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What are your favorite book illustrations?

Covers, depiction of scenes, interesting book design, anything goes.

Do you think illustrations help with the reading experience, or do they get in the way? Or maybe it depends?

>> No.22340666
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Anything by Gustave Doré

>> No.22340672

Amazon has truly horrid edition of treasure island with the most disgusting art i've ever seen in my life, it really makes the experience worse

>> No.22340674

Rackham is comfy.

>> No.22340686
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>>22340672
here is a picture of it

>> No.22340818

>>22340686
horrendous

>> No.22340930
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Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Volume I

>> No.22341075
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The last time I read a novel with accompanying illustrations was when I was 11

>> No.22341081
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>> No.22341087
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>> No.22341091
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>> No.22341333
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I really like Tolkien's illustrations

>> No.22341350

>>22340930
Is this worth reading?

>> No.22342058

>>22341081
Is that fucking Yul Brynnr in that back, top fucking kek

>> No.22342123

>>22341091
masterpiece

>> No.22342248
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>> No.22342311

I liked the old Strand Magazine illustrations for the Sherlock Holmes stories

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>>22342311
Whoops forgot pic

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Tarka the Otter has some nice illustrations.
Read Tarka the Otter guise.

>> No.22342343

>>22341350
Yeah. It's a pretty good first hand account of a guy's vacation. But the plates of engravings are what make it fantastic.

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>> No.22342416

>>22341087
oughhhh

>> No.22342468

>>22340686
This is what happens when they undervalue art and hire a cheap illustrator. Be thankful we have AI now. Even then, if the AI faggot is not an experienced artist it would still turn out like garbage. Best choice is to ditch art entirely, just blank/plain colors then text.

>> No.22342525

>>22342468
>Be thankful we have AI now.
I work with book design, past month I got an email from a small publisher asking if I could fix a cover that had wrong dimensions, I charged almost nothing, it was a 15 minute job, the guy sent me the cover and it was a disgusting AI mess the guy prompted himself, then I found out he was doing all of the covers like that since AI became mainstream. Artists don't use AI, only idiots like that guy who think they are saving money that way, when I just know that book won't sell. AI can help with technical aspects in some processes, but if the cover art is AI generated, one could assume the text is also AI, you devalue the book, it's pure garbage. This will flood the market with shit art and shit books too, they are in a dangerous zone where it's good enough to fool people at a distance, but with zero art direction.

>> No.22342992

>>22342058
Yes. He was Mitya Karamazov in the 1958 film

>> No.22343260

The Illustrations made by Diana Stanley for The Borrowers series.

>> No.22344350
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The covers for the wheel of time series by Darrell K. Sweet. I have no idea why these covers are not in print anymore but they are beautiful.

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>>22344350
>Darrell K. Sweet
patrician taste

>> No.22345045

>>22344350
>>22344753
I like this more colored and grounded fantasy illustrations. Nowadays it's all too movie-like and with special lightning effects, and quite often they just look like LotR knock offs.

>> No.22345068

>>22345045
check out clyde caldwell

>> No.22345559
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>>22340572
John Martin's illustrations for Paradise Lost are kino.

>> No.22345565

>>22342468
>Be thankful we have AI now
Unironically, kill yourself

>> No.22345597
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>>22342525
>if the cover art is AI generated, one could assume the text is also AI,
That's total bullshit. No one looks at the cover of Lolita and thinks "Nobokov sure is good at drawing." No one looks at the cover of Moby Dick and thinks "Melville sure was good at scrimshaw." No one looks at the cover of Paradise Lost and thinks, "Wow, I didn't know John Milton made Flemish tapestries." Everyone knows cover art is done by a different artist and often the author has no say in the design.

>> No.22345601

>>22345597
ai faggot cope
Nobody will buy your ai-slop novel. You lost and will keep losing

>> No.22345605

>>22340572
>Do you think illustrations help with the reading experience, or do they get in the way? Or maybe it depends?
They don't help and they are unnecessary.

>> No.22345768

>>22345559
holy kino

>> No.22345792
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>>22345601
>don't judge a book by its cover
>unless the cover is AI art
>then the contents retroactively become shit
>I am better than you because I get ass fucked paying for mediocre commissions

>> No.22345794
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John Craxton is an overlooked artist

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>>22345768
yeah he did a damn good job

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>>22345801

>> No.22345821
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>> No.22345833

>>22345068
Thanks for that, I've been struggling to find art like that.

Google searches for artists like X gives bullshit results. When I was younger this style seemed to be everywhere but now it's all simplified brutalist type nonsense.

>> No.22345837

>>22345821
I really hate these Baby Sitter's Club style covers. Also, check out her man hands.

>> No.22345949

https://oldodik.livejournal.com/tag/%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B8%20%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BA
Oleg Dobrovolsky (Oлeг Дoбpoвoльcкий) - Illustrations for Moby Dick.

>Do you think illustrations help with the reading experience, or do they get in the way? Or maybe it depends?
I think this should be determined by the author. Sometimes illustrations (and other embellishments of the text such as vignettes) form an indissoluble unity with the text. For example, I read Mark Twain from the modern edition without pictures, but after each chapter I look at the illustrations from the first edition. Book illustration is a separate art form.
I really like the Book of Kells cartoon, where the famous Irish illustrated manuscript is right in the center of the story.

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>>22340572
NC Wyeth is great
>>22340666
>>22341091
>>22345559
>>22345804
>>22345801
Patrician taste

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>>22340572
Michael Whelan

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great thread

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>> No.22347101

>>22345792
>you WILL eat shit
No you fucking faggot, books are judged by their covers, if there is a picture of a gaping anus smeared with shit, guess what, no one will buy the book

>> No.22347139
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No better way to appreciate Frazetta than seeing what pulp looked like before his art.

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>>22347139
I especially like his artwork for Karl Edward Wagner's Kane books.

>> No.22347162

>>22342248
Who the fuck would buy this for their kids

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Surprised I gotta be the one to do it

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>>22347080

>> No.22347634
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Bruce Pennington

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1234311.The_Shadow_of_the_Torturer