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Author: Lucasfilm LTD Doug Chiang Joe Johnston
ISBN : 1419708627
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From Ralph McQuarrie and Joe Johnston to Doug Chiang, Ryan Church, Iain McCaig, Erik Tiemens, and the next generation of animation and video-game artists, Star Wars Art: Concept collects, for the first time ever, the very best Star Wars conceptual artwork. As curated by George Lucas, the artwork that helped bring the Star Wars Saga to life is revealed in all its glory, featuring pre-production drawings and paintings from the Original Trilogy, the Prequel Trilogy, the TV shows, and the video games, including an exclusive preview of artwork from the highly anticipated 1313. Spanning the years from 1975 to the present, Star Wars Art: Concept is a fascinating look at the process of conceptual design. From pen and paint and paper to the digital realm, the result is the creation of breathtaking iconic worlds, vehicles, and characters that successive generations have embraced and made their own.

Praise for Star Wars Art: Concept:

“Legendary production artwork gets the showcase it deserves.” —Star Wars Insider magazine

“Star Wars Art: Concept is a glorious coffee-table book that’s chock full of great artwork by many of the masters who’ve worked on the film, from Ralph McQuarrie on down.” —io9.com

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• Series: Star Wars Art Series
• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams (October 15, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1419708627
• ISBN-13: 978-1419708626
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 12.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

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Star Wars Art: Concept is the latest in the series of Star Wars Art books from Abrams Books. The previous books in the series include Visions, Comics and Illustration. In this book, the focus is on concept art from a wide variety of artists. It also draws on more than just the films. Included is art from the films, from television and from video games. There are paintings, sketches and digital pieces all depicting various Star Wars concept images. As far as picture books go, this is a pretty nice one to look at.

The book comes in hardcover with two editions. The regular edition runs in at 176 pages with 125 illustrations. The limited edition runs in at 244 pages with 175 illustrations. It also cost ten times more than the regular edition, but it does come with five hand-signed giclee prints by Doug Chiang, Ryan Church, Joe Johnston, Iain McCaig and Erik Tiemens. The signed prints certainly make the limited edition attractive for collectors, however, I personally think the additional illustrations in the limited edition is a sore point for those who opt for the regular edition. Four hundred dollars is a lot of money for those who just want a book with the most concept art they can get.

The artwork includes quite a few artists, some more recognizable than others: Ralph McQuarrie, Joe Johnston, Nilo Rodis-Jamero, Doug Chiang, Ed Natividad, Ian McCaig, Erik Tiemens, Glen McIntosh, Ryan Church, Stian Dahlslett, Alex Jaeger, Sang Jun Lee, T.J. Frame, Warren Fu, Wayne Lo, Jackson Sze, Pat Presley, Kilian Plunkett, Steffen Sommer, Patrick Jensen, Hajime Sorayama, Chin Ko, Amy Beth Christenson, Greg Knight, Chris Voy, Eddie Del Rio, Chun Gee, Nathan Stapley, James Zhang, Richard Lim, Jan Urschel, Fabian Lacey, Kinman Chan, and Jonathan Bach.

Star Wars Art: Concept continues the Star Wars series of large oversized hardcover artbooks from publisher Harry N. Abrams. The books before are Star Wars Art: Illustration, Star Wars Art: Comics and Star Wars Art: Visions.

I didn't know what to make of this book before buying. It's about concept art but there are already has dedicated artbooks for all their six movies.

Well, this book features a mixture of concept art in the style of fully painted pieces, such as those from Ralph McQuarrie, some comic style art with outlines and markers, the very textural grayscale scenes you see from Doug Chiang and digital paintings. You can really see the transition from using traditional to digital media for creating art somewhere in the middle of the book. I definitely prefer the traditional media art, even though the digital paintings are also good.

The paintings are beautiful, standard and varies, but mostly look great. The rougher ones are the digital concept art paintings.

There are portraits and character designs, locations and cool scenes. My favourites would be all the locations and background art as they are really beautiful and detailed. There are two paintings I thought are from military FPS video games until I spotted the Stormtroopers and AT-AT Walker.

Artworks are selected from the six films, animated TV series, video games (published and unpublished).