Monstruo: The Art of Carlos Huante
by Carlos Huante
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Author: Carlos HuanteEditor: Scott Robertson
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-02-01
ISBN: 0972667628
Number of pages: 128
Publisher: Design Studio Press
Book Reviews of Monstruo: The Art of Carlos Huante
Book Review: Beauty in ugliness.
Summary: 5 Stars
From seeing the cover, I knew right away that I, since I LVOE monsters and sci-fi alien imagery, would love this book. My sister orders it for my birthday, and I LOVE the artwork inside, a beautiful (by "beautiful" I mean "so genuinely hideous that it can only BE beautiful from its collective uniqueness and natural, believable-yet-unbelievable feel") collection of pencil-work, paintings, and digital work that I immediately enjoyed. Every nodule, every crease, every wrinkle, every misplaced limb and facial feature... fantastically done.
Anyone who is, or who knows a fan of the wonderfully grotesque should get this book. Each page is a jewel for those of us who find the bizarre, dark, and gruesome as beautiful as any Mona Lisa or Birth of Man.
Plus, some many thoughtful words from the author/artist, himself (especially the paragraph[s] on how character designers are not like the "high brow" art-house artists, which I can pretty much agree on).
Summary of Monstruo: The Art of Carlos Huante
Carlos Huante was born in East L.A. in 1965. Besides chilaquiles and Yerba Buena (mint tea), Carlos grew up on stop-motion monster movies. Since that time he has pursued his passion for the arts by creating some of the mostoriginal monsters and characters, for both film and animation, ever seen. Monstruo is a collection of Huante's personal, original work featuring a wide range of monster and character designs, from simple pencil sketches that magically capture the gesture of his subject, to full-color digital and traditional media paintings.
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