Book suggestions for Environment/Prop artist?

Sean VanGorder

I was at Barnes and Nobles earlier and I came across the section with all the books on weapons. I was looking through them and thought they would be really helpful to have while I work on my current project, a sniper rifle. I already gather tons of reference from the internet for my projects, but it seems pretty nice to just have everything right there in a book as well.

Anyway, does anybody have any suggestions for books that could be good reference for an environment/prop artist?

Justin Meisse

I find this one usefull: [ame]http://www.amazon.com/Visual-Dictionary-Architecture-Francis-Ching/dp/0471288217[/ame] A Visual Dictionary of Architecture

Cholden has an awesome book but I forgot what it was called.. basically a book full of a bunch of architectural details split into sections... so you could flip to the door section and see a huge sampling of medieval to modern door styles.

EmAr

Another book by Ching called "Architecture: Form, Space and Order" is a nice one too.

JasonLavoie

Justin_Meisse wrote: »

I find this one usefull: http://www.amazon.com/Visual-Dictionary-Architecture-Francis-Ching/dp/0471288217 A Visual Dictionary of Architecture

Cholden has an awesome book but I forgot what it was called.. basically a book full of a bunch of architectural details split into sections... so you could flip to the door section and see a huge sampling of medieval to modern door styles.

I CALL ON THEE CHOLDEN TO TELL US WHAT THY BOOK IS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Zipfinator

More books! I'd definitely be interested in this also if anyone has any more suggestions. Justin's first suggestion looks great and if you find that Cholden one then even better! I looked around on Amazon for anything by Cholden but didn't see anything architecture related.

Matabus

http://www.exodyssey.com/

Please ... do yourself a favor and buy this book.
Be careful, however, as Art-Book purchasing is as addictive as crack-cocaine.