Sketchbooks

Can you imagine getting inside the head of your favorite artists? Discovering their inner-most thoughts and visions? Well that’s exactly what this special book – from the makers of ImagineFX magazine – delivers. Over the 180 pages you’ll discover the sketchbooks of some of the world’s best fantasy and concept artists. You’ll discover how their great pieces of art begin, how they quickly get an idea from their head to paper, what mediums they start their work in, and much more. In fact, there’s no limit to what you’ll learn and discover in this inspirational book. Just one small drawing by one of the artists here, just one stroke of a pen, or just one thought that accompanies the sketch could very well set you off on your next great…

Artist PROFILE Mattias Adolfsson Since 1995, Mattias’s day job has entailed being a 3D artist on various video games, music videos and films. He rediscovered his love of drawing when he started his sketch blog way back in 2006. The artist recently released an amazing new book – The Second in Line – which is on sale now at Adolfsson’s site. www.mattiasadolfsson.se PREPONDERANCE “I’m rather worried about our future and the environment. This on occasion shows itself in my drawings, it’s not that obvious though. The Ark is a recurring theme in my sketchbooks.” THE MIGHTY THOR “There’s always place for some mythology in my pages, I love the combination of ridiculously large vehicles being drawn by small animals.” “I’m not a religious man, I only like to draw animals…

Artist PROFILE Brett Bean Justin Cherry is a fantasy artist who has worked as a concept artist on Neverwinter Nights. He began his artistic career by working in animation, but discovered that he had a natural aptitude for digital painting. He takes his inspiration from a range of sources, including music, the Celtic Book of the Dead, mythological texts, and the work of the 13th Century poet, Rumi, whose words he has used here to describe his powerful sketches. www.nivbed.com SCI-FI GIRL “I watched the movie Sunshine and I liked their treatment of growing plants for oxygen in space. So this girl has her own oxygen plant to walk around with.” ZOMBIE MARIO KART “I made a group on MySpace called Zombie Tuesday. It’s where all the members draw a…

Artist PROFILE Justin Cherry Justin Cherry is a fantasy artist who has worked as a concept artist on Neverwinter Nights. He began his artistic career by working in animation, but discovered that he had a natural aptitude for digital painting. He takes his inspiration from a range of sources, including music, the Celtic Book of the Dead, mythological texts, and the work of the 13th Century poet, Rumi, whose words he has used here to describe his powerful sketches. www.nivbed.com ODIN “We’re friends with one who kills us, who gives us to the ocean waves. We love this death.” TERZARE “I circle the sun like a shadow. My head becomes my feet.” TYRHEAD “Wail and be thirsty for your own blood. Climb to the execution place. It is time.” AEGIR…

Artist PROFILE Mike Corriero Mike is a freelance concept artist and illustrator for the video game and film industries. He’s produced work for companies such as Hasbro Inc, Paizo Publishing, Liquid Development, Radical Entertainment, Applibot Inc, Team Chaos and many more. Mike specialises in creature design and development, character design, environments and art direction. Check out his awesome work at the site below. www.mikecorriero.com BLIND DRAGON “Producing unique takes on creatures that have been produced a thousand times is always a fun task. Here are a few smaller mole-inspired concepts before working up a blind dragon with anatomy inspired by the star-nosed mole and wings developed into additional digging limbs.” ORNITHOPODS “It’s useful to produce your own take on extinct or prehistoric mammals and dinosaurs. In this case I was…

Artist PROFILE Craww Self-taught and a habitual doodler, Craww turned to his sketchbook once he started over-thinking his paintings. “I was getting very hung up on colour, subject matter and composition,” he says, “and although it’s good to keep questioning what you’re doing, maybe not to the point that you stop doing anything at all!” He lives and works in Sheffield, in the north of England. www.craww.com SOON I’LL LET YOU GO “I wanted to create a connection between the bird and the figure. And for once, the bird isn’t a crow!” GOLDEN “Drawn somewhere over Greenland I think, while scrunched up in an economy seat, balancing in-flight food on one knee and a moleskin on the other. I really like the flow of lines around her leg. Not quite…