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I'm glad to see someone discussing these post-modern philosophies in the context of games. Like others have mentioned, these are not unheard of concepts in the realm of academia and the arts. You seem to have that crucial curiosity that leads to learning and understanding, but little of the cultural and historical context to make it concrete, so maybe I can direct you to a few examples that might supplement some of these thoughts and might serve as a launching point for further research!
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First, I'll suggest something more accessible in podcast form: this is a lesser-known science/culture topical podcast of very brief, 20 minute episodes, but is also a comedy podcast, so you might find it fun as well. Doesn't get too deep into it, but is a very good and enjoyable point of entry!
I. http://wehaveconcerns.com/2014/08/like-this/
Discusses how Facebook's underlying algorithms recursively feed us information and points of view we want to see and agree with. Suggests the increasing machination of the human interaction with logic algorithms and how it reinforces our tribalist tendencies, like Campbell was talking about in Metal Gear.
II. http://wehaveconcerns.com/2014/12/must-seethe-tv/
Discusses the phenomenon of "Hate Watching," or consuming a show, movie, or other media for the express purposes of hating on it. Points to that same moral tribalism from earlier, and our tendency to use media to reinforce in-groups and out-groups.
III. http://wehaveconcerns.com/2015/01/creeping-self-doubt/
Discusses the paradoxical concept of 'self' and our relation to the physical universe as it relates to the brain and body. Describes a Post-Cartesian self; Descartes said "I think, therefore I am," but a post-modern definition of self suggests a more distributed organism rather than a neuro-centric one.
EDIT: This being a gaming sub, the podcast hosts have worked in the gaming industry and might be familiar: Anthony Carboni, formerly of Rev3games, and Jeff Cannata, formerly of The TotallyRadShow and currently of DLC podcast.
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Next up is a bit more of a read, but you should find it interesting. (Two excellent reads!)
I. http://www.academia.edu/3868290/What_Can_a_Body_Do_Stelarc_and_the_Body_s_Potentiality
Stelarc, Australian artist, whose work discusses the Post-Cartesian self & the prosthetic identity of the human. Notable exhibitions include The Prosthetic Head and The Ping Body.
Borrowing from the work of Marshall McLuhan, (who coined the phrase "The medium is the message," you can read more about his ideas here and here,) he conceptualizes the body as a permeable boundary, and thus sees media as an extension of the human central nervous system. Campbell was suggesting similar concepts in Metal Gear, as the branches of the collective media are informed by central human tendencies. Speaking of games and McLuhan, Jonathan Blow, creator of Braid and The Witness, gives an interesting talk on the gaming medium, entitled "The Medium is the Message." Only tangentially related, but very much worth the watch!
II. http://stelarc.org/documents/ZurgruggARTICLE-Stelarc_Virilio.pdf
Discusses how media-technology has made a much broader spectrum of geography and time instantly accessible to the modern man, making the concept of 'now' completely bastard, where nothing dies and, perhaps, nothing lives.
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Finally, I'll direct you to my favorite writer, post-modern fictionalist and grand-daddy of cyberpunk, William Gibson.
I. http://lib.ru/GIBSON/frag_rose.txt
Gibson's first published story, the very brief Fragments of a Hologram Rose, (1977.) Again, the post-modern concept of self, of relationships with others, the world, and technology.
And if you liked it, of course move onto his Sprawl Trilogy, which further portrays these concepts in the context of cyberpunk. Can't go wrong with his seminal Neuromancer, (1984,) the first entry into Sprawl, which inspired pretty much the entire shape of our increasingly decentralized world, the internet, and cyber-culture e.g. The Matrix (1999.)
The works of Italian writer Umberto Eco and Argentine writer Jorges Luis Borges might also intrigue you, (but they are admittedly dense, at least it was for me!)
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On a relatively minor note, because it's a gaming subreddit, I'd like to throw in Bioshock, (2007,) which did some wonderful stuff with narrative that is slightly relevant. [Bioshock, 2007 SPOILERS](#s "Fontaine, disguised as the voice of Atlas, guided you through the story in, quite literally, the most video-gamey way possible: invisible-narrator-guy says "Kindly do this, pick this up, go here, shoot this guy." When it's revealed that you were being manipulated the whole time, the sense of player agency; the most unique aspect of the video game medium, is revealed to have been a farce. Bioshock, in a really awesome twist, uses the video game medium to discuss the illusory nature of individual agency in a compelling fashion. It really speaks to the relationship we have with media, and how it can pose very interesting questions about the nature of self. As McLuhan said, the medium is the message.")
Another quick note, but can we all take a second to appreciate how awesome Kojima is? I know that Kojima love is in-vogue as of late, particularly because of his falling out with Konami, but as evidenced by your post, there is a lot more going on in his work than most people realize. Even his new Death Stranding trailer is filled with batshit ontological symbolism!
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Well, I hope my mini-crash-course at least piqued your interest in the slightest. It's not by any means comprehensive, but I hope you might glean something from it. And let's not understate the fact that we're interacting through the internet right now, and the very themes we are discussing that these great artists and thinkers have espoused are manifesting, literally, as we speak. Again, the medium is the message. If you (or anyone) end up checking any of it out, feel free to let me know what you thought! If not, it's cool!
EDIT: Almost forgot! Check out Spike Jonze's, Her. One of my all time favorite films. (Watch online, Amazon) Again, portrays the increasingly post-modern relationship we have with technology, society, and other people in an absolutely beautiful, affecting way. Highlights inevitability of growth and the subsequent fundamental needs and incompatibilities inherent in any relationship.
Bullet journaling is very therapeutic and requires very few items. (Bullet journal, stencils, pens/colors, and stickers) all can be bought on amazon for under $20 or can get most of the supplies at dollar tree. Amazon has many great bullet journals for under $6. It helps you get your thoughts together and can feel empowering as it gets you more in tune with your thoughts and habits. my bullet journal but if you search bullet journals they have them with so many different pretty covers. This is also the size of a regular notebook as I like to make my things big.
journal stickers these stickers are my favorite as they are empowering and cheap. But I also buy stickers from dollar tree and michaels (michaels has washi tape for .33 each and sales on the tape and stickers all the time)
Cross stitch or crochet is another great craft to learn that doesn’t cost a lot or need a ton of supplies.
Diamond painting kits look like fun and get great reviews.
Scrapbooking can be a lot of fun and remind you of happy times but is more costly and uses more materials than the others.
Adult coloring books are my favorite art stress reliever; you can get a cute book for under $7 and then whatever coloring medium you prefer (I love crayons) my favorite coloring book
2nd favorite coloring book
I hope these ideas help and ask any questions you may have. 💕💕💕
There are a couple of things worth mentioning with your approach. By tracing someone else's artwork, and then trying to replicate it from memory, you're accomplishing mainly two things: 1. how to draw like the person your tracing and 2. your committing that particular drawing to memory.
