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The popularity of manga continues to row, inspiring interest in learning how to draw in this exciting style of comics. Estudio Joso creates the ultimate guide to illustration—384 pages of manga instruction. The Monster Book of Manga is divided into sections focusing on the most figures and themes—Girls, Boys, Samurais, Monsters, and more. Each illustration is broken down into six stages accompanied by step-by-step instructions, taking the artist from initial back-and-white sketches to the final color piece. They are all accompanied by practical suggestions, hints, and tips.
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excellent content for intermediate-level illustrators.......2007-09-24
I'm familiar with manga illustrations, but certainly not an expert, and this is the main reason I found "The Monster Book of Manga" very useful. It's not a how-to-draw book, but rather a draw-like-this manual, with step by step examples of how a finished piece is done. Here is, briefly, a list of what I consider to be its strong and weak points.
STRONG POINTS:
- Over fifty, very detailed, illustrations, each broken down into six stages, from sketch to full colour. It's relatively easy to see through the process if you already know the basics of drawing the human figure.
- Six major categories (girls, fantasy, monsters, science fiction, music and samurai) that will help you become familiarized with many popular types of manga characters, from school girls to androids.
- All lessons and tips aside, the artwork is gorgeous.
- Each character is drawn in a different pose, so the book also works as a pose reference manual at some point
- The costumes are drawn in detail and work as inspiration to create your own
- It's a very good practice manual and can inspire your own original characters based on the types included.
WEAK POINTS:
- Don't mistake this book for a beginner's how-to book, some of the illustrations included are quite difficult to draw, even if you're just copying them. Furthermore, I feel they should have perhaps broken down each drawing into more stages, so as to make the process easier to understand.
- Being a draw-this type of book, it tends to limit your creativity a bit.
- Some of the tips and explanations are really not necessary. What's the use of putting 'In this case, we have chosen violets and blues' next to a violet and blue dragon?
- The introduction to each character type could have been expanded a bit, perhaps with examples from actual manga series.
- The chapter on digital manga is a bit disappointing, in that it's mostly an outline of Photoshop's tools and functions, and seems to focus less on tips directly useful to manga artists.
CONCLUSION
"The Monster Book of Manga" is overall very useful for artists who already have some basic knowledge of drawing the human figure and a more-than-basic knowledge of manga specifics. Buy it if you want to improve and experiment. It's wonderful for practice, reference and inspiration, but it will not teach you how to draw.
Good comprehensive book.......2007-09-19
This book has a great deal of information on how to draw, which is one part of the manga experience. For the creative/motivational stuff, try the manga story sites for inspiration (I go to www.JustExpressing.com, there are others). Combine the great drawing ability with the examples of well written story lines on these web sites, based on Japanese characters, and you'll be well on your way on experiencing manga.
A must buy!.......2007-08-29
This book is amazing. I was looking at in a store contemplating buying it cause it was a tad bit expensive, when a stranger came up and told me it was a great book. I bought it and it really was worth all the money. It has such detailed instructions on how to draw some amazing manga. I have to admit there are a few pieces of art in it that are a bit inappropriate for little kids but it's still a great book and worth the money. BUY IT!
Monster Book of Manga.......2007-07-12
The Monster Book of Manga is really helpful to me. Before this book, I could never do shadows or shades on my drawings. But thanks to this book, I am gettng better at it. If you want to draw Manga better, I reccomend the Monster Book of Manga. Its worth it. ^-^
It was okay.........2007-05-13
Book does have alot of visuals but it's not very informative. It's not for beginners but more advanced artists.
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The popularity of manga—Japanese cartooning—continues to grow, inspiring interest in learning how to draw this exciting style of comics.
From comic illustration Ikari Studio comes the ultimate guide on how to draw manga. The Monster Book of More Manga is divided into sections focusing on the most popular manga figures and themes—Girls, Boys, Samurai, Monsters, and Computer. This new volume contains brand new sections on Mecha, Villains, and Animals, and a special section on Fairies. Each illustration is broken down into six stages accompanied by step-by-step instructions, taking the artist from an initial black-and-white sketch to the final color piece. They're also accompanied by practical suggestions, hints, and tips.
