight of the book.ゴッドイーター&ゴッドイーター2 ビジュアルアートワークス (God Eater & God Eater 2 Visual Art Works) is available at. The Art of Millarworld is a fantastic art compilation of all the creator-owned titles and various artists have created.Titles featured are Wanted, Chosen, War Heroes, Nemesis, Superior, The Secret Service, Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl, Jupiter's Legacy, MPH and Starlight.That's ten titles in this 200-page hardcover artbook. By the way, there's also a signed and limited edition of this book.The art is great and I like the variety of styles because of the large number of artists included. Yes, you have the main artists drawing the titles they are known for, e.g. For Wanted, for Nemesis, Leinil Yu's Superior, and The Secret Service, and of course for Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl.In addition to the main artists, guest artists also to chip in occasionally and we get to see their style as applied to the characters.

Tommy Lee Edwards and contributed alternative covers to The War Heroes, and, and Hit-Girl. Other artists included, John Cassady and many more. There are over 30 artists whose artworks are included.Each main artist also has a short Q&A talking about the project and how they came to work with Mark Millar.It's a great run for Mark Millar since Wanted first appeared in 2004.This is a nice artbook that looks back the titles from the last decade.-This book was borrowed from Basheer Graphic Books for review purposes. You can order the book from them. This is an excellent retrospective artbook that looks back the concept art created for films.Over the past 16 years, they have made 30 films, from the Antz in 1998 to Home (2014) which is the last film to be included in this book.It's a huge and 324-page thick hardcover book. It feels very substantial.Behind the subdued white cover are pages after pages of art.

The layout is simple and effective at playing up the beautiful artworks. There are medium sized images to those that extend to the edges.The films included in the book are. Antz (1998). The Prince of Egypt (1998). The Road to El Dorado (200).

Chicken Run (2000). Shrek (2001).

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002). Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003). Shrek 2 (2004). Shark Tale (2004). Madagascar (2005). Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005). Over the Hedge (2005).

Flushed Away (2006). Shrek the Third (2007). Bee Movie (2007). Kung Fu Panda (2008). Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008). Monsters vs. Aliens (2009).

How to Train Your Dragon (2010). Shrek Forever After (2010). Megamind (2010).

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Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011). Puss in Boots (2011). Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012). Rise of the Guardians (2012).

The Croods (2013). Turbo (2013). Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014). How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014). Home (2014)It's a good mixture with some traditional animated and stop motion films in addition to the 3D animated films which represent the trend nowadays.Note that many films in that list have dedicated artbooks. The Art of DreamWorks Animation collects only selected pieces of art from each film, and many artworks especially from the more recent films are already featured in their dedicated artbooks.

Artbooks for earlier films are either non-existent, or out of print, so it's great to see artworks from those films here.It will still be worth it to get this book even if you have other DreamWorks Animation artbooks.The artworks featured are absolutely beautiful. It's a thrill to see the concept art and production design. There are character designs, environment art and beat boards of scenes. The quality is just top notch. You get over 300 pages of art for the price of a book, it's seriously a good deal.I'm glad the most of the artworks are printed huge because you'll want to enjoy the little details that the artists have put into creating the different worlds and settings.The artworks are accompanied by commentary from the directors and artists who talk about the art and design. I do not like text boxes that overlay onto the art, but I can see they are unavoidable sometimes, especially when the art is printed full double page. Unfortunately, the artists are not credited.

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I would love to find out who those talented artists are.Overall, this is an awesome artbook, or a book of awesomeness which is how Po from Kung Fu Panda would have put it.Definitely one of my favourites for 2014.Highly recommended.The Art of DreamWorks Animation: Celebrating 20 Years of Art is available at Amazon ( ).

This is the companion artbook to the that was held in April & May 2012. The exhibition featured over 3000 pages of manga from Otomo Katsuhiro's 39 years of career since 1973.This is a large 256-page paperback measuring 10 by 14 inches. That's larger that all the other Otomo Katsuhiro artbooks I've seen.While there are some new and unpublished artwork, some have also appeared in other books such as, and possibly others.The manga art are printed satisfyingly huge.

The scans and reproduction are great. You can see how words are pasted onto the speech bubbles, the details of the ink work and hatching lines and painted illustrations. The format is large enough to show off all the meticulous work put into drawing those panels.There are a few interviews in Japanese but the book also comes with a small booklet with the English translations.If you have other artbooks, I think this is still a great addition.-This book was borrowed from Basheer Graphic Books for review purposes. You can order the book from them. Check with or visit. They are selling at a good price and if you're near their stores you don't have to pay for the expensive international shipping.Genga: Otomo Katsuhiro Original Pictures (Japanese Edition) is available at Amazon ( ).