Sketchbooks

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Inscribed by the artist with a drawing, Very Fine, Wouter Tulp, Tulp, Wouter, 2015, 1st, 9.75 inches, 6.75 inches, 48 pages, color and black & white illustrations, Softcover, wraps, English

Inscribed: "To Jesse / I'm a fan / of your work! / Wouter Tulp" Wouter Tulp is an illustrator based in Rotterdam, Holland. From the introduction:...

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The Art of Max Ulichney
  $30.00
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Fine, Max Ulichney, Ulichney, Max, 2020, 1st, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 96 pages, color illustrations, Softcover, wraps, English

The Art of Max Ulichney Vol. 1 is packed with 96 pages of charming paintings, energetic character designs, and amusing cafe sketches, collected here for the...

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Signed by the author, Very Fine, Marcelo Vignali, Vignali, Marcelo, 2012, 8.5 inches, 5.5 inches, 28 pages, black & white, Softcover, color wraps, English

"The Fractal Method is a designer's approach to figure drawing." Marcelo Vignali shares his own Fractal Method of Figure Drawing in this brief...

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Signed by the artist, Very Fine, Marcelo Vignali, Vignali, Marcelo, 2013, 8.5 inches, 5.5 inches, 36 pages, black & white, Softcover, color wraps, English

From the back cover: Traditional figure gesture drawings lack the practical application and the principle design understanding that my fractal method...

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Amanda Visell, Visell, Amanda, Limited to 400 copies, Very Fine, Switcheroo, Pasadena, 2010, 1st, 8.25 inches, 6 inches, 52 pages, color illustrations, softcover, wraps, English

This copy is signed by Visell. A limited edition catalog of sketches, sculptures, concepts, doodles and completed paintings for Amanda's solo exhibition...

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Walder the Art
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Very Fine, Johan Walder, Walder, Johan, Trinquette, 2013, 1st, 9781934623671, Hardcover, pictorial boards, English

Walder is a professional character designer, concept artist and comic book writer and artist, currently living and working between L.A. - Tokyo - Paris....

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Signed by the artist, Very Fine, Brooklyn Walker, Walker, Brooklyn, 2018, 6 inches, 6 inches, 32 pages, color illustrations throughout, Softcover, wraps, English

Under the adage "a good character designer is also a good fashion designer", Brooklyn Walker was prompted to research fashion styles and their origins to...

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Signed by the artist, Very Fine, Brooklyn Walker, Walker, Brooklyn, 2019, 1st, 6 inches, 6 inches, 32 pages, color illustrations throughout, Softcover, wraps, English

Under the adage "a good character designer is also a good fashion designer", Brooklyn Walker was prompted to research fashion styles and their origins to...

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Signed by the artist, Very Fine, Brooklyn Walker, Walker, Brooklyn, 2018, 1st, 6 inches, 6 inches, 40 pages, color and black & white illustrations throughout, Softcover, wraps, English

"31 days 31 drawings." for 2018, Brooklyn Walker based each day's one word prompt on memories from her childhood growing up the seventh of nine kids on a...

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Signed by the artist, Very Fine, Brooklyn Walker, Walker, Brooklyn, 2019, 1st, 6 inches, 6 inches, 36 pages, color and black & white illustrations throughout, Softcover, wraps, English

"31 days, 31 drawings." for 2019, Brooklyn Walker chose Halloween as her theme, and each day used a one word prompt as a springboard for a charming...

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Signed by the artist, Very Fine, Paul Wee, Wee, Paul, 2017, 1st, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 24 pages, 23 full-page color cartoons, Softcover, wraps, English

Paul Wee's 2018 book is a collection of 23 full-page color cartoons. The whole gang's here: Trump, Bannon, Sessions, Kellyanne, Rudy.... Paul Wee is a...

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Signed by the artist, Very Fine, Paul Wee, Wee, Paul, 2019, 1st, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 36 pages, 32 full-page black & white illustrations, Softcover, wraps, English

Paul Wee's 2019 book is a collection of 32 full-page caricatures and portraits. Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Keye Luke, Alec Guinness, David Lynch, Lon Chaney,...

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Signed by the artist, Very Fine, Paul Wee, Wee, Paul, 2017, 1st, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 32 pages, 27 full-page color illustrations, Softcover, wraps, English

Paul Wee's 2017 book is a collection of crazy combinations. For example: Hot Stuff the Little Devil and Hellboy Madame Medusa from Disney's the...

