Book Review: Tekkon Kinkreet Art Book: Background Sketches

March 31, 2009 by Parka

鉄コン筋クリート ART BOOK クロside　基礎工事編 (Tekkon Kinkreet Art Book: Background Sketches)

There are two art books for Tekkon Kinkreet, the anime movie. This is one with the black cover, Tekkon Kinkreet Art Book: Background Sketches, or in Japanese 鉄コン筋クリート ART BOOK クロside　基礎工事編. The white cover edition is Tekkon Kinkreet Art Book: Background Paintings.

This art book features some of the most detailed architectural pencil sketches I've ever see. The sketches are grouped according to the areas where the stories take place. These are places like playgrounds, alleys, temples, rivers and the cityscape shown in the anime movie. There are no character designs in the book.

Actually in addition to sketches, this art book also features a few fully coloured illustrations as well. Some of these illustrations are the pencil sketches with colour painted over it. So there's the pencil sketch and colour rendering for comparison. Both look stunning with the immense amount of detail worked into them.

For extremely complicated drawings, there are close ups to look at the intricate line work.

This book is slightly cheaper than the one for background paintings because it's thinner. But still it's a magnificent work of accomplishment.

It's highly recommended to get this together with the other one on background paintings, Tekkon Kinkreet Art Book: Background Paintings.

Links: Tekkon Kinkreet official site | Tekkon Kinkreet on Wikipedia

You can find the books available on Amazon.co.jp and YesAsia US. If you buy from the link, I get a little commission that helps me get more books for review.

Here's amazon.co.jp shipping rates for your reference.

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How much of a difference is

Anne Nonamous (not verified)
April 2, 2009,
1 year 21 weeks ago
Comment id: 100

How much of a difference is there in the "Paintings" book and this one?

Most of the coloured

Parka
April 3, 2009,
1 year 21 weeks ago
Comment id: 101

Most of the coloured illustrations from this book are not found on the other book. There are very few overlaps.

As for the pencil sketches, some of them are used in the other book. When comparing two similar scenes, one pencil and one colour, they can look and feel totally different because of the pencil texture and hatching are totally painted over.

In effect, it really feels like two different books altogether.

Ive got this one lately. Its

torturr (not verified)
September 22, 2009,
49 weeks 2 days ago
Comment id: 724

Ive got this one lately. Its simply fantastic. Both of them. White and black. Real treasure in my collection.

Awesome. Thanks mate. I've

Jeremy Ley (not verified)
November 2, 2009,
43 weeks 3 days ago
Comment id: 853

Awesome. Thanks mate.
I've just purchased both these books. I hope the tiny commission gets you new books.
Keep up the good work!

@Jeremy Ley Thanks for the

Parka
November 3, 2009,
43 weeks 2 days ago
Comment id: 856

@Jeremy Ley
Thanks for the support. It helps.

Yay! The two books just

Jeremy Ley (not verified)
November 10, 2009,
42 weeks 2 days ago
Comment id: 907

Yay! The two books just arrived. They look amazing. I highly recommend these two books. Thanks for the review. I hope you get your little comission.

Hello! Excuse me, I wonder

Shuo (not verified)
February 26, 2010,
26 weeks 6 days ago
Comment id: 1431

Hello! Excuse me, I wonder how long will it take to arrive China~
And how much in Chinese currency?
Thank you~

By the way, are there similar artbooks with SKETCHES, especial about cityscape, architecture~

@Shuo If you buy from Amazon

Parka
February 26, 2010,
26 weeks 6 days ago
Comment id: 1432

@Shuo
If you buy from Amazon Japan, they will arrive within 3 days. You can check out the tag "background paintings" for for background art.

Oh, sorry, can you give me

Shuo (not verified)
February 26, 2010,
26 weeks 6 days ago
Comment id: 1433

Oh, sorry, can you give me one English version of purchase process?

And I still want to know: Is

Shuo (not verified)
February 26, 2010,
26 weeks 6 days ago
Comment id: 1434

And I still want to know:
Is the book the original version?
I mean, it won't the private version or copy version?

You know, in China, private-retailers are ... so abundant ...

Thank you for your answer~

I found the English Version

Shuo (not verified)
February 26, 2010,
26 weeks 6 days ago
Comment id: 1435

I found the English Version of the website:)
And is the book the original version?
Not private or copy version?

Thank you~

@Shuo If you're buying from

Parka
February 26, 2010,
26 weeks 6 days ago
Comment id: 1436

@Shuo
If you're buying from Amazon Japan, it's definitely going to be the original.

Oh, sorry for bothering

Shuo (not verified)
February 27, 2010,
26 weeks 5 days ago
Comment id: 1437

Oh, sorry for bothering again~
I found some people said in the internet that a personal in China cannot buy things directly from Japan Amazon, except through purchase agency...
Is that right? Or have you sent your goods to Chinese consumers before?

@Shuo I don't know about

Parka
February 27, 2010,
26 weeks 5 days ago
Comment id: 1438

@Shuo
I don't know about those purchase agency. Amazon Japan will be sending through DHL. If there's DHL in your country, then it will be passed to your local DHL for delivery.