PDF Hard Curves The Fantasy Art of Julie Bell Nigel Suckling Julie Bell Rose Hank 8580001017518 Books

Product details Paperback 128 pages Publisher Thunder's Mouth Press; 1st Thunder's Mouth Press ed edition (July 22, 1996) Language English ISBN-10 156025131X

Hard Curves The Fantasy Art of Julie Bell Nigel Suckling Julie Bell Rose Hank 8580001017518 Books Reviews

• SPECIFICS
  Page Count 128
  Number of images 120
  Small images 66
  Half page images 15
  Full page images 33
  2-page spreads 6
  BW images 2
  
  TEXT
  1 page introduction
  2 page foreword
  Scattered biography throughout the book
  Comments on the paintings
  
  ART
  12 images 5 stars
  66 images 4 stars
  42 images 3 stars
  0 images 2 stars
  0 images 1 star
  
  Overall 4 stars
• Classic Julie Bell. Book in great shape too
• lovely
• Good Book
• . . . but undeniably impressive. This volume is one way to get sexuality into the shelves at home. Just be wary that the worship of this material might invite monstrosities of fascism into your intimate chambers as well. The feats of imagination within are impressive but I would caution anyone against becoming TOO impressed.
• Julie Bell artist, mother, bodybuilder, wife, and wife of Boris Vallejo. It all comes together on this book.
  
  Bell's art is about hot animal power, embodied in a human frame. Most of the subjects in this book are women, often Bell's sisters. She draws them with real love for a woman's figure, and with gut-deep understanding of how the female version of the human machine works. A few of the male figures are patterned after he husband, Boris Vallejo, and his schwartzeneggerian build. The only figures that don't project raw power are modeled after her sons - somewhere around ten in these pictures, and much too young for the rippling sinews.
  
  If you like fantasy art, you are sure to like Bell's work. There are some science fiction and comic-book themes here, but I think the best work is in the sword and sorcery genre.
  
  One final note the female figures she draws are all young, beautiful, and powerful, like Bell herself. That is not the only way for a person to look good, though. Older figures have their own attractions, and Bell will have an older figure soon enough. I hope her artwork branches out when that happens - the possibilities are very exciting.
  
  //wiredweird
• This is by far the best of her various works and offers a very easy mixture of Fantasy, Nude, Comic Book, and other Artwork that she created.
  What impressed me the most was the fact that her abilities can create a "metallic" look on characters that are somewhat metallic (Iron Man, Silver Surfer, etc.)
  This is agood book to pick up for your collection. And, you don't have to fork over $$$$ for her stuff.
• This is a pleasant book with a mixture of chrome entities, body builders and superheroes. The chrome effects are realistic and some of the depictions drive the imagination. This book, I feel, focuses on the rendering of the human anatomy in various positions. It is delightful to see how the cold colours of machines mix with the warm colours of flesh, they just seem to work. The layout is wonderfully done. Each picture is in beautiful re-produced colour. Each picture has a title, the medium used, the size of the picture and the year the picture was born. Also, each picture has an explanation or piece of history to the ideas of the images. Right throughout the book as the images are displayed, the narrative continuously flows as the artist reveals techniques, ideas and her passion for art. The reason why I only gave the book 4 stars was because of some minor spelling mistakes. This book is very enjoyable and colourful and worth having in artbook collections or anything to do with the genre of Fantasy Art.