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Signed by the artist, Very Fine, Gregory Weir-Quiton, Weir-Quiton, Gregory, 2019, 6 inches, 6 inches, 48 pages, color illustrations, Softcover, wraps

Great artists make it look easy. Here are 48 drawings, figurative and fashion, that could be finished illustrations. Gregory Weir-Quiton is a veteran Los...

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Signed by the artist, Very Fine, issued without dustjacket, Gregory Weir-Quiton, Weir-Quiton, Gregory, 2019, 6 inches, 6 inches, 48 pages, color, Hardcover, pictorial boards, English

Great artists make it look easy. Here are 48 drawings, figurative and fashion, that could be finished illustrations. Gregory Weir-Quiton is a veteran Los...

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Signed by the artist, Very Fine, issued without dustjacket, Gregory Weir-Quiton, Weir-Quiton, Gregory, 2021, 6 inches, 6 inches, 60 pages, 58 color illustrations, Hardcover, pictorial boards, English

Gregory Weir-Quiton's 40 years of experience in fashion illustration included fashion advertising work for the prestigious Bullocks Wilshire department...

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Signed by the artist, Very Fine, Gregory Weir-Quiton, Weir-Quiton, Gregory, 2021, 6 inches, 6 inches, 60 pages, 58 color illustrations, Softcover, wraps, English

Gregory Weir-Quiton's 40 years of experience in fashion illustration included fashion advertising work for the prestigious Bullocks Wilshire department...

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Signed by the artist, Very Fine, issued without dustjacket, Gregory Weir-Quiton, Weir-Quiton, Gregory, 2021, 6 inches, 6 inches, 60 pages, 58 color illustrations, Hardcover, pictorial boards, English

Great artists make it look easy. 58 new drawings, both figurative and fashionable, thoroughly contemporary. Gregory Weir-Quiton is a veteran Los...

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Signed by the artist, Very Fine, Gregory Weir-Quiton, Weir-Quiton, Gregory, 2021, 6 inches, 6 inches, 60 pages, 58 color illustrations, Softcover, wraps, English

Great artists make it look easy. 58 new drawings, figures and fashion, thoroughly contemporary. Gregory Weir-Quiton is a veteran Los Angeles-based...

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Very Fine, issued without dustjacket, Gregory Weir-Quiton, Weir-Quiton, Gregory, 2020, 6 inches, 6 inches, 48 pages, color illustrations, Softcover, wraps, English

Here are 48 on-the-spot drawings--primarily portraits--created on the iPad. Gregory Weir-Quiton is a veteran Los Angeles-based illustrator with over 60...

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Very Fine, issued without dustjacket, Gregory Weir-Quiton, Weir-Quiton, Gregory, 2020, 6 inches, 6 inches, 48 pages, color illustrations, Hardcover, pictorial boards, English

Here are 48 on-the-spot drawings--primarily portraits--created on the iPad. Gregory Weir-Quiton is a veteran Los Angeles-based illustrator with over 60...

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Signed by the artist, Very Fine, issued without dustjacket, Gregory Weir-Quiton, Weir-Quiton, Gregory, 2021, 6 inches, 6 inches, 60 pages, 48 color illustrations, Hardcover, pictorial boards, English

58 movie poster and key art concept drawings from Gregory Weir-Quiton's 20 years in entertainment illustration. Evita, Anna Karenina, The Sopranos, Enemy at...

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Signed by the artist, Very Fine, Gregory Weir-Quiton, Weir-Quiton, Gregory, 2021, 6 inches, 6 inches, 60 pages, 48 color illustrations, Softcover, wraps, English

58 movie poster and key art concept drawings from Gregory Weir-Quiton's 20 years in entertainment illustration. Evita, Anna Karenina, The Sopranos, Enemy at...

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Cornflakes!
  $15.00
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Very Fine, Stan Wenches, Wenches, Stan, Mad Terrorist Press, 2004, 1st, 8.5 inches, 5.5 inches, 24 pages, black & white, Softcover, wraps

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Daisies
  $100.00
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Claire Wendling, Wendling, Claire, Old price sticker on the back cover otherwise Fine, Stuart Ng Books, Torrance, 2009, 1st, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 44 pages, color and black & white, softcover, wraps, English

Out of print. This 2009 book collects Wendling artwork created for French festivals, as well as never-before-seen preliminary sketches, alternate versions...