From beginner to advanced, this monster-size manual is the must-have book for anyone interested in learning how to draw manga.
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The popularity of manga–Japanese cartooning–continues to grow, inspiring interest in learning how to draw this exciting style of comics.
From comic illustration Ikari Studio comes the ultimate guide on how to draw manga. THE MONSTER BOOK OF MANGA 3: FAIRIES AND MAGICAL CREATURES focuses on these figures of wonder. Each illustration is broken down into six stages of creation and is accompanied by step–by–step instructions, taking the artist from an initial black–and–white sketch to final color piece. Each drawing is also accompanied by practical suggestions, hints, and tips.
This monster–size manual is the must–have book for anyone interested in learning how to draw manga, appealing to beginning and advanced artists alike.
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A must!.......2007-08-29
This book is amazing. I was looking at in a store contemplating buying it cause it was a tad bit expensive, when a stranger came up and told me it was a great book. I bought it and it really was worth all the money. It has such detailed instructions on how to draw some amazing manga. I have to admit there are a few pieces of art in it that are a bit inappropriate for little kids but it's still a great book and worth the money. BUY IT!
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Photography is such a constant in our culture that we've forgotten that years ago it must have seemed more like magic than art, science, or craft. The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot brings us back to the spectacular moment of wonder when photography was first invented. Talbot, born 200 years ago, was a successful mathematician and frustrated draftsman when he invented photography out of his personal desire to make more realistic drawings. He saw his new process as a way for nature to make her own perfect pictures.
Talbot first experimented with salts of silver that produced sun-darkened shadows of objects placed on paper. Many experiments later, he realized that negatives could be reversed, and was eventually able to produce multiple prints. Apart from the brilliance of his invention, the images that Talbot captured are beautiful and mysterious. Softer than modern photography, these pictures look like paintings: gentle leaves, breath-taking sunlight glowing through windows, negatives of intricate lace, reproductions of paintings, and posed pictures of family. Talbot varied the size of his images, making tiny prints from boxes he called mousetraps (a mouselike perspective on the world) to larger landscape portraits. The magic resonates with a thoughtfulness that may have resulted from the slow process of early image-making. How amazing it must have been, seeing and creating the world on paper for the very first time. Aside from the spectacular pictures, the text covers Talbot's life and his experimental processes, and each of the 100 images is given its own explanatory text. --J.P. Cohen
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William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) is best remembered as the scientist who invented photography. Others had tried recording the images projected by a lens, but Talbot was the first to grasp the physical basis for realizing this dream and to conceive of a practical means for fixing these ephemeral images permanently onto a sheet of paper. But Talbot's considerable technical achievements have often overshadowed his growth as an artist. Larry Schaaf examines this artistic growth by bringing together for the first time high quality reproductions of one hundred photographs representing the full sweep of Talbot's work. These beautiful images are not only records of scientific triumphs, but also the evidence of the first steps in shaping a totally new type of vision.
A classicist, physicist, and mathematician by training, Talbot originally viewed his new invention as a means of visual documentation, particularly of the botanical specimens he loved so dearly. But gradually his new technology taught him to see, and the growth of Talbot's personal vision defined the beginnings of modern photography. The resulting corpus of work ranged from seminal early images rich in primal beauty to later, fully sophisticated photographs. Illuminating these images with excerpts from Talbot's own writings and those of his contemporaries, this book is a visual celebration of the early days of photography.
The one hundred plates are reproduced in the actual size of the originals and in all the subtle colors that comprised Talbot's early work. They range from Talbot's Lilliputian pre-1839 negatives (made in "mousetrap" cameras) through botanical photograms to mid-1840s calotypes that demonstrate a sure command of the new art. Each plate is discussed in detail, drawing on important new research conducted by the author.
Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Talbot's birth, The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot will not only deepen our understanding of early photography but will also serve as an important archive for those who may never have the pleasure to witness firsthand these rare and fragile works. As such, this beautifully produced book is an essential addition to the library of anyone who collects, studies, and admires photography.
