A few years back, I wrote an article about the art technique books I have (it’s here). I thought it might be a good time to revisit that, as well as post some of the artist books that I have as well.
However, reading a bunch of text is probably pretty boring, and artists are visual people, so I decided to just take photos of the books I have. There are plenty of books that, if you’ve seen them here, might now be easier to recognize in the stores.
I’m particularly picky about the books I buy, I’m looking for great quality and for books I’ll probably flip through on occasion. So I stand by the books here, I like them all and each has something great to offer.
Notably missing (they are upstairs) are these books:
- Icon: Frank Frazetta Retrospective
- Color and Light: by James Gurney
- Scratchboard for Illustration
- Various history and supernatural/non-fiction mystery books
I also noted below if there are books you can’t quite make out, otherwise the pictures speak for themselves. If you’re wondering about a particular book, just ask and I can give you more info on it. Apologies on the angles of the photos as well, the shelf sits behind my big computer desk in the corner.
Starting from the bottom, and not including the other fiction shelves I have. Click each for a slightly larger view:
I think the only ones you can’t see above are on the left, Wild Predators and A Chronicle of Knights. Next to Norman Saunders is the EC Foul Play book.
In this one, you can’t quite make out Dore’s Illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy, The EC Companion, Vertigo Visions, and Dore’s Illustrations for Paradise Lost.
You can pretty much see all of the here, except maybe Pirates, Patriots and Princesses: The Art of Howard Pyle next to Spectrum 1. Also, the one on the far right is The World of Delacroix.
You can see two of my older sketchbooks on the top shelf (which are all signed, limited books, not art). Otherwise, next to Comics and Sequential Art is the catalog of a company called Skulls Unlimited (useful to have for reference), and next to that is Hogarth’s Drawing The Human Head. Next to Blair’s Cartoon Animation is How To Draw Animation, and next to Dynamic Anatomy is Perspective Without Pain.
