1. Zeen Chin - Re-Child: Love the format and the art and the different concepts. There is lots of details to be had and I also like the mixture of cute and somehow weird/threatening witch imagery. Unfortunately I was not lucky/fast enough to get a copy of my own, so I could only watch videos of it.
2. Gwent - Art of the Witcher Card Game. I just love all of the Witcher novels, games and artbooks, because it is so easy for me to get lost in that world. Part of its charme to me is that it is inspired a lot by slavic folklore instead the usual staples of fantasy often derived from Greek or Northern European mythology. This book has just spades of artwork for this world in great format.
3. Norse Myths, Tales of Odin, Thor and Loki. Speaking of Mythology, Kevin Crossley-Hollands classic about Norse Mythology got updated with illustrations of the wonderful Jeffrey Alan Love this year and it's amazing, if you are familiar with his earlier book "Notes from the Shadowed City" you should know what you are getting in terms of style.
1. Zeen Chin - Re-Child: Love the format and the art and the different concepts. There is lots of details to be had and I also like the mixture of cute and somehow weird/threatening witch imagery. Unfortunately I was not lucky/fast enough to get a copy of my own, so I could only watch videos of it.
2. Gwent - Art of the Witcher Card Game. I just love all of the Witcher novels, games and artbooks, because it is so easy for me to get lost in that world. Part of its charme to me is that it is inspired a lot by slavic folklore instead the usual staples of fantasy often derived from Greek or Northern European mythology. This book has just spades of artwork for this world in great format.
3. Norse Myths, Tales of Odin, Thor and Loki. Speaking of Mythology, Kevin Crossley-Hollands classic about Norse Mythology got updated with illustrations of the wonderful Jeffrey Alan Love this year and it's amazing, if you are familiar with his earlier book "Notes from the Shadowed City" you should know what you are getting in terms of style.