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I recommend Alan Lee's Lord of the Rings Sketchbook. I found the style of the drawings to be well drawn extremely detailed. A few of the images in the book are paintings but most of the images in the book are pencil sketches. The interesting thing about his sketches is that none of them use any finger smudging/tortillion/paper stump techniques to create blending. He does all of his shading with pencil crosshatching etc. You can view some of his sketches in the Extended edition DVDs of LOTR but most of the sketches contained in the books are not on the Extended edition dvds. The book is small size but is loaded with many pictures. The book has interesting little notes concerning the drawings. He also included interesting little notes concerning his own personal quircks as a person. Such as when he plans to go on a trip, he doesn't make a list of the items he needs. He just draws the items he needs to pack because he is a visually oriented person. I enjoy this book because I can see the actual strokes of the pencil by the artist and can identify part of the thought process that goes into the creation of such amazing images. The details on the ent sketches are amazing. You can see this book for yourself at Barnes and Noble or look at some sample images online at amazon.com.
Other book I am recommending is for those interested in mechanical robotic designs. Macross Design works is a compilation of Shoji Kawamori's robotic deisgns for the various Macross series. Most of these designs are transforming flying machines. What I do enjoy about this book is that it shows that Shoji Kawamori gave careful thought to the transformation processes of all the machines. No morphing or stretching of the design is required to achieve the transformations. These machines can exist in the physical world. Many movies and tv shows have taken from Shoji Kawamori's designs. Many are debatable but the few shows without a doubt are, Battletech (mechwarrior) and Robocop (ED 209). Many of his early designs dating back to the 70's maybe earlier not sure. He was a major influence in the creation of the mech genre. This book does have an interview with the artist but nearly everything in this book is Japanese text so if you don't read Japanese you probably won't get much out of it besides the designs. Most of the drawings pencil sketches but there are a some colored concepts included. I doubt you will be able to find a copy of this book at any book store probably try a comic book store to see if you like it. You can buy it cheaper online.
I recommend Alan Lee's Lord of the Rings Sketchbook. I found the style of the drawings to be well drawn extremely detailed. A few of the images in the book are paintings but most of the images in the book are pencil sketches. The interesting thing about his sketches is that none of them use any finger smudging/tortillion/paper stump techniques to create blending. He does all of his shading with pencil crosshatching etc. You can view some of his sketches in the Extended edition DVDs of LOTR but most of the sketches contained in the books are not on the Extended edition dvds. The book is small size but is loaded with many pictures. The book has interesting little notes concerning the drawings. He also included interesting little notes concerning his own personal quircks as a person. Such as when he plans to go on a trip, he doesn't make a list of the items he needs. He just draws the items he needs to pack because he is a visually oriented person. I enjoy this book because I can see the actual strokes of the pencil by the artist and can identify part of the thought process that goes into the creation of such amazing images. The details on the ent sketches are amazing. You can see this book for yourself at Barnes and Noble or look at some sample images online at amazon.com.
Other book I am recommending is for those interested in mechanical robotic designs. Macross Design works is a compilation of Shoji Kawamori's robotic deisgns for the various Macross series. Most of these designs are transforming flying machines. What I do enjoy about this book is that it shows that Shoji Kawamori gave careful thought to the transformation processes of all the machines. No morphing or stretching of the design is required to achieve the transformations. These machines can exist in the physical world. Many movies and tv shows have taken from Shoji Kawamori's designs. Many are debatable but the few shows without a doubt are, Battletech (mechwarrior) and Robocop (ED 209). Many of his early designs dating back to the 70's maybe earlier not sure. He was a major influence in the creation of the mech genre. This book does have an interview with the artist but nearly everything in this book is Japanese text so if you don't read Japanese you probably won't get much out of it besides the designs. Most of the drawings pencil sketches but there are a some colored concepts included. I doubt you will be able to find a copy of this book at any book store probably try a comic book store to see if you like it. You can buy it cheaper online.
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