Monday, November 1, 2010

The Art of Steamboy


This weeks Peek-a-Book is The Art of Steamboy, Katsuhiro Otomo's 2004 steampunk masterpiece. This book seemingly has all the background paintings and a lot of the preliminary sketches, and I seriously mean, a lot. A shame there aren't many mechanical model sheets or sketches, because the Steamboy film had some really great mechanics. Still if you're a background artist or interested in background art or old Victorian England, this is a book you should definitely check out.

The Art of Steamboy
Kodansha
272 pages HC
ISBN4-06-364602-5

3 comments:

Nick said...

I didn't know you had an art book blog! Very cool! Yr pal, Nick

enb said...

Thats right Nick- you know how much of an art book freak I am and it brings me great pleasure to share all of the favorites of my collection!
Thanks for stopping in!

Alexandre Lancaster said...

the mechanical sheets are concentrated on Steamboy Mechanical Book. :)