The Art of Darksiders II (Hardcover) (2)

There's a lot of cut content in here, and I love to see the concepts they came up with. The art is gorgeous! Now I'm on a mission to get all of the Art of Darksiders books 📚

Darksiders is back with another great game and equally great accompanying art. The Art of Darksiders 2 is divided into Key Visuals (Artwork), Characters & Enemies, Weapons, Locations, CG models, Storyboards, some commentary on art development, and Key Visuals (CG). It's a bit thinner than the first book, but the binding has improved (thank God). In my opinion, the layout is more organized and even. The first artbook was more scattered and left blank space between the small thumbnails.Despite this, I highly recommend both artbooks if you love the game or video game art in general. There are lots of wickedly good drawings on every page. I'm very pleased with the quality and quantity. :)

This book has a generous serving of art and drawings by Joe Madureira. You can be assured that all art; even the sketches in there are in the leagues of the best entertainment art out there. Words are little in this book. It is purely about the art. The consistency in the style is staggeringly superb from sketch to finish. Print is of high quality and art is well organized in the book. The book is a great size of slightly bigger then letter size and an inch thick! The price for a book of this caliber on amazon is a bloody steal. Highly recommend artist an fans of the Joe Madureira and the game to get this book immediately.

Goes over the designs of the monsters, landscapes, maps, alt art and more. ❤️❤️🙏🏽 can’t wait to look more into it!!!

I'm not a fan of the Darksiders video games, but Joe Mad has been my favorite comic artist since he started drawing the Uncanny X-Men in the '90s. I bought the first volume (The Art of Darksiders) when the first game came out and couldn't have been happier with the ART. The binding on the first book was TERRIBLE though. With this book it seems that the binding issues have been improved, and the art is again AMAZING. The only complaint I have (it's not really a complaint though) is that I wish some of the images were bigger. There are literally 100s of small pictures that I wish I were bigger so I could see all of the details! If you're a Joe Mad fan, you must add this book to your collection!

I love this book. This art book, The Art of Darksiers II” is packed with game art! Super detailed!! Worth every penny.

Great book.If you are into concept art, this is pretty much another must have in your library. It shows a great variety of ideation sketches for pretty much every characters, and they are all fun to look at.If you are one of those people who are looking for production paintings / concept paintings (nothing wrong with that) chances are this "might" not be perfect for you. However, all the sketches and looseness are really great to look at for those who are into design. In other words, this is not a "pretty book"; It shows a ton of awesome thumbnails and these are much more important than well done paintings for students.

First of all, it's Joe MAD we're talking about here, that should be reason enough. The book is filled with drawings and sketches of all the characters which is great because you get a chance to see how they actually evolved. Usually video game "art of" books have a lot of polished character poses but this one actually shows you the rough sketches, which I love.It also isn't as heavy on the environmental art like some other video game "art of" books and focuses more on actual characters. Great book, wish the game was as good.