This will make it really difficult for you to progress by using your own developed skill as opposed to using the memory of someone else's lines.
I'm going to assume that your ultimate goal is to draw your own characters from your own imagination.
Learning to draw figures from imagination requires a fundamental understanding of basic forms. You will find it very difficult to get this understanding if you are only tracing or copying. I'm not saying that there is no value in tracing and copying, in fact, it's a great way to learn; but don't use it as your only tool!
I'm a web developer, and I'm making a transition into illustration and concept art. This is the path that I took, and it's really helped me along, so maybe it will help you.
1. Sketch.
Do it every day, buy two sketch books. Get a large one (~9x12) that you can keep around the house and doodle and sketch whenever you can. Keep a small one (I recommend a Moleskine Sketchbook a small one so you can carry it in your pocket everywher you go.).
Sketch people with your moleskine wherever you are: coffee shops, on the subway, at the airport, etc. Use a pen, not a pencil. I recommend these Pigma Microns, 02 or 03 size is ideal.
Remember, these aren't finished drawings, so don't fuss over them. Each sketch should take you anywhere between 1 - 3 minutes. If your subject is staying still, spend as long as you like, then move on. Fill every page with many small sketches at frist. Sketch small! You'll find it's easier to capture your subject within 30 seconds if you're sketching fairly small. Here's what a typical page might look like - not mine, btw..
Shoot for about 20 sketches per week. This may sound like a lot, but it's actually nothing. If you get the hang of it, you'll be doing closer to 50 if not more. You'll likely think your first sketchbook sucks! This is part of the process. Don't tear out pages, when you fill the book, stow it away for posterity, and get a new one. You'll look back over your sketchbooks and see how you've actually progressed. Date each book.
2. Do some kind of formal or semi-formal figure drawing study.
Get good books!
This doesn't have to be hardcore. If you're a self-learner, there are a lot of great videos to draw. There are some great books: Glen Vilppu's Drawing Manual, Andrew Loomis Books(http://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Figures-Action-Andrew-Loomis/dp/1560100095/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266293971&sr=1-1) and Bridgeman Lifedrawing books(http://www.amazon.com/Bridgmans-Life-Drawing-George-Bridgman/dp/0486227103). I've spent many hours with each of these, so I'm recommending them based on personal experience.
Here's how you use these books. For Bridgeman, you may or may not be interested in actually reading it, it can be fairly technical and/or dense if you're just starting out (but do go back and read it later). My advice is to use your big sketchbook, and go through the entire Bridgeman book(s) sketching his sketches (not tracing) in your own sketchbook. His sketches are presented in a way that shows how you build a figure up from basic shapes and forms, so following them will give force your mind to think about how the shapes are formed and you'll implicitly learn the correct way to build the human figure. Look at each of his sketches closely before you copy them so that you're just not copying lines without thought. Talk to yourself when you're sketching, say things like "This basic form is the chest, it's slightly twisted, which causes a pinch on the one side and a stretch on the opposite..." This is how you'll learn to understand forms that you wouldn't necessarily get from just tracing.
Glen Vilppu's book is a definite read. Your routine should be read a chapter, study his illustrations, and draw it yourself until you completely get it. If you have funds, you can buy the Drawing Manual as a DVD, in which Glen himself actually draws and lectures. He's absolutely terrific. (These are pricey though, but well worth the money.) You may or may not find these in other ways, I'll say no more, but as a redditor, I'm sure you're amply resourceful! (Take the same approach for Loomis.)
This alone should take months! Don't rush yourself! Don't give up! Don't just rush to the end of the book for the sake of completing in, take as long as you need to on each section. The key is to build that fundamental understanding that will enable you to draw from imagination.
3. Go to an Open drawing session
Usually at local colleges or art centres, you can usually find some sort of open figure drawing session. These are typically self-directed, there is no instructor, you pay a small fee, show up with your materials and draw from a live nude model.
There really is no better way to learn than to draw directly from life. You'll see things that you'll never see if you draw from photographs or from other people's artwork. You really do get a whole new perspective. Again, as you draw, it may help to narrate to yourself what it is you're doing, and to understand why the forms are as they are. These types of classes start off with a few quick gesture drawings that take from 1-3 minutes. Then the model will settle down to longer poses, 10 or 20 minutes or longer.
4. Take a life drawing class
If your local college or art school offers night classes, take them. Having a good instructor will help propel you and give you someone to talk to. Night class courses are often taught by people in the industry, so you can really pick their brains. These types of courses last about 12 weeks, one class per week.
5. Draw every day
Wake up early if you have to. Spend 1 or 2 hrs every day somewhere drawing something, either studying from the books, or drawing from your imagination, or copying from your favourite artist. Just do it! This is now part of your lifestyle.
Get a Wacom tablet if you want to sit at your computer and draw. You can use Painter or Photoshop. Personally, I prefer Photoshop, and Painter Sketch Pad (as opposed to the full Painter app).
Within weeks, you'll be able to see a huge jump in your skill and ability from when you started, and you may start seeing your own style emerge. Within a year you'll be able to draw convincingly from imagination, and once you can do that, it's pretty much limitless.
Good luck.
RIFTS doesn't have a bestiary book per se, but you might find inspiration in their conversion books. or in the Phase World setting books, all of which are packed with aliens. Likewise, Aliens Unlimited for Heroes Unlimited may also have some good inspiration (and to be honest it shouldn't be that hard to convert from Palladium to D20 or OSR).
Uncle Ernie's Minions of Doom (no, really that's what it's called) for Battlelords of the 23rd century. Most of these monsters are stupendously deadly even in the already Brutally deadly Battlelords setting. http://index.rpg.net/display-entry.phtml?mainid=3073
Paizo just published their Iron Gods adventure path which is science fantasy, they've statted up robots and androids and other sci fi monstrosities in the Inner sea bestiary, and in the AP itself and some of the books they published last year to support it. Some if not all of that should be statted up on the http://www.d20pfsrd.com site and being d20 should be easy to convert to SWN.
The other suggestions here are good, especially the Numenera bestiary and alien anthology. You might consider Barlowe's guide to extra-terrestrials which is a non-gaming book but is really good, I'm gonna put it to use for Numenera myself:
http://www.amazon.com/Barlowes-Guide-Extraterrestrials-Science-Literature/dp/0894803247
Guardians of order did a bunch of scifi d20 stuff back in the day, not sure if they had a bestiary but if you just want cool robots, you can't go wrong with d20 mecha. http://www.together.net/~tjoneslo/MechaD20%20SRD.pdf
Fantasy flight back before they published licensed games had their own d20 d&d in space setting: Dragonstar. https://fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/dragonstar/
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Zak Smith is a pretty great artist! I fell in love with his "Gravity's Rainbow Illustrated" aka "Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow" and proudly own a first edition print run from before the title was changed. It actually came with a sticker replacing the original title with the new one.
