Ballistic Publishing has their newest book up for pre-order, a beautiful collection of character design images compiled into ‘dartiste’.

The 208-page book features a wide range of character styles from fantasy, to game and manga-inspired creations. Kekai Kotaki shows you how he creates characters for ArenaNet’s ‘Guild Wars’ RPG along with 36 character designs from the game. Anne Pogoda shows you how to create character variations and how to rescue characters that aren’t working. Gonzalo Ordoñez shows you how to create fantasy and manga-inspired characters drawing on his inspired work on trading card franchises like ‘World of Warcraft’ and ‘Legend of the Five Rings’.

Hit their website and you can even flip through a digital version of the book.

via Ballistic Publishing: d’artiste – Character Design.