/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

I mean, you CAN learn, but it's complicated. Amano has a lot of influences at play in his work, from baroque and impressionist, to sumi-e and art art nouveau. It's a really original look and no one quite does it like him.

What I do think is important if you wanna try and approach Amano's style is to get some experience with classical techniques and forms, and then slowly work towards a similar custom.

>>3508106
never fucking ever

>>3508136
fucking hell

>>3508106
bit of a rip off of william blake, well based on anyway

>>3508133
right there seems to be a lot of Frazetta's influence in his early color work

>>3508140
youre a fucking retard

>>3508106
There's no simple answer, or step by step instructions. He took inspiration and experience and developed a style, and put the time in to develop it. His work draws from different types of style that you can delve into, like art nouveau, artist like William Rackham, Blake, even Klimpt, a little.

This is what you spend years on developing as an artist, experimenting with form and color until you start getting work that satisfies you, and interests you in pursuing. Deconstruct his work, study color, color composition, and visual composition, and start applying the ideas in your work. Do it a lot.

How do you paint like him? Be him. Or see if he's every given talks or written about how he sees art and puts his work together.

>>3508143
That Sandman 1 painting REEKS of Blake. Do you even know who Blake is, and his work?

Hot take: Amano is better than Blake. By a noteworthy margin.

>nips can only draw ani-

Are you dyslexic? What we said was “only nips can draw anime.”

>>3508224
>we

nice outing there faggot

>>3508196
yes, and its still retarded to call it a rip off. thats like calling anyone who does surrealism a rip off of Van Gough

>>3508106
Anyone got the artbooks?

>>3508106
I have this as a wallpaper, he's one of my personal favorite artists.

>>3510500
it's really great

love me some amano
this used to be my background for ages, now its a 7mb file lol filesize limits but oh well

shitty anime symbol drawing like the rest of it

>>3510529
>symbol drawing

absolute retard

>>3510054
Seconding this, someone please

>>3510651
wtf are those goblins doing!?

also someone share The Sky artbook pls

>>3510529
Never gonna make it.

>>3510054
I have some, managed to find out where I got em though had to use amazon drive for some reason but redownloaded just to see if all works
has mono 1&2, japan, the virgin, maten, fei tian & some vampire hunter D collection
really wish I knew where to get the Sky

https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share/e0xoyDEOE2VVOusIwJWHE8AZ9AYCRreKSa5TmcbGEQp/folder/R3vdPI8ZQUGAeY5tiZ5gJA/_EzcKRPdTPutGlFWnF1ewg?_encoding=UTF8&mgh=1&ref_=cd_ph_share_link_copy

>>3510833
ahh this shit stalled on me after a few % might as well ignore sorry fellas saw a seed got some download going and thought it'd be good.

Does anyone have the full version of this Amano pic?
He drew it for the X68K release of Ys 1.

>>3510833
same, got all of those already bud. I've submitted a request for the artbook-guy tho,since I've found a thread with a huge collection of amano paintings. There might some we don't have

Fucking love Amano's style.
You have to be brain dead to call him a rip off though. He draws on his influences, personal tastes and sense of aesthetics and really runs away with it to a far greater levels.
Someone no one mentioned but reminds me of Amano is Kay Nielsen, with the whole decorative and use of negative space thing.

>>3508106
>muh japan
weebtrash.

>>3510054

Just buy them.

>>3508106
pinnacle of "shape design" (composition i guess) is Z Beksinski.

>>3512945
beksinski enjoi

>>3510833
Recently ordered The Sky slipcased artbooks the other day, I'll be scanning them once they arrive so keep an eye on the next few artbook threads if anyone is interested

>>3512958
nice

>>3512945
definitely not, he doesn't come close to Amano in that department. Although he is the master of dystopian surrealism, so I'll give him that

>>3512958
You absolute mad man, are you for real?

>>3510529
nice bait

>>3508106
>pinnacle of shape design
that's not sergio toppi

>>3513237
woah this guy has some cool stuff im gonna have to add him to the list.

>>3508106
That guy is seriously the most hit and miss pro artist I have seen.

>>3514565
he's not a mere pro artist though, but unironically a grandmaster. People easily forget that since they usually only come across some of his very speedpaint-like, lightweight illustrations. He is a master of many styles, even though the FF ukiyo inspired style is his main.

>>3508106
i completely don't understand the appeal of any of these images, will i never make it?

looks like shid lole

>>3515876
What kind of art do you find appealing?

>>3515948
frank hong, feng zhu, ruan jia, akihiko yoshida, Tomoyuki yamasaki, those guys

i don't get this, if i saw it on a book i wouldn't pick it up

>>3516147
I think you just haven't been willing to absorb him wholeheartedly. This pseudo ukiyo style is very rare these days, but his mastery of shapes, dynamics and colors transfers over into any style and media.

He was a sensei for quite a few successful nip artists, including Yoshida Akihiko.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnLu5VSdYAg

>>3516350
did this ever come out, I remember reading about it 5 years ago and havent heard anything of it since.

>>3516724

it was a bit confusing, since there was talk about a movie/or anime accompanying the trailer, but a couple years afterwards no info is to be found. Perhaps the video was just an introduction to the novel, to celebrate the release of Amano's first personal work/novel.

the novel is out and has 300 pages, 200 are illustrations. https://www.amazon.com/Deva-Zan-Yoshitaka-Amano/dp/1616550309

although, according to myanimelist, there is a forum discussion about episode 1, but can't open the thread for some reason.

damn these cards are cool as hell

>>3518676
awesome man

>when will that one kind anon share The Sky

I think it's available everywhere, but I'll post it anyway
Amano Yoshitaka Gashuu - Hiten
yadi DOT sk/i/p0Z7lP2Z3ZBttN

>>3519628
the good anon from the artbook thread delivered the amano collection I requested. There should be everything here except The Sky, Deva Zan, and some of the more recent stuff

>3 big amano collection
https://pan.baidu.com/s/1qY7ibzY pass: yw9h

>>3519636
it loads at 30kb/s, i'll be rich enough to buy all the books sooner lmao

>>3508106
Nobody has ever said this ever.

>>3518685
Is this digital?

He's okay, but I much prefer the work of Noriyoshi Ohrai.

>>3522580
No, he draws traditionally, you can find some vids on youtube, I think

>>3522184
/ic is a bunch of plebs, what do you expect

real art> illustrations

>>3514750
This is fantasy art trash.

>>3524652
No. This is fantasy art. You are trash

Man seeing this makes me really sad that Final Fantasy made Nomura their main man instead.
Imagine getting to walk around in a world designed by this guy with current gen graphics.

>>3524970
Fantasy art = trash