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Games, movies, music, anime, manga, electronics, novels, toys, ect...there is something for everyone here. But I've noticed that no one really shows off their art books. Well, thanks to a little suggestion from Dabookerman, why not start a new thread?

Feel free share whatever art books you have, plan on getting or trying to find. I'll start

Massive Black Vol. 1 & 2

I Am 8-Bit, Super I Am 8-Bit, The Skillful Huntsman

Robot Volumes 3, 4 & 5

Apple Volumes 1, 2, 3 & 4

Street Fighter Tribute, The Art of Street Fighter: 20th Anniversary, Hand in Killer 7,
The Art of Street Fighter X Tekken, Okami: Official Complete Works, Mega Man Tribute

Persona 4: Official Design Works, DisgaeArt!!! Disgaea Official Illustration Collection, Hyrule Historia

Pixv Almanac Vol. 1, Tekkonkinkreet: Black & White Sides
The Art of Samurai Champloo: Battle Cry, FLCLism++, Kurayami Magazine - The Official Art Book of Shadows of the Damned

Groundwork of Gurren Lagaan Volumes 1, 2 & 3

The Art of PSG Volumes 1 & 2 (these are my rarest books)

The Art of Halo 3
Halo: The Art of Building Worlds, Awakening: The Art of Halo 4

The Big Book of Breasts,
The Big Book of Pussy, The Big Butt Book

The Art and Making of The Dark Knight Trilogy,
The Art of District 9: Weta Workshop, The Art of Pixar

The Art of God of War III, The Art of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves,
The Art of Journey

The Art of Darksiders & Darksiders II,
The Art of Gears of War 3 (I plan on getting this signed by Epic soon...), The Art of Alice: Madness Returns

The Art of Oddworld Inhabitants, Deco Devolution: The Art of Bioshock 2, The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim Art Book

The Art of Borderlands 2, L' Histoire de Sonic, The Art of Guild Wars 2

Graffiti World: Updated Edtion, Graffiti Women

And there you guys have. I have a few more books, but these are the ones I care about most. I don't have any orders pending at the moment. Gonna buy some more books in the next few weeks. I went a bit nuts over the holidays.

I can't wait to see what you guys have

 

[Broder Salsa]

Some... Interesting stuff there for sure.

 

[Violet_0]

are those lolita hentai artbooks any good?

 

[-PXG-]

are those lolita hentai artbooks any good?

The Robot books? The covers are misleading. It's a compilation of short manga and short stories. Apple is a collection of Korean comics and illustrations.

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

The Art of PSG Volumes 1 & 2 (these are my rarest books)

Do want

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edit: btw, anyone here is a backer of The Art of Brom?

 

[Typographenia]

Really jealous of the FLCL, Gurren Lagann, and robot art books.

Most of my great ones are up at school, but I was given the Persona 4 artbook for christmas. Really gorgeous book, but I was a little sad that there wasn't a lot more developmental art as there was. Still, there's a ton of solid content inside, and those full color page prints are gorgeous.

 

[Antiwhippy]

I do love some good artbooks.

Not pictures of my own, but I do own these.

Not Yoji shinkawa's stuff but still pretty good.

Don't have more though because they are expensive.

 

[Violet_0]

The Robot books? The covers are misleading. It's full of Korean short comics and illustrations. Great books.

yeah sorry, I was indeed just making a terrible joke about the covers. It's a pretty cool collection you have there, I envy you

 

[Jarmel]

I'll post my shelves next week. Damn too bad this thread wasn't created a little later.

 

[-PXG-]

I've seen that Metal Gear book so many times. I always forget to get it. Welp, won't forget now!

yeah sorry, I was indeed just making a terrible joke about the covers. It's a pretty cool collection you have there, I envy you

My bad. I edited my post. I confused Apple with Robot.

Apple = Korean illustrations/ short comics
Robot = colored/ detailed manga

 

[Antiwhippy]

I actually really do want to get the Robot books because I really do like Yoshitoshi ABe and Range murata, but yeah man those covers. Also I can't seem to find them easily.

 

[Extollere]

Nice collection OP - I'm a fan of Range Murata myself. I have a few nice books that I'll probably share later. I haven't bought anything recently though, simply because art books can get pretty pricey, and I tend to only look at them occasionally.

 

[-PXG-]

Some of you will want to kill me, but not I'm a fan of Amano. I guess I'm just not a HUGE FF guy. Still, his work has been growing on me lately. But you know what, I'm kicking myself for not getting The Sky. It's stupid expensive now :/

I'm still on the fence about Final Fantasy Ultimania though. Play-Asia has all three volumes in stock.

 

[LuffyZoro]

I've only got this as an artbook of that sort.

However, I also have two Loomis books, which are very nice and contain art.

 

[Übermatik]

Thought this was about books of art...

 

[Acid08]

I had no idea there were Gurren Lagann art books, are they still available?