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100 quality plates from the father of modern photography.......2006-12-23
This book is a very large weighty tome, measuring 28cm x 32cm x 4cm. It has 21 pages of text discussing Fox Talbot's work and the photographic process. The remaining few hundred pages are devoted to high quality plates of 100 of his images and a page of text detailing the background to each of these images. Sometimes this text uses rather flowery arty language and certainly not in the style of the dry highly scientifically orientated writings of Talbot at the time. Plus there's no detailed 'Talbot life story' as such, but then much of that is available on the web, e.g. www.foxtalbot.arts.gla.ac.uk. However on the web there are precious few of his photographs on view because of the very high copyright charges for reproduction, hence the attraction of this book.
My only disappointment is that only one solar microscope image is shown - a slice of horse chestnut (I am a microscopist by trade), the remaining 'scientific' images being termed `contact prints' of things like leaves and flowers (e.g. Vines, Honeysuckle, pine needles, orchids) - although I am advised by Talbot authorities that these were most probably taken using the solar microscope as well. Many images are people-less and static e.g. Lacock Abbey windows, lace, breakfast table, Library books, articles of glass, Milliner's Window, Hungerford bridge, The Royal Pavilion, Trinity Church and various woodland scenes. There are about 15 plates with people who stayed still long enough to be recorded in the image, such as: the footman, a group taking tea, the ladder, his daughter, Lady Feilding reclining, Charles Porter drinking tea. These photographs are nothing like as impressive as late Victorian photo images, such as city and dockland scenes, but they are fascinating from a historical perspective. These Talbot images date from 1835 to 1845, and naturally some show serious fading (they don't appear to be retouched at all - a good thing). Also included is a painted B&W silhouette portrait of Talbot as a boy [age 7] that contrasts very well with his later photographic images.
In fact Englishmen Thomas Wedgewood took the first photographs before 1802, but unfortunately couldn't devise a way to fix the image, so the photographs slowly faded from view after they were taken and are now lost (but some of Wedgewood's images may have survived to the 1860's). Although Frenchman Daguerre published first in 1839 with his mercury photographic process, Fox Talbot developed the modern 'negative' process, so that many prints could be taken from one image. So a very interesting book of the art (and science) of the father of modern photography, but perhaps it can be rather expensive (reflecting its high quality production). Three stars for value, four stars for content.
Fantastic.......2004-09-12
It is incredible. I am viewing people so far back in time that I am enchanted. I am viewing a fashionable Paris Blvd in the 1940's and am in a position to compare Zola's naturalism in my mind to the truth.
I am thrilled with my purchase.
Schaaf's Fox Talbot.......2000-09-20
Larry Schaaf has put together an absolute benchmark of a book. To all of you who sat in the "college survey of art history," saw the 2" by 2" Fox Talbot image "The Soliloquy of the Broom" and wondered what the fuss was about; see this book. To all of you photographers who secretly wonder if photography is really art; see this book. One hundred images are reproduced with (no kidding) breathtaking quality and nuance. Each image is accompanied by a very readable account of how the image was produced and enough descriptive detail about the original image to satisfy an archeologist.
If you are a photo researcher or archivist; read Schaaf's notes on "The photographic artifact as historical map" (p. 22). It is clear, it is complete, it is definitive. I wish all histories and text books could read like this.
