Book Review: CANNABIS WORKS—田中達之作品集
The full title is actually CANNABIS WORKS—田中達之作品集. Tatsuyuki Tanaka is a Japanese animator and manga artist who has worked titles like Akira, Batman: Gotham Knight, etc.
Cannabis Works contains illustrations, sequential comics, storyboards and sketches. Tatsuyuki Tanaka is good at drawing cyber fantasy, weird robots, mechanical stuff and complicated backgrounds. His colour palette is unusually muted with a focus on earthly tones, giving most of the illustrations an aged and, sometimes, eerie otherworldly effect.
Every single piece of art in the book is new to me. I've never seen any of his work before and this book is an eye opener. There are plenty of storyboard sketches which look like they are created for animation, but no titles come to my mind. I'm missing out on a lot of good stuff.
I've nothing much to add other than it's well worth my money, especially for the sketches.
To read more about Tatsuyuki Tanaka, check out linesandcolors.com. And on gallery.digik.net, they have scanned every page of the book. And of course I'll ask you to support to author by getting the book if you like it.
Here are direct links to the book:
Amazon.com | Amazon.ca | Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.de | Amazon Japan | Play-asia.com
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Here are direct links to the book:
Amazon.com | Amazon.ca | Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.de | Amazon Japan | Play-asia.com
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Here's the Amazon Japan buying guide for your reference.
Comments
WOW! Is it possible to get
WOW! Is it possible to get this book thru Amazon USA? I have no idea how much it cost and how to proceed in Amazon Japan, I can’t read!
My friend has this book. His
My friend has this book. His friend bought it when they went to Japan. His work is so twisted, yet beautifully designed. I really like this type of manga. It's not super polished and there are no bubbly eyes.
Another Japanese art book worth checking out, and I'm not sure if you've reviewed it yet, is 'Orange' by Koji Morimoto.
Great site by the way. I'll buy this book through your link when I've got some time to figure out the Japanese.
Cheers.
Eduardo Franciso - You can
Eduardo Franciso -
You can translate the page to English. There's a button to do that just right above the yellow shopping cart button. After that, the checkout process would be in English as well. Here's amazon.co.jp shipping rate for your reference.
Jeremy Ley -
I'll be sure to check out Koji Morimoto's art book.
Thank you Parka!
Thank you Parka!
That's really nice book of
That's really nice book of cannabis work. Thanks for sharing this with us
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