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Book Review: CANNABIS WORKS—田中達之作品集

Cannabis Works

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:
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