 

[Extollere]

Some of you will want to kill me, but not I'm a fan of Amano. I guess I'm just not a HUGE FF guy. Still, his work has been growing on me lately. But you know what, I'm kicking myself for not getting The Sky. It's stupid expensive now :/

I'm still on the fence about Final Fantasy Ultimania though. Play-Asia has all three volumes in stock.

Some of his work is genius, and awe inspiring - some of it is less inspiring... I'm kinda indifferent overall. Prefer Terada, apples and oranges - but I have a penchant for more perverse presentations

 

[-PXG-]

I had no idea there were Gurren Lagann art books, are they still available?

Here ya go

http://www.animebooks.com/tetogula1.html

 

[Antiwhippy]

Oh man, speaking of Amano, can't believe I left this out, though I guess it isn't really an artbook.

Gorgeous stuff. Really shows off his skills in creating surrealist landscapes.

 

[Dedication Through Light]

I've only got this as an artbook of that sort.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UGFPf_kI7Uc/TYIH8pGfe7I/AAAAAAAAASY/-IdLxpDZA-U/s1600/Avatar_art_book.jpg[/IG]

However, I also have two Loomis books, which are very nice and contain art.[/QUOTE]
I didnt know there was an avatar one, is it good and cover the whole anime?

 

[Acid08]

Here ya go

http://www.animebooks.com/tetogula1.html

Thank you . Have you ordered from this site before? Seems like there's a lot of stuff I'd want to get on there

 

[-PXG-]

I ordered my TTGL and Tekkonkinkreet books from them. Decently fast shipping. No issues whatsoever.

 

[corn_fest]

I didnt know there was an avatar one, is it good and cover the whole anime?

It's very good. There's at least one page for each episode, as well as a bunch of "featured topic" sections about characters or the world.

 

[Haly]

Too lazy to spread them out:

Xenoblade Chronicles Artbook Pre-order bonus
Etrian Odyssey: Forest of Eternity Pre-order bonus
Knights in the Nightmare: Tome of Lost Souls Pre-order bonus
CTRL + T by Inio Asano
Your Eyes Only by CLAMP
Gensou Shoujo by toi8
Tsubasa: Albume de Reproductions by CLAMP
Pixiv Almanac Vol 1 by Udon
Mutuality: CLAMP Wworks in Code Geass by CLAMP
Rockman Zero: Official Complete Works by CAPCOM
The Art of Fullmetal Alchemist 1 by Hiromu Arakawa
The Art of Fullmetal Alchemist 2 by Hiromu Arakawa
Japanese Comickers 2 by Comickers Magazine
Anatomy for the Artist by Sarah Simblet
Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World by Kouhaku Kuroboshi

Bonus:

Rock Star Haruhi, Gwendolyn and Kino posing Angels style in front of Absolute Death by Neil Gaiman, Chris Bachalo, and Mark Buckingham

 

[-PXG-]

Too lazy to spread them out:

Xenoblade Chronicles Artbook Pre-order bonus
Etrian Odyssey: Forest of Eternity Pre-order bonus
Knights in the Nightmare: Tome of Lost Souls Pre-order bonus
CTRL + T by Inio Asano
Your Eyes Only by CLAMP
Gensou Shoujo by toi8
Tsubasa: Albume de Reproductions by CLAMP
Pixiv Almanac Vol 1 by Udon
Mutuality: CLAMP Wworks in Code Geass by CLAMP
Rockman Zero: Official Complete Works by CAPCOM
The Art of Fullmetal Alchemist 1 by Hiromu Arakawa
The Art of Fullmetal Alchemist 2 by Hiromu Arakawa
Japanese Comickers 2 by Comickers Magazine
Anatomy for the Artist by Sarah Simblet
Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World by Kouhaku Kuroboshi
Bonus:

Rock Star Haruhi, Gwendolyn and Kino posing Angels style in front of Absolute Death by Neil Gaiman, Chris Bachalo, and Mark Buckingham

Anatomy for the Artist is great. I was too lazy to post that.

I too have a bunch of those mini pre-order, bonus art books too.

 

[Haly]

Anatomy for the Artist is great. I was too lazy to post that.

It's such a huge book x_x

I too have a bunch of those mini pre-order, bonus art books too.

I wish they'd put more effort into the quality of those, although Atlus' are pretty nice. I'd pay top dollar for hard cover though, even if it's way thinner than a typical artbook.

 

[-PXG-]

I've been putting off buying the Afro Samurai book for months. Anime Books is out. Other sites still have it though

 

[Haly]

This list reminds me I need to get the art of FMA 3. It's still not out yet in english.

 

[corn_fest]

It didn't get a lot of attention in the Okami thread, so I'm going to point out that the Okami artbook has been reprinted and is available for pretty cheap once again.

 

[Alucrid]

I sold all mine. except okami. keeping that bad boy

and ffix, its worth lugging them around.

 

[Tigel]

In before someone posting the Yoshitaka Final Fantasy Sky artbook and me punching myself in the face for cancelling my preorder... ;_;

 

[Kisaya]

Insanely jealous of all you. Subbing just to look at all of these collections and die :'(

Only valuable thing I have to show off is the Dawn: Final Fantasy Artbook that I got signed by Amano.

