If, I were to write that our first book is full of women with doll like beauty and proportions, who hang around butchers' shops and that the butcher is often an Abe Lincoln doppelganger then you might think I need to lie down or you'd know that I'm writing about,
MARK RYDEN THE GAY 90s
HC 145pp Color Black + White
Huginn & Muninn
The French edition of the Rizzoli book due for release soon is a nice overview of the particular obsessions of Mark Ryden, an artist effortlessly able to combine the cute and the creepy.
Mark enjoys one of the highest profiles of the many practitioners of Pop Surrealism, his work is cluttered with symbolism and flotsam beautifully rendered and is nicely described here by the New York Times' critic, "Ryden’s pictures hint at the psychic stuff that pulsates beneath the sentimental, nostalgic and naive surface of modern kitsch."
Mark's stuff is full of references to the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the era inspiring the Steam Punk movement; in our next new arrival this epoch serves the purpose of 21st century cutting edge technology, in:
ART OF BIOSHOCK INFINITE
HC 184pp Color Black + White
Dark Horse
In gaming circles the latest installment of the Bioshock franchise is garnering plenty of the top awards and praise awash in superlatives!
So what you need to know is that in this new art book, from the publisher behind the excellent Mass Effect art book, you get plenty of development art, covering all the principal characters, setting and gadgets galore from this thrilling and enthralling caper set in the realm of Steam Punk.
We'll be sticking with Game Art for what remains of this post, but hoping across the Pacific now,
MIDORI FOO'S BOOK OF PICTURES
SC 320pp Color
Udon Entertainment
She's in demand from all the top Gaming companies in Japan for who she has provided art, Square Enix, Sega, etc., they love her colorful images of lovely ladies, the fine details of her costumes and the exquisite exoticness of her settings.
Find out just why this young miss is a rising star of Japan's artistic community with this frankly titanic tome of stunning art.
TAKEHITO HARADA ART WORKS # 1
SC 208pp Color
Udon Entertainment
Takehito Harada is the amazing designer behind the characters in these top games, Disgaea 1 - 4, Prinny 1 & 2, Makai Kingdom, and Phantom Brave.
This book might be as slim as one of his cuties but it is still filled with lots of his work in various stages of completion and he discusses his creative process, so buyers wont be disappointed!
This book might be as slim as one of his cuties but it is still filled with lots of his work in various stages of completion and he discusses his creative process, so buyers wont be disappointed!
Finally to a game the theme of which brings together the previous generation of under achievers with today's slackers, behold dudes the total awesomeness of,
THE ART OF BRUTAL LEGEND
HC 252pp Color Black + White
Udon Entertainment
Brutal Legend is a peddle to the metal, wild ride of a game which has the world's best roadie, Eddie Riggs, travel to the dimension of Metal to save it and us from Liberace.. er no wait from the diabolical Doviculus.
A fitting tribute to the screeching rock gods of yore and their head bangin' fans, this book has over 600 pieces of grungy development art for the game and a whole heap of it is by - can't help but be funny - Scott Campbell, yay!
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