Review by Anna
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Shingoku no Valhalla Gate Official Art WorksEnterbrainPleasantly surprised
This book (A4 size, hardcover) is a very nice collection of bright, colorful and detailed artworks. I'm not familiar with card games so I expected lots of pictures of girls: cute, sweet, hot, armed and such. But, as a girl, I was pleasantly surprised to find quite a number of handsome male characters here too. Each card illustration takes up the full page, only a little space at the bottom is used to give the name of the card and the artist. A few pages at the end of the book show some other artworks by those artists. All in all I'd say I got more than I expected.
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Love Live! School Idol Festival Official Illustration Book 1KADOKAWAA must-have!
A great collection of Love Live! arts, lots of colorful illustrations of all 9 girls in different outfits, casual clothes, school uniforms, kimonos, cheerleaders' and christmas outfits, performance dresses and so on. A must-have for any Love Live! fan! A4 size, full-color illustrations only, A3 poster of the cover art and Eri card included.
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Racing Miku [Calendar 2015 (Try-X Ltd.)]Calendar7 posters
This is the idea which should have been implemented long ago. A cover + 6 pages (each for 2 months) of nice bright illustrations, 2 of which already have figures based upon them. No chibi Miku picture though. Calendar grid is located on each page in a way not to distract from the picture and it's not the kind of grid where one can make notes, this is a poster calendar type. Fine quality coated paper, comes rolled, and its size is quite big. I'm giving it 4 stars only based on my personal art tastes and expectations but objectively this calendar is 5 stars and I hope to see more Racing Miku calendars in the future.
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FANTASIA SHU VISUAL BOOK WORKS SPECIAL EDITION POSTCARD BOOKSHUPretty postcards
It's a set of 24 postcards 182 x 129 mm, 9 of them are Alice arts, the rest are fantasy arts or women with horses, flowers and magic lights. Print quality is very good. I wish the size was bigger for the price, because the arts are so pretty I want to see more details, but even so I put a few Alice illustrations into frames and on the wall, looks good and I'm glad I got this item.
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CG Illustration Technique LET'S MAKE CHARACTER vol.2 (LET'S MAKE CHARACTER)ShimekoA great tutorial
It's a really good tutorial on Shimeko's amazing art technique, very detailed process of making illustrations and a lot of tips from the artist. You'll get even more from the book if you can read Japanese but I find it helpful even without knowing the language. Some knowledge of Photoshop needed to understand the artist's process. 2 chapters are about making the cover art, from sketch to lineart to coloring, and 2 more devoted to other arts. Size 18.5 x 24 cm, 208 pages, high quality print. The book is all about making so it's of interest to digital artists but don't expect many finished pictures here, it's not that kind of artbook. I'm very happy I got it so 5 stars from me and I ordered another one from the series.