PADDYSBOOKS

Not So bigcartel. Yet.

2011-12-25T09:41:00.000Z

Decided to get another store open, it is very small at the mo, but that should change fairly quickly.

push the big button for my new little store, or follow the link below, let me know what you think, maybe buy something, if we haven't got it which is likely, I can probably point you in the direction of someone who has.

www.paddysbooks.bigcartel.com

Agent Provocateur

2011-12-03T19:37:00.001Z

Some of the beautiful sketch work from Jake (Agent 44) Parker's new book Spacecave One, a most excellent collection of robots, spaceships, dinosaurs and character design.

This is the array of original sketch cards we have, one per book for the first 19.

Spacecave One on Amazon

or on bigcartel

Such has been the patient sufferance of these Kolonies

2011-11-27T00:08:00.001Z

Kolonie was a world rich with oil money and prospering on the vast numbers of immigrants who arrived from the inner system. When the oil based technology was replaced with more efficient cheaper options the economy of Kolonie dried up fast. Now a jewel of first world planets is quickly becoming a third world back water. The book Kolonie The Forgotten Empire covers the visual realisation of this world in its swift wind down towards complete ruin.

Christian Schellewald and Patrick Hanenberger worked together on this project to produce a vast array of concept art covering the structures, environments, vehicles and people of the world of Kolonie.

Set Yourself a Task.

2011-10-22T15:28:00.000+01:00

These three books all contain work produced as part of long term projects set by the artist themselves as either a way of capturing their external environment or the landscape of the mind.

The 52 Weeks Project contains beautiful surreal portraits (with a feeling similar to Phil Hale and James Jean) of a multitude of characters (real and imagined), in often dark, mysterious and/or threatening circumstances. The book is a truly wonderful arrangement of primarily ink drawings with the occasional splash of colour.

PDX 100 contains 100 ink sketches of Portland Oregon, not necessarily the most endearing subject matter maybe but the style in which the city is portrayed brings new light to this most industrial urban scenery.

Sundstrom drew his way across America on a road trip from New Hampshire to Oregon on the Oregon Trail a journey of some 3700 miles in 8 days taking in many a sight and a good dose of inspiration.

Imaginary Friends Studios, Really

2011-09-20T02:54:00.003+01:00

Three incredibly high quality books from the Singapore based Imaginary Friends Studios. An amazing amount of work for a huge array of properties: video games, films, comic books, and advertising has been squeezed into these books creating superb collections of art. Grab them here.

Imagine Prime is the original book of art from Imaginary Friends Studios, a proper tome filled with the art of the founders of this amazing company. Mostly character art, pinups and cinematic action sequences all rendered superbly and in very definitely different styles.

The Pepper Project is a collection of art centred around a character designed by Stanley 'Artgerm' Lau. Pros and amateurs alike were invited to contribute Fanart of the character Pepper toward this book project. As well as the art by others her progenitor supplied several works himself to give an overarching idea of his character's personality and style.

The REDUX collection as the name suggests is smaller, yet it also covers some things the others barely touch on, the making of some of the work created during IFS highly successful existence.

So if you if you're interested in these books go to our Amazon store here
or bigcartel here.

Aloha Chris Sanders

2011-09-11T23:32:00.000+01:00

The work of Chris Sanders is probably known to most people through the excellent animated movie Lilo and Stitch as well as it's successive movies and T.V. series. He has also put his own personal work into 5 sketchbooks (of which we have 3) and a wonderfully witty comic strip Kiskaloo. The sketchbooks overflow with perky girls and wild critters. The Kiskaloo comic strips are charming in the extreme, the protagonist Ogo a one eyed cat is definitely a close relation of Stitch albeit in feline form.

The sketchbooks above and the Kiskaloo comic strip book are available in our store here.

Although his personal site hasn't been updated in a while it is still worth a look round as is Sanders' devart page both could be deemed NSFW.

We May Be Late to the Party but We Know How to Hit the Buffet.

2011-09-09T23:22:00.003+01:00

The rest of our SDCC selection is here, yay.

J. Scott Campbell's double release of his new hardback sketchbooks White Hot and MARVELous Art. Both books follow the excellent quality and finish of the previous range of books from Campbell, and are rammed to the roof with superb character art. These and more of Campbell's superb wares available here.

The first volume in the Fairy Quest series. 48 pages of comics featuring Red Riding Hood, The Big Bad Wolf, Peter Pan, Tinkerbell, Captain Hook, and Hansel and Gretel! Plus six pages of pinups by great artists J. Scott Campbell, Eric Canete, Francisco Herrera, Mike Kunkel, Jason Pearson, and Skottie Young. This book and some of its' pals are available here.

