My Favorite Artbooks of 2023 for Inspiration and Reference!

2023 was a GREAT year of discovering and collecting new artbooks that I want to share with you all! This is a continuation of my last artbook video talking about my "Favorite Artbooks Ever" and you can watch that one here: • My Top Favorite Art Bo... Also, shoutout to my soon to be hubby Josh for compiling and editing this one! 💛
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✨ Links to All the Books Mentioned ✨ (Most are Amazon Affliliate Links)
Best Artbooks of 2023 📚
1. Wonderland by Nanaco Yashiro - amzn.to/3ulZrZH
2. Half Moon by Tono - amzn.to/4brW4kA
3. I'm Me by Junaida - amzn.to/489ePXc
4. Michi by Junaida - shorturl.at/fntxV
5. Tokyo Storefronts by Mateusz Urbanowicz - amzn.to/3w58M8G
6. Uncollected Works 2010 - 2021 - Mateusz Urbanowicz - amzn.to/42ttNWA
7. Houses with a Story by Seiji Yoshida - amzn.to/3SLWafs
8. Steam Reverie in Amber by Kuroimori - amzn.to/48dDxp7
9. Ashes Become Flowers and Wings by Buchi - shorturl.at/enpzP
10. Toilet Bound Volumes 1 and 2 by Aidalro - amzn.to/3Ozmnvw
11. Blood Moon Tarot by Sam Guay - shorturl.at/pr257
12. Ritual by Erica Williams - shop.hookieduke.com/products/...
13. The Apartment Book by Leo Hartas - amzn.to/3HPnymx
14. The Haunted Castle by Leo Hartas - amzn.to/3UtTLY8
15. Elden Ring Volume II by Fromsoft - amzn.to/3UDweUy
16. The Antiquarian Sticker Book - amzn.to/3ue0v1O
17. The Artist's Drawing Book by Katy Lipscomb & Tyler Fisher - amzn.to/48g3Ew0
18. Mon, Illustration Making & Visual Book - amzn.to/48cZ7dw
19. Monster & Human, Imaginary Creatures by Satoshi Matsuura - shorturl.at/ilnsW
20. Minion II by João Ruas (in person only currently)
21. Drizzle by Moon - www.liberdistri.com/en/accuei...
22. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind: Watercolor Impressions - amzn.to/3UwZRXH
23. Art Froms in Nature by Ernst Haeckel - amzn.to/49rToS2
24. Celtic Art: the Methods of Construction by George Bain - amzn.to/3HOpwDK
25. George Barbier: Master of Art Deco by PIE - amzn.to/3wa5iBW
26. Sacred Decay by Lauren Marx - amzn.to/3SyRto7
27. Behind the Camera, Norman Rockwell - amzn.to/3SKTCyd
Tools of the Trade ✏️ (Amazon Affiliate Links)
- Strathmore Mixed Media Paper - amzn.to/42JPxNS
- General Kimberly Traditional Pencils (2H-4B) - amzn.to/3Kk2ua5
- Blackwing Pearl Pencils (the smooth buttery one) - amzn.to/40h6vBC
- Orenz .2mm Mechanical Pencil (HB) - amzn.to/3JKzTsY
- Mono Zero Precision Eraser - amzn.to/3JNCfal
- Kneaded Erasers - amzn.to/42FJ8TL
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0:00 Intro
0:21 1. Wonderland
4:00 2. Half Moon
5:53 3. I'm Me
6:51 4. Michi
8:22 5. Tokyo Storefronts
11:35 6. Uncollected Works
13:56 7. Houses With a Story
16:02 8. Steam Reverie in Amber
18:17 9. Ashes Become Floers and Wings
20:10 10. Toilet Bound Artbooks
21:43 11. Blood Moon Tarot
23:25 12. Ritual
24:45 13. The Apartment Book
25:49 14. The Haunted Castle
27:11 15. Elden Ring Vol 2
29:57 16. Sticker Books
32:31 17. The Artist's Drawing Book
34:27 18. Mon
37:14 19. Monster & Human, Imaginary Creatures
40:05 20. Minion II
42:07 21. Drizzle
43:53 22. Nausicaä, Watercolor Impressions
46:32 23. Art Forms in Nature
48:26 24. Celtic Art
49:59 25. George Barbier
51:48 26. Sacred Decay
54:12 27. Behind the Camera
57:09 Outro

[@MM-xm8ot]

Sir, your artbook videos are NOT helping my bank account!😂But in all seriousness, so helpful and so many books I have never heard of!! Thank you!

[@Inkwell]

Hell yes, I've been looking forward to this video!!!

[@vonnart]

Hopefully there was at least one you didn't already know of!

[@Inkwell]

@@vonnart there was a few actually, I have some new ones I need to show you next time I see ya tho

[@chiqxart]

I think you have the coolest collection of art books I've seen.