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First Photographs is an extraordinary view into the origins of photography. This landmark monograph - the only book on Talbot to be authored by the Fox Talbot museum's curator - includes many never-before-published images of landscapes, architectural studies, and portraits from Talbot's personal archive and selections from his detailed research notebooks made during the 1830s and 1840s and currently housed at Lacock Abbey in Chippenham, England. A gentleman and an intellectual, Talbot was a great student of the Arts and Sciences and kept detailed notes of his activities and experiments. He discovered the negative/positive paper process which made multiple reproductions of a single image possible, and which distinguished it from its contemporary, the one-of-a-kind daguerreotype. Talbot first announced his invention to the public in 1839 in his paper "An Account Of The Art of Photogenic Drawing Or The Process By Which Natural Objects May Be Made To Delineate Themselves Without The Aid Of The Artist's Pencil." The work he did during this time established in principle and in practice the foundation of modern photography - the basis of the process that is still used today. In addition to Talbot's technological contributions, his photographs represent exceptional artistic achievement. First Photographs includes a significant text by the preeminent Talbot scholar today, Michael Gray, who provides a comprehensive essay, biography, and timeline of Talbot's eventful life and revolutionary work. Arthur Ollman, director of the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, gives an in-depth analysis of the aesthetic and social significance of Talbot's first image, the "Oriel Window." Curator Carol McCusker considers how the Romantic Movement and the women of the Lacock household influenced Talbot's aesthetic choices. First Photographs and the accompanying exhibition provide a rare opportunity for contemporary audiences to experience these uncommon images and the personal, cultural, and scientific contexts in which they were made. William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) was a philosopher, classicist, Egyptologist, mathematician, philologist, transcriber and translator of Syrian and Chaladean cuneiform texts, physicist, and photographer. His first experiments in photography made use of the photogenic process; he then went on to develop the process of creating negatives that could be used to make positive reproductions.
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Since its founding in 1952, Aperture has grown from a small periodical to a cultural phenomenon that reaches the largest and most diverse audience for significant photography worldwide. By examining it's own history, Photography Past/Forward: Aperture at 50 explores the currents in photography that have brought the medium to its present status as one of the most important art forms, and arguably, the most powerful medium of communication. It also demonstrates how Aperture has shaped and furthered this evolution, expanding the international audience for photography.
A remarkable selection of images culled from every period of Aperture's history illuminate photography's ever-expanding ability to evince uncommon beauty and render subjects as diverse as landscape and portraiture to issues of international social concern, whether civil rights, AIDS, domestic abuse, freedoms of speech, environmental conservation, or mass migration, to name a few. Other selections will explore evolving photographic techniques that have allowed image-makers to push artistic boundaries, from Aperture's revival of the vintage photogravure process to current explorations in the digital realm.
With groundbreaking images by such early masters as Joseph Nicéphore Niépce and William Henry Fox Talbot to seminal figures in the history of the magazine including Paul Strand, Dorothea Lange, Minor White, Ansel Adams, Barbara Morgan, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, this lush publication traces the evolution of both the magazine and the photographers whose work has become an important part of its story. Long-time collaborators Sally Mann, Eugene Richards, Richard Misrach, Robert Adams, Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman, and Mary Ellen Mark, among many others, have made a selection of recent work, which together with images and original spreads from past issues offer a dynamic view of the medium's breadth of focus and innovation.
Remaining true to Aperture's history of providing a vital sounding board for a vast community of thinkers on and practitioners of photography, Photography Past/Forward: Aperture at 50 is supplemented by texts-excerpted from Aperture issues #1 (1952) through #165 (2001)-in which a range of voices from Nancy and Beaumont Newhall to Danny Lyon, Madonna, and Arthur Danto expound theories, manifestos, musings, and critiques on a broad range of photography-related subjects.
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Gallery is great!.......2004-11-17
I saw this show in a gallery and I loved it! I bought the book so I could take the exhibit's beauty home with me.
A celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of "Aperture".......2002-12-10
Photography Past Forward is a celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of "Aperture" magazine enhanced with the kind of visual imagery (excerpted from issues of Aperture ranging from 1952 to 2002) that Aperture is so closely identified with, and enhanced with a informative history of this world-class publisher by R. H. Cravens. The essence and mission of Aperture was to be a forum where serious photographers could communicate about the nature of their art. Visual and textual highlights from fifty years of sharing fill Photography Past Forward, which numerous select photographs - some in color, most in black and white - as well as quotes and articles offering timeless wisdom and advice to aspiring photographers everywhere. Photography Past Forward is a strongly recommended and memorable visual treat for all dedicated students and practitioners of the photographic arts.
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William Henry Fox Talbot: Traces Of Light
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Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre may be the official father of photography, but William Henry Fox Talbot, Cambridge graduate, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, and amateur archeologist, is the true father of modern photography. In 1840, Talbot invented the positive-negative process that permits endless reproductions, the same technique still used today. Traces of Light magnificently reproduces hundreds of his early photographic work, images that capture the shapes of fleeting, mysterious, everyday things such as flowers, leaves, feathers, and most especially lace. Also included are scholarly essays that explore Talbot's growth as an artist, his technical achievements, his near obsession with lace, and his relevance to the contemporary state of things.
