artbook-musthaves

[Miau]

hi there

Im always looking for artbooks. Id like to know what books you have - and, what books i still have to buy :)

my list:
Lotr concept art books 1-3
Alan Lee: lotr Sketchbook
Phil Hale: Goad
Alan Lee, Bryan Froud: Fearies
Paul Kidby: Art of Discworld
Art of Oddworld Ihabitants
Expose 1
other artist books: Da vinci, Paul Flora, Giger, Klimt, Rembrandt, JW Turner, el Greco, Michelangelo, c d Frierich, delacroix

books i still want:
Art of Starwars 1-3 (already ordered)
The skillful huntsmen


ok - so what conceptart books or artist books do you have and like? Is there something cool out there i dont know? - would be nice - because i want more :)

[DSillustration]

my top 5 i cant live without: (in no order)

Rakugaking (terada)
Beyond Impressionism (weisberg)
The Orientalists (davies)
Cannabis Works (tanaka)
J.W. Waterhouse (trippi)

[Rascar Capac]

I go to bookstores


You know what? - theres just too many to list...

but my latest find was BLACKSAD 1 & 2 (Canales & Guarnido) - sickeningly good - at first I thought it was peter de seve
amazing

[nicolas]

Dude. you have to get BLACKSAD behind the scenes....

Its a making of the first album, with his sketches/pencils/color tests/etc...

awesome book.

[Rascar Capac]

Dude. you have to get BLACKSAD behind the scenes....

Its a making of the first album, with his sketches/pencils/color tests/etc...

awesome book.


WHAT?! WHERE? HOW MUCH? Ill trade you my supermodel wife for it

[asoir]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743498380/104-2642343-9947931?v=glance

Shame its preorder..

[Magic Man]

its scary, I've been spending around $300 a week on art books lately. Its like my heroin.

[ArtbyWard]

As DS said,

Rakugaking, Terada

The one I can't live without.

Also Oxide 2 by Kim Hyung-Tae is good.

[Flake]

J.W. Waterhouse (trippi)

I love that book.

[StrangeAlchemist]

Famous Artists Course (Lessons 1-24)
Los Caprichos
The Disasters of War
Dante's Inferno Illustrations by Dore
The Drawings of Heinrich Kley
The Fantastic Art of Beksinski
Berni Wrightson: A Look Back
Berni Wrightson's Frankenstein
Secrets of the Gnomes
Barron Storey's Marat/Sade Journals
40 days dans le desert by Moebius
Tales From the Crypt boxed set
[Otto] Dix (published by Taschen)
Hokusai

[Rascar Capac]

thanks asoir - it is done

and I know what you mean Magic man...
everytime I say Im done - another batch of kickass books comes out..its neverending...

especially with ebay...its ridicolous. I just got a howard pyle and JC leyendecker book that both go for $150+ each for $50 a pop - unbelievable what you can get when no ones lookin....

[Blahm]

mythology: The Art of Alex Ross.


nuff said

[Bojee]

Here's a link to a similar thread started in the Fine Arts section, it's up to 5 pages now and there are some great book recomendations there in case you haven't seen it. Book thread (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=22558)

[Velcro]

Drawers 2.0 and Iguana Bay, from Claire Wendling. I leaf through her books and suddenly I can draw 5x better.

The Drawings of Heinrich Kley.

Skillful Huntsman is great, too, but I get more use out of the others.

[Rascar Capac]

Here's a link to a similar thread started in the Fine Arts section, it's up to 5 pages now and there are some great book recomendations there in case you haven't seen it. Book thread (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=22558)

great...anybody up for a bank heist? Ill drive the get-away car...

[Miau]

a great - thanks for the entries. Ill check out th eother thread, too!
:)

[Miau]

and there goes the money - sigh ...

[Magic Man]

great...anybody up for a bank heist? Ill drive the get-away car...

I'm asian, so obviously I won't drive. But I'm pretty handy with Kung Fu and stuff.

[Profil]

Maigc-man: but what about all those asian drivers in all the old movies? :O

Anyway, I don´t have many artbooks, but here is one I love:
Process Recess-James Jean

[Snowsfall]

The spectrum books
Jon Fosters progressions
My Sargent book whatever the hell its called

[Magic Man]

Maigc-man: but what about all those asian drivers in all the old movies? :O


It hurts to say it but...special effects =(

[Miau]

does anybody know, if its still possible to get jon fosters progressions? amazon doesnt trade it any more.

[Carnifex]

if there ever a was an el coro artbook i think my intestines would explode.

[asoir]

its scary, I've been spending around $300 a week on art books lately. Its like my heroin.
When I get out of school and into college, this is also gonna happen to me...Can't wait! Just the fear of a student debt is pretty daunting.

Np Rascar :)

[Madman!]

-the Tarzan Chronicles..glen keane..oh yeah
-Metal Gear artbooks
-the art of Darkwatch
-Final Fantasy 9 artbook
-Capcom Design works
-I know you already said Star wars but there is also artbooks for 4, 5 and 6
-I don't have it but I want it Shinobi artbook called Shinobi the Wide

all the concept artbooks I can think of for now.

[Interceptor]

Star Wars / Metal Gear / Princess Mononoke

[Magic Man]

does anybody know, if its still possible to get jon fosters progressions? amazon doesnt trade it any more.

dont even bother, I;ve been trying to get it for months.