[@vonnart]

Haha thanks so much! It's a collection grown over many years and is really a source of inspiration for me!

[@roterkater6189]

Thanks for introducing me to so many awesome artists.

[@nankokanon]

I have a love-hate relationship with this type of content… love that I discover new artbooks because of your videos, hate that I feel like I HAVE TO buy those artbooks right away haha. Haven’t played the games yet but I’ll be getting Elden Ring and Dark Souls, too! Thank you for the preview! I recommend Cicely Mary Barker’s Flower Fairy books. She’s amazing in capturing the details of the flowers in her illustrations (which also serve as a nice reference for drawings of children.)

[@vonnart]

I've seen some of her fairies before and had no idea there was an artbook collection! I just put in the order now, thanks so much for the recommendation!

[@SigneofHorses]

Oh dear.. I watched and started buying and couldn’t stop.. I got the stickerbook as it was already in my wishlist. I found Drizzle❤ can’t wait for it to arrive, already so inspired. The Higuchi Yoko book I really wanted but unsure about the seller and taxes, still I took the gamble. The Hiroshima Unno books are still on my wishlist as is Pareidolia.. Gosh.. it’s like a world of books has opened up to me..

[@Linnzy]

Youtibe Algortihms got me here and I don't regret it ❤

[@ellysium4629]

I'm sure someone has brought this to your attention but if not; Soul Arts is an art book filled with art by the souls community and it is *so* beautiful! If you're on the lookout for more soulslike art, I'd recommend that one!

[@vonnart]

OH, I will certainly check this out! Not sure if I've heard of this one before or not!

[@maalidoesart5376]

This was such a cool insight! I love collecting artbooks and i found a couple of jems now that i defenetly need to add to my collection!!

[@KatyLipscombArt]

So many amazing books! Thank you SO much for providing such lovely insights! 💖

[@Amanita._.Verosa._.]

I'm a little late, but I'll give it a go. You may enjoy the artist, Craww and his sketchbook 'Muse'. He makes intricate, detailed and delicate lines and oil paintings. His work is elegantly macabre. Also, I'm not sure if she had sketchbooks but Rose Cecil O'Neill and her work of 'Sweet Monsters ' is divinely dark. She was an incredible person who worked tirelessly for equaIity and a great artist too.

[@oliviajones4588]

Casper 😊 so sweet

[@rohanraghavsharma3150]

This is such an incredible resource for an aspiring artist… Thank you so much for taking the time out to share your thoughts on each and every one of these books 😃🙏🏽

[@vonnart]

Hope you found some new good ones!

[@rohanraghavsharma3150]

​@@vonnartI did ! Wonderland, Drizzle and 'Behind the Camera' by Norman Rockwell instantly caught my attention 😊

[@AnnieNoodle]

Just ordered the Nausicaa book!! Also, is that a Howl's Moving Castle earring you're wearing?? Great video, lots of great recommendations!!

[@SamGuay]

Thank you so much for including my book! It makes me so happy that you enjoyed it, making that book was a great way to wrap up that project. I have quite a few of these books, but I ended up ordering the Mon book from this video, it's so good.

[@hero-1o894]

Lol i literally just checked ur channel yesterday

[@adventuresincreativesoftwa6283]

Thanks for all the time and effort you put into sharing these books with us - very well shot, edited, and with insightful commentary. (I'm hoping that this video doesn't end up costing me as much as your last one did!) 🙂

[@mysticartist_]

Von will be known as that cool artist who always forgot the names of artists he loved. He only sees colours and lines not words lol😌🐸 I mean there are so many books he owns my god. Are you building an eclectic library for future generations that be super amazing! I'm so inspired 💪😆

[@ScottH]

Mon was the best one :) thanks

[@adelbarath]

I think you will like the work of Albrecht Dürer. 😇

[@victormaury7861]

Holy moly, the Leo Hartas Haunted House book blew my mind as a kid! Hadn't thought about that one in a while. Thanks for sharing Tim!

[@vonnart]

Oh you had that!? Yeah it was fantastic looking through it, really captured a lot of joy and imagination! 💛

[@victormaury7861]

my school library did! would love to look through it again. I did grab the Norman Rockwell one from this list! A must have : )@@vonnart

[@bluwasabi7635]

Awesome video! Thanks for making a part 2. Have you heard of...wait, I forgot that I met you at Spectrum Fantasic Art Live show a number of years ago, so you'd already know about those books. They are always a great inspiration. Would you recommend any art shows that'd be similar to that one? Still a bit sad that that art show ended.

[@sweetkarolines]

Your videos are bad from my savings account! :)

[@gst9325]

you pronounced Urbanowicz correctly but Ghibli incorrectly :D (Dzibli, Nauszika...) PS: why do you say "they" when speaking about different artists ? I'm pretty sure about few of them they're not identifying themselves as them, so you're misgendering them. not that it matters but it makes you not a cool person :) anyway, thanks for the video.