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Out of the Shadows: Herschel, Talbot, and the Invention of Photography
Larry J. Schaaf
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Fox Talbot and the Invention of Photography
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The Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot: A Draft Calendar (Glasgow University Library Studies)
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Hardcover, no dust jacket, gold colored covers with illustrated front cover, light scuffing to covers & light wear to extremities, covers & contents clean. This revised edition contains: The First Hundred Years The Story of Louisville Male High School and the addition The Tradition Continues 1957-1991 bound in one volume. Traces the school's history from its roots in the Jefferson Seminary in the early 1800s to its inception in the 1850s, its change to a co-ed school and racial integration. Includes not just a history of the school by also history of Louisville during those years. Among its more famous students were Fontaine Fox best known for his Toonerville Trolley comic strip, based partly on his experiences in Louisville, graduted in 1904 and contributed 4 cartoons to this volume; also Hunter S. Thompson attended but did not graduate from Male High School and is not mentioned in the book. B/w illustrations, appendices of faculty and graduates listed by year. Interesting not only for the history of the school but for the history of Louisville itself
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FOX TALBOT
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X/1999, Vol. 9: Requiem
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From the creators of Magic Knight Rayearth, RG Veda, Miyuki-Chan in Wonderland, and Tokyo Babylon comes another exciting manga adventure. Fuma's relentless assault on the utterly unprepared Kamui continues. The unthinkable happens when Fuma cements his status as a Dragon of Earth and viciously ends his own sister's life.
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Halfway through...........2005-09-18
Halfway through the currently published volumes of X, and the story is only beginning to pick up. All the characters have now been introduced, and now the story can continue on its angsty way!
This volumes mainly deals with Kamui coming to terms with Kotori's death by retreating Within like the spineless he is until about volume......12 i think. Subaru-kun (he's -kun to me b/c Viz's translations don't put honorifics in, and even though he's -san for the most part in X, b/c of Tokyo Babylon, he'll always be -kun)has to go save him from himself. We get flashbacks to Tokyo Babylon, and lovely little mentions of how much Subaru-kun loved Sei-chan (Seishiro-san, or if you want to be really distant, Sakurazuka-san). There's also a moment that made me giggle, which it probably wasn't supposed to, but when Subaru-kun collapses from exhaustion on Kamui (I adamantly refuse to belive there's anything between those two....), Kotori's head is squished between them. hehehe.
Fun things, (aka things that made me smile for various reasons): Kakyo looking very much like Yue with short hair in Kotori's vision, and then like Yue w/o the cat eyes in real life, Subaru-kun looking so delish throughout, espeically while angsting over Sei-chan, everyone in shock about how Subaru-kun is part of the Sumeragi family, loads of feathers EVERYWHERE (now, if only they were sakura petals.....), the CCD boys showing up out of nowhere, and the cute omake chapter for Kusanagi-san. oh, and Subaru-kun cementing his position as Bishonen of Angst.
Kamui reminds me so much of Subaru-kun at that age....and it really shows in this volume. hints are made at that over and over in this volume, which makes it loads of fun to read.
HEY!!! X MEETS TOKYO BABYLON.......2003-04-19
Poor poor Kamui....Requiem is one of my favorites...This manga might not be mandatory but this book gives so much insight to the older and less known Tokyo Babylon series. The crossover character Subaru Sumeragi saves Kamui from mental isolation. This shows off Subaru's older character and gives some rare information about his past (in Tokyo Babylon). Subaru is my favorite character from Clamp so maybe thats why I love it so much but...it gives us a clue as to what for and why Subaru and Seishiro are fighting. If you have read X/1999 before you saw any Tokyo Babylon anything this is a good introduction to Tokyo Babylon and it's characters...and by knowing Tokyo Babylon you get to know more about X! This book is so beautiful (no less from clamp) as well as the drama.
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