Do you have/collect/read any artbooks?

[Tonberry]

And by artbooks I mean specifically books full of art pieces that's originally meant to appear in something else, like games or films, you get the idea! Concept art, promo art, design sheets, all that fun stuff!

As someone who's does illustration both as job and for fun as my lifelong passion, it's easy for me to gush about the artbooks I own (not nearly as many as I want to!) and to dissect all the tiny little details I obsess an unhealthy amount over (I'll save that for another post if this thread takes off), but I'm also super interested to hear from people who aren't as "critically" focused on the art, and what they like about the stuff they own.

Everyone's welcome to share their artbooks and talk about them!

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[ZengarZombolt]

Yes and I wish I had more. I have the Gundam 00 Movie Mechanics, Masterfile ASF-X, and The Magnificent Kotobuki art books.

 

[bixo prego]

downloaded recently that concept art book from the hr giger inspired visual game, shit rly got ma atention , theres people who say that game was a mess in all senses but for me it is like a visual novel and is totally worth it ya know
cant attach any physical product cus dont have the props for acquire those haha

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

I own a small handful of Hatsune Miku/Vocaloid art books, but regarding games/movies I own the Fire Emblem Awakening Artbook

 

[Tonberry]

downloaded recently that concept art book from the hr giger inspired visual game, shit rly got ma atention , theres people who say that game was a mess in all senses but for me it is like a visual novel and is totally worth it ya know
cant attach any physical product cus dont have the props for acquire those haha

Oh, Scorn? Yeah that game had amazing art.

I own a small handful of Hatsune Miku/Vocaloid art books, but regarding games/movies I own the Fire Emblem Awakening Artbook

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Those all count!
I don't know much about the modern Fire Emblem games, but I remember liking the cool promo art for Awakening a lot when it was around.

 

[Lg42inchtv]

The only artbook I have is an artbook for the first six Final Fantasy games.

 

[bjork]

I used to have some Phantasy Star Online ones, but I think the only artbook I still have is one for Kiki's Delivery Service.

 

[nobitakun]

I have only few artbooks, as I specialized more on guides back then. One of my favourites is Tony's Artworks, from Tony Taka. I have another one that I bought in Japan and it came with a DVD. It's another ecchi artbook. The rest I don't remember, they are in the closet with all the guides and I feel really lazy to look for them right now lol.