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Desk
  $20.00
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Claire Wendling, Wendling, Claire, Very Fine, Stuart Ng Books, Torrance, 2006, 1st, 8.25 inches, 8.25 inches, 64 pages, monochrome illustrations, Softcover, wraps, English

A pure sketchbook: 64 pages of pencil drawings by a modern master. 18 pages of lions and big cats, 17 pages of horses, and 20 pages of...

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Drawers 1.0 - First Printing
  $125.00
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Claire Wendling, Wendling, Claire, Small 1/16-inch closed tear at the spine otherwise Very Fine, issued without dustjacket, Bordeaux, le Cycliste, 2001, 1st, 978-912249319, 11.75 inches, 10 inches, 112 pages, over 500 color illustrations, hardcover, pictorial boards, French

Claire's first career retrospective art book covering her first published comic book pages in 1989 through illustrations, character designs, and sketches...

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Drawers 2.0 (Fine)
  $200.00
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Claire Wendling, Wendling, Claire, Fine, issued without dustjacket, Le Cycliste, Bordeaux, 2005, 2912249740, 11.75 inches, 10 inches, 144 pages, over 650 color illustrations, hardcover, pictorial boards, French English

This is the revised and expanded 144-page edition of Drawers, the retrospective of Claire Wendling's work in comics, games, animation, and illustration....

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Drawers 2.0 (Near Fine)
  $175.00
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Claire Wendling, Wendling, Claire, Near Fine (slight rubbing to the tips of each corner otherwise Fine), Le Cycliste, Bordeaux, 2005, 2912249740, 11.75 inches, 10 inches, 144 pages, over 650 color illustrations, hardcover, pictorial boards, French English

This is the revised and expanded 144-page edition of Drawers, the retrospective of Claire Wendling's work in comics, games, animation, and illustration....

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Iguana Bay 2.0 - French Edition
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Claire Wendling, Wendling, Claire, The French language edition limited to 4000 copies, Fine, issued without dustjacket, Bordeaux, le Cycliste, 2003, 1st, 2912249597, 9.75 inches, 6.6 inches, 96 pages, color and black & white, hardcover, pictorial boards, French

This is the French language first edition of this art book. Of course, there are only two pages of text. The first Iguana Bay sketchbook was published in...

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Claire Wendling, Wendling, Claire, One of 950 copies signed by the artist, Fine, issued without dustjacket, le Cycliste, Bordeaux, 2003, 1st, 9.75 inches, 6.6 inches, 96 pages, color and black & white, hardcover, pictorial boards, French

This long out-of-print signed and numbered Deluxe Edition is printed on an extra heavy fine art paper (Old Mill 190 gr. paper) which reproduces the artwork...

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Rainbook
  $25.00
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Claire Wendling, Wendling, Claire, Very Fine, Stuart Ng Books, Torrance, 2018, 1st, 8.3 inches, 6 inches, 104 pages, over 240 color illustrations, Softcover, French wraps, English

Claire Wendling offers a peek inside her sketchbooks! A new collection of over 240 never-before-published drawings plus several color illustrations....

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Claire Wendling, Wendling, Claire, Inscribed by the artist with a drawing, Very Fine, Torrance, Stuart Ng Books, 2018, 1st, 978-0-9788904-8-3, 8.3 inches, 6 inches, 104 pages, over 240 color illustrations, Softcover, French wraps, English

Inscribed by the artist with a charming drawing of a little girl. Claire Wendling offers a peek inside her sketchbooks! A new collection of over 240...

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Splash 2 (Signed)
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Signed by the artist, Very Fine, Bruno Werneck, Werneck, Bruno, 2008, 1st, Softcover, wraps, English

Bruno is an illustrator and a concept artist for Midway Games in Chicago. This book is comprised primarily of digital paintings. Really nice work...

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Jakob Westman, One of 500 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist, VF/VF, Westman, Jakob, 2009, 1st, wraps

A beautiful new full-color collection of finished works by this hip young illustrator/graphic designer/art director. Highly appealing, modern, graphic...

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Signed by the artist, Very Fine, Gino Whitehall, Whitehall, Gino, 2015, 9 inches, 6 inches, 72 pages, black & white, Softcover, wraps

Gino Whitehall is currently a senior concept artist at Riot Games and has generally been working as a concept artist / illustrator in the video game...

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Calla - Signed
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Signed by the artist, Very Fine, Lily Williams, Williams, Lily, 2015, 1st, 5.5 inches, 4.25 inches, 62 pages, color illustrations, Softcover, wraps, English

From 2015, Lily Williams' lovely first collection of art and sketches, self-published. Lily Williams is an author, illustrator, and storyteller who...