This book is relevant to my interests in a pretty huge way. I think I'm ordering a copy today. Thanks for sharing.
Oh sorry. My bad. Muller-Brockmann is a legend. I haven't read his book. Is it any good?
I suggested Alan Fletcher's "The Art of Looking Sideways". It's good for replenishing the creative juices. Also, "False Flat" by Aaron Betsky is awesome. And you can't go wrong with Phillip "Meggs' History of Graphic Design". Far too many people don't have that book.
EDIT: I haven't read Muller-Brockmann's book but I imagine it's a great take on the modernist/rationalist grid. Though, times are a-changin' my friend. If you look at the top design programs out there, say Yale MFA Graphic Design, Werkplaats or KABK for example, things aren't exactly the way they used to be. The only name we have for what's happening right now is Contemporary Graphic Design. I love it. It's an amazing time to be practicing Graphic Design. Though most web design doesn't even come close to interesting, unfortunately.
The Bringhurst Bible
James Victore's book is amazing. It's a quick read but is packed with inspiration.
Envisioning Information is great for info design.
Megg's History of Graphic Design
The rest of these I haven't read yet, but here is a list of things I currently have on my amazon wish list:
Some People Can't Surf by Art Chantry
Saul Bass: A Life in Film and Design by Jennifer Bass
Seventy-Nine Short Essays on Design by Michael Bierut
Damn Good Advice by George Lois
How To Be A Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul by Adrian Shaughnessy
How To Think Like A Great Graphic Designer by Debbie Millman
The Design of Dissent by Milton Glaser and Mirko Ilic
Iron Fists: Branding the 20th Century Totalitarian State by Steven Heller
Wow thanks for the answer. I'm amazed that I could get such advice from a simple post.
The stick approach is something I discovered looking at Matisse
I was always losing myself in details and never focusing on the whole. This helped immensely in my process. I also noticed a lot of people tackle this process with a projector and rendering it bit by bit. But I didn't feel this would learn me that much. I treated the enormous paper as a sketchbook page that needs enlarged tools to do so. Now it's very rewarding experience that I can draw portraits from people posing for me.
Interesting you write about adding and subtracting mass. I recently graduated in architecture but to learn to draw portrait I had to turn off all that spatial/constructional/sculptural thinking from model making to really see values, contours and negative space. I hope by adding it back in it will help me in future projects.
Hair is something where I have a real issue with. I always start off trying do it very detailed to then realise it sucks, erase it and go roughly about it with some tones. A lot of books and teachers say that the haircut is an extension of the face but it doesn't seem to stick with me. Maybe seeing it as shapes will help me.
The background I'm also not sold one entirely. I wanted something else but eventually defaulted to the strategy of adding a dark tone next to a light (hair).
Thanks for again for the advice. It always helps to get some kind words to keep going. For practising proportions I was interested in the Bargue excercises. But I don't know if it is really helpful to copy away for 200 pages.
These were the only two books featuring boys he had:
>Boys Will Be Boys included pictures of boys, many naked, in various non-sexual activities such as climbing a tree or sitting on a bench. The book had an inscription reading, "To Michael: From your fan. Love XXXOOO Rhonda – 1983, Chicago."[57] Another book, The Boy: A Photographic Essay was inscribed, "Look at the true spirit of happiness and joy in these boys' faces. This is the spirit of boyhood, a life I never had and will always dream of. This is the life I want for my children. MJ." The book contained pictures of boys in various situations by different photographers, including pictures taken during the filming of the 1963 Lord of the Flies movie and showed the boys on the set, usually clothed but sometimes nude, playing in the sand, reading comic books, and having pillow fights.[58][59] The only book depicting male sex acts was a rare out-of-print book called A Sexual Study of Man which featured many images of adult men engaged in all kinds of homosexual intercourse which the prosecution admitted they could not tell if Jackson had opened.[57]
Others are books like this:
http://www.amazon.com/Room-Play-Simen-Johan/dp/1931885095/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t
http://vindicatemj.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/porn-found-in-michael-jacksons-home-2/
In a library like this:
http://rhythmofthetide.com/category/favorite-things/books-favorite-things-2
With hetero porn like this:
http://lacienegasmiled.wordpress.com/category/2005-court-case/porn/
Photo of Spence was reportedly of him as a baby/toddler.
And Liberace's lover can barely keep a story straight for a week.
http://youtoobrutus.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/scott-thorson-and-michael-jackson-gay-liberace/
He even tried to accuse MJ of sexually abusing him at one point... even though he is older than MJ. Oh yeah and now he was with MJ as he toured with Thriller across Europe, with that famous European Thriller tour MJ... didn't have.
You could take up drawing, it's extremely cheap and is a very good way to spend time by yourself. I find drawing to be meditative and rewarding, you have the satisfaction of making something yourself as well as learning to see the world differently.
All you need are a set of pencils, a decent sketchbook, a kneaded eraser, and some decent instruction. I'd recommend learning first from Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and then moving on to figure drawing. Try Dynamic Figure Drawing or Bridgman's Life Drawing. You can also look up the work of Andrew Loomis for more instruction, which are available as free PDFs.
Later you can experiment using vine charcoal (which can be erased easily) to get the hang of a different instrument than a pencil. Try laying charcoal on its side and making big strokes. This is the first step towards painting. You could even try painting with black and white acrylic only which really isn't much different in terms of skills or cost. If you can get good at drawing I promise you can get good at painting. It just takes a bit of dedication.
A funny hat is always great gift.
If she loves cooking and baking, believe me when I say kitchen goodies are always welcome. A fun new tool to use in the kitchen might just have her is awe and delight. Zoom garlic mincer or one of my favorite companies Fred & Friends, useful but funny kitchen gear.
If these were in distribution already I would say get one of these.
For dog people, one of the funniest books I've seen in a while is Underwater Dogs. Could not stop laughing for the longest time looking at these.
Another simple and sweet gift.
Just a couple possibilities.
Pure worldbuilding and minimal narrative describes pretty well Expedition and Barlowe's Inferno by Wayne Douglas Barlowe.
Granted, these are books where the framing story (a person exploring the setting in question) is there to provide context for Barlowe's paintings, but you can do pretty much the same thing with words as he does with illustrations- take an explorer, an archaeologist, a historian, or some other sort of researcher, and follow them as they acquire knowledge about the setting. The story will thus focus on their discoveries, rendering exposition and story one and the same.
The SCP Foundation's various exploration logs are the best examples of this that I can name at present, as the characters involved in the framing story are generally anonymous redshirts whose only significance is the strange phenomena they encounter. As far as novels go, I also see the general formula in Jeff Fahy's Fragment.