I also have this artbook from an artist I really like:

Spoiler

p.s. pls buy/send me artbooks thx :*

In before someone posting the Yoshitaka Final Fantasy Sky artbook and me punching myself in the face for cancelling my preorder... ;_;

paging bucca,

Spoiler

that fucker

 

[maomaoIYP]

Here's mine. I've got a lot more gravure art books but I'm not listing those.

From left:
Gelatin 2010 Spring
100 Masters of Bishojo Painting
High School of the Dead Secret Box
High School of the Dead full color version 1-4
Lightning Pop - Sato Shouji Artworks
Toka Sekai - Haruaki Fuyuno Artworks
The Eyes of Bayonetta
Sweet Body - Happobi Jin Artworks
Starless - Senshojo Artworks
Katsura Zuroku extended version - Katsura Masakazu artworks
Love Color - To Love Ru Artworks
Prismtone - Range Murata Anime Artworks 1998-2006
Atelier Rorona/Totori/Meruru Memorial Works
Rorona & Totori & Meruru Premium Artbook
Rorona & Totori Artbook
Foo Midori's Book of Pictures
Disgaeart - Disgaea Official Illustration Collection
Takehito Harada Artworks

From left:
Oxide 2x - Kim Hyung Tae Artworks
Shining Hearts Collection of Visual Materials
TonyWorks - Fault!! Collection
TonyWorks - Ciel chronicle
Tony's Art Works from Shining World
Robot 1 & 2 (Looks like I have the ones OP missed!)
Pixiv Girls collection 2009-2011
Sano Toshihide Illustrations
Velvet Skin - Ino Artworks
Peco Artworks
One Voice - Shunya Yamashita Artworks
Wild Flower - Shunya Yamashita Artworks (I missed out on Sweet Dreams to my eternal regret)
Yours - Horibe Hidero Artworks
Colors - Hoirbe Hidero Artworks
Flamboyant - Ugetsu Hakua Artworks

 

[Bucca]

In before someone posting the Yoshitaka Final Fantasy Sky artbook and me punching myself in the face for cancelling my preorder... ;_;

paging bucca,

Spoiler

that fucker

SPEAK OF THE DEVIL AND HE SHALL APPEAR.

 

[Kisaya]

can we ban bucca

Wheres your other artbook bucca

wow vec can u not >.>

 

[lordfroakie]

Wheres your other artbook bucca

 

[Tigel]

SPEAK OF THE DEVIL AND HE SHALL APPEAR.

I hate you so much.

Spoiler

I'm so jealous

 

[lordfroakie]

I hate you so much.

Spoiler

I'm so jaelous

Be prepared to get more jealous of bucca!

 

[Confusion Illusion]

Some from my collection.

 

[Bucca]

I hate you so much.

Spoiler

I'm so jealous

can we ban bucca

The Sky Collection is the most valuable thing I own, just look at the Amazon prices I mean GOT DAMN.

This is the 2nd most valuable thing I own. Given to me by one of my good friends. I was shocked when I received it.

Spoiler

Sorry Kisaya lol.

 

[Delio]

Some amazing stuff in here!

*looks at Bucca and Kisaya*

 

[flippeh]

Not much of a collection:

Street Fighter Tribute
Darkstalkers Tribute hardcover
The Eyes of Bayonetta
The Sacrifice and other Steam-Powered Stories
The Art of Alice: Madness Returns
Half-Life 2: Raising the bar

 

[Bucca]

The last of my artbook collection.

 

[-PXG-]

I thought the Eyes of Bayonetta wasn't out yet, or is that the Japanese version?

 

[Soma]

+ that shitty Dark Souls artbook that came with the collectors edition. I'd really like to get that Dark Souls Design Works book one day.

Bit of a measly collection but hopefully I can add to this in the future.

 

[Typographenia]

A few of the artbooks still lying around my house/I got recently

More of a collection of various short stories by artists, but whatever.

Assorted books I have from school/inspiration stuff because why not?

Not pictured (because it's at my cubicle up at school)-

• David Carson - Raygun Magazine: Out of Control
• Art of Nausicaa
• Art of Totoro
• Art of Spirited Away
• Art of Avatar the Last Airbender
• Art of The Matrix
• My FFXII and KH2 strategy guide artbooks
• Various animation book things for school

 

[Chuckl3s]

Art of Modern Rock: The Poster Explosion
Obey: Supply & Demand : The Art of Shepard Fairey
The Art of Maya: An Introduction to 3D Computer Graphics
Graffiti Women: Street Art from Five Continents
The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation

Recently moved so got rid of a bunch. Want to expand.

 

[Ermac]

How is the Pixiv almanac? Looks really cool.

 

[flippeh]

I thought the Eyes of Bayonetta wasn't out yet, or is that the Japanese version?

Yeah, JP import.

 

[Pau]

My meager collection consists of The Art of Avatar: The Last Airbender and this:

Very jealous of the thread! It's made me go on an Amazon Wishlist-adding spree.