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Other Stuff => Workbench => Topic started by: beefcake on October 29, 2012, 08:06:47 AM
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I'm after a fantasy art book to help me out with some concept art for sculpting some creatures basically just to improve my sculpting skills. Mostly I'm after a book with lots of monsters in it. I've been thinking about D&D monster manuals and pathfinder beastiaries. I have a few PDF books with monster pics but don't want to spend a lot of money printing them off in full colour and I want a book in front of me so that I don't need to sculpt in front of the computer.
Any recommendations would be great. Even if they are comics with loads of monsters in them. As I have young kids in the house I don't particularly want things to be too adult in content.
Thanks in advance. :)
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Wayne Barlowe's books would be the obvious choices I'd say. Unlike, say, stuff by H.R.Giger, Barlowe's work rarely contains dangly bitz recognizable as such :P
http://waynebarlowe.wordpress.com/
A quick peruse of Amazon's "also bought" list brought up Carlos Huante, Adolf Schaller and Terryl Whitlatch you might like to look up as well.
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If you can find them, the old Frank Franzetta art books are great. Lots of creatures mixed in with the scantly clad damsels in distress. A little Amazon fu got this:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_sc_1_10?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=frank+frazetta&sprefix=frank+fran%2Caps%2C0 (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_sc_1_10?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=frank+frazetta&sprefix=frank+fran%2Caps%2C0)
My two cents.
Snitchy sends.
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Oops. Thought I had replied to this thread. Terry's whit latch looks good. So does frank. I did just get a book about drawing undead by Keith someone. Still on the look out for more ideas thanks for these. They'll go on my wishlist