Russ Thorne

I loved a lot of the art in this book, but the thing that drove me crazy was the art they were talking about was never on the page they were talking about it on. So they talked about Frazetta and specifically mentioned his pieces by name, but they were no where in the book. They talked about collectible card game art, but never showed any of it. Even if the art they were talking about was in the book it was always "as seen on page X" and then you had to go back and find that page.

I think the thing I liked the most was the artist sidebars where they described their techniques. A lot of it was like that "how to draw an owl" meme where they draw a couple circles and then the next step is to "draw the owl". It's pretty crazy thinking of some of the skill with software some of these artists have. Photoshop is so huge you could probably create a curriculum of 3 or 4 college semesters and still not understand how it all works.… (más)