Redjuice - IGNITION – artbooks.me

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IGNITION – redjuicegraphics works portfolio 2009-2010 was released during Comiket 78 and includes a full color collection of the artist’s illustrations from the past year. While Redjuice’s releases have been consistently high quality, and lengthier than the average doujinshi, IGNITION tops them all with a full 56 pages of illustrations on an A4-sized presentation.

IGNITION contains many of Redjuice’s commercial illustrations from the past year, including cover arts for the light novels Pluto O, VEHICLE &, and Loups=Garous. The three illustrations from Pluto O included are some of the grittier pieces, with a slightly disturbing theme.

I think all of the CD cover arts Redjuice did in the past year are included in this collection. If you’re the kind of person who happens to buy CDs for the art work, you might be a little disappointed in having gone to such great lengths this time! The cover for EXIT TUNES PRESENTS Vocaloanthems, which by the way, hasn’t been released at this point, is included along with the other recent Supercell releases.

The colorful illustrations above were originally drawn for the first and second issues of SONY’s Listen to Animated Music Magazine. Once again, the kind of stuff that I would have bought the whole magazine for, but in the end I’m glad I didn’t!

I actually did buy a couple of magazines in part because they were showcasing Redjuice’s art work. The illustrations on the second row are for a custom character named Hoshino Shizuru which you can watch being drawn online.

The three poster illustrations that appeared in Dengeki Daioh GENESIS volumes 1 through 3 are all included in here, too. Luckily, I did buy those for the other artists that were in it as well, and thankfully, Kishida Mel’s posters weren’t in his Comiket 78 release. The illustrations that Redjuice did for Let’s Make ★ Character CG Illustration Technique Vol. 03 are also in here, along with the drawings of Darth Wooser and friends that were done for group C78 releases called DW and Mirror Twins.

IGNITION is a really great collection of Redjuice’s illustrations. You might be a little miffed if you purchased some of the various books, CDs and magazines specifically for his work, but in the end it all works out as you would have had to spend a ton to get access to even half of the illustrations in here.