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Knuckle Sandwich - Signed
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Mike Williams, SIGNED by the artist, VF, Williams, Mike, 1st, wraps, English

A sketchbook from an animation designer and instructor. Mike was part of the first wave of Cal State Fullerton graduates who were self-publishing and...

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#227 of 500 copies signed by the artist, Near Fine (light wear to the lower corner, very flat, tight, clean), J. H. Williams III, Williams III, J. H., J H Williams, 2005, 1st, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 58 pages, black & white illustrations, Softcover, color wraps, English

A sketchbook of JH William's work from 2005. Includes over 50 black and white sketches and illustrations by the artist.

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Al Williamson Sketchbook
  $60.00
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J David Spurlock, Al Williamson, Spurlock, J David, Williamson, Al, Very Fine, Vanguard, Lebanon, NJ, 1998, 1st, 10.25 inches, 6.5 inches, 96 pages, black & white illustrations, Softcover, color wraps, English

The Al Williamson Sketchbook (1998) was the first book published by Vanguard. It was also the first book in their Sketchbook series--followed by Neal Adams,...

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J David Spurlock, Al Williamson, Spurlock, J David, Williamson, Al, #14 of 600 deluxe hardcover copies signed by Williamson, Very Fine in Very Fine dustjacket, Vanguard, Lebanon, NJ, 1998, 1st, 10.5 inches, 7 inches, 96 pages, black & white, Hardcover, leatherette, English

This limited edition, signed & numbered hardcover includes a bonus signature plate illustrated and signed by Al Williamson. The Al Williamson...

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Gutsie Gator 1 - Signed
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Ashley Wood, Wood, Ashley, Signed by the artist, Fine, Bambaland, Warwick, Australia, 2005, 1st, 8 inches, 8 inches, 48 pages, color, softcover, French wraps, English

An early self-published full color art book by Wood. Excellent production values. A mixture of drawings, digital/paintings, and undigitized paintings. Some...

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Uno Fanta (Signed)
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Ashley Wood, The limited hardcover edition, VF/VF, Wood, Ashley, IDW, 2001, 1st, textured boards, English

A mint copy, signed by Ashley, of the limited hardcover edition of Ashley Wood’s first art collection. Tighter work/painting than his output in...

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Bill Crouch, Bill Pearson, Wallace Wood, Crouch, Bill Pearson, Bill, Wood, Wallace, Limited to 1500 copies, Near Fine (mild wear, very flat, tight, clean), Bill Crouch, Bridgeport, CT, 1981, 1st, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 52 pages, over 120 black & white illustrations, Hardcover, wraps, English

This Wallace Wood Sketchbook edited by Bill Pearson, the publisher of Witzend's later issues, publishes "for the first time his teenage drawings, comic book...

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J. David Spurlock and Bill Pearson, Wallace Wood, Spurlock and Bill Pearson, J. David, Wood, Wallace, One of 1200 numbered hardcover copies with an extra plate signed by Spurlock, Very Fine in Very Fine dustjacket, Lebanon, NJ, Vanguard, 2000, 1st, 1887591079, 10.5 inches, 7 inches, 114 pages, black & white, Hardcover, leatherette, English

One of the deluxe hardcover copies with an extra plate signed by Spurlock. This sketchbook is packed with unpublished works including sci-fi art, Mad,...

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Abstract
  $20.00
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William Wray, Wray, William, Very Fine, issued without dustjacket, 56 Books, Duarte, 2019, 1st, 6.25 inches, 6.25 inches, 60 pages, 56 color illustrations, Hardcover, pictorial boards, English

A collection of 55 of William Wray's recent paintings. From the artist: My Abstraction is based on stripping down compositional design to its essence. It...

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Abstract - Signed
  $25.00
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William Wray, Wray, William, Signed by the artist, Very Fine, issued without dustjacket, 56 Books, Duarte, 2019, 1st, 6.25 inches, 6.25 inches, 60 pages, 56 color illustrations, Hardcover, pictorial boards, English

A collection of 55 of William Wray's recent paintings. Boldly signed by Wray on the front free endpaper. From the artist: My Abstraction is based on...

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Tiger Bee
  $18.00
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Very Fine, Katy Wu, Wu, Katy, 2009, 1st, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 36 pages, color illustrations, Softcover, color wraps

A short graphic novel about a girl and her guardian tiger, plus four sketchbook pages.

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