Another example of an approach that works is the SCP-Foundation. There are traditional narratives on the site, but the main attraction for most of the Foundation's existence has been the collection of fictional documents describing various paranormal phenomena.
A fictional document or fictional documentary strikes me as a perfect method of doing what you seek. You can have an in-universe history book, an in-universe encyclopedia, some other sort of reference work like the Zombie Survival Guide, etc. You could call some of these "stories" by some definition of the word, I guess, but the bottom line is the format and content are quite different from what you typically see in things described as stories.
awesome! and yes very impressed - I love the Phaidon series of pretty much anything and will (sometimes reluctantly) spend the outlandish prices for them - even things like Fruits are fun to put out for when guests are over
Which artists would you say you like most? Would you ever like to create artwork in a similar fashion?
I think you dodged a bullet by not getting into the design college. I know plenty of recent graduates who found it to be a waste of time and money, not to mention not finding any decent work.
If you can afford it, I would highly suggest buying the Drawing Course by Charles Bargue and Jean-Léon Gérôme. It will give you great advances in drawing skills that you can apply to any sort of drawing. You could easily draw one plate once per day, or even week.
At the very least, you could devote 15 minutes per day, just sketching whatever catches your fancy. You got a new puppy, sketch him! Also, don't feel like you have to share your sketchbook with anyone. I found that by being very particular about who I show my sketches to, I can be more free to make necessary mistakes without worrying about scrutiny. Critiques are definitely overrated, especially if you can see what mistakes you've made. I know if what I drew was crappy, I don't need others to tell me.
Remember that you will have days where you draw really well and days where you draw like complete crap. You did a drawing, that's all that matters. The more practice you get, the better you'll be. Even artists who've been selling art for decades still need to practice often to keep their skills sharp.
A side note: Artwork that has agriculture and livestock as the subject tend to sell really well in certain markets. So if that's something that interests you, it may prove lucrative!
Oh, I forgot! If you're interested in drawing people, get a copy of Bridgeman's Guide to Drawing from Life, and any other Bridgeman books you can get your hands on. He draws in a way that's very exaggerated and bizarre looking, but it's to emphasize subtleties that you wouldn't otherwise know to look for. Don't be fooled, he's a master at depicting the human figure in all its subtle glory. Definitely grab a copy; it's one of the few books it's worth dropping some money on as a beginner. Check around on ebay etc. or see if you can find a PDF somewhere (I think it's in the public domain). If you really want to hit your life drawing skills hard, pick up The Charles Bargue Drawing Course. It's co-authored by Gerome, and is the method that Van Gogh used to teach himself art. It's not much fun, though, and a bit difficult to do without direction, so you may want to take a year or two and see how serious you want to get about things.
EDIT: Also, be very selective with what you read and look at. There's a LOT of shitty art out there, and just because it's published doesn't mean it's good. Teach yourself to look for good art, and art that you want to emulate. Something like this may look good on its own, but it's not very proficient, which becomes noticeable when you compare it to this piece by my instructor. Don't be fooled, the fact that you're a beginner doesn't mean you shouldn't be selective about who you take advice from. Obviously hardcore expressive realism may not be your game, but find what you like, and then figure out what is the best stuff in that area and look at it as much as you can.
On typography:
On grids:
On colour:
On usability:
On information design:
On inspiration:
On theory:
On history:
Monographs:
The Art of Looking Sideways is not strictly a design book, but is great for inspiration on dry days and full of interesting stories and ideas to help you start thinking laterally.
YOU ARE THINKING TOO MUCH STOP IT!!!!!!!1111!
Think of a drawing as a sister to writing. The more vocabulary you have the more you can say, but that doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't say what ever you want to say with the limited words you have.
The only way to get better at drawing is to draw. You do graphic design so you inherently know this on some level. Anatomy helps. drawing from life is extremely helpful and I always encourage anyone to do it, even if the only way you can is to grab a coffee at a cafe and draw folks walking by.
But... just draw, don't worry about all the technical parts, you will figure it out when the questions come up for whatever drawing you're working on. You have a shit ton of resources I didn't have when I was starting (aka the internets), so... don't worry, just do. If you run into a problem you can't answer, look the shit up. Google images has all the reference you could literally ever want, and if you want to draw from life contact your local art orgs and they should be able to direct you. If they can't. put out a craigslist ad and start your own figure drawing group. I have done it, it's easy! Sometimes when we want something we have to fill the gap, often the folks who wanted the same thing will jump right in with you. Shit just needs a person to have courage to make it start is all.
Don't listen to doubt, doubt is just your insecurity. The only way to learn art is by doing. By doing we make some horrible shit... but that's ok. Artists have to make a lot of terrible things in order to make a good thing, because this is how we learn... by doing. So don't worry. Just do it. Make stuff. Learn anatomy, this dude I like a lot but it's worth it to go more in depth, and just know that art is a journey not a destination. Keep walking the path, you'll get there.
I own this book somewhere - it's quite an interesting 'read' but it is more on the 'arty/abstract' side of creative thought. I've recommended it to designers before - for editors it's... different.
Anyway if you like this type of book I can recommend "The art of looking sideways" - note it is as big as 'How Good' is small; but it's very thought provoking...
Your friend might enjoy some adult coloring books, or even regular ones. I have this one and I enjoy the irreverent sayings and such. https://www.amazon.com/Calm-Down-Irreverent-Adult-Coloring/dp/1522864741/ref=mp_s_a_1_7?keywords=adult+coloring+book&qid=1574317650&sr=8-7
Food, I'd say they'd appreciate whatever you bring. Something that's quick to eat or drink and gives them energy. Would a case of soylent be weird? I'd imagine they'd love them.
In the meantime, draw everything. Everything. EVERYTHING.
Keep a sketch book with you always! Draw people waiting for the bus, cars parked outside, city blocks, landscapes, trees, ideas, concepts, doodles, nonsense.
Take pictures of things and use them for reference. Constantly! Can't figure out how an arm looks like in a certain pose, get someone to pose the same way and take a shot with your phone. Its not "cheating" and most artists worth their salt will stare at you like you're insane if you told them to do a large scale project with no live or photo references.
Go to figure drawing meetups. There's usually some at art schools or in any big city. You will be terrible at first but drawing people is a good way to train your eye.
Copy your favorite artist. Not just draw from, but try to copy a whole piece of art, from start to finish, line for line, as closely as possible. Do this a lot! It will help you understand why they put this thing there, and put that thing here, and drew that thing like this.
Its the same reason musicians practice other people's work before they start composing their own!
Figure out who their influence are, and do the same thing with them.
If you're looking for books to get you started, here are some good ones.
General 'snapshot' street photography is a matter of chance, with a small amount of composition. Very little work and thought goes into the output. What's notable about HCB is that he frequently framed a shot based on artistic composition; and waited for something to happen. Other times he had time to compose a shot he took the time to find the geometry. Even when just out snapping, he looked for scenes where geometry was striking. If you're curious about the way he does this, he talks about it in an old movie.
