Favorite artists/art books

[HarringtonAW]

You know that guy that's always marooning people on a desert island, and he only lets them take one book or one celebrity or one cd or something to that effect?

Well, let's say he's struck again, but being fond of artsy types like us, he'll let you take two art books with you and that's it.

For me, it would be Oeuvre by Drew Struzan and a big book of Alphonse Mucha's work (there are quite a few. The one by the Belvedere Museum is good).

Et vous?

[raerae]

Certainly a hard one. I'd say Brian Froud's Goblins of the Labyrinth and and Lost Angel by Kaori Yuki.

[Gar]

Hmmm...possibly Lost Girls. If I'm on a desert island I'm gonna want porn.

Pragmatic sarcasm aside, this is kind of a tough question. I'd probably take a big book of Warner Bros. stuff and an Osamu Tezuka sketchbook

[Funderbunk]

Tough one, because I usually much prefer character work, but I absolutely adore Hans Bacher's "Dream Worlds" which deals mostly with environment design.

[Gibson]

I'd have to go with Where's Waldo? and Where's Waldo Now?

[Gar]

I'd have to go with Where's Waldo? and Where's Waldo Now?

Hmmm, that gives me an idea for a community project. I'm no good at backgrounds, but if someone draws a large background with some expansive blank spaces that could be passed around for everyone to slot a couple of their characters in, after a while we'd end up with a pretty good find/identify characters Where's Waldo game where readers look for the characters from the site they found it on (and GunBaby).

Maybe someone draw a character doing something, then the next person does a character reacting to the first one, plus another character initiating another action and so on. It'd need to be passed around quite a lot to get to full Waldo complexity (and a size limit for characters would have to be agreed upon) but it could be really cool.

Off-topic, I know, but would people be interested?

[Rob]

Sounds like fun. And I'm always in favor of fun but I don't have time to organize it. Let me know if someone decides to do it and I'll try and promote it like I promote all things in my time.

Good Luck. 

[WilliamHuntJr]

With out a doubt Greg LaRocque is the man to me, he is the reason that I got into comics. The way that man drew The Flash seemed so real to me it made me want to draw comics.

[Travis Surber]

Anything by Phil Foglio and the complete Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew collection.

[Thereisnosaurus]

Without a doubt James Gurney, one of the finest chaps in america both in terms of talent and experience and just being such a damn fine bloke. He (if the name sounds familiar) is the man who wrote and drew the classic dinotopia books, though elsewhere he's mostly a landscape painter. He runs a blog over at http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/ which I think is one of the best free resources for artists online.

I also love the work of adrian smith. His work is so detailed, vibrant and evocative. He understands how to unify a diverse colour palette better than almost any artist I've seen, including many of the great masters, and while his anatomy and charicature is not the best I've ever seen, he can definitely portray energy exceptionally well. his gallery is here: http://www.adriansmith.co.uk/

[Funderbunk]

Actually, I'm not much of a gamer, but I love the art of Blizzard Entertainment's Samwise Didier. HIS GALLERY LINKED.

[HarringtonAW]

I also love the work of adrian smith.

Me, too! I think he's fantastic. I have one of his artbooks and I really enjoy his work.

-S

[plughead]

Hey everyone

I got this one book that blows me away every time I scope it:

Oxide2 Carta Numinous - Kim Hyung Tae

It continues to inspire me and shame me at the same time.

[Gar]

Holy crap, Plughead! I remember you from the old BuzzComix boards!

[plughead]

Hey Gar, holy crap! We haven't spoken in centuries!

Ha ha, the buzz forums, that's going back in time. That place was awesome back in like 2003-2005.

Dude, Neko is looking sick awesome, I'll have to get in there and get myself caught up!