Fantasy and Artist's books

[I.was.ink]

Hey everyone. I'm lookin for some good artist's books and/or fantasy books. Old or new, from contemporaries, or the masters. I just recently got some money, and wanted to know what books you guys own, and which ones you suggest.

These are the ones I have:

-The art of star wars episode I & II
-Norman rockwell's america
-Capcom design works
-Spectrum 4-10
-The dinotopia books
-Pop bot
-Jon foster's book

My main library is of fig drawing books and such, so I need more of the cool pictures books :)

Care to add to the list?

P.S Here's a great resource for fantasy books and such: http://budplant.com/

iwasink

[I.was.ink]

I just found these: http://www.budplant.com/prod.itml/icOid/13076

http://www.budplant.com/prod.itml/icOid/4926(this ones damn expensive)

They look great. I think I might get the first one. Check em out!

[winjer]

I dunno if this fits in but i consider dune to be the best sci fi novel ever written and having an illustrated version is even cooler

http://www.galaxybooks.com.au/items/11/72/47/

Heres a few of the illustrations:

http://www.dunenovels.com/scrapbook/scrapbooksg1.html

[mtw]

I don't know if these guys make art you like, but I thought I'd mention them. I don't have any specific book recommendations because I've only looked at them at my school's library.

Vuillard and Bonnard are two painters from the early 20th century whom I really like. I suppose they're post-impressionists. They've got somewhat similar styles.

Morandi is another early 20th century painter to check out. Good example of limited pallete painting.

JMW (or is it JWM) Turner is a favorite impressionist landscape painter of mine.

Might as well throw Degas in here too. I really like his ballerina paintings.

If I had money to spend on books, I'd buy some on these guys.

[mtw]

I suppose Christmas is coming up, though. Hmm...Marc Chagall, Cezanne, Edvard Munch, Toulouse-Lautrec. I suddenly have the urge to go to a bookstore.

[Hexal]

I have the art of star wars Ep 2 and its great i love Lain McCaigs stuff in it, plus many more.


One maybe to add to the your list could be Masters of Dragonlance art. I also picked this up a while ago, some really nice stuff in there. Theres some Brom in there. And then theres the art of final fantasy, a little more CG then drawing and painting, but a good book none the less.

[Rusty Red Robot]

Munch? Ugh. Judging by the stuff you have, I would not recommend Munch. Then again, I would never recommend Munch.

[I.was.ink]

These are good suggestions fellas.

Hexal: I dont just want what I have, show me someone new, that I've never heard about. thats what I want. Any type of art!

Here's a couple I found

- http://www.budplant.com/prod.itml/icOid/4926
- http://www.budplant.com/prod.itml/icOid/9162
- http://www.budplant.com/prod.itml/icOid/11739
- http://www.budplant.com/prod.itml/icOid/11985
- http://www.budplant.com/prod.itml/icOid/4596

Show me more!

[PhilHolland]

Surely there is something here that could interest you.
http://www.artbyphil.com/forum/books.jpg
I have around another hundred not shown here.
Including some large format Gibson books from 1906.

Phil

[klid]

i was about to start a simialr thread. i work at a bookstore and i'm in charge of the art section. i was tryin to find out books to order.

do any animators or cartoonist have books?

sofar i ordered(and bought)
all spectrums.
Progressions
Mignolas hellboy art book
Frank Millers sin city book
Doug Cgiang's Robota
A Frazzeta book.

stuff i have.

Katsuya Terada-Raguna King
design works
guilty gear X art book
the best of norman rockwell
matrix art ook
two towers art book

[Azazel]

Given that I'm a huge Wayne Barlowe fan I'll have a go at pimping his stuff.

Expidition
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0894806297/qid=1071569927/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-3384206-2550465?v=glance&s=books

The Alien Life of
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/188339810X/qid=1071569927/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/002-3384206-2550465?v=glance&s=books

Inferno
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1883398363/qid=1071569927/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-3384206-2550465?v=glance&s=books

Brushfire
http://www.morpheusart.com/core/artists/Barlowe/IliminationFromInferno.htm

There's a few more but these are pretty much what I consider to be the core of his work.

[winjer]

I mustve checked Expedition out of the library like 15 times when i was in elementary school. Awesome book.