Bunpei Yorifuji

From the brilliant mind of Japanese artist Bunpei Yorifuji comes Wonderful Life with the Elements, an illustrated guide to the periodic table that gives chemistry a friendly face. In this super periodic table, every element is a unique character whose properties are represented visually: heavy elements are fat, man-made elements are robots, and noble gases sport impressive afros. Every detail is significant, from the length of an element's beard to the clothes on its back. You'll also learn about each element's discovery, its common uses, and other vital stats like whether it floats—or explodes—in water. Why bother trudging through a traditional periodic table? In this periodic paradise, the elements are people too. And once you've met them, you'll never forget them.

The Periodic Table Personified

Wonderful Life with the Elements

«Da igual si siempre has pensado que se te da fatal dibujar. Si alguna vez has fantaseado con hacerlo, abre este libro. Desde mi punto de vista, dibujar bien no tiene ninguna importancia. Lo esencial es dibujar lo que a uno le gusta ver e imaginar. Por eso he creado este pequeño manual: para que mires (y dibujes) las pequeñas cosas de la vida de una nueva forma. Aprenderás que un paraguas te ayudará a imaginar árboles, que una ciudad servirá para representar un bosque, que una sola postura se puede convertir en diez acciones de diez personajes. Porque en Japón nos gusta entender lo grande a través del detalle.» —Bunpei Yorifuji ENGLISH DESCRIPTION “It doesn’t matter if you’ve always thought that you were terrible at drawing. If you've ever fantasized about doing it, you should open this book. In my opinion, drawing well is not important at all. What is important is to draw what we like to see and imagine. That is why I have created this manual: for you to look at (and draw) life’s little things in a new way. You’ll learn that an umbrella will help you think of trees, that a city will help characterize a forest, that one single posture can be converted into ten actions by ten different characters. Because in Japan we like to understand the big things through the small details.” —Bunpei Yorifuji

Rakugaki: Cómo potenciar tu imaginación a través del dibujo / Rakugaki: How to E nhance Your Imagination through Drawing

Eiji Otsuka

Housui Yamazaki

Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service

Bunpei Yorifuji propose dans ce petit livre une méthode d'apprentissage du dessin décalée et anticonformiste, pour apprendre facilement à regarder et représenter le monde qui nous entoure. Pour cet illustrateur japonais adepte du Rakugaki, dessin et imagination sont intimement liés. Cependant, la clef du succès se trouve avant tout dans notre capacité à être attentif aux formes et aux détails du monde qui nous entoure afin de reproduire, avec des dessins les plus petits et détaillés possibles, l'univers dans toute son immensité. Le trait minimaliste de l'auteur, et son sens de l'humour décapant, sont mis au service d'un véritable tour de force, où l'on apprend autant à tracer un trait qu'à mettre en scène son propre univers en miniature.

Bunpei Yorifuji

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