Portfolio: The Complete Various Drawings Hardcover – August 11, 2015

Wonderful collection. Filled up a need I had. Just not enough Mark Schultz out there in my opinion. Need more! Besides the glorious contents, the book itself is nicely made, including its large size and paper use.Mark has really improved since his early days, and this is breathtaking proof. His pencils are superb and his inks fantastic. He does not give himself enough credit. Its cool to see the pencil and then the inks of the same image.There were some images that could have been grouped together, however, but this is a collection of several separate volumes, so I get it.Also his Edgar Rice Burroughs stuff was left ambiguously named, perhaps from fear of copyright infringements or something, but there are several Barsoom/John Carter images and some Tarzan. Also a lot of his Conan.Warning: there are just a few female nude images. To be expected, I suppose.

When other reviewers said this was a heavy book they weren't speaking metaphors. I've been a big Mark Schultz fan since I discovered Xenozoic Tales back in the '90's. I was eager to fill in the gaps of all his work that I'd missed and together with the two collected Xenozoic Tales reprints by Dark Horse, this looked to be it. So in the '60's sense I knew it was going to be heavy. But in the purely physical sense this is one big heavy book, the heaviest I own. It dethroned the previous title holder, A History of Central Asia, making it seem like an Ace paperback by comparison. Okay, a little hyperbole there but this really is the biggest heaviest book in my house and I have many big heavy books. You Schultz fans better get a steel reinforced shelf for this one.

This gorgeous book manages to make master Mark Schultz's work accessible from a process aspect. From pencil doodle through full-page sketch (occasionally, an alternate or failed version) to meticulous ink-brush, you'll see at least a few examples of each step of his process, ready for optical digestion. It makes the artist look more human.Aaaand what a human! Beautiful scratchy dry-brush end-results abound, without a muscle, horn or rock out of place. Schultz actually seems more ferociously talented for the work and research put in, now.

This book is overwhelmingly good.For starters, it is MASSIVE. Clocking in at 11 1/2 x 12 inches.Then you are bombarded with page after page after page of excellent art. It's Mark Shultz after all. That's really all I have to say. Buy it already.

Excellent big sized book, 272 pages full of pictures such as underdrawing, finished illustrations, roughs, studies, sketches, preliminaries and more in excellent printed quality.Destined to they who love the professional drawing techniques

An interesting and solid look through the works of a man who wanted to keep the traditions of old adventure comics, of the 50s adventure comic to frazetta, alive in his own unique way. I think the man's color works don't get as much appreciation as they should, but his inking is worth studying for any connoisseur.

Great art by a great illustrator! I look at this book frequently!! Definitely recommended if you like Mark Schultz' art!

An excellent coffee table book compendium of the now classic Various Drawings sketchbook series. Would have loved to have seen more of the color work mentioned in vol. 3 but what's there is still great work from one of the best comic book artist/illustrator active today.Buy it!

As an artist I always loved Schultz for his work in Tarzan and later on the XENOZOIC tales his use of ink and line it's just on par with Frazzetta in my own opinion. It's a great book if you liked any of his comics you'll love this

The media could not be loaded.  Mark Schultz dispensa apresentações. Nesta edição estão compilados os volumes de 1 a 5 de Various Drawings, artbooks que marcam um retorno do artista ao público após um grande hiato desde Xenozoic Tales. Nota-se uma evolução em renderização nesses desenhos. Schultz aprimorou o emprego de texturas com pincel e explorou bem a combinação entre nanquim e grafite. Nas composições dessas peças - que são em grande maioria commissions -, o artista demonstra uma preferência pelo uso da proporção de Fibonacci expressa na forma da espiral áurea. Há nestes exemplos um grande referencial para aqueles desenhistas responsáveis em finalizar seu próprio lápis em busca de enriquecer seu conhecimento em texturas, composição e luz e sombra. Schultz vem da mesma escola que Frank Frazetta, porém focado no desenho, no design de personagens e arte sequencial, adquirindo uma linguagem muito peculiar ao explorar possibilidades de texturas não vistas em outros artistas modernos. Observa-se que Mark Schultz obteve maiores ganhos em desenho gestual, chegando em muitos momentos a praticamente emular o dinamismo de Frazetta em um de seus melhores aspectos.Para artistas de histórias em quadrinhos ou ilustração tradicional a procura de uma identidade que mescle o clássico com o moderno, especificamente a quem usa pincel e nanquim, Portfolio: The Complete Various Drawings é um item imprescindível.Aos aficionados por desenho ou pela série Xenozoic Tales, ou mesmo pelo jogo Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, também vale o investimento pela excelente qualidade do material impresso.Este livro possui 298 x 212 mm de capa dura. Tamanho excepcional, muito maior que o padrão tablóide em largura, quase quadrado, com acabamento fosco e miolo em couché de alta gramatura e brilhoso.

Genial edición de los 5 volúmenes de "Various Drawings" existentes (tan difíciles de conseguir) recopilados ahora en un solo tomo con formato de tapa dura y gran tamaño. Ya no existen los desplegables de ilustraciones especialmente grandes que había en los antiguos tomos individuales, pero dado el gran tamaño del nuevo libro estas ilustraciones se mantienen al mismo tamaño dentro de las páginas normales. Recopila las ilustraciones de Xenozoic, Conan, Storms at sea, portadas, bocetos y todo tipo de trabajos por encargo.

At first, I thought maybe I was spending a bit too much on this book, but once it arrived... wow! Over - sized, chock - full of Shultz's fantastic work, an artist who deserves to be amongst the illustrator's elite. I've had this coffee table compilation only a short while, and I've looked through it countless times already. For fans of truly great pen and ink art, spend the bucks. There is no downside to the purchase.

"excelente" porque se trata de un libro de buena calidad (impresión y encuadernación), ya conocía al autor por lo que también le cabe el mismo adjetivo.lo excelente: encuadernación e impresión; lo que no me gustó:nadase lo recomendaría a ilustradores, autores de cómics, y a artistas que valoren la anatomía humana en expresiones dinámicas.