As I played on the internet, I found more and more beautiful prints of Yoshitaka Amano's. For those who are not familiar with him, he is a very respectable artist from Japan. His "signature style" is oil painting, though recently he has experimented with traditional brush stroke paintings. He is the creative mind of the Final Fantasy character concepts and has worked with various anime series and movies including Vampire Hunter D which he is most famous for. He has done covers for various American comic books as we
ll. One of my favorite works of his is his collaboration with Neil Gaiman for the graphic novel Sandman: The Dream Hunters. The paintings are absolutely gorgeous and only add to Gaiman's wonderful story telling. He also collaborated with Greg Rucka on Elektra & Wolverine: The Redeemer which was a set of 3 graphic novels set to Amano's oil paintings of the classic Marvel characters. His work is all beautiful and I would highly recommend any of his numerous art books and stories. They are all well worth the price, though they can be somewhat pricey sometimes. My favorite is simply titled Amano and is a good sampling of his work that is priced well through amazon. 
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Yoshitaka Amano is by far one of my favorite artists. He is truly talented. These pieces are breahtaking, just like his new graphic novel, Mateki: The Magic Flute. The illustrations are out of this world- i dont know how he does it
Amano is great. I just read Dream Hunters and his illustrations really made that "novel." I can't get enough of his art...
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