Process Recess 2

I picked up James Jean’s Process Recess 2 at the travelling man few days ago. It’s 64 pages and full of already-classic illustrations, like “Sex Ed” (featured as a full-sized fold-out) and “Crowdsourcing“, but also personal paintings which you may not have seen before. The first thing worth mentioning: It’s big. Chris Pitzer and James Jean designed the book at 15″ x 11″, so that each page would be big enough to cut out, frame, and hang on your wall (crop marks included) but why would you?! Of course, the book is also about process, so the reverse of each page has a breakdown of the various stages of the creation of the image: thumbnails, sketches, notes on media, tight pencils, acrylics - and then the mysterious leap to the Photoshopped final, probably involving inversions, colour burns and a heaps of James Jean magic.
like the previous book, which is out of print now and fetching over £400 on ebay atm, James Jean's work are trully inspirational, combining classical drawing style with the imagination from the realms of the bizzar.