Lovely: Ladies of Animation

The media could not be loaded.  Six current, prominent female artists, especially one of my favorite's, Brittney Lee, are the focused of this art book. And what I found to be a great asset to art lovers is that each artists' style is different and you get to appreciate the uniqueness that each brings to the table. For example, Brittney Lee focuses on creating art out of paper. While Lisa Keene's focused on paintings and Victoria Ying's on cubism. And as an aspiring artist myself, the variety gets my creativity juices flowing and dares you to be inspired.Now, for each artist, they have 20 pages dedicated to them. Most of the images that are shown span 1 full page. But because of that, there aren't as many drawings as I expected or wanted. Oh well. For each image, there is a quick blurb from the artist about its origins. The blurbs were interesting to read. Even though these artists are famous for their works for Disney, you won't see any here. You get to see their lovely, lesser known works.All I can say is that I'm in raptures over this art book. Every single image is a feast for the eyes. I really, really love this book. I can't say enough good things. The quality of the book is top notch. The images are huge and sharp. The pages are glossy and of good quality. If you are a fan of the Golden Books, an artist, or just like good art in general, add this book to your collection. You will have no regrets.

Open the book and you first find this beautiful quote by one of my all time favorite artists, Mary Cassatt "I have touched with a sense of art some people- they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist?" To me this sums up the wonderful art filled world that my daughters and I live. We are sketchers...doodlers...copiers and creationists....all mediums are used in this house..we create the way we breathe.I have 2 teenage daughters that are gifted.. even more than talent..with the love of art. They both dream of making a career in the field and why not encourage them...nothing worse than squashing a dream...who knows really? This book was a gift to them, especially for the younger one who fell in love with the art work of Disney's Tangled by animator Glen Keane. His daughter, Claire is one of the artists featured in this book.Along with Claire Keane, five other talented female artists in the animation industry are featured in this book. Lorelay Bove, Brittney Lee, Lisa Keane, Victoria Ying, Helen Chen and Claire have all created art for numerous Hollywood animated films, e.g. Frozen, Tangled, Frankenweenie, Wreck-it Ralph and many more. However, this book will be showing their personal artworks which is very inspiring.This book is more than a coffee table book to us..it is motivational...spellbinding...something to find comfort in before dream time. I'm just very excited...I've waited quite a while for this book!

This is quite an interesting art book. Timely delivery. Nice binding, etc. No issues. Inside, each series of works presented by the artists are unique in terms of feel, approach, theme, medium, etc. But there is a unity which complements each. I found several works highly compelling particularly when examined objectively. Some have complained about cohesiveness relative to the subject matter chosen by the artists, variations in individual commentary length, scope, etc. I didn't find any problem with that. Their works and the unifying subtext of it all is definitely cohesive.It's always cool to see creative expressions like this that allow you to sit back, absorb and be inspired in your own art. If anything I would have really enjoyed seeing a larger number of works (say, twice as many?) and would have been wiling to pay as much. Still that fact doesn't detract from the 5 star rating in my opinion. It's not my typical sci-fi art book fare, but it's frankly a cool book and a worthy addition to any art book library. Good stuff.

Wonderful coffeetable book, and more - serves as an inspiration for me. I don't have a ton of artbooks, but I think this is my favorite so far.The only cons: most of the art is female-centric, except for Lisa Keene. I don't knock on her art, her pictures of various dogs are gorgeous, but they were not what I was expecting when I bought the book? I really didn't feel like that section matched the others, which is bursting with colors and characters and personality. The dogs were dark and pine green and....after seeing everything else, I just kind of passed over her section.Also, less about the artists, and their creation flow as well....I was kind of hoping for that :/

Having gone to art school I know more animators and artists than I'd ever planned on knowing. I gave this to a friend of mine for Hanukkah and it was instantly cracked open and she devoured it. With her eyeballs. Turns out she'd had her eye on it for quite some time, but hadn't been able to justify the purchase. The glossy pictures and neat writeups are fantastic and as she pointed out her favorite artist's work I kind of wished I'd read through it myself before wrapping it up. Seriously, these ladies of animation are phenomenal. If you or someone you know has even the slightest interest in animation get it.

So I’ve always loved this book. I used to check it out of my college library like every day of the week until finally I decided to buy it. I pay $20.00 or so dollars for a brand new copy. I just received it today and the letters of L-O-V-E-L-Y are torn away. The inside is good and very straight but the cover really really made me mad. If I’m paying for a new book I expect it to look new.

this book is fun to look through. All the women artists have such talent. Being a female who’s studying for art in college right now, I really need a little extra inspiration.

freat book, and in great condition love it

I love the art. The book and paper are very good quality. The personal texts of the artists are really nice as well.

Acredito que o livro que recebi, deveria ser o último do estoque, já que vieram com alguns amassados, uma parte do título descascada, e alguns machados também. Uma pena!O livro é lindo, as ilustrações de cada artista são incríveis fontes de inspiração e verdadeiras obras de arte. Pra quem é ilustrador e quer se inspirar é ótimo. Comprei porque já era muito fã da Lorelay Bové, Claire Keane e Brittney Lee,e já namorava esse livro há um tempo.Porém, só vale a pena comprar se o preço estiver mais em conta, o livro é bem pequeno e simples, principalmente comparado à outros do estilo.

Per chi come me è interessato alla presenza femminile nel mondo dell'animazione (Disney, nello specifico) questo Artbook è un "must have", in quanto mostra e descrive brevemente gli obbiettivi e la storia di queste donne che sono riuscite a realizzare il loro sogno.La qualità della stampa è molto buona, per ogni artista c'è un piccolo paragrafo dedicato, con un variegato catalogo di immagini scelte con cura; Sei donne diverse accomunate dai loro sogni e le loro ambizioni, che malgrado debbano sottostare a certi canoni stilistici riescono ad essere uniche.Come nella recensione che ho scritto precedentemente per l'artbook di the last of us, attenzione a scegliere libri più o meno della stessa taglia, o l'imballaggio può risultare un po' scarso, facendo danneggiare i libri.

Proprio un bel libro, principalmente per il fatto che sono le ladies della Disney, con la punta di diamante Brittany Lee ! Bello conoscerle oltre i disegni per ogni nuovo film, sapere cosa creano nel tempo libero piuttosto che al lavoro, a cosa si ispirano e che tecniche preferiscono. I disegni magari non sono i più belli del mondo, ma sono sicuramente interessanti ed ispirati. Con Amazon non mi è mai arrivato nulla in ritardo, tranne questo pacco un giorno dopo la data prevista, che non è un ritardo vero e proprio, ma si sa, a sapere che i propri pacchi sono in mano alle poste, 5 anni di vita per lo spavento se ne vanno sempre.