Sketching from the Imagination: Storytelling Paperback – 4 Jan. 2022

This is a FAT book with a lot of different art styles and pictures from each artist, printed in good quality with a massive range of artists and character poses. As someone learning to simplify and stylise, I really love it.The only thing that could make it potentially less useful is that the writing isn’t especially instructive about the drawing itself, more each artist’s take on developing the characters and selecting a design conceptually for the respective projects.That said, I didn’t expect this book to teach me to draw, and the number of pictures I can copy to practice techniques and reference for my own designs is still both practical and educational. I’m also really pleased with the diverse body types and races shown, and the way women are represented.Very few anatomically improbable women doing nothing but looking nice with nothing on, and the few naked-ish women seem to be mermaids or goddesses and pretty empowered. I know a lot of art books get given to kids and the way women are sexualised isn’t often handled this well- I wouldn’t hesitate gifting this to any age.Will follow up on this publisher in future!

I use this book when I’m feeling uninspired and it always helps. The pictures are great quality and I love the descriptions of the artists as well, and the advice. The selection artists is very diverse so it is full of different art styles and mediums. I will definitely be buying more in the series.

As someone who collects artbooks, this one is a real gem. It's hard to find the expressive sketches of artists in their artbooks, so finding a whole collection from such a wide variety of artists was great. Quality of the book itself is high and while those who are looking for tutorial types books might not get the sort of in-depth info they'd need, there's a nice amount of text giving a little info on the imagery.

I saw this book while browsing flip through videos on youtube. I am not disappointed at all. I bought it to give me some sort of inspiration. A range of artist are featured in this book with their own tips and interviews.Its a nice book to have.

Too many cartoon images for me, not enough realistic images.

This book has a wealth of artists sharing a variety of their art styles, processes and insights accompanied by abundance of artwork that’ll definitely grab your attention! A great book to have on your book shelf whenever you’re looking for inspiration!

I really adore this series of books. Very inspirational and handy for reference when I am designing or sketching in my spare time. I'd like to see them do even more of these. Another great addition to the collection.

Omg it's actually so fricking beautiful like its way thicker than I thought it would be for this price and the content is fantastic