Archive for category Author: Gecko Keck
Draw Sci Fi || Gecko Keck
Posted by henry in Author: Gecko Keck, Medium: Drawing, Publisher: Search Press, Subject: Science Fiction on October 13, 2009
It’s always good to see niche markets catered for and often surprising to find that they aren’t quite such a small niche as you originally thought. Science fiction, of course, has a wide following and it’s pretty much a certainty that some of this is in the art field and that there must be people who want to draw aliens, robots and cyborgs.
If you detect a slight tone of amusement there, it’s entirely deliberate, but I won’t mock because this is a popular field and the literature and art of science fiction are, in truth, of the highest quality. And so is this book, which is excellently written, laid out and illustrated. If this is what you want to do, I can’t see that you’ll be disappointed, though I do suspect that you’ll be wanting the author to produce something larger. Buy this in enough quantity and he probably will.
Draw Gothic || Gecko Keck
Posted by henry in Author: Gecko Keck, Medium: Drawing, Publisher: Search Press, Subject: Gothic on October 13, 2009
There’s been no end of fantasy art instructional titles, covering every imaginable aspect of the form but, as far as I know, Goth art is to date a neglected field. It would be unfair of me to say that, from this offering, I can see why and I won’t because it’s not my field. The desire to wear black clothes and white slap has passed me by, but Goth is a well-established culture and it’s inconceivable that there isn’t an art form associated with it.
Whether this book is any good is something I can’t tell you because I don’t find the results attractive. What I can say, however, is that it goes through all the right motions and that the instructions and demonstrations are clear and well laid out.