Francisco Herrera's new style of sketch book full of info on his process and sketches of characters from a multitude of projects and titles. Quick sneak peek below and the book itself and a couple of friends here.

The first two stories of Jose's Mariachi Samurai, fill over half the book The first chapter has painted art by Tobias Kwan. The second chapter is finished by Jose. The last part of the book consists of concept art, sketches and designs. Grab it in all its glory here.

Mighty Avengers artist Frank Cho's sixth superb sketchbook, filled with pinups and action shots, jungle women and Captain America. This and other fine Frank Cho stuff here.

Not from SDCC per se but from across the street at Tr!ckster, but still kicking major ass with its creator owned content and beautiful high quality stylings. Get it here.

A Little Bit Massive

2011-09-08T00:37:00.000+01:00

Sketchbooks from four artists in the Massive Black inc. ranks, to anyone frequenting the conceptart or imaginefx art forums these names and their work should be familiar.

Below are examples of work from the artists (Sam Brown, Wes Burt, Kemp 'Steaktron' Remillard, Justin 'Coro' Kaufman) whose work smothers the pages of these little gems.

These sketchbooks may be only little but the small ones are often the juiciest.

You can find them available here at our Amazon store.

Hughes Who

2011-09-01T20:53:00.000+01:00

If you're a fan of DC comic books you can not have failed to notice the amazing 'good girl' art of Adam Hughes, Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Catwoman, Zatanna and Powergirl have all featured in his repertoire. As well as becoming a well known contributor to DC's superhero filled world, Hughes has also made himself known within the multifaceted Star Wars saga and the Whedonverse with Serenity.

An array of Adam Hughes excellent con books, each one a sketch filled monograph.

All of these are available here (at least for the near future) together with the Emerald City ComicCon book Monsters and Dames 2011 which sports a Hughes cover.

For more of his gorgeous work go to Adam Hughes site.

It's Not Easter But Here's A Chocolate, Egg, Jump.

2011-08-31T18:02:00.002+01:00

Go to Eric Canete's blog to see the continued quality and quantity of work that is churned out by the man. Then go here and grab yourself a copy of his fantastic books.

CHOCOLATE as the name suggests is full of sweet goodness, 65 assorted pen and ink drawings containing superhero pinups and original non-character illustrations.

EGG is a beauty similar in style to CHOCOLATE though obviously its precursor, rammed full of excellent pen and ink character art and scene work, superbly presented.

JUMP dossier is a concept sketchbook for a creator-owned project Eric Canete has been working on for a while. It contains script page snippets, page thumbnails, character concepts, background and prop design work, and one of two inked panels from the finished pages themselves. This being a preview book it has been limited to a run of 300.

The Young Ones

2011-08-31T17:35:00.003+01:00

Skottie Young has worked as an illustrator and cartoonist for over ten years working for entertainment and publishing companies Marvel, Warner Bros., Image, Upper Deck, Mattel, and many more. He currently illustrates the New York Times' Best Selling and Eisner Award Nominated adaptions of L. Frank Baum's OZ novels working with writer Eric Shanower.

For more eyegasms go to skottieyoung.com

These books are full of the things he does when he's not working his butt off.

If you're into super smooth multi layered rendering or photorealistic paintings these books aren't for you, however if you like energy and wit and a high quality, sketchy drawing style these books are what you're after. Come see them here.

Well Rounded Cheeks

2011-08-25T17:38:00.000+01:00

We've got the very excellent Cheeks: Still Together available to buy over on our Amazon storefront now together with several of Sean 'Cheeks' Galloway's other great books. Cheeks: Still Together comes with a free tote bag patterned, with characters from Sean's own graphic novel Bastion's 7.

If you're interested in one of Sean's superb Kuta Vinyl figures visit his blog or his deviantart page for some plasticised arsekickery.

Jet Propelled Rabbit and Rocket Car Rhino

2011-08-24T15:01:00.002+01:00

Go see Mike Yamada's Blog check out the awesomeness, an especially apt phrase to describe the blog of a man who has worked on Kung Fu Panda 2 and How Train Your Dragon. His ability to render animals and vehicles has been put to excellent use in his upcoming flash card series Zoom Zoo.

A couple of images not from the flash cards but which probably gave Mr. Yamada a push in the right direction.

