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毛筆とペンで描かれた本文原稿を、彩り豊かに高画質で再構築。仕事場の写真やラフスケッチなど、バガボンド制作の裏側も見られる。
160 pages, Hardcover
First published October 26, 2006
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Takehiko Inoue
312 books1,575 followersTakehiko Inoue (井上雄彦) is a Japanese manga artist, best known for Slam Dunk and Vagabond.
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December 5, 2012
(More pictures at parkablogs.com)
The edition published by Viz Media is soft cover with a dust jacket. But the cover is actually quick thick and hardy. There are 164 pages to give this book a nice thickness.
This is the art book by Inoue Takehiko. It's based off the manga Vagabond. If you like the manga and the line art, this book is definitely for you. It contains many black and white full page illustrations, some of which comes from panels in the comic book.
The illustrations, when blown up to full page, show an incredible amount of detail. I'm talking about details in brush strokes, textures, line art and cross hatching. It's a showcase of technical prowess with manga ink. Every page is a delight.
At the end of the book are two very interesting pages. One is a full page photo of his workplace. The other is a collage of photos on his tools. There is a Stevie Wonder CD among his collection of CDs.
This book has no captions. It doesn't need them.
Fans of Inoue Takehiko or his comic should find this book very satisfying.
There are two art books released based on the Vagabond comic. This is one of them. The other is called Water: Vagabond Illustration Collection which contains water colour illustrations. Check out the my review for Water too.
This review was first published on parkablogs.com. There are more pictures and videos on my blog.
June 30, 2022
5555555（最近就是很迷）卖家在上海卖家人很好，先退了我的钱，然后一起等了两个月解封第一天让我重新付款第一时间顺丰发出来给我
June 22, 2024
theee arttt stylee🔝🔝💯
July 13, 2012
I'll be honest: even though I was at some point responsible for choosing the artbooks for the company of bookstores I work for, I never thought artbooks were "for me". They were pretty, sure, and nice to look at, but why waste money I could use for "real" books for books with just pictures in them.
I've come a long way, baby.
Yes, I definitely could have spent the money I spent on both "Sumi" and "Water" on more volumes of "Vagabond" - but I don't regret my purchase at all. Having recently come into the possession of two artbooks by Kazuya Minekura, I had already had an idea of how gorgeous and pleasurable artbooks can be, I didn't need that much persuasion to give these two a try - especially since the reviews had been really enthusiastic. (And even though enthusiasm can be misleading, in this case it was really endearing - I wouldn't necessarily part with my internal organs like one reviewer would - I'd save them in case I need them for some more of Minekura's artbooks - but I can understand where he was coming from.)
And really, this is breathtaking. Times like these, I kind of regret not having the proper vocabulary to talk about art, but these are the kinds of pictures you can lose yourself in. Both "Sumi" and "Water" are equally beautiful - "Water" contains water colour artworks whereas "Sumi" contains pictures drawn with pen and brushes. It's incredibly detailed and vivid, and as I said, I really lack the words in order to describe this properly. Just - it's beautiful.
The only downside is in my opinion the binding - it's not a hardcover, and so you can't really "flatten" the pages properly, which makes it a bit more difficult to look at them. But despite not being hardcovers, both books are quite sturdy. (And I do agree with the reviewer who said that you have to get both of them - I couldn't say which to pick if I had to, and they complement each other nicely.)
I've come a long way, baby.
Yes, I definitely could have spent the money I spent on both "Sumi" and "Water" on more volumes of "Vagabond" - but I don't regret my purchase at all. Having recently come into the possession of two artbooks by Kazuya Minekura, I had already had an idea of how gorgeous and pleasurable artbooks can be, I didn't need that much persuasion to give these two a try - especially since the reviews had been really enthusiastic. (And even though enthusiasm can be misleading, in this case it was really endearing - I wouldn't necessarily part with my internal organs like one reviewer would - I'd save them in case I need them for some more of Minekura's artbooks - but I can understand where he was coming from.)
And really, this is breathtaking. Times like these, I kind of regret not having the proper vocabulary to talk about art, but these are the kinds of pictures you can lose yourself in. Both "Sumi" and "Water" are equally beautiful - "Water" contains water colour artworks whereas "Sumi" contains pictures drawn with pen and brushes. It's incredibly detailed and vivid, and as I said, I really lack the words in order to describe this properly. Just - it's beautiful.
The only downside is in my opinion the binding - it's not a hardcover, and so you can't really "flatten" the pages properly, which makes it a bit more difficult to look at them. But despite not being hardcovers, both books are quite sturdy. (And I do agree with the reviewer who said that you have to get both of them - I couldn't say which to pick if I had to, and they complement each other nicely.)
July 29, 2009
Just got this art book and it is of course, beautiful. Sumi is just the pen and ink artwork from the series and while I really like this one, I absolutely LOVE the other artbook by Takehiko Inoue called Water. It is the watercolor illustrations and has some artwork that isn't in the series. My jaw really hit the floor when looking through that one. Both are recommended though...
February 11, 2015
Brilliant!!
April 2, 2015
cool drawings
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