Asking someone else how to make your work stand out is inherently uncreative, for the record.
One of the most important things I ever learned about photography was that buying gear isn't really useful. Having a working camera and some working lenses is necessary; but if you have something 'semi-professional' or above, there's little to no advantage in upgrading. You have an M8 (or possibly an M6 by now?) and a lens. As long as both are in functional condition; that's all you need in terms of equipment.
Instead, buy books. Here's some suggestions that you might want to consider:
You can also look at libraries for these, and keep an eye on thrift stores and used bookshops. I think you're in London, right? There's a huge gallery on Oxford street, and in Mayfair there's a Leica store where exhibitions are held a few times a year.
The key point is to look at photos; individual photos, contact sheets and whole curated books and exhibitions. Think about how the artists made something like documentary and snapshot photography into an art. Look for ideas you can use, and look for things that haven't been done that you could use to be unique. Look at studio photography. Look at erotic photography. Look at cinema and still life and landscapes and architecture and paintings and drawings and every other image created with artistic intent, that represents a moment of reality. And go from there.
Oh man. We have a small collection of these that I am always looking to expand (although my four large billy bookcases groan every time I think about it).
I think my current favourite is my Chris Foss art book. I'm a huge fan of retro sci-fi artwork, and would love to add some art books of Moëbius or Giger or Syd Mead to my stack.
Seconding what others have said - find a movie or videogame that you love the look of. Chances are they've put out an art book just for people like us who love this shit. Some of the books in my collection include books showcasing visuals from Destiny, Mass Effect, Diablo III, How To Train Your Dragon, Brutal Legend, Myst, Doctor Who... and some others I can't remember and am too lazy to get up and look at.
Here's a little list of best-sellers on Amazon and a few from this thread:
Not exactly what you were asking for, but she might enjoy Simon Stålenhag's Tales From the Loop and Things From the Flood as well. They are gorgeous, artsy coffee table books that spin an 80-s sci-fi story about growing up amongst futuristic government-run energy installations, and the weird things that tend to happen around them.
https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Loop-Simon-St%C3%A5lenhag/dp/1624650392
Does she ever make sushi at home? Something like this cute [sushi mold](https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/471023143/panda-rice-press-sushi-rice-mold-panda https://www.etsy.com) could be fun! Or a sushi-making class you could go on together?
This [watermelon trinket dish](https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/266317324/angie-dish-watermelon-porcelain-little https://www.etsy.com) is cute and useful.
Fruits is a book of Japanese street style photography, very fun to look at.
You're looking for a coffee table type book?
There's cute and goofy ones like this one.
Or more general info about care, training and activities with a huge dog breed section with photos like this one.
Or a story about real life with a dog like this one.
I guess I'm not 100% clear on what exactly you want.
I've been trying to strengthen my anatomy and proportions over the last 6 months or so and the only advice I can give to this is draw draw draw. Don't worry about it looking wonky but if it does, find out why and see what you can do to improve it.
There seems to be a point when a light bulb just goes off and all of a sudden you understand how to get consistent results of how you want things to look and translating it to the paper/screen.
Check out these, I've found them pretty useful:
http://www.amazon.com/Bridgmans-Drawing-Dover-Anatomy-Artists/dp/0486227103
http://www.amazon.com/Constructive-Anatomy-Dover-Artists/dp/0486211045/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1418314804&sr=1-1&keywords=Constructive+Anatomy
If anyone's interested in this stuff, they should check out the Fruits books! [One] and [Two].Although they are probably a little out dated now, they are beautiful books by themselves, and there are loads of other japanese fashion photobooks as well.
The thing I like about these books is that they also have little bio's of the people who have been photographed, like their name and age, where they bought the clothes from and what their interests are.
If you have a candy store close to you you can get him a few bags of all purple candy (party city is great for this), throw in some socks, an adult coloring book maybe like this ^^nsfw, a mug, hot chocolate mix (?), and you can do a shirt too, or some combo of things like this? Seems fairly safe, but still thoughtful.
My favorite color is teal/turquoise
I love atmosphere, so I'm all about:
Would love any recommendations for similarly moody work?
I don't own the following, but would like:
When I was in high school, oh, so many years ago, we played a game that we called Star Discoveries. It was a generic D20 sci-fi game, with each player playing a different alien species.
Our character generation bible was Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials. Each player picked an alien from the book, and their player class was based on the traits described about that race, ie. big tough furry beast with claws made for a good fighter, little spindly insectoid alien with a big brain made a scientist, etc.. Was quite fun, and Barlowe's illustrations are based on scifi literature so it's a good springboard into excellent reading.
It's in the first few pages of his book, 'Wall and Piece'. You can see part of the paragraph in the preview.
As well as 'Banksy's Bristol: Home Sweet Home' by Steve Wright.
Here in Gaza for example you can see the children are clearly stenciled, a hand painted white base with a black stencil over the top While the edges of the 'cracks' have running paint as if it was done too close by hand.
Wow that's a great one mate! A fine specimen indeed. If you need help identifying the breeds of shopping carts you find in the wild, I suggest this book -- https://www.amazon.com/Stray-Shopping-Carts-Eastern-America/dp/0810955202
Powerful imagery here. Much like his entire gallery!
Then again he has those few sprays that are lighthearted in nature.
Check this book out, Wall and Piece, for his legacy works! I have read it myself can review it with 5 stars eaasy. It sheds beautiful light on the underground art of graffiti.
For an absolute beginner shooting digital, Ken Kobre's Photojournalism and Bruce Barnbaum's The Art of Photography would be my pick, if only because those were the books I learned from in j-school.
For an intermediate film photographer who needs inspiration or thoughtful meditations on the medium more than they need inspiration, I am always going back to Vivian Maier: Street Photographer, Annie Leibovitz's A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005, and the exhibition book from Francesca Woodman's exhibit at SFMOMA/the Guggenheim. But I have an abiding interest in female photographers, self-portraiture, and the female gaze, so YMMV there.
It should be said that the artist is a Swedish painter named Simon Stalenhag. He's constantly releasing new work like the one you see here.
I would highly recommend checking him out
http://www.simonstalenhag.se/
EDIT:
I see a lot of you are really liking Simons work, so I figured I should also mention that he has published two hardcover books containing larger prints of his work along with backstory for most of his art.
Tales from the Loop and another that just came out 11 days ago (November 1st, 2016) called Things from the Flood.
Both books are fairly cheap and would make great Christmas gifts in my opinion
lol dude it’s just clothes, it’s not that serious. Your biggest problem is you’re trying to make someone else’s style your own and trying to have your style say something about you as a person, which it can never do. Plus it’s not like your personal style needs to fit in a neat little box of “streetwear”, “minimimalisr” etc every day. Have a little fun with it my dude. I recommend instead of buying clothes you buy this book https://www.amazon.com/Fruits-Shoichi-Aoki/dp/0714840831 flip through and have a smile.
