Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth PDF eBook (Graphic Novel/ Comic)

Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth is a comic series written and illustrated by American cartoonist Franklin Christenson Ware, widely known as Chris Ware. Before being compiled into a graphic novel in 2000, the story was published as serials in New City (an alternative Chicago weekly newspaper) and also in Ware's Acme Novelty Library from 1995 to 2000. The artwork of this comic sometimes evokes early 20th-century American design style. It generally uses vivid color with realistic and thorough details. Jimmy Corrigan has achieved wide critical acclaim and won some prestigious awards, including Eisner Award. The New Yorker cited it as "the first formal masterpiece of (the) medium."
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House of M Director's Cut (Comic)

PDF Page: 49 | File Size: 11 MB

House of M is probably the most epic event in Marvel Comics of the decade, released as 8-issue mini series. Behind these great comics, the two most responsible people are writer Brian Michael Bendis and comic artist Olivier Coipel. Both have done a marvelous works in the storyline and art departments respectively so this series becomes what it is as we know it.

Inside this special edition “House of M Director’s Cut,” readers can see the production process, Bendis’ script before it is executed in text balloons, raw pencil sketches by Coipel for the panels. As additions there are also interview with Brian Bendis, the complete step-by-step process of creating the artwork for the cover, and also Joe Quesada’s design for the variant cover.
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House of M Sketchbook (Comic)

PDF Pages: 20 | File Size: 5.5 MB |

House of M is a mini series by Marvel comics, and some issues of almost all famous titles are related as tie-ins, including X-Men, Avengers, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Wolverine, etc. Each series is drawn by different artist(s) respectively and to name some of them are Olivier Coipel (House of M), Alan Davis and Aaron Lopresti (Uncanny X-Men), Jorge Lucas and Andy Brase (Incredible Hulk), Scot Eaton (Fantastic Four), etc.

It’s such a great thing to be able to see the artworks from one of Marvel’s biggest epic at the most basic forms. The character designs in this sketchbook already look amazing even in raw, pencil sketches. Comic fans will surely love them.
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Frank Miller - The Art of Sin City.pdf (Comic)

Pages: 146 | File Size: 15 MB |

With his Sin City series, Frank Miller keeps on mesmerizing the comics industry. The shockwave he sends shakes through the industry and beyond, makes critics astonished and readers amazed. This effect of his works is still being widely felt today.
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Neal Adams 2007 Sketchbook Convention Exclusive.rar (Comic)

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As a comic artist, Neal Adams is considered as one of the best in the industry. He has helped in developing some of the best modern imagery of some of major DC characters, such as Superman, Batman, and Green Arrow. Adams has also won honorable places in Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame.

Neal Adams 2007 Sketchbook Convention Exclusive is a special and rare book for comic lovers since it contains sketches only. There are basic panels and free illustrations of some famous series from DC and Marvel as well, such as Tarzan, Rise of Magic, Diablo, Batman, and Superman. Some of those works are still in pencil only, where we can see Adams’ sheer brilliance as an artist.

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Jeff Foster - After Effects and Photoshop.pdf (eBook)

After Effects and Photoshop: Animation and Production Effects for DV and Film | Author: Jeff Foster | PDF Pages: 386 | File Size: 34 MB |

Adobe's After Effects and Photoshop are already integral parts in motion graphics and digital video production. This combo of best compositing and image-editing software have the potentials to produce magnificent artistic graphic works with high quality and low cost. But to unleash those potentials, knowledge, skills, and experience are needed. And After Effects and Photoshop: Animation and Production Effects for DV and Film might be a great first step to master every aspect needed to maximize the utilization of “dynamic-duo” programs.
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Mario Galea - Discover Manga Drawing.pdf (eBook)

Discover Manga Drawing | Author: Mario Galea | PDF Pages: 98 | File Size: 14.4 MB |

Even Marvel Comics make their own “manga editions”! That’s how massive the influence of this Japanese comic style is in worldwide comic industry. No wonder now there are so many who want to read or learn to draw manga. For those who have the interest in learning how to create awesome manga, Mario Galea’s Discover Manga Drawing might be a great source and guidebook to learn the tips and tricks regarding the techniques need to be mastered to be an excellent manga artist (a mangaka).
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Alex Ross - Mythology.pdf (Comic)

Artist: Alex Ross; PDF Pages: 318; File Size: 45.5 MB;

Alex Ross is one the best comic artist of his generation. He takes comic arts to completely another level with his photo-realistic style, which brings superheroes to life. The designs he created perfectly captures the awesomeness of comic fantasy. Either working for DC or Marvel, Ross maintains his own art art style, that in effect, it injects some kind of refreshing vigor into the comic series he works on.

