Eye candy time again
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 at 8:54 amOne of my students gave me a present — a Yoshitaka Amano weekly art calendar. She apologised for it being a 2009 calendar, but of course that matters not when it’s Amano. It has a booklet of 52 pictures, many of which were new to me. Quite a lot of them are cute and cartoonish, including several adorable ones of Vampire Hunter D in chibi style.
This is the calendar -
And here is the company that made it -
Art Vivant
- but I can’t find either this or a 2010 calendar, though I’ll check back from time to time.
The Amano section of their site has a gallery of small pictures. To see more works (on the right), click on the link below the pictures with the numeral 10 in it. There are also some small prints (or just postcards, I’m not sure, but they seem to be limited editions) of D and other subjects — some of the links show you extra pictures — but I can’t see any price or ordering information. And if you’re a diehard fan with time to kill, clicking on the top link here will open a navigable advertisement with even more pictures.
On the subject of art, on a recent look-in at Who Killed Bambi I was taken with Al Farrow’s reliquaries made of firearms and ammunition, Claire Morgan’s bird falling through a roof (or planar field) of strawberries, and Shi Jinsong’s nasty nursery furniture.
September 16th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Didn’t know you were an Amano fan. Your banner/book cover actually reminds me of his art style.
Would you be interested in an Amano art book?
September 16th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Drooling, flailing fan. You should’ve seen me chase him at Worldcon in Tokyo a couple of years ago. Shameless gaijin. I got that autograph, too…
I wish I could have painted myself a proper ersatz Amano, but not being within a bajillion leagues of his godly skill, I did the chunky version.
Which one? (I have a few!)
September 16th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Will check what the local stores here have.
September 16th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Oh, I thought you were selling one or donating a doubled-up copy! Really, that’s ok — I’m happy to be a repository for homeless Amano books, but no need to go out shopping. Very kind of you to offer, though!
September 18th, 2009 at 9:28 am
The Shi Jinsong pieces look like what might have been used to train the Terminator in his childhood.
September 20th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
All they need are little side-mounted rocket launchers!
September 25th, 2009 at 11:01 am
If you love gorgeous linework, you might be interested in tracking down the manga artbook of Saiunkoku Monogatari. It’s quite spectacular.
I also recently succeeded in getting my dirty little paws on a copy of the Haibane Renmei artbook; cost me an arm and a leg, but I’m glad to have it! They’re getting rather difficult to acquire…
September 27th, 2009 at 5:39 am
I looked online — very nice indeed. But I like the loose qualities of Amano’s work — the way it sometimes looks like he just flung the paint down and it formed the shapes…