Definitely! Visual Culture/Media Studies are my jam. There's a thousand vis culture books out there. However, the reader by Mirzoeffand by Jessica Evans are totally essential.
As far as Media Studies goes, there's a lot of directions you could start. In the US, there's a lot of schools that focus on the social science aspect of it, but my approach is far more philosophical. So, I'd suggest McLuhan, Walter Ong for some of the classical background stuff. Then, read Lori Emerson and Jussi Parikka for more contemporary theory. Again, these are just some nice places to start!
Oh! Also /r/mediastudies, continentcontinent.cc, http://www.ctrl-z.net.au/, Flusser Studies, and Fiberculture are all good online resources and journals.
I hope that she gets to do exactly that. Better if im still alive to see it.
Has she ever seen Alien Planet?
There is also a book that inspired the movie. It was considerably cheaper when I bought it.
This story is heavily inspired by the artwork and stories of Simon Stålenhag's Tales From The Loop. He's an amazing artist with amazing books that go along with his work, and it's even being made into a tabletop RPG. Check him out!
"if the stars were gods" by benford and eklund has some imaginative alien life, and at least starts to get at the xenobiological challenge of the anthropic bias - truly alien life could well be so strange and fundamentally different that we won't recognize them as being alive at all, let alone understand anything about their culture. spherical jovian gas whales? you bet. maybe it's because writing stories about humans not noticing that space rocks are actually alive is hard, but i haven't seen this explored that much in scifi.
wayne barlowe does some good work on astrobiological speculation grounded in science: http://www.amazon.com/Expedition-Account-Artwork-Voyage-Darwin/dp/0894806297/ref=pd_sim_b_4
sorry if this is kind of off topic, as you were asking about culture rather than biology. but to me, biology must come before culture, as it's an evolutionary precursor that cannot be circumvented. and if the xenobiological groundwork has been done well, you can well extrapolate that into culture.
I agree with you entirely.
I enjoyed V and really enjoyed The Crying of Lot 49 but Gravity's Rainbow was strained to the seams with trying and I respect it absolutely as a work of fiction (and it spawned a series of artwork that I love quite a bit, Zak Smith illustrates Gravity's Rainbow), but I just couldn't appreciate the story itself.
It was so far removed from anything that was, to me, accessible, and even far from what I felt was within the realm of accessibility and it almost felt like Pynchon was doing so to prove that he could. The characters were so far off the chart and the events so drug-addled that I couldn't even enjoy it for the ride, much less make any sense of the whole thing.
This may all, of course, be exactly the point of the book, but I think it loses a lot of its oomph if it's too over the top in its execution so that it doesn't correspond with somebody who's probably precisely predisposed to be reached.
The book just seemed to be such a long string of rather pointless, mostly disjoint vignettes about just, plain, absolute, absurdity, and not in a way that meant anything to me, which is very tragic. I respect it immensely, because I think it probably takes a certain amount of talent to miss as wildly with me as this book did, but it was just a slog from the first paragraph and I thought so much of the good stuff (characterization, a solid message, etc.) was all dispensed with in the name of just pure madcap.
Pynchon's been, sort of weirdly, nominated several times for awful writing (tongue-in-cheek, mostly, predictably, for sex scenes), and I think he's a quintessential author who can just soil his writing by overwriting through it, by making things too explicit and over-wrought and I think that this book has several scenes that, while many may appreciate them, venture into this territory.
I think that, had Pynchon reined his narrative in a little bit like classic DeLillo or some of Pynchon's own other works, this would have been a top-tier work. Something inventive and nailing exactly the zeitgeist of a time when a world-consuming war was eminently relatable, but just the sheer arbitrariness (and arbitrary tawdriness of a lot of the book) made it into something that I just couldn't connect with.
You like that, you're gonna love this: the book it was based on. Awesome stuff from Wayne Barlowe.
Puppies underwater is a great book
https://www.amazon.com/Underwater-Dogs-Seth-Casteel/dp/0316227706/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1543533185&sr=8-2&keywords=puppies+underwater
Pandemic is an amazing adult board game that they might like
https://www.amazon.com/Z-Man-Games-ZM7101-Pandemic/dp/B00A2HD40E/ref=sr_1_1?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1543533222&sr=1-1&keywords=pandemic
Or also getting their dogs face as a magnet on for their fridge. You can get them done at Wallgreens or CVS, just bring your phone, plug it in and pick which photograph in your album and they turn it into a magnet.
I like that book but I also recommend this http://www.amazon.com/Barlowes-Guide-Extraterrestrials-Science-Literature/dp/0894803247 Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials: Great Aliens from Science Fiction Literature. This book is literally the most accurate depictions of aliens in my opinion. This will get you hype for the creatures in NMS.
A fascinating story and well worth watching. She was an immense talent. If you want to see her work in higher quality than possible for a video, this book is worth checking out
If anyone is a fan of Pen-and-Paper RPG's, Free League made a game using his art called Tales From the Loop
You can also get just the art for Tales From the Loop and the upcoming expansion for the the games Things From the Flood, which has some of my favorite pieces of his.
If you're interested in buying, Modiphius has the stuff available for purchase in your local currencies.
Yeah love his art, espeically Tales From The Loop, where many of the works are of the countryside outside of Stockholm, namely Ekerö.
His splashes of sci-fi in these settings are hauntingly beautiful.
I don't know if it's really what you're looking for, but I've been interested in getting the Codex Seraphinianus sometime. Not your typical "story" or anything but it certainly would be interesting to run through.
Okay, I know you were probably joking, but I immediately thought "Yes! I have seen the picture book about dogs!" [This] (http://www.amazon.com/Underwater-Dogs-Seth-Casteel/dp/0316227706) was the book I was thinking of and if you do indeed like dogs, it's a fun read.
I can't sleep so I've been hunting in Amazon lol.
These little softcover notebooks/sketchbooks with beautiful artwork covers are each under $2 shipped with Prime. I added them to my own creativity corner list
Unlined - Van Gogh Notebook (Decorative Notebooks) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486406105/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_tQ0RAb5M995TB
Lined - Monet Water Lilies Notebook (Decorative Notebooks) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486413608/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fU0RAbGP23N11
I don't have a specific one but my interest started as a kid when I had a fascination with old maps. You know how they would have little sea monsters sketched in the oceans? I think what I like so much is the imagery.
I've always wanted to page through the Codex Seraphinianus it's my lazy quest to find it in a dusty corner of a used book shop.
This looks like it was a study done following the methods laid out in the Charles Bargue Drawing Course.