Alex Ross is a total comic artist. He gives thorough attention, love, and passions in his works. How he dramatizes the moment in each composition, how he presents each character in its best look for every event, how he uses real models to capture the image perfectly, and how he carefully arrange everything from the shading and lighting to the brush of his coloring.

Mythology is a fabulous collection that exposes not only Ross's sketches or finished artworks but this book also presents how he works, the creative processes he takes to bring the magic into his illustrations. This is absolutely a valuable book for comic lovers and they who in work or study deals with creating, designing, and editing images or illustrations.

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Mike Mignola - The Art of Hellboy.pdf (Comic)

The Art of Hellboy | Artist: Mike Mignola | PDF Pages: 202 | File Size: 28 MB |

Mike Mignola is one of the best comic artists out there and his Hellboy series have become a major success in comics and also movies. As a comic artist, Mignola have a very unique and distinct style in his artworks, though there are some influences of the earlier artist seen in his artworks. Mignola's style is one of a kind, we can say that his works may be won't be referred as pretty, but they are definitely show character, raw and cold and yet beautiful; and that style suites perfectly with the theme and atmosphere of Hellboy.

The Art of Hellboy is a collection of Mike Mignola's published works (covers and panels) and some of his unpublished sketches and illustrations. Though his published works have more portion than his sketches, this book remains a really good collection of comic arts. Readers don't have to go through many issues of Hellboy comics and they can instantly see the bests from Mignola. This book even will prove to be useful for non comic lovers. They who work with or study design or any other field involving creating images and pictures might learn some of the awesome "Mignola style."

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Earth X Sketchbook.pdf (Comic)

Earth X Sketchbook | Artists: Alex Ross, John Paul Leon, Bill Reinhold | PDF Pages: 51 | File Size: 21.6 MB |

Earth X Sketchbook is an absolutely awesome display of artworks, in this case comic arts, that showcases the sketches and character designs done by three great comic artists involved in Marvel's Earth X comic series. Those three artists are Alex Ross, John Paul Leon, and Bill Reinhold. In this sketchbook we can see how magnificent the modelling of some characters of Marvel universe. The details in the character designs have "enhanced" the characteristics of each character.

Though Alex Ross, John Paul Leon, and surely have their own style as comic artists, through the sketches here it appears that they can collaborate their designs and drawings pretty well to suit each other and the theme of the series itself.

Earth X sketchbook was actually compiled and published following the high demand of Alex Ross's article that was originally released in one Wizard magazine issue. In that article, Ross made some sketches of some Marvel characters (Hulk, Captain America, and Spider-Man) based on his projection of those characters existence in the future, when every human is superhuman.

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Tim Burton’s Nightmare before Christmas - The Film, The Art, The Vision.pdf (eBook)

PDF Pages: 106 | File Size: 32MB |

"Tim Burton’s Nightmare before Christmas: The Film, The Art, The Vision" is a fabulous book that reveals, not only in words but also many pictures, the artistic "ingredients and magic" behind the greatest and the most artistic Christmas movie ever, a truly a masterpiece, a one-of-a-kind beauty, with an extraordinary artwork. In this movie, Burton uses stop motion animation technique using clay puppets as "actors."

Nightmare before Christmas has unconventional and definitely “un-Christmas” characters, such as Like Jack Skelington (the hero of the Halloween Town)who kidnaps Sandy Claws (Santa Claus) since he wants to "take over" Christmas that year. There are also the heroine of the movie, Sally, is a Frankenstein-like girl Sally, the Halloween Mayor, the Evil Scientist, and the bad Oggie Boogie.

This particular book will show how each character was developed right from the very basic. From raw sketch, to detailed picture, to the puppet skeleton, until they are finally shaped as finished puppet (or "actors") as what we see in the movie. There are also elaborations about how each set being used was designed and built.

This book is a must for those who really love the movie, or simply its artistic and technical style, or even they who seriously want to study movie-making or design. This book provides many pictures in each stage of the development, which make such a fun behind-the-scene lesson.

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