Sketching from the Imagination: Characters

It’s really interesting and my boyfriend loved it!

This book has been wonderfully inspirational with a large collection of different perspectives and styles. Each artist covered tells you a bit of their history, sources of inspiration, materials they use and their particular techniques for working. Sprinkled throughout are little passages of advice that one can go back to again and again. The styles of artists cover a great variety, everything from the horrific, to the goofy, comic and beautiful. They include architecture drawings as well as creatures and people. This book, along with the, 'Fantasy," version have really had a great effect on my own work and have led me to be more greatly excited and productive. I keep these books in the bathroom so that whenever I am there I can go back and find more and more reasons to keep working. These books have been a great find.

So when i bought this i thought it was going to be a book that was going to help me draw better by giving me tips and tricks. In a way it did but not the way i expected it too. This book is a compilation of other artist and the way they make their characters. They give a sense of background, they explain their inspirations and ideas, what materials they use, and how they start or do their sketching and their techniques. It also shows some of their sketches. Overall i really did like reading/looking at this book it a nice way to look at other artist, looking at their styles and how they got their ideas.

AMAZING purchase. Worth every penny. HUGE variety, beautiful works from dozens upon dozens of artists; jam-packed with high quality color images of their concept sketches, and personal accounts of what their drawing process/brainstorming processes are, so you get a huge breadth of advice. Any fiction illustrator needs to own this book. It’s over 300 pages.

Plenty of inspiration if you need

The artists showcased in this huge volume are a great melange of ideas and inspiration. Buy it!

THIS BOOK IS AMAZING!!! it's a trove of inspiration if you're an illustrator, animator, concept artist, or character designer, illustrative art appreciator, etc. totally should be on the list for essentials in art school, or just something to browse when you're art-blocked. I LOVE it!!

I love seeing artists sketches. It shows me the way they process their ideas and the raw energy of the sketch that sometimes gets lost in the final pieces. This book is full of sketches with notes from artists describing their thoughts on their works.