Recommended Book List

[Ace Connell]

@Asatira The Scott McCloud ones are fun. If you've not, check out that perspective one I referenced a couple of posts up - he teaches perspective in the same way that Scott McCloud does and at the beginning he sights Scott's book as a huge influence.

@Dulcie The James Gurney books are awesome. I've got Imaginative Realism but not read it yet. I've read Color and Light though and it's great. Instead of fully teaching and saying do this, then that, it gives you food for thought and the facts behind things and how they've been used in his work and others.

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[Ace Connell]

@Dulcie He's also got a pretty spectacular blog with loads of great content - http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.co.uk

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[Dulcie]

@Ace-Connell I added the Color & Light one onto my wish list a few days ago - they were talking about it in the SVS Colour & Light video and it does look very good! I re-acquired the Dinotopia books recently after my parents had a clear-out, so it would be nice to understand his way of working... I will take a look at his blog, thanks for the link

[Jiří Kůs]

I just added to my wish list - Creative illustration by Andrew Loomis. Just by flipping through it you can see that it gets so deep into composition like no other book I ever seen. Also, there is a free scan on the web, poor scan, but legal

Also do you have some favourite reference books? For example I just bought "Racinet: Complete Costume History" for references on historical clothing. Since it was really hard to google some good 12th century clothing references and be sure it is somewhat accurate.