Here's the book on amazon https://www.amazon.com/Charles-Bargue-Drawing-Gerald-Ackerman/dp/2867702038
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I'm not sure of the exact terminology, but you'd basically do a simple lay-in (like a simplified version of the body), heavily measured from your reference. Then you go in and add or remove shapes making the forms more complex.
The process would be similar to this but on a larger scale: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0319/2345/files/bargue_2_large.jpg?589
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Hope that helps.
I love the atlas. You should check out “J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator”. I just got it this week and I love it
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0618083618/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_yucRCbHV5B7KF
Aww, those are so cute! I totally want one! Hootie c:
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Thanks for the interesting contest!
Very nice.
Congrats on quite a model; I knew it looked familiar stylistically (re: the artist you referenced.)
Your might also like:
https://machinationstudio.com/
https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Loop-Simon-St%C3%A5lenhag/dp/1624650392
Check out [Bargue's Drawing Course] (http://www.amazon.com/Charles-Bargue-Jean-L%C3%A9on-G%C3%A9r%C3%B4me-Ackerman/dp/2867702038) . The original course was put together by Charles Bargue and Jean Leon Gerome in the 19th century intended for training students at french academies / decorative arts schools. The book consists of many plates of lithographs made after famous greek/roman sculpture and drawings by various masters.
It teaches the artist how to begin a drawing such as this one by blocking in simple shapes and gradually refining those shapes, eventually into light and dark. The final drawings can be quite complex.
There is zero concern with perspective in this approach, which is entirely devoted to developing the artist's ability to draw from his or her visual field. Objects are not seen as 3 dimensional, but as a collection of 2 dimensional shapes that the artist must reproduce. The course is also concerned with instilling s classical taste in the student. It is also a great prelude to drawing a physical cast.
For pure worldbuilding stuff, there's several things out there. Try the Orion's Arm fictional universe encyclopedia galactica.
It's huge. Or try reading wikis of fictional universes. The big ones are obviously Star Wars (wookiepedia) and Star Trek (memory alpha). You'll have to file the serial numbers off stuff unless it's really obscure, but could still be useful. There are less well known ones out there too, like the traveller wiki or the encyclopedia of known space.
For aliens you've got contacting aliens and barlowe's guide to extraterrestrials
If he doesn't like Wacom, I'm guessing he is one designer that loves the artcraft of something material and not digital.
Books! Hardcover offcourse.
http://www.amazon.com/Saul-Bass-Life-Film-Design/dp/1856697525
http://www.amazon.com/Stanley-Kubrick-Archives-Alison-Castle/dp/3836508893
or other special books of people he likes.
This IS a tough one but I have this pretty notebook on my Under $5 list :)
A book and a pdf of a book are two different mediums. The same way a play and a film are different and live music and a recording are different. C is fine with people scanning then uploading their work's but, like a band who only plays live, believe that the "context" in which you interact with their work is as important as the work itself.
http://www.amazon.com/Medium-Massage-Marshall-McLuhan/dp/1584230703
HELP! im being suffocated by a cat!!
[This] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B003MB6UEO/ref=aw_wl_ov_dp_1_4?colid=11K4B8UA475UO&coliid=I2CCYJSN7408ME&vs=1) or [this] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0486406105/ref=aw_wl_ov_dp_1_13?colid=11K4B8UA475UO&coliid=I3PZ4WC5RCKUEH)
Thanks for the contest!! :D
The Art of Looking Sideways
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Looking-Sideways-Alan-Fletcher/dp/0714834491
It's a special kind of awesome and inspiration you'll go back to for years
[This super adorable notebook] (http://smile.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0486406105/ref=aw_wl_ov_dp_1_1?colid=RXUSRXI7HI18&coliid=I2TR6ZXY03G0UR) is $1.29 with prime! :D
Edit: AHHH so close!
I keep hoping Mike Smith will use a book on spotting Canadian shopping carts in the wild I sent him as a prop on the show. :) Mike, if you're reading this...it would be hilarious.
I know he got it because he opened it up on Swearnet, lol...
I'm 2 episodes into Season 10...lol...hilarious.
It is believed that the artist (or author, depending on how you classify the piece) was inspired by memories of his childhood of him paging through an encyclopedia before he was able to read. This work is created to replicate that feeling of awe and wonder produced by his experience. The early editions of the book have been sold for thousands of dollars. Attached is an imgur link with additional pictures of the book with descriptions of the believed chapter subjects as well as an Amazon link to purchase the book yourself:
http://m.imgur.com/gallery/ftHne
http://www.amazon.com/Codex-Seraphinianus-Luigi-Serafini/dp/0847842134
Have you heard of Chris Foss? He is an illustrator who did paintings for innumerable pulp SF covers, mostly in the 70s and 80s. You should check out Hardware, a collection of his prints that was recently published. Fun fact: he was also the illustrator for The Joy Of Sex.
I'd like to more too.
Like this :
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--GXVXlNZP--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/zswgdysfpugdampmodv4.jpg
The Type-6 turbulence pack was a good start. Don't think it sold well though.
EDIT : Another one https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--AZmyFTlp--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/tvandzmo4wnhejndvmj7.jpg
EDIT 2 : Forgot the guys name, but stuff like the Chris Foss's designs https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1848566980/
This is also a really great book, you can download a PDF too :)
Oh, sorry for being vague. The edition pictured has a black cover, released in the early 80s in Italy and eventually the US and is a collectors item (expensive), think it was in two volumes as well. In 2006 they reprinted it, it has a small pamphlet about the author in Italian but translations can be found online. It's not hand drawn or handwritten but it's printed really well so it looks like it. THICK art paper with rugged edges is used, and the ink quality is very nice. The one I have is the 2006 edition 2010 reprint. Here's the Amazon link http://www.amazon.com/Codex-Seraphinianus-Luigi-Serafini/dp/0847842134/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1381961533&sr=8-1&keywords=codex+seraphinianus
EDIT: Sorry, just checked ,edges are not rugged, still a beautiful, weird book nonetheless. And it comes as a single volume just to clarify.
I like to coloring with swear words coloring book LOL https://www.amazon.com/Calm-Down-Irreverent-Adult-Coloring/dp/1522864741/ref=pd_aw_fbt_14_img_2/145-9784342-8218341?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=H2FFW76E5X7YJDPJ5Y3C like this one haha
I haven't picked it up yet, and I know he's got more than one, but you'd probably love his art books!
I have a book (or i would if a friend of mine ever returned it) that is full of Tolkien's artwork. It is brilliant. I think his art style is very fitting.
www.amazon.com/J-R-R-Tolkien-Illustrator-Wayne-Hammond/dp/0618083618
I love this! It reminds me of the Fruits book but sweet and country style.
