Structura 3: The Art of Sparth

The media could not be loaded. So this artbook got postponed a few times but it's finally out.This is Sparth's third artbook. It's still has 160 pages but the size has increased to slightly larger than A4 size. His first and second books are smaller.Majority of the artworks are in portrait mode and the new presentation allows them to be printed huge. Size does make an impact when viewing the art and it's awesome to see those beautiful paintings so big. Several horizontal pieces are printed across two pages so that's even bigger. Reproduction quality from publisher Design Studio Press is high as usual.It's always a delight to see new works from Sparth. I love the style of his sci-fi art, the play on shapes, textures, composition, lighting, details and colours. The designs look great. Featured in the book are work created for book covers, video games (Halo 4) and his personal pieces, some of which are created in 30 minutes but definitely do not look so.Other than the art, there are 24 pages of tutorial that looks at the design and thought process of Sparth. He talks about the brushes and his digital techniques that he uses.This book is available in paperback and hardcover.Highly recommended to those who like sci-fi and environment art.(See more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)

Structura 3 is a fantastic work of art by Sparth, something that inspired me to practice more of the landscapes and learn from Sparth's amazing ability to create a stunning composition and include fantasy details and objects. As an Art Director at Microsoft' famed gaming division, Sparth shares scenes that resemble dreamy futuristic landscapes, buildings and spaceships from a game I always wanted to play or a sci-fi film I always wanted to watch.Overall, I learned a lot from his book, brilliant composition and art.

Este libro llego con un "hongo"? o material viscoso pegajoso en muchas de las hojas. solo basto con limpiarlo para removerlo. De resto Genial.

This is my third Sparth book and this time I was smart enough to buy the hardcover. His work continues to be inspirational to the extreme; environments, vehicles and the lonely soul in a vast landscape. I always want to see more process in his books... ALWAYS. So please Scott and Sparth, give us more process. But this isn't a criticism, just a request.Strong work Sparth! And thanks to you and your employers for letting us see what happens behind closed doors.Here's a link to Sparth and Scott Robertson walking us through the book.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-32IGzhn4E

It's a little weird talking about Sparth and not be a gamer (Sparth is one of the artists behind 343/Halo). Sparth's Structura books are, for me, soothing to look at even though he's a space war guy. His worlds and infrastructure are fabulous. Like to see his Dune work collected in one book.

I ordered many things from amazon, and have a lot of experience in it, but seriously i cant say anything but : I got what i bargained for.Its an excellent quality book full of amazing artwork. Worth the price!

This is an excellent guide by one of the masters.

It reminds me of some of Walt Disney's lesser known grand views of the future in epic scale. You can find a lot of the images online (as with most tangible content these days). But, having a book to flip through in the analog world is also good.

Leider ist gebraucht bei manchen Menschen nicht dasselbe. Definitiv defekt. Geht zurück und wird lieber neu gekauft.

Muy detallado

Bought this as a Christmas gift for my boyfriend, who is obsessed with space/fantasy universes, stories and art, and he loved it. The book is really well made, the paper is really good, the pictures are big... The artworks just look stunning. The artwork selection is also really thought out, since there's a collection of both more finished pieces and more sketchy ones; it really gives you an insight into how Sparth builds an illustration, from start to finish, it's really good for aspiring concept artists. Also bought Structura 1 and 2, and I am not disappointed with them at all.

I am a lover of sci fi and fantasy art and a dreaming ammeter looking to find different styles to learn from and land onto my own way of doing things. mainly getting these books for the stunning ideas and then ready the back of the book to see how they manage to land on the stunning forms and shapes. this book opened me up to things like custom shape tools and not just a custom brush. it was an interesting thing to read for sure.So I will say over all this is an improvement from the last book ( I looked at my friends copy of Structura 2 ) as the images just come to life when it is full bleed images and their little explanations to them, along side the tutorials and halo concept art the artist has done.All in all an amazing buy for anyone who is a wannabe fantasy or sci-fi artist like me ( I mainly do pinup work for people but I want to get into this kind of story telling artwork ) as it can really help to inspire you to go " I am gunna try draw something like that today! " and just sit there a couple hours and play around with your favourite art package to see if you can make something that takes an element from this book 8D

No me esperaba el gran tamaño del libro. Gracias Sparth