What are your favorite "Art of ...." books?

[Gary Wilkinson]

I really love looking through books containing concept art and sketches for movies and games and wondered what everyone else's favorite ones are.

[carlianne]

I love love my art of Tangled book

[TessaW]

I don't quite have enough to have a favorite. I have Moana and Howl's Moving Castle. If I could get one right now it would probably be the Hotel Transylvania one. I love how wacky the designs of the characters are and I love spooky settings.

[braden H]

The 'art of' books of Final Fantasy were always my favourites!

[EliaMurrayArt]

I have the Art of Brave and I adore it. I also have a couple David Colman character design books which are just delightful.

[APHOTICMOTH]

Art of Rango, seriously amazing work.

[ArtofAleksey]

Cant agree more with @Braden-Hallett my favorites are:
Art of Final fantasy 9
Art of Edena
Art of Hercules (animated movie)

[eriberart]

I have...
The art of Howl's Moving Castle
The art of Spirited Away
The art of Avatar the Last Airbender series
The art of the Little Prince (the movie)
and enjoy all of them. I actually haven't looked at them in a while, you've inspired me to get them out

[braden H]

@ArtofAleksey said in What are your favorite "Art of ...." books?:

Art of Final fantasy 9

literally the one I was thinking of

[Heather Boyd]

Where do you guys see, find and collect these art ofs? I don’t have any but it would be nice.

[Adriana Bergstrom]

Oh this made me want to look for an "art of Zelda: Breathe of the Wild" that game has been such an escape for me.

[JoshSchouwstra]

Art of Blue Sky (comes with concept art from Ice Age to Epic)
and Art of Kubo are my two favourites.

[JoshSchouwstra]

@Heather-Boyd You can find them on Amazon, and most major bookstores. And they are a very handy reference resource!

Example:
https://www.amazon.ca/Art-Kubo-Two-Strings/dp/1452153159/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Art+of+Kubo&qid=1586292962&sr=8-1

Just type in "Art of…[movie title]" and there is usually one out there.

[jfeuer]

I loved the Lord of the Rings Sketchbook by illustrator Alan Lee.

[Heather Boyd]

@Josh-Schouwstra-0

I just bought the Art of Brave (loved the movie) and the Art of Up (because the interior of the book looked up my alley -shape use). But amazon will send it in month or bit. Thanks

[Libby Unwin]

The Art of Maurice Sendak. Got it on thriftbooks.com for $6, no joke. Big, fat hardcover and wonderful history of his work.

[carlianne]

@Heather-Boyd I always look for them when I'm at used book stores, it's fun to find old ones as well as the new ones. Otherwise Amazon!

[burvantill]

@EliaMurrayArt I am going to have to look into getting that, I love Brave!

[burvantill]

I have about 30 “art/artist” books. Some I bought and some were gifts. My most favorite are;
Art of Holly Hobbie
Art of Ratatouille
These were a Christmas gifts off of Amazon.
Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life was a gift when I was in high school.
Maxfield Parrish
and Norman Rockwell of which i have 3 Lol.
Most of my art books i either bought at big book stores or from second hand places like the friends of the auburn library.

[StudioLooong]

Mine is the art of Over the Garden Wall and Disney's "The Archive Series." I have the Design and Layouts & Backgrounds.