SpacePirateNeko Posted September 12, 2004 Share Posted September 12, 2004 OK i went to Amanos World last night and wow was i suprised by the front page. It seems my favorite artist in the damn world is drawng a book written by one of my favorite writers based on a character of one of my favorite musicians. It just cannot get better. Yoshitaka Amano and Niel Gaiman present : The Return of the Thin White Duke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercurial Morpheus Posted September 12, 2004 Share Posted September 12, 2004 Pretty cool stuff. I'll have to check that out later. I loved his work on FFVI and Vampire Hunter D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connor99 Posted September 12, 2004 Share Posted September 12, 2004 Hey, that dude on the sketches looks like a 20 something DAVID BOWIE ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpacePirateNeko Posted September 12, 2004 Author Share Posted September 12, 2004 Actually i saw Bowie play earlier this year ....the amano sketches look like what bowie STILL looks like Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat S Posted September 12, 2004 Share Posted September 12, 2004 Hey, that dude on the sketches looks like a 20 something DAVID BOWIE ! It is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halfan Posted September 12, 2004 Share Posted September 12, 2004 (edited) Wow Amano never ceases to amaze me. Every brush stroke flows like it is blown by a gentle breeze. All of his paintings have a touch of mystic to them and every figure seems to beckon the viewer to listen to their story. I was beyond words when an author and artist I really like produced a few books. It's really sad that interest in art is seldom seen here Edited September 12, 2004 by halfan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otaku-Smeghead Posted September 12, 2004 Share Posted September 12, 2004 (edited) Dudes any one think the Bottom left Pic looks like David Bowie??? sorry guys I didnt read all the posts this has already been discused Edited September 12, 2004 by Otaku-Smeghead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat S Posted September 12, 2004 Share Posted September 12, 2004 Otaku-Smeghead: Google search for "Thin White Duke" please... k thx bye! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EXO Posted September 12, 2004 Share Posted September 12, 2004 Otaku-Smeghead: Google search for "Thin White Duke" please... k thx bye! not everyone is a bowie fan though he is recognizable... on another note... I could care less about the bowie connection, though I love his 70's work... but I always enjoy Amano and Gaiman working together. It's weird that I didn't even discover Amno thru anime. I was looking over some papers for my senior paper in high school and i found a small drawing that he did in the New Yorker while I was at the library... I ripped that page off and kept it. It was years later that I learned about the Vampire Hunter D and Mospeada connection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radd Posted September 12, 2004 Share Posted September 12, 2004 My only complaint is the shape Amano's english site is in. He used to have a decent offering for his english speaking fans, a site run by assistants who worked with him in his New York studio, even. Now it seems as if his english site was made by Japanese assistants as an afterthought, his Japanese site looks much better. I'm really looking forward to this book, though. I just recently was reunited with my hardcover copy of the previous Gaiman/Amano collaboration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbs357 Posted September 12, 2004 Share Posted September 12, 2004 Wow. A famous artist and a famous writer from Japan get together to make a book about a famous musician from America. =D Sounds great. =p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radd Posted September 12, 2004 Share Posted September 12, 2004 Neil Gaiman is Japanese? I'm sure that will come as a surprise to him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingNor Posted September 13, 2004 Share Posted September 13, 2004 amano is one of my favorite artists, probably a toss up between him and Sam Keith (the maxx). great to see him still doing this stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EXO Posted September 13, 2004 Share Posted September 13, 2004 Neil Gaiman is Japanese? I'm sure that will come as a surprise to him. I didn't even see that... I'm sure Gaiman is confused about this nationality by now too, but his humor and dry wit is definitely british... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syngyne Posted September 13, 2004 Share Posted September 13, 2004 Neil Gaiman is Japanese? I'm sure that will come as a surprise to him. I think David Bowie would be even more surprised to hear that he comes from America. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundown Posted September 13, 2004 Share Posted September 13, 2004 I'm probably the only person who does not like Amano's work. I can appreciate his brushwork and complex use of subtle colors, and I suppose he's got a certain style that stands out... but I've never really been impressed by the linework of his paintings. Now I suppose it's because he's going for the abstract, and allows things to look a little "off", but lots of it ends up simply looking... amateurish. I've seen abstract still that still screams of the artist's enormous technical skill... but Amano's stuff has always looked to me like a very skilled painter trying to paint over a sub-par art student's doodles. Blasphemous, I know. I've just never seen anything from Amano that suggests he has mastery over proportions and lines, and that he violates them with purpose for greater effect. Most of the deviations simply look arbitrary. -Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingNor Posted September 13, 2004 Share Posted September 13, 2004 I'm probably the only person who does not like Amano's work. I can appreciate his brushwork and complex use of subtle colors, and I suppose he's got a certain style that stands out... but I've never really been impressed by the linework of his paintings. Now I suppose it's because he's going for the abstract, and allows things to look a little "off", but lots of it ends up simply looking... amateurish.I've seen abstract still that still screams of the artist's enormous technical skill... but Amano's stuff has always looked to me like a very skilled painter trying to paint over a sub-par art student's doodles. Blasphemous, I know. I've just never seen anything from Amano that suggests he has mastery over proportions and lines, and that he violates them with purpose for greater effect. Most of the deviations simply look arbitrary. -Al try looking at some of his older, more cartoony stuff, he definately can do more traditional work. i've always loved his work ever since final fantasy 6 (3 in u.s.) this is a bad example cus the figures are all covered up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeszekely Posted September 14, 2004 Share Posted September 14, 2004 I'm probably the only person who does not like Amano's work. I can appreciate his brushwork and complex use of subtle colors, and I suppose he's got a certain style that stands out... but I've never really been impressed by the linework of his paintings. Now I suppose it's because he's going for the abstract, and allows things to look a little "off", but lots of it ends up simply looking... amateurish.I've seen abstract still that still screams of the artist's enormous technical skill... but Amano's stuff has always looked to me like a very skilled painter trying to paint over a sub-par art student's doodles. Blasphemous, I know. I've just never seen anything from Amano that suggests he has mastery over proportions and lines, and that he violates them with purpose for greater effect. Most of the deviations simply look arbitrary. -Al No, you're not the only one who doesn't like Amano's work. I personally can't stand it. It's extremely sketchy all the time... and while you could argue his methold of half-assed drawing is "artistic," I could easily argue that mowing half the lawn is equally artistic. I think it's just that much worse that it became the art style associated with Final Fantasy... now you have a ridiculous number of "otaku" who think that Square Enix is the greatest developer ever just because they have Final Fantasy... nevermind that they have precious little else, and outside of a few key series, most of their stuff actually blows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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