r/artbookcollectors

Still work in progress

Hello everyone! I'm often surprised to find out things I've heard of before actually have a strong cyberpunk visual style, so here I am looking for cyberpunk, dystopian, and sci-fi art book recommendations

The first image is basically what I live for. I’m mostly interested in full color production design, and environment concept art

Not really into sketch/mostly black and white books. For example, the many Ghost in the Shell and Akira art books don’t really work for me since they’re mostly sketches with very limited colored stuff

The other images are my collection, and aren't all cyberpunk, but they show the kind of art books I like. If you know anything with a similar style, even outside cyberpunk, I’d still be interested

Open to anything at all that you think works! Photography, gaming, movies and tv, etc. as long as it's in book form

The US Kodansha announced they will release the Clamp Gold artbook in 2027. Until now, many people didn't even know Clamp would have a Gold artbook ver after Kuro and Shiro ver. The Japanese Gold version was only available for pre-order for a short time, so many missed out and had to pay a higher price on secondhand sites. Now, you can start saving up to order one.

https://x.com/kodanshamanga/status/2072849042044760174?s=46&t=hBvpniQQVoGpY3674aiKng

First time posting on reddit. English is not my native language, please be nice.

I'm searching for a book with illustrations like these, specially if the artist is Japanesse or Chinesse.

I dunno how to ask to a community in particular.

Yona of the Dawn is such a special series to me, and this art book is incredibly high-quality and showcases Mizuho Kusanagi's artwork perfectly. Although the main story has already concluded, there have been some extra Gaiden chapters that expand the main story and the final one will be released soon! I'm not ready to say goodbye to all of these characters that are dear to me, but I'm excited to see what Kusanagi comes up with next (if she continues to make manga)!

First artbook by Japanese artist Kazuki Takamatsu. While he exclusively depicts young girls and women the thematic range is pretty wide: there's religious symbolism, plain fanservice, lingerie, school unforms, gas masks and weapons, influences of traditional japanese art, alien-looking dolls ... All the artwork is digital and pretty much monochrome. Only the 'lighting' differs occasionally (blue, grey, pink-ish, blood red). The characters look quite ephemeral / ghost-like or like they are made out of wax. The dead eyes also give them a touch of creepiness. It's definitely a very unique artstyle but that can easily lead to a certain sameness or deja-vu. So I don't know if I ever need a second artbook but this one I quite like.

Release: 2019/09/11

Publisher: Geishin

ISBN: 978-4-87586-565-0

Pages: 146

Price: 3.080 Yen

My first copy of Spectrum!

hello everyone,

I’ve been wanting to diversify my sources of inspiration for fashion and I know that I take some inspiration from anime. I was wondering if there are any art books that focus on men’s fashion or fashion generally that would be good. my intent is to use these as reference materials.

edit: here is an art book I liked. I’m hoping this might help in finding art book with what I’m looking for

https://imgur.com/a/IwtFtIG

This guy, while I may not like his writing, is such a fantastic artist, his work leaves me in such awe. Wanted to share some of my favorite pieces from this art book and will share some later from &Blast before I get rid of them.

Intron Depot Vol 1 to 6. Distributed by Dark Horse Comics. Still very adorable. I think they're at 9 Vols or something? Not including the myriad of other Art Books Masamune Shirow he has released. Intron Depot 1 also has the removed pages from later printings of GitS. Reasons in why the pages where removed range from "40% loss of potential sales", "It was received negatively" to "It didn't make sense in context now". Although it looks like it will be added somehow in the upcoming anime? Time will tell!

Just got this gorgeous Artbook in the mail. I was honestly kinda concerned at first that it was gonna be super thin and wouldn't really have that much content in it, but now I feel like an idiot for thinking so.

This thing is huge and super detailed. I don't regret buying this at all, the print is really high quality and the Artbook looks amazing!!!