Whether you're a mother to be or someone who appreciates great artwork this collection of charming cards is definitely for you.

http://mikeyamada.blogspot.com/

Asian Invasion

2011-08-22T05:01:00.001+01:00

Our Japanese selection has grown exponentially over the past couple of weeks, we now stock several anime art books, some hyper angle and anatomy books, video game concept art books as well as some foundation books on landscapes, environments and character design.
Every one of these books is packed to the rafters with amazing imagery, whether you want to learn some new skills or are just appreciative of fine work.
These books and more are available here

Design Studio Press

2011-07-29T16:01:00.000+01:00

Some of the amazing range of books produced by designstudiopress. The artists who show their work in many of dsp's books work at the forefront of the art industry, plying their trade in AAA movies like Star Wars, Tron Legacy and MIB. Find them here

Brave Art

2011-07-22T22:19:00.000+01:00

Looking most excellent, a Pixar original film Brave. Animation studios like Pixar, Disney and Dreamworks always deliver when it comes to visuals, and their books are no exception. The original Kung Fu Panda art book sprung off the shelves with such vigour we could only acquire French copies.

Some of the current batch of animation studio's output as well as a limited edition exhibition book from Pixar's 25th anniversary show.
All are available from Amazon here and here

J. Scott Campbell

2011-07-20T16:52:00.006+01:00

J. Scott Campbell is debuting two new art books at this year's San Diego Comiccon:
MARVELous Art and White Hot, which we will hopefully have available soon after, however to tide you over 'til then.

Code Orange, Blue Beauties(signed), More Gray Area(signed), Faces(signed) and Tall(signed) Sketchbooks are all available here at least for a while.

Asian Inspiration

2011-07-19T18:21:00.003+01:00

There are some tremendous Asian art books out there, many of them however are little known outside their own continent.

Leewi Art's books run along a similar line to Ballistic Publishing's Exposé and D'artiste series. The artwork within however is most definitely done in an Asian style albeit by an international group of artists.

These three are available here but many more are held by paddysbooks here.

Cheeky Chappy

2011-07-12T10:42:00.005+01:00

Spread The Cheeks

Cheeks Unclenched

Cheeks: Freshly Squeezed

Sean (Cheeks) Galloway's amazing sketchbooks available here right now all signed some with added extras.

The new book Cheeks: Still Together should be with us shortly.
Witness the awesomeness over on Got Cheeks

Marvellous Monographs

2011-07-11T18:15:00.019+01:00

Some of the Hardcover monographs we are currently stocking (no promises for later as the majority of these books are out of print and very limited edition).

The list contains more than the picture, but the picture's just pretty the books are beautiful.

Angelic: The Art of Mark Brooks Vol 2
Black Smoke White Lies
Blue Beauties: The Treasures Cargo
Bomb Shells

Code Orange: The Defector Archives
Cream & Sugar: The Art of Justin Coffee
Devilish
Dirty Beauty
Duck Eye Candy From Strangers Volume 1.0 Book 1

Eye Candy From Strangers Volume 1.0 book 2 Fairy Quest: The Narrator's Book
Goes to Zanyzonkerville
High Voltage The Art of David Finch volume 1

Imaginary Places
LA / SF: A Sketchbook from California Monsters and Dames 2010 Emerald City Comicon Artbook

Monsters and Dames 2011 Emerald City Comicon Artbook

Never Ever After

Portadas
Quickie

Ramos Art-N-Out Hip (Ramos Art N Out great art no BS)

Sketchbox 3

Sketchbox 4

Stinkbomb Taesoo Kim's Sketches, Doodles, & Whatever

Strawberry

The Art Scrapbook of Suhaitao

Toxic Waste Humberto Ramos Sketchbook

Trans Am Champions
Visual Dialogues

Shuffle

2011-07-10T20:57:00.000+01:00

Shuffle : Tome 1, Speed painting

Shuffle : Tome 2, Les filles

Shuffle : Tome 3, Carnet de croquis

Shuffle : Tome 4, Robots

Shuffle : Tome 5, Character Design

Waiting on Shuffle 6 to be released it's looking good but no date as yet.

Best Get This Started

2011-07-10T17:02:00.001+01:00

This blog is for updating people on the books we have for sale over on Amazon.co.uk, and occasional art based excellence from the net. Every book we sell is art related; monographs, sketchbooks, art of movies and video games, anime/manga, design work as well as miscellaneous anthologies of general art and illustration.

This is just a splash of some of what we have at the moment. We get fresh stock weekly so you never know what you might find.

All these and more are available on our Amazon storefront.