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Post by jeff3333 on Jan 13, 2008 12:19:22 GMT -5
Just curious as to which references people use for their art/character/story ideas.
Mine are as follows:
The Samurai Film (alain Silver)
The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Mythology (Arthur Cotterell and Rachel Storm)
Ninja (stephen turnbull)
Samurai the world of the Warrior (Stephen Turnbull)
Sekigahahra 1600 (anthony Bryant)
Samurai Warfare (Stephen Turnbull)
Japanese castles (1540 - 1640) (Stephen Turnbull)
Siege Weapons of the Far East 1 (Stephen Turnbull)
Nagashino 1575 (Stephen Turnbull)
Kawanakajima (1553-1564) Stephen Turnbull)
samurai (1550 - 1600) Anthony Bryant
Imperial chinese armies 1 (CJ Peers)
Sengoku (Anthony Bryant)
All the Legend of the Five Rings books
The Samurai Sourcebook (Stephen Turnbull)
The Samurai recreated in colour photographs (Mitsuo Kure and Ghislaine Kruit)
The book of Five Rings (Miyamoto Musashi)
The Samurai (Stephen Turnbull)
Romance of the Three Kingdoms (luo Guanzhong)
Outlaws of the Marsh (Luo Guanzhong)
A History of Japan (1334 - 1615) (George Samson)
The Art of War (Sun Tzu)
and
the Code of the Samurai (daidoji Yuzan)
amongst many others ha ha
What about the rest of you? Or does it all come from your own imaginations?
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Post by Galius on Jan 14, 2008 20:07:18 GMT -5
To be completely honest most of the things I do come completely from the ol mind, but I do draw from things I like. For example comics, videogames, movies. Other then that though I dont have any specific thing.
I do use references for poses sometimes.
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Post by jnight on Jan 16, 2008 0:15:52 GMT -5
I'll have to get my artistic references together to list. As for the character/art/story references, most just come from my head.....a real hodgepodge. Pose references are sometime inspired by martial arts magazines and what few comics I may have. I also do Google searches of historic figures for poses for the older, non-warrior characters. I'll get a list of my historic references and martial arts mags together shortly.
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Post by jnight on Jan 16, 2008 19:20:32 GMT -5
Some of my reference books and magazines,
books,
Ninja (Turnbull) 1992
Samurai Invasion (Turnbull)
Samurai, The World of the Warrior (Turnbull)
The Samurai Sourcebook (Turnbull)
Classical Weaponry of Japan (Mol)
Secret Weapons of Jujutsu (Cunningham)
Genghis Khan and the Mongol Conquest (Turnbull)
Japanese Warrior Monks 949-1603 (Turnbull)
Japanese Castles 1540-1640 (Turnbull)
Fighting Ships of the Far East 1 (Turnbull)
Fighting Ships of the Far East 2 (Turnbull)
Early Samurai 200-1500 (Bryant)
Medieval Seige Weapons of Western Europe 585-1385 (Nicolle)
Medieval Seige Weapons 2 (Nicolle)
Seige Weapons of the Far East 1 612-1300 (Turnbull)
Seige Weapons of the Far East 2 960-1644 (Turnbull)
Japanese Fortified Temples and Monasteries 710-1602 (Turnbull)
Ninja 1460-1650 (Turnbull)
The Mongols (Turnbull)
Mongol Warriors 1200-1350 (Turnbull)
Late Imperial Chinese Armies 1520-1840
Medieval Seige Warefare (Gravett)
War in Japan 1467-1615 (Turnbull)
Chronical of Chinese Emperors (Paludan)
Some beautiful Japanese casltes book in Japanese
The Ninja and their Secret Fighting Art (Hayes)
magazines,
Black Belt (1961- current)
Inside Kung Fu (1973- current)
Inside Karate (1984- circa 2000)
Karate Illustrated and the later Kung Fu/Karate Illustrated (1969-circa 1998)
Ninja Magazine (1984-circa 1995)
Kick Illustrated (1980-1984) later Inside Karate
Wu Shu Kung Fu/QuiGong/Tai Chi magazine (1992- current)
I have a huge collection of these magazines, mostly spanning the 1980s and early 1990's with some 1970s'. I have alost every issue of Inside Kung Fu and Black Belt from 1981-1994.
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Post by Shogan on Jan 16, 2008 21:27:16 GMT -5
I would love to read some of those reference books! Nice collection.
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Post by jeff3333 on Jan 17, 2008 13:06:54 GMT -5
eek! And I thought I had a lot of books ha ha
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Post by jnight on Jan 17, 2008 20:04:04 GMT -5
I would love to read some of those reference books! Nice collection. Thanks! The Samurai Sourcebook, as Jeff has said, is an excellent historic database. Any Turnbull book is a wealth of info. eek! And I thought I had a lot of books ha ha Well alot of the Turnbull stuff is, as you said before, is the same or very similar book to book. Many are those Osprey books, very good nevertheless. I also have artistic reference books for horses, birds, etc. |
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Post by jnight on May 6, 2009 21:50:54 GMT -5
I've been reading a book on Mythology which covers the Far East. It's a Hermes House Encylopedia of Mythology. A great read!
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Post by jeff3333 on May 7, 2009 6:46:35 GMT -5
I'm currently reading Lafcadio Heran's Collection ofOriental Ghost Stories...just a collection of nice little tales.
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Post by jnight on Sept 21, 2009 12:09:19 GMT -5
I just picked up a new Turnbull book, Strongholds of the Samurai, Japanese Castles 250-1877. Great book, many good pics/illustrations of the feudal Japanese castles.
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