Well you have a few options, if you are starting out fairly new to the bigger world of Tolkien then go for the wonderful books 'The Art of the Hobbit' and 'The Art of the Lord of the Rings' both edited and introduced by Wayne Hammond & Christina Scull. If you are not aware of them they are a very dedicate pair who have worked wonders to expand the world of Middle-earth. Followed by 'Artist and Illustrator' again from Hammond & Scull. You should find those immensely informative and maybe quite a revelation that Tolkien was a superb illustrator.
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Lord-Rings-J-R-R-Tolkien/dp/0544636341
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0547928254/ref=pd_aw_fbt_14_img_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=TCC0X4650YGR6KYX2CX4
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0618083618/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1498172899&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=artist+and+illustrator
The links are all to Amazon US but you will if you shop around on marketplace or eBay find them cheaper.
The Hobbit and Rings books are both slipcased and are superbly put together.
If anyone is curious about the drawing book at 37:35, it's called Cours de Dessin (Drawing Course) by Charles Bargue
Edit: I got that book for Christmas after putting it on my Amazon Wishlist. It's fascinating!
Here's the book http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316227706/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1407077749&sr=8-1&pi=SX200_QL40#
And a simple google search of Underwater Dogs Pitbull will bring up this image first thing. I like the brighter colors in the mural. It's amazingly well executed!
I have both his books, Tales from the Loop and Things from the Flood and they're both very nicely printed. There's a relatively short story for each as well that isn't particularly interesting, but definitely fleshes out his world a little more and connects the art all together a little bit.
Yes, he did. One of my BiLs gave me his book a few years ago, and it's in there. One of my favorite parts of the book is the back cover. The following quote is on there:
"There's no way you're going to get a quote from us to use on your book cover" - Metropolitan Police Spokesperson
ETA: Here's a link to the book, BTW. It's very good. http://www.amazon.com/Wall-Piece-Banksy/dp/1844137872
When I was a kid I used to own this book. It's not really what you're looking for with respect to taxonomy, but it's a guide to the extraterrestrials of sci-fi literature. Might give you some inspiration?
I always recommend the art of looking sideways by Alan Fletcher. It's a great book to just have laying around so you can look at it whenever you've got a couple minutes to spare.
I think Neill Blomkamp would be an awesome choice for a director. The closest thing to a movie is a book Stålenhag wrote consisting of short stories based on different art pieces.
Also, if you'd like, go here for more of his work.
I have this coffe table book. Good laugh. Underwater Dogs: http://www.amazon.com/Underwater-Dogs-Seth-Casteel/dp/0316227706
Yep, I love reading on acid, especially this book and this one here.
Amazon says the release date is October 29.
Interestingly, they are doing release-date delivery for the Codex as well as the Autechre and Boards of Canada vinyl pre-releases I put in the same order. Amazon used to only do release-date delivery for video games.
You can see the Banksy quote from the Amazon listing for the book:
http://www.amazon.com/Wall-Piece-Banksy/dp/1844137872/
I'm pretty sure an agent just called the MET, spoke to someone in their press department and then just printed whatever they said for comic effect.
Teach her to fish, don't just hand her a single meal. :)
High school is the deep end, so it's sink or swim anyway. Might as well overwhelm her with input/education/inspiration.
An Essential Reading List For Designers
Source: www.tomfaulkner.co.uk
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Architecture
Communication Design
Fashion Design
Angela ButtolphEditors of Phaidon ?Furniture Design
Game Design
Graphic Design
Information Design
Industrial Design
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That's Wayne Barlowe of Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials, right?
I've seen most of his stuff (at least, I thought I had), but none of it looks anything like Dixon's books. How on Earth did he manage to convince anyone of that?
I'd like to recommend Bridgman's Life Drawing (and others of his) as well.
Well, if I really have to, I'll pick Gravity's Rainbow, if nothing else because it took me 5 months to get through the damn thing and when I finally finished it about three weeks ago there was this void and I was seriously tempted to start all over again. (I didn't, I bought this one instead, to help with the abstinence.) I'm still thinking about it.
V, on the other hand, was the first Pynchon book I ever read. Knowing absolutely nothing about it I had no idea what to expect, and since it turned out to be very different from anything I can remember ever having read I had a wonderful time reading it.
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He has a book which is pretty good value considering it's a big heavy full-colour hardcover.
https://www.amazon.com/Hardware-Definitive-Works-Chris-Foss/dp/1848566980
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4Ivtwpmn5g
Guardians of the Galaxy istself really is a celebration of concept art as a whole. There's also Oliver Pron who designed the environments which is why they're all so lush, intricate and vast. Same goes for Doctor Strange the weird fractal buildings and everything all have his signature.
I bought his book https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Loop-Simon-St%C3%A5lenhag/dp/1624650392 and its more of a diary of growing up in the islands of Stockholm, during the swedish experiment called the ring installation is taking place, and he's explaining what's in every picture of the book and what he sees etc. Great scifi in the 70/80 , I also bought a print of http://i.imgur.com/MFzUwwB.jpg since it's from the town I'm living in
Oh wow - it's being reprinted!!
http://www.amazon.com/Codex-Seraphinianus-Luigi-Serafini/dp/0847842134/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376933495&sr=8-1&keywords=9780847842131
It was recently reprinted and is available from Amazon for $89.50: http://www.amazon.com/Codex-Seraphinianus-Luigi-Serafini/dp/0847842134/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1396505563&sr=1-1&keywords=codex+seraphinianus
It is beautiful. Not a cheap copy and big
Perhaps you'd like Pictures Showing What Happens On Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow by Zak Smith. As I understand it, it's pretty much exactly what the title says it is.
I can't answer your question because I got distracted after starting the second section (~200 pages in) and haven't gotten back to it yet.
This is a pretty good beginning book: https://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Head-Figure-Jack-Hamm/dp/0399507914
if you've very serious about this and want to do realistic renderings, I would try practicing with bargue plates for a while: https://www.amazon.com/Charles-Bargue-Jean-L%C3%A9on-G%C3%A9r%C3%B4me-Ackerman/dp/2867702038/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1467062406&sr=1-1&keywords=barque
If you need help identifying between different wild species, check out the The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification.
It's helpful AND informative.
He's released some hardcover books of his work: 'Tales from the Loop', 'Things from the Flood'
He's also working on his Third, which looks like it might be my favorite
This painting was created for Barlowe’s speculative xenobiology work Expedition. For the Amazon page, please click here:
https://www.amazon.com/Expedition-Account-Artwork-D-Voyage/dp/0894806297
That’s a 2100 series DECENT! If you’re wondering more about the wonderful world of shopping carts here’s a Helpful Guide
This picture is from the greatest book I have ever owned: Underwater Dogs.
I love the obscurity https://www.amazon.com/Stray-Shopping-Carts-Eastern-America/dp/0810955202
I went to buy this ( http://www.amazon.com/Vivian-Maier-Street-Photographer/dp/1576875776 ) on Amazon, but they are "Temporarily out of